Olham

Yep - and this with far less than 1000 rounds. I don't know how much an S.E.5a "eats", but they are quite tough, unless you get very close. From sim experience only, I would guess some 150 rounds each minimum? So he had 700 left for 5 more. Could have just been enough - if no shot goes wasted. He proved exellently, that the Dr.1 was a turn-devil, and that he could work with her instability perfectly. But 5 good S.E.5 pilots should be able to end such demonstration, before they are all down.

Thank you, Aussie Pilot and all - no wonder my flying with pedals was tricky, to say the least. Should be much more fun in the future.

A better way might be a complete backup image of your harddrive; there are programs for that. It won't take long. You could backup onto an external drive, or onto another harddrive; and "recover" it from there. Only problem: if your drive was "D:" for example, and the Sim also stores/changes data somewhere on "C:" - I don't know that for sure.

Hey, Rickity - great to see those designs again! And all these other lovely designs - my "skinner's heart" desires to do a SPAD some day. Here's the SPAD XIII from the Smithsonian Institute.

Welcome, Jambe When you are flight leader, it will be your commands and actions, that decide, how well your wingmen are. The better you care for them, the more will you bring back home. You order "attack" - they attack (even if they all will die). You order "return" - they return to you; now you must lead them out of danger. And if you call for "help" in a combat, they will come and help, if they can. But if you take on every fight, to win the war single handed - they will soon all be dead. And you without witnesses for however great actions. Your decision. For the kills of DiD pilots, look at Siggi's site, here: http://www.hetzer.talktalk.net/index.html

Yaaahoohoooo!!!! I felt like the bomber commander with the cowboy hat riding the nuklear bomb, in Kubrick's "Dr. Strangelove or how I learnt to love the bomb". And I don't know, if this had been possible (were did the aileron cables on a D III go through ?). But I just made an emergency landing with my Albatros D III, after ramming a Sopwith Pup into the ground (not in purpose, that). I almost broke the stick off, pushing it to the right; nose below horizon, rudder 2/3 right, I managed to approach an open meadow, banking slightly to the right. And survived it! Yahooohoooo!!!

I admit - most of the other times such damage happened, I just crashed. And in this case, it must have been the left aileron totally stuck in a helpful position, by the damage. Otherwise, I would have had no chance to balance her, no matter how hard I pushed the stick right. But sometimes, there's an angel...

Think, you hit it, John Gresham. Twenty years old, rivaling MvR, mad to grow his kill tally, adrenalin rushed in that very moment. All this came together, plus: a single Dr.1 has NO chance to escape 5 S.E.5a (IMHO). Hahaha! Yes Rickitycrate - I feel very related to Voss and his style, although I should have quietened down a bit, since I'm more than double his age. Absolutely, von Baur! Widow, Hauksbee - to climb for the clouds with FIVE S.E.5a around and behind you? You could perhaps climb away from one or even two, when you spiral upwards, without getting hit. But 5 opponents are just too many. And I'm sure, Rhys-Davis wasn't proud about such a victory. And even if Voss hoped, the British would run out of ammo - they had about five times as much as he could use to at least do enough damage on them, to escape them later. His only, and very small chance would have been to dive away right when he spotted them, and try to escape with all tricks available. Very small chance, as the S.E.5s came from higher altitude, and are terribly fast.

Today, I killed my first Bristol Fighter, and I remembered again, why I don't attack them usually. Although I downed the craft in the end, I had to make an emergency landing myself after that - the gunner had shot up my engine. (more pics: see "Screenshots") Anyone else flying German side ever attacked one of them? How did it go?

Yes, absolutely. With a Pfalz, you could best practise long range and deflection shooting. That's what I did with her in Phase 2. Also, she is tough enough to get as close as must be for killing shots. Duck, Jammer and Bandy - a blind spot does only exist in theory, as she constantly turns like hell. She is a two set fighter, and I really mean "fighter". Saw two of them chasing Albatros around. If the pilots works good with the gunner, they are a devil's team, with no blind spot, no dead angle. And then, they are even thre, four or five. With a good kill tally on a DiD campaign pilot, I would NOT attack them, if not absolutely necessary.

