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...and here's a Cobra in a similar burgundy! Sharp!

Hey, Lou - vintage burgundy could be right - here is one to be said that colour. Can anyone answer my question from the post before?

Yes, I think it's this very sensitive way of getting it coloured right, Siggi - all sims and games that I have ever liked so far, had a good adaption and adjustment, "fine tuning" of the colours in an own, special and characteristic way - that is an art is that! Whoever made that here, had a really good eye and senses for his work.

If you mean the yellow target marker, Steve - no, that won't appear. Do as CJ said. But the last bit of way, you must really spot the balloon yourself.

B Bandy - they do jump sometimes. Maybe better than to burn (read my post in "Peports from the front" above).

Yes, Shelby Cobras are looking hot! OvS - you must have ment Steve McQueen - not related to Randy Quaid I think. Very cool actor - McQueen I mean. In the seventies, I saw a movie called "Fluchtpunkt San Francisco" ("Vanishing point" ?), where actor Barry (???) drove a white open car. Does anyone know the movie and the car?

Cameljockey - is there a setting for "scenery detail" ? And if so, how high is your's set? Cause: the SPAD looks good, but the landscape is cold and without "a grain of grass and daisies". I have just returned from a flight around Phalempin in August (in BHaH that is), and after fighting, the land underneath my wings looked so inviting, I would have liked to get me a picknick from our canteen, and fly somewhere near a forrest or a lake. BHaH "lives" - when I fly in there, I LIVE in there - haven't got that feeling much on other sims. It is an art (and maybe some luck?) to get it made like that. A comparison would be movies - every director wants to create a movie, that "lives", that draughts you inside, and makes it a "felt story" - but even really good directors can't predict, if their next work will be like that. And sometimes they just don't work. (A German's description - hope it gets understood?)

Fighting Fonck and more Escadrille 103 aces This was definitely a trap - but I saw it through! Three SPADs - Pierre Schmitter, Jean d'Harcourt and another guy came down and circled round the D.F.W.s we had to protect on their reconnaissance. High above all 4 or 5 more SPAD VII - including Rene Fonck! I ordered my wing 2 to attack d'Harcourt and pretended to attack Schmitter. And really - down came Monsieur Rene Fonck, and Leonard Josef Baron, for what they thought, a happy hunting party. But I did a tight turn, and when Fonk was at our level, he had not only missed me - I also got behind him! He collected a burst so hard, that he escaped downwards with a smoking craft. Now, in the same turn, I hit both Schmitter and Baron enough to handicap them. Now I ordered wing 2 to attack the upper SPADs, that came down now. Within 3 minutes, I shot up Schmitter and Baron. Down to get Fonck now! He spiraled down still, and it only needed another good hit, and he fell into some trees like a thrown away playtoy. In a distance, I saw two Albatros turning with two SPAD. I ran closer and ordered the to attack one of the French, whilst I attacked Jean d'Harcourt. He was really good in his SPAD - I couldn't outturn him! We flew circle after circle, he seemed to even get behind me. So I rolled headover and reversed the turn my quickest way. He answered that as if he had read my mind! Gosh! Seven, eight tight circles - that guy again got more and more behind me! I risked all now: nose downwards almost vertical, and rolling round, reversing the turn once more. And this time, he didn't react quick enough - and as if in panic, he tried to turn away and climb! What a terribly wrong decision! I fired several burst into his craft, until the tank exploded and he fell down tail first. On my way back, all alone now, I saw two SPAD from Escadrille 103 still attacking two D.F.W. One German two seat spiralling down with a trail of smoke. But I couldn't help - I was out of ammo.

...that early in the morning before my second cup of coffee... I know what you mean, Lou. We Ostfriesen are tea addicts - without some cups of a strong redbrown brew, with candy and fresh cream, I wouldn't change from a 'were-bedman' to a human being in the morning.

Great shot! In a DV, he didn't have much of a chance against a well piloted Camel. All black - OvS LOVES this crate's design.

I'm with OvS - I'll get it sometime later, when they have done all the crates I want, and added them into one package, just like IL2 1946. Yet, I don't even find enough time for BHaH - could fly it several times a day!

So we can still upload our skins for everybody's use?

...number nine ... number nine ... number nine ...

Sooner or later, it should find it's way into BHaH, as the Americans flew it, and they don't have any choice yet. I could imagine, that this craft would have been really good after the solving of that wing problem, but was by then already overrun by decisions made. I'd like to experience the craft. And if the wing failures where really only in some 4 occasions, maybe they could be made like after the problem solved? Shouldn't a manoeuverable fighter be fun, as a contrast to the b/z SPAD?

And whats wrong with being from Liverpool eh It MUST be alright, if the fab four came from there. What's the video - a TV series? Why don't we have ANY REALLY FUNNY series here on German TV ???!!! (Answer: all good humour would get lost in translation.)

Could I have three glazed donuts without any filling, please - and can I eat them outdoors? I wouldn't feel comfortable down there...

From the side, she looks a bit 'nosy' perhaps. That Swedish N.29 is looking great!

CJ, your BHaH craft are without any jags! That makes me fever for the (coming soon) moment, when I can fly it with my HD 4870 and 8400 processor!

Rickitycrate - I don't know if it was an honour, if I read the title of this thread, and CJ's comment (Lol!) George; an engine's warm up would be a great idea, I think. Cause the moment lasts longer on older equipment, I think (here it's more than hal a sec) - perhaps it could be made so, that you hear more of the warm up run, the longer your system needs? Steve, I think it was Polovski. And I can imagine him now with his arms (and himself) crossed. Lol!

Looking great so far - and absolutely believeable!

How I was longing for some summer! So here are some shots from my first flight with Jasta 30, Phalempin, August 1917. Returning fro a patrol, with only 9 % petrol left, I spotted two RE8, about to bomb our or La Petrie airfield. When I had just climbed up to them, my engine went out. But it's only over, when it's over. I fired all my rounds into one of them, and he went down burning, whilst I followed him down. I feels good to know there is a field at hand - you'll get a decent meal. Meanwhile I seem to have become the Albatros-glider specialist. Oh, and - yes: I have made another new skin, as I had none for an Albatros DIII OAW.

Searching for a war diary of Jasta 11, I found this: http://www.amazon.de/Schmeelke-Luftkriegsg...l/dp/B002CB82NM

When you're not flying? What are you doing in there, when you're not flying???

I wasn't REALLY a tourist; I walked back home with to my English friend Alan's flat, which was in south-west London. Suddenly he stopped and asked me: "Do you know this street?" I said "No, how could I?" He put me right there, where the photographer must have stood and asked again. I must admit, I wouldn't have recognised it after the 20st time.

Very good photographs of the Pfalz production. I found interesting, how they had built a "wooden stencil frame", to make sure, all the fuselage ribs where in the right place - simple, and clever.