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I like the Italian design for planes and sportscars. Here are two more Macchi plane designs.

That's great story about human inventive talent, Hauksbee!

Okay, let me guess - what may the price be? 200.000,- Euro? Yeah, that sounds about right for a handbuilt replica. Now let me crack my piggy bank - crack - let's see what we got... Hmmmmm.... - Here are 3,70 Euro! That's a start! Only 199.996,30 Euro left! Maybe it's even cheaper in New Zealand dollars? Now let's see what you have got? Where's your piggy bank?

Sometimes a hangover can have a good learning effect (Mmuahahahahaaaaa!!!) as I remember myself. Well, I was rather 17, but it just happens when they have the opportunity. Teenagers are in the emotional war between gaining more freedom and breaking free from parents, and the comfort of home and shelter from all the storms of reality, I guess. If my parents knew, how drunk I sometimes was... One night I was on a punk concert with a friend; we each had a bottle of beer, and when we started dancing Pogo, the beer began to foam up, so we put our thumbs on the neck. But the pressure got too big, and the beer came spraying out. So we sprayed it at each other while dancing. When I came home late at night, I bowed down and gave my sleeping girl a kiss. She woke up and murmured something like "you smell like a pig in beer sauce". A funny memory - but it was better that my parents didn't know.

Well, someone has already built one - here is a cute video about whale watching from a Lohner. Maybe Microsoft Flight Simulator? Perhaps you can get it somewhere?

Very good photo collection - thanks for sharing, Hauksbee!

Well, as far as I know, they sell them. This one was sold to Kermit Weeks, owner of "Fantasy of Flight", the possibly biggest aircraft collection in the world.

What makes me wonder is: the bottle was dropped into the sea from Scotland, and then it was found by Scottish fishermen again, more than 90 years later? Does that mean, that the waters do not move much around?

Here is another such experimental plane - the Bristol Burney, which also had hydrofoils. Lou was spot on. And yes - it is not fair to smile about that over 90 years later - it sure was most advanced research then. Not a handful of tech students, but elite constructors and engineers.

Captain, don't worry - I'm in school all day anyway, plus one hour to get there, and one hour to get back. At my age that's quite exhausting, cause inbetween the two rides, I try to stuff all that XHTML, Java and PHP stuff into my head, where the museum director keeps shouting something about "the house is full!" - in other words: you wouldn't have found me entertaining at all. But since you go to Munich, I would suggest a visit at the "Deutsches Museum" there, if you can make it. They have a branch in Schleissheim about aviation. http://www.deutsches-museum.de/ Also very good (or even better) must be the "Technik-Museum" in Sinsheim/Speyer. Perhaps you can get there too. http://www.technik-museum.de/ I guess you are very exited about such a far trip from home. I hope one day I can make it to the USA, and then I can visit you, if you have the time then. I wish you all the best and good luck & weather for your trip, Captain - and yes: we expect photos. Lot of photos!

File Name: Albatros D.V "Windrose" File Submitter: Olham File Submitted: 01 September 2012 File Category: Aircraft Skins Albatros D.V "Windrose" Inspired by the 3. Albatros D.Va built by THE VINTAGE AVIATOR, I made this skin. The plywood of the TVA craft was varnished with a clear laquer with a warm redbrownish tone added. It looks like a darker honey, or amber. Together with the mauve and green upper wing camo, it goes very nicely. The skin file has to be unzipped, and goes into this folder: OBD Software > CFSWW1 Over Flanders Fields > campaigns > CampaignData > skins If you want to use it on an Albatros D.V early (the "hunchback one", you only need to delete the word "later_" with one subline. The skin uploaded here has no capital "H" on the wing; I thought you'd like to use your own pilot's first letters. Thanks again, OBD skinners, as I was inspired your your over 3.400 skins, and worked after them. Click here to download this file

Lou, that sounds very logical to me, and when I look at the photo in post #1, I think you hit the nail. I had myself never heard of "hydrovanes" before, and was mislaid by this website, where they are mentioned. (I guess they just used the wrong word). http://flyingmachines.ru/Site2/Crafts/Craft29117.htm Also, I missed your post #7, where you already pointed out the right direction.

Not bad, Flyby. First I thought, the "hydrovane" might be an installation to hold torpedos. But here is an excerpt from an interesting website's text: A small hydrovane. How they worked can be seen on this view: a hawser would be attached to the eye and when towed by a minesweeper it would move out sideways from the boat (I assume they would have 2 - one port one starboard