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Thanks Hauksbee, I revisited this site: http://www.wwi-models.org/Images/Miller/re...tros/index.html There you find Mark Miller's great WW1 air combat graphics, and construction 3D graphics which are really worth investigating. Here are three pics about a clash of Bruno Loerzer's flight of Albatros' with Camels. Just click on the picture.

Hey, Widow - I feel it too! Why not? I have never tried Hi-res planes yet. Butm for screenshots - why not? And then we put them together for epic air battle pictures!

Since my first Tripe pilot made a fatal mistake, another ancestor of mine took over. Just had a ballon busting mission with him, and he killed two Albatros DV. My, it IS hard to do for an Albatros lover. Damn hard... Flight Lieutenant David Oldham Droglandt, July 29th, 1917 On our way to a German obs ballon by the north sea coast, we came across two all black Albatros DV scouts. Flight one was already turning with them, some 2.000 feet higher. But when we arrived, one of them zoomed down, to escape Lance Wells. He flew my direction, but hadn't noticed me, as he pulled up again. He climbed right into my line of fire and got some. Now he dived under my craft. I rolled her on her back and followed him with half a down loop. He did desperate zigzagging moves, but was already less manoeuverable. He got more bursts from my Vickers. They can take quite a lot, but after the third burst, he caught fire and crashed into a little wood. Now my flight - Cook, Reinard and Adolph - turned with the other German, while flight 1 travelled on. They left him to us. When I got behind him, I shot him up terribly; huge bits came off, and he went down, pulling a trail of dark smoke. So much for my dogfighting. The ballon was tougher. I made three attack runs on it, but it wouldn't blow up! It was Reinard, who got him at last. All the time, some 5 or 6 Albatros circled over the coast, about two miles away. But they didn't come down. As the Flak fire got annoiing, I went down once more to give the spotter ground crew some fire. Way back was safe, and landing easy.

Hey, that must be the site, I took the climb rate data from - had forgotten, where I found them. Thanks, Barnstorm- good site!

Yes, Widow, it may be they are rendered / 3D models; I read something like that on Miller's site. And it is a compliment for BHaH, I'd say.

It could be a) wrong file format, b) too large file - just check, what kind of formats you can upload, and how large they are allowed.

Well, I don't miss any Royals here - the last Kaiser made a rather hasty escape to the Netherlands, and we managed quite well without. But it's alright for the countries, that are still monarchies.

I think, it was always this way. And always 'italian'.

Welcome, Rayfer I never had problems with my wingmen at warping, but with petrol. It gets used up too fast, when you warp at full throttle. Best push it back to 60 - 70 %, before you warp. Also be sure your wingmen are so close, that you can read their names, when you turn on 'labels'. Then they should be with you, when you come out of warp.

Yes, it did, Hasse Wind. But I'm not too fixed on taking sides in the air combat sims about the world wars. I always liked flying the Spitfire and the Hurricane in WW2 sims; also the Lightning, Mustang, Hellcat, Zero and Frank. In WW1, I will explore all of the Allied's planes. The Tripe is a very good one to start with - easy to fly, very agile turn fighter. A bit limited view, with three wings. But if you like turnfighting, it should be great fun. I feel somehow related to the English people; I like their originality, their humour, and their beautiful country. And I wished, that more of us would give up strictly fighting for one side of the trenches. It might tear down walls in our heads, if we did. And, back in the mess, the main difference between them young pilots would just be the language.

Haha!! That's a far relative of mine, OvS, who was born in Lyme Regis, England. Me and my German brothers - Detlev, Juergen,Guenther and Wolfram - remain flying with German Jastas. Here are two pics showing a) that propeller, and b) that Collishaw didn't seem to have it. (Perhaps he was no tea-drinker as a Canadian?)

Just had a flight through towering January clouds; MvR and Constantin Krefft flying ahead. When the flew right into a huge cloud, I went round it and lost them. But then I realised, flying through the outer hazes wasn't whirling me around anymore. I would not go into a cloud, but to go through it's outer veils, seems to have lost it's danger. All was so scenic, I made lots of screeshots. Most of them are in the "Screenshots" department, were they should be. But I couldn't resist to show two here, for those who never look into the above thread.

It's the screams you sometimes hear, when you hit someone hard. The German pilots scream German. British: "Arrrgh!" German: "Ahhhh!"

