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  1. Except for the nose maybe, the craft looks to me like a soapbox-derby car. If I had to survive the real WW1 air war, I would surely LOVE to receive one. But flying a sim is for having fun, for play-time - and here I prefer a beautiful or sexy aircraft. The S.E.5a for example is a sexy fighter. Not a beauty, but somehow sexy. So I prefer her over the Camel, which is neither a beauty nor sexy IMHO. But what did the Romans already say about taste...?

  2. RAF Cartoon from WWII

    Olham replied to JimAttrill's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion

    I wonder if the German pilots also had a banter like that, but I think I would have heard of it. Guess they were talking rather straight.
  3. Mmuahahahahaaa!!!
  4. Women - they want a hero, and when they get one, they don't like his habits! Tch!
  5. Haha, that sounds like you also played those picture quartet games in America, Hauksbee? Yes, Udet had a fiancée named Eleonore - he nicknamed her "Lo". (He was always a bit short, wasn't he?) "LO" was written on all his Jasta 37 Albatros D.V, the Fokker D.VII and also on the Siemens-Schuckert D.III or D.IV (not sure which one he flew). But you guys wanted Fokker pics.
  6. Well, as a kid, she didn't perform bad at all - she could always compete with the others. Then she grew older, but didn't get stronger. Her beauty still increased, though!
  7. Hauksbee, I guess LIMA made a joke. Triplane used so many wings, that a monoplane had to follow. Get it? Oh, the firepower of my girl is not what I'm worried about. But she isn't the best dancer in the competition, with her German temper...
  8. Yes, I almost only make Albatros skins, and I fly WW1 sims only because of that aircraft. It's all for the looks of it! The Dr.I, or the Fokker D.VII are ugly compared to her. I KNOW they were better fighters - but I'm only in it for the looks. Kinda "vanity-war"... Beat them with beauty!
  9. Is that an American comic figure, the "Yellow Kid"? Yellow looks good on the Dr.I !
  10. Yes, I watched it from the other forum - Jammer spent a lot of time making it, and the video shows - great job, Jammer!
  11. Haha - wasn't that a film with Dustin Hofman? Which plane is he flying?
  12. Geeze - seems you were really in the "black sheep department" there! Could you make any civil use of what you had learned there, Jim?
  13. You could write it like a story, Jim - a colleague of mine, who's name I have forgotten, happend to witness this one day...
  14. Thanks for the insight, Jim - a great story indeed!

  15. Mauser C-96 M (1915)

    Olham replied to Hauksbee's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion

    Thanks, I'll watch it when back from the job. Funny - you are still up, and I am up again. (Without coffee, this life would be impracticable...)

  16. Mauser C-96 M (1915)

    Olham replied to Hauksbee's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion

    Interesting find, Hauksbee - I had never seen that mount!
  17. The "magic of WW1 planes" might be - that they can fly at all - that you can survive the flight in one piece (Sorry, couldn't resist! )

  18. What a wonderful tribute...

    Olham replied to UK_Widowmaker's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion

    What a simple - but overwhelming - idea! Bringing up emotions without rattling sabres or mourning recitations of sad poems...
  19. THE Battle? Weren't there more than one?
  20. I never had any idea how these engines worked. Now I found this animated video. That helped me a bit further. You can adjust the speed, so you can see it real slow. Enjoy! http://www.animatedengines.com/gnome.html
  21. I know nothing about technology, Jim, so I can only guess: maybe any straight number would mean, that always two cylinders would have to be in the same situation? Which is impossible with an off-center camshaft, I guess?
  22. Maybe JFM can clear that up. I think Fokker had a good access to those Oberursel rotaries, or even had a certain amount of them already. Same maybe for structural parts they had built and already tested for the Dr.1 ? An inline engine would have needed a totally new design, I guess.
  23. The design design of Reinhold Platz was based on the Dr.1. So the D.VI is much like the Dr.1, but with only two wings (which look more like the D.VII wings). At low altitude it was even faster than the Fokker D.VII, by the way!
  24. Craaa - zeeeee!!! It looks as if they all had not yet understood the importance of energy/engine power/forward speed. How could they seriously go to three wings on an Albatros D.V, which was already regarded as obsolete, when they didn't give it a stronger engine??? The Fokker D.VI is said to have been a great fighter craft - nimble and good climb, and a good forward speed, even a bit higher up. That could have been introduced instead of the Dr.1, had they not been in their triplane craze. But when they finally built it, the rotaries were getting sorted out, and the Fokker D.VII was the design of the hour - so only 47 or so were built. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fokker_D.VI
  25. Arghhh!!! You knew I hate it! I LOVE the original Albatros D.V and D.Va for their beauty - but this triplane is a crime against good taste! Uargh!!!
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