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Drawing and painting seem to be more cultivated in France - still today, with comic books.

Well, it definitely is moving - a broken-off lifeline, broken off in the cruelest way for those surviving, as "missing in action" is as if someone disappears in the battle haze like a ghost, not even leaving you some ashes to bury. On the other hand maybe less cruel than to face the remains of the fallen pilot - a body shattered after a long steep and desperate fall. The poem is very descriptive indeed - almost could be used as an instruction how to do it. Thanks for sharing, Lou!

A lot of very good points, and a lot to think about and to remember for the new year. Most important essence I read: the most valuable things don't cost a fortune. Like spring days in the sunshine, or a good hug and a kiss... Look above the clouds - there's always the sun. I wish you and everyone here a good start into a better 2013.

You will find it all at www.overflandersfields.com , Witzer! Welcome back, pilot! Here are many former Red Baron 3D flyers, and some of the dev team had been involved in that great sim as far as I know.

Argh, everywhere shortages nowadays! But thanks for explaining it, Shredder! Now I must google, who Rumpole of the Bailey is or was... .

Great calendar, Lou - just the one the devs needed. I bet every day has 28 hours, and weekends are cancelled? The perfect soundtrack to this: CURVE - Till the Cows come home

Update 29 December 2012 - 13:58 h Berlin time (= GMT + 1) John43P, New Zealand added. The maps are in post 1 of this thread

I know what you mean, Sid - I have started some of my carreers in Entente squadrons, and it is damn hard to keep formation. I usually did a bit better, when I just followed the others with my wingman (I always seemed to have 1 wingman), or flew outside left ot right. But I guess this is very well simulated. I remember from reading books, that formation flying was quite straining often. Good F.K. Jentsch even had to flollow his Jasta some 400 - 500 Meter lower, being the only pilot who had to fly the last Albatros D.II - all others had D.V ! I bet they had a lot to do with the flying already - not to speak of combat situations. So it is no wonder, that combat often didn't last very long, before they separated and flew home. In sims, it still seems to last too long. But I read, that WOFF will bring some change here - that is a point I am really very curious about: a much improved AI.

After all the dining and cake I was so comatised that I found myself hanging in my sofa, too weak to switch off a Harry Potter film; flying was impossible - I was beyond the 'Gesamtgewicht' as noted below my cockpit...

Yep, I have seen a long report and testing of a rebuilt HORTEN center section (by Grumman, I think). They came to the result, that the use of wood instead of metal might have been a kind of stealth bomber idea. Maybe that's right. But I'm glad they didn't really build and send them in masses to bomb England, which is a beautiful country as it is. The American design is smaller, but they had the same idea. Had the engines been more reliable and no test pilot been killed, they would have built larger ones.

The craft made it's first flight in1942. That's quite interesting, cause it shows, that ideas like the "flying wing", or the jet plane must have been in several peoples' minds at the same time. There are actually several good videos at YouTube - here are 3 of them: Northrop Flying Wing - Wing Camera Northrop N-9M at Chino

Damn, Tony, seems faith delivered a sixpack of bad luck to you and yours this year indeed! Good you got away with just a fractured bone. I guess at our age we're not too vain anymore, and the swellings will go away soon. I think, you had so much bad luck, that it should be all used up now - the next years should be much nicer to you. I wish you a good recovery - same for your Lady!

I have uploaded an Albatros D.V, a Johannisthal D.Va with salmon ribtapes and an OAW Albatros D.Va with light blue ribtapes (both with Lozenge camouflage). So, if you like flying them, you could start from there. See: Downloads.

A merry and comfy Christmas to all of you; and a good recovery for all our wounded comrades!

Which of the above reasons fits? Or is it something completely different? Where is everybody? Maybe life has thrown a lot of realism at you? Well, me for example, I am going through a half year of school/training to learn WebDesign (HTML, Adobe Dreamweaver, Flash, Javascript and PHP). I admit that it is pretty hard at my age to learn so much new stuff every day. Before I can familiarise with one thing, I have to go on already. And sometimes it seems to me, as if for every bit of new knowledge I put into my shelf, some old one is falling out on the back of it. Some days I'm just glad I remember how my coffee machine works. Now, what's your excuses?

I wish you to find the time and peace for flying a couple of dozens of those hundreds of hours, Capt.! I have possibly flown OFF more than anyone else around here and so I'm on a longer leave now. But when my school ends end of January, I will also make a new go woith OFFbase.

Yeah, the suffering of the waiting - may almost be as hard as the suffering of the ones making it. Mmuahahahahahaaaaa!!!!

Lothar, I wrote you a PM to tell you, that I won't be able to fly before the new year. Too many duties, official, social and private ones keep me grounded. (I was never one to squash some flying inbetween, in tired or half-baked moods.) But sure, what you have built together with a handful of good and helpful souls should be THE solution for anyone who would like to use one or several mods, and who is unsure about how to install the Jones Generic Mod Enabler - as your package seems to do it all per one JSGME install. Even a modding-shy safety-freak like me should be able to handle that.

"Was lange währt, wird endlich gut." (English saying for this: "Things come to those who wait." The direct translation would rather be "What takes long to finish, will become good in the end.")

I'm dizzy now - I have no knowledge about American/Canadian trucks, I beg for screenshots - errh, photos! Sounds like you had a lot of mental combat pilot training recently, Britisheh! Good luck for the new truck. I guess you will double-relax over Xmas time now? It's not too bad to be owned by a bank - now they have to treat you good.

Should be: Pol and Winder (and all the other OBDers) - I only posted the same shots over here.

In Workshops we find two important settings for the "field of view" of our sim on the monitor. The first is at the left side - there you can and should tick the correct box for either 4:3 or 16:10 monitor size. Then there is also the Set FOV (Field of view) menue. As I understand it, the Field of View can be increased or decreased here. You will find, that a bigger field of view will also result in your pilot being more remote from the windscreen and guns. The whole surrounding aircraft is getting smaller, and you can see more environement in width as in height. But also, like everything else, enemy aircraft will appear smaller. You can set up your desired field of view for all aircraft in that menue. Higher numbers give you a more wide angle view - you see more environement, but it will also appear more remote. The recommended setting is said to be 23 x 16. Now I think, this was written, when we had 4:3 monitors; and for 16:10 it should be different. If we regard the 23 x 16 as degrees, you understand what I mean. Here is what I have calculated for my own screen. My screen is 16:10 with a resolution of 1680 x 1050. Now I have firstly chosen the vertical "degrees" should be "17". So I divided the vertical screen resolution of 1050 through 17, which is 61,76 Now I have divided 1680 through 61,76 which is 27,20 I've rounded the result; so I now use a FOV of 27 x 17 You must press "Set FOV" after changing anything there, and the sim calculates it for all aircraft then. Another example - if I want to see everything "closer" (resulting in a narrower overall view, but a larger surrounding aircraft, and also larger "specs"/distant aircraft) I can choose 15 degrees for the vertical setting. So I divide: 1050 : 15 = 70 1680 : 70 = 24 My "closer" FOV would now be 24 x 15 I hope this makes sense to you; please feel free to ask. I was quite good in English at school, but not in mathematics.

I guess one only knows how one would act in such a situation, if one ever got into it.

I had a little "weather-debate" with Pol, cause I felt the same. But he found it's time for some grey weather shots, after so many in nice weather.

The improved TAC and info data should be a much better help for newbies now. (I guess the TAC can still be moved to another position.) Even your position you should take in your flight is marked red in there! And the new Label color is not so loud anymore - good improvements IMHO.