I didn't read an ace name; I think it was from Jasta 32. Ace Bruno Loerzer, I think, had that design. Or was it Dannhuber? Paarma? The little propeller is for the British secret weapon "OCoT-IFBD". (One Cup of Tea - In Flight Brewing Device). For that device, they invented the tea bag, which you put into a tin cup, that you then introduce to the device. With two turn switches, you can choose from three amounts of sugar: 'Tough Ace', 'Nice like at home' or 'Ladylike' , and three doses of cream: 'Cornish', 'Welsh' or 'English'. I wish, we had that in our Albatros fighters, as I'm an Ostfriese (we drink more tea per person than the English even), but the Ostfriesen are a very small minority in Germany, so they didn't bother at "Idflieg".

What triggers them, is reaching the last waypoint.

That depends on how you fly it. If you play most immersive, with TAC ("radar") and Labels "off", you can identify the Squadron only from their signs/markings. But as I don't know their all signs, I switch labes on for short time, to identify the squadron. Also, it would show you, if there are any aces with you - they are written with their full name. For the location of the kill, you just look into your map, and note data like: south-east of Ypres, or north of Bertincourt airfield.

This was a really eventful flight. On our patrol, I spotted those Brisfits, heading towards us. Although SPADs come out to my ears by now, I didn't want to engage them. To our right, up in the sun and almost invisible, there were 5 or 6 Fokker Dr.1, flying my direction. As the Bristols seemed to target me, I lured them towards the Fokkers. And it worked! The Dreideckers did the bloody job, and they did it hard and short; the Brisfits fell. Fifteen minutes later, i had a chance to return the favour. Near my waypoint two, I met the blue Fokkers again. Now they were all tangling with 5 SPADs. That was interesting to watch. Those two types didn't know how to get at each other. The SPADs boomed and zoomed, so the Dr.1's couldn't get them - but at each attack, they turned so crazy, that the SPADs just missed them all the time. So I joined in and shot two of the French fighters down. It was a very dangerous situation, as you can see in the pictures. Those Fokkers were all over the place. I was glad and caught a deep breath, when I was out of that furball! But when you find it too quet, were you are, come to Vauxcere, July 1918!

File Name: off_Alb_DVa_t_Jasta 15 Feuervogel.dds File Submitter: Olham File Submitted: 03 May 2009 File Updated: 20 Oct 2009 File Category: Aircraft Skins Skin created from original OFF skins made by OvS/James Romano and Paarma/Arto Karttunen. Painted like a Chinese teacup, this is an artwork, that took many hours. And, as Widowmaker said, the ground crew would just get finished, when the war was over. So, it's my most peaceful design (Lol!) It was inspired by Herr Prop Wasche, who wanted an Albatros painted like a bird of prey, and by Cameljockey, who used the name "Leutnant Feuervogel" (Lt. Firebird). I wouldn't like to be the ground crew, when this plane collected hits... Click here to download this file

Aroth, they do (try to) land, when you fly to the last waypoint. From there, they perform a wide turn away from the field, and return and land, which is sort of luck, when they make it - often the later ones crash into the previous, because they "don't see" each other at zero level. But try it - I had landings, that were without losses!

Thank you for explaining the kids, what they shouldn't try, Professor D. Lirium. The last line for non-latins?

File Name: off_Alb_DVa_200_t Jasta 9 1918_Wespe.dds File Submitter: Olham File Submitted: 03 May 2009 File Updated: 20 Oct 2009 File Category: Aircraft Skins Skin created from original OFF skins made by OvS/James Romano and Paarma/Arto Karttunen. Click here to download this file

File Name: off_Alb_DV_later_t_Jasta 15 1917 Blauer Wolf.dds File Submitter: Olham File Submitted: 03 May 2009 File Updated: 20 Oct 2009 File Category: Aircraft Skins Skin created from original OFF skins made by OvS/James Romano and Paarma/Arto Karttunen. This is a repaired and improved design of the skin "Wolf". In the old version, the Iron Cross on the left side of the fin was missing partly. Also, I added some final touch to the design; hope to the better. Click here to download this file

My neighbour and I would like to connect our two rigs directly via (LAN?) cable; to fly co-op multiplayer missions. Now, I would appreciate a detailed step-by-step explanation, of how to do it. - which cable exactly do we need? - is there something special, when connecting a Win XP rig with a Win Vista? - what do we have to call up/set up, to "see" each other And, when it works: what kind of missions or campaigns can be played? Cause I saw "multiplayer" at least at two menues - which should I choose?

Unfortunately, I didn't mark the site, where I found these data. As the curves were a bad b/w drawing, I have done it again, in colour. Now these performance data are not "chiseled in stone", as Uncle Al would now say, and you can't sue me, when the performance of your favourite crate proves a little different. But this should show roughly, were each plane stands/stood. A pitty, they didn't do all the crates we have here...

Should I eat the chicken or the eggs?...