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Update 12 March 2013 - 13:02 h Berlin time (= GMT + 1) stoney66, Indiana added. The maps are in post 1 of this thread

Indeed! It shouldn't be allowed to shoot down any Albatros!

Wayfarer, if you want to see a complete photo build story of an Albatros, "The Vintage Aviator" has it. It is an absolutely great documentation of their building of the first Albatros D.Va replica. See here: http://thevintageavi...a/build-gallery .

Hey, and I always thought I had been a little bit crazy in my youth! I had beautifully assembled plastic model kits in 1:32 scale - impressively large fighters like the Bf109, the Mustang, or a Japanese Mitsubishi J2M3 "Jack". They were all wonfully painted as good as I could in those days. And then, one day, I placed them all in our sand box like on an airfield, put little and larger firecrackers into them, made little trails of benzin to them, and ignited them. My mother was seriously worried about "the violence in me". She asked, if I wouldn't regret it, to have destroyed all this work of many hours. But the only thing I did regret was, that I didn't have a camera, to make slow motion scenes of it all.

Hauksbee, it is not a "Balkan cross" - Germany has nothing to do with the Balkan. It is called in German "Balkenkreuz" ("e", not "a") - a cross of (straight) beams so to say. This cross was introduced in March or April 1918; the former "Tatzenkreuz" or "Eisernes Kreuz" (cross patty or Iron Cross) had to be overpainted the new way.

Oh, what a nice picture. Didn't have this one yet - thanks for sharing, Widow! Maybe they look deadly - like sharks? But I also find, their curves and their sleek lines are timeless beautiful. You know - although there were better fighters in the later war, I am still only attracted to fly the Albatros. Even though winning my fights gets harder and harder, and at some time almost impossible... It must be love...

Wow, that looks dangerous! I wouldn't want to get into a burst of that craft in my Albatros! Looks like an ancestor of the Lockheed "Lightning"!

Guys, I bet the Sopwith company was well able to build the wing frame between the struts stabile enough to hold everything together as it should. I don't think it would have shown any performance issues, as the cutout is in the very center of the wings - should be no problem.

Okay, now that you said it... I'm not so familiar with the Camel, but after checking some photos, I see that the "attic window" looks wider indeed here; also the rear cutout is not a small round but a square wider one. I never fly the Camel because of the bad vision it offers. So your wish is very understandable to me. I wonder why they didn't build them all like that?

Can't get the picture any larger, so I can't make out what the field mod is???

After two photos from the website "Forgotten Airfields" I have made this graphic with a modern Google Satelite View; showing where the former airfield of MFJ-1 near Koolkerke was situated. MFJ-1 is the short for Marine-Feldjagdstaffel 1. The squadron was formed on 1 February 1917. They were based at Coolkerke/Koolkerke from 10 September 1917 to 11 November 1918. The task of the Marine (Navy) units was the protection of Naval facilities and harbours. Well known aces of the unit were Gotthard Sachsenberg, Bertram Heinrich and Theo Osterkamp. Here is the link to the interesting site: http://www.forgotten...lkerke-s74.html I just remembered I had already made a thread about Koolkerke - well, anyway - here is the plan from there again:

Truth seems to underly the Relativity Theory - it is not straight nor static - it bends and deforms under the influence of stronger forces (like politicians for example).

rjw, the rate of fire would be better/faster, if you throttled down a bit, because more shots could go inbetween the rotating two blades. The MG had to be interrupted only at two points of the complete prop rotation. While the prop turned slower, the MG was firing with the same frequency. To shoot at an opponent, they actually did throttle down a bit to become more effective. German tests had been made with similar steel deflectors as the French used. But the German steel mantle rounds proved to be too destructive for this method. The interrupter gear was possibly invented by several people. Fokker's product was not developed by himself, but by one of his engineers, Heinrich Lübbe. Swiss inventor Franz Schneider had a patent for an interrupter gear. He sued Fokker after the war for stealing his patent idea. But it was proved, that Schneider's idea would not have worked.

Mmuahahahahaaaa!!!!! Mmuahahahahahahahahaaaaa!!!!!! Der Britisch hav found zeir beszt weapon against uss - zey make all zese killink jokes! Mmuahahahahaaaaa!!!! Arghhhh... my belly aches! .... (Thud!)

I stand corrected - seems it saw more of the war than many more prominent fighters. Thank you for all the detail and the great big photos, Jim!

Bang goes another illusion...

Well, I know some fine British designs too. The Spitfire, the Mosquito and the Hawker Typhoon and Tempest, the Rolls Royce Merlin and Griffon engines, the Folland Gnat and the Hawker Harrier VTOL jets; the Triumph and Norton motorcycle classics, the Jaguar and the Aston Martin - and the Cobra, which became famous as the Shelby Cobra from America, but was originally an English design too. And have you ever tasted scones with cool clotted cream and raspberry jam? Hmmmmmmm.... (Not to speak of the fine ales, beer and stouts - oh, the memories! ...)

Good - now where did I put the sixpack with "Warsteiner Pilsener"? Ah...!

Just found this Big Beauty - who knows this sea plane?

I don't know the building number in Schlesische Strasse, but my picture shows the bank there from the other side of the river Spree. The Schlesische Strasse is not very long; the buildings you see in my picture are all there are in that street. But in the picture of the Sablatnig tripe-seaplane it looks different. I guess it was changed in the 20s or 30s. It's hard to get a good Google Streetview of the buildings at the right, near the Oberbaum Bridge, as the bridge has a gothic-arched pedestrian walkway shelter. Funny thing is: we had our first rehearsal room in the right factory building in the pic - I played my first drum kit there in the 70s.

Guys, I guess they (and Jim) meant the position between the left and right wing. While the pilot sit aft of the wings, the gunner stands between the two wings and therefor has no downward view nor field of fire.

No problem, Robert, I don't want to argue either. But there are so many other aircraft missing yet, which were used widely in WW1 - - Hasse Wind would storm this thread shouting "French two-seaters!", and he'd be right - that any such demand for more rare planes might delay the release of WOFF to "Sankt Nimmerleinstag" as we say in German (until the cows come home). And I guess we both wouldn't want that?

Guys, don't argue with JFM about aircraft, he's doing historical research since quite some time. I too found it under "C.I" at "Rosebud's". But the link lines at "Rosebud's" say someting different than the JPEG-names do - quite confusing. However, there seem to be a two-seater (C.I ?) and a single seat craft (C.II ?) - here are the pics. PS: these aircraft don't belong into WOFF - even if it would be fun - cause they played no role in the war. .