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True! I must admit, that I am really tired after two or three sorties, when there was action. In my above mentioned case I didn't even have to cut the engine. I heard the airflow, and further down the guns of all those clay pigeon enthusiasts, but then, after the bumpy bit - birds singing in all this devastation. Never sounded SO nice...

Hahaha!!! You couldn't do it if it had blue-white-red roundels, right?

Yes, with the luck one pilot may have, it feels like an hour glass - slowly but surely running out. And this one had several buckets of luck already... Hey, and I was lucky those where just "Fees"...

First I thought: how can you fly with one Entente aircraft against another? But then I'm thinking, one could really learn a lot in QC by fighting a certain type in the same. If I chase an S.E.5a with another, I see, what he can do to escape or to attack me, and what I can do against it - good idea for training. See you in "campaign" later, HomeBoy!

Got to decide, which eye looks in the right direction (Lol!)

People who make a WW1 combat flight sim can't really be bad people. The pressure behind the making of such a complex product must be incredible. The producers, who give the money, want to release as early as possible; the makers/devs get little or no sleep during the final weeks; the printers and DVD producers wait for the sim to get burnt, packaged and delivered. And never - really never - the product is really READY at the deadline date. People who make a WW1 combat flight sim can't really be bad people - so let's give them the time it needs to finish. Try it, fly it or don't, but perhaps we should have the sense of decency, not to point or pick at them.

40 years ago, the step over to our single satelite, the moon was achieved by American astronauts. Just watched the TV docu drama "MOONSHOT" (GB 2008); and recommend it here to all, who have not seen it already. It's a combination of played scenes and documentary material; very impressive and moving, with some insight into privat lifes and "scenes behind the curtains" of NASA. Even more than 1969, when I was very young and optimistic, I chewed my fingers watching this again. Seeing the technology of that time and some failures, I feared for the Astronauts at hindsight, so to say. What did they dare - and how naive where we all. When I saw the pictures of people all over the world, staring at their TVs - even Pope Paul had for this live transmission set up an early colour TV - I understood more now than back in '69, how much this expedition had made everyone feel a member of the same, one humanity. Perhaps the greatest deed within this voyage.

Morning coffee? At 03:22 PM? Unbelieveable... (Lol!) Thanks, but again: it's Wikipedia info, not mine (but who would nowadays have 1. hand info). I'm really wondering, if the Nupe 28 could have been WORSE than flying a SPAD. The Nieuport looks so beautifully shaped, and they said, she was more manoeuverable; she had two Vickers - was she really so bad, or was she just a victim of the decisions made after those wing failures? I tried the SPAD several times now, but there's not much for turning - very much boom and zoom; and the DVIIs beat me up.

Pol, you seem to be a teaser sometimes - cheese, eyh? Stilton or Cheddar? OvS - when even you have lots of unconfirmed ones, I'm becalmed. Somehow, I seem to be a relative of Stachel too. And we both know - all our claims where true kills!

The immersion is such; the feeling of reality so strong, that again I couldn't leave my comrades alone, where I should have run away as fast as possible. Instead, I led my flight of us 4 Albatros DIII into a fight of 6 Tripes against flight 1's 5 Albs. Just when we arrived, 4 - 6 more Tripplanes came down on us from high above! They all were from RNAS-1, and there were several aces among them. But my bird and I were like shielded by Mars himself - I came out of this alive and sound, without catching a single round. I deminished RNAS-1 by 7 Tripes and pilots; among them Richard Minifie, Cyril Burfield Ridley, Roderic Dallas, Anthony Spence and Samuel Kinkead! This was my best fight ever so far - Gee! It was so crazy! (see "Reports from the front") When you face a situation like that - what would you do? Do you leave it, or do you enter?

:lmaosmiley: :lol: Good one, Jim!!!

Hey, "Tripod" - a latex sock: okay, if it's necessary - a shoe: never!

No idea, Hauk, I think uninstall and reinstall won't take long? Much luck - perhaps some tech pilots know...