Underneath/belly attack won't work - they see you coming and begin to turn like crazy. But I'm good at long range deflection shooting, and so I damaged her from a range of 450 - 350 feet. Then she was a little less agile. Now I approached her zig zag, firing into the area from rear gunner to engine mainly. But I got too close once - and got hit. Engine going "click-clack". I finished her - she brought me down too. No good everyday practise.

If you watch "review" (or "replay"?) after a flight, you often realise, other fights happened around you. As far as I believe to have understood Winder, you could really change your flightpath and hope to meet other craft. But the most chance I think would be along the route. But you may still be wasting time - lone wolf missions have not witnesses for kills; and so you don't get them confirmed. or hardly ever.

Great bunch, Mack! But I could have sworn, the craft of Toddrick was an S.E.5 ? And - hey - that suit of Hillman is a German suit, one of MY brothers is wearing!! If I get you!....

Not luck, Tonyo - an aces' experience :dirol:

Killing of a "Brisfit" No story today, as I got visitors. But I couldn't resist posting these pics of the killing of a Bristol fighter. This was the first for me - I never attacked them before. And they are furious - he shot up my engine, and short after his funeral, I had to land in an open field. Next time, this pilot may open his diary again - he is my most promising DiD-pilot so far. Oh, and "yes" - it's another new skin I made for my new pilot in Jasta 28w in Wasquehal.

On the "Wings Palette" site from Russia (http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww1/f/178/175/0/8) I found this Austrian Hansa-Brandenburg D I fighter. What do you think this tank-like thing on the upper wing is? (I have an idea, after studying the other D I on that site).

I will only be able to join that, when my rig is uprated to good performance, and with a firewall. (So far, I'm in the web with my older rig, but play on the next generation.) How do you speak with the others? I'll surely join this, as soon as possible - promised!

No - here is a second pic, that makes me think, it must be a gun housing. Perhaps, to collect the empty, hot cartridges?

Hey, Tripe - you can use the Workshop setting "die roll at death". Now your pilot will only loose all his kills and medals, but you don't have to rewrite his names again and again. It's not much different to "dead is dead", I think.

Well, this ain't no British plane - it's a Hansa-Brandenburg D I, from Austria-Hungary's fighters.

Yes, thanks, Rickity! How's it going your end? What are you flying lately?

Here are two excerpts from WIKIPEDIA text about the swastika. Archaeological evidence of swastika-shaped ornaments dates from the Neolithic period. It occurs mainly in the modern day culture of India, sometimes as a geometrical motif and sometimes as a religious symbol. It remains widely used in Eastern religions / Dharmic religion such as Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. In Finland the swastika was often used in traditional folk art products, as a decoration or magical symbol on textiles and wood. Certain types of symbols which incorporated the swastika were used to decorate wood; such symbols are called tursaansydän and mursunsydän in Finnish. Tursaansydän was often used until 18th century, when it was mostly replaced by a simple swastika. The swastika only got a "bad name" after the Nazis used it. In fact, is was much, much older.

Sooner or later you'll get it. I had got so used to hat switch view, that I first was totally confused by this "new freedom". You can suddenly look anywhere you want! To get used to it, I first only flew "free flight". It was wonderful, just to fly over the beautiful landscapes, looking at everything. Marvellous! Meanwhile, I can follow an enemy craft almost as good as "padlock view". A must-have! Taxes - bah! The state will certainly buy the wrong things from your money!

...you arent a troll, or a duck, you are an ostrich. Thanks, gwar, I'll take it as a compliment - I like ostriches!

More Hansa Brandenburgs from 1918. One even on skies - both Finnish, it seems.