Hi, Duce So you're flying the "dark side" as they keep saying here - my side! Herzlich willkommen! Und danke fuer den Report! (Can you translate that?) Yes, wings from the other flight do that, but at least you can stop your own flight wingies (when you are lead) by pressing "R" (return to me). Then they should stop. Also, when you chase a marked target, and you press "H" help!, your direct wingman 1 will fire at that target, except when he finds someone behind you to attack. Great report, could see it all happen. I'd like to encourage you to report the special fights in "Reports from the front" sticky thread - I do that regularly. You could add screenshots. If your engine hadn't been hit, you could have finished them off by dive attacking and zooming up again, but this time, you did the very best you could do by getting back to base alive. Gut gemacht! You will grow better and better, once you find "your" fighter and stick to it long enough to REALLY learn how to fight in it. Have fun, blue skies! PS: blue DVIIs could have been Jasta 15 who saved you, if my memories don't fail me there - OvS? (Did they have red cowlings?)

For "time" and "expression for the kill" we have mostly "another way" in the poll. Please show us, which way you use. Winston, you seem to be the proof for a lot of data - not necessarily so wordy, though; but that's for the fun, I assume. UncleAl - yes the "Z" key is very useful; I press "pause" and "Z", cause I don't have another ingame watch. Burning Beard - how many do you get confirmed your way?

The "castor oil answer" was not right, Jim - it where "political decisions".

You wouldn't have a Christmas tree with burning candles in your flat all the year, would you? So, to me "burners" or "explosions in mis air" will remain something special - a "Wow! What was that" thing. Wouldn't have it all the time, if that was not so in reality. Edit: ...and right, Duce - even SPADs can flame, as the picture in my thread about flying the SPAD shows. An Albatros had killed one of my wingmen, and the SPADs engine caught fire.

Duce, from the looks of the Nupe 28, she is just beautiful. Here wing surface problems where solved quickly, but the decision to change for SPAD XIIIs wasn't reversed. The Nieuport 28 is reported to have been a two-gun craft that was very manoeuverable. I'd also like to see her in - maybe some day... (See my new thread "Nieuport 28" - when I got it done)

Although I often disagreed during our skinning contest, about the amount of wheathering and stains at least on German craft (most Germans keep their cars and machines over-polished rather), I found this example of Karl Almenröder's "field worn" Albatros DIII on the Aerodrome (origin wasn't mentioned). Pretty scratched from the little ladder used to get into the cockpit, and the boots stepping through. The painting appears black, but was dark red (red appears like black on B/W film).

Brunettes always have been much more my taste. I need another WW1 air combat sim as much as I need a third shoe.

The pilot in the red-yellow striped Albatros DV seems to have been Wilhelm 'Willi' Reinhard. I would have added his pic and victories, but since 20 minutes, it is impossible to get through to the Aerodrome site from here, at 00:39 after midnight. Must be 18:30 American east coast time more or less - UncleAl, Cameljockey and OvS are hopelessly blocking up the web. Edit: ah - at 01:50 h I got in at last! So here's Wilhelm Reinhard's picture. He had 20 victories and succeeded MvR after his death as Geschwaderkommodore. After getting wounded in 1918, he was in Berlin-Adlershof for test flights. A wingfailure made him crash fatally, in June 1918. He had almoast made it...

To meet the man himself would be an impressive feeling to me, I'm sure. And the chance to meet him is reason enough for me to start an English campaign now, close to Brayelles.

Hey, Jim, the hardware facts sound great - don't think negative, old chap! And forget the 'old' - I'm sure here are so many experts (I'm none. sorry) that you will find help. I remember someone used those (UncleAl ?). I wish you much luck. But I fear, you'll have to learn dogfighting all new again. Please report, how you like them!

The red one - is that the 'Red Baron' himself? And who is the other pilot? Craft seems to be striped in deep red and ockre? Picture 1: that sight should make one's blood freeze, I suppose...

Please, all who click "another way" / "another expression" - would you show, how you write it? Thank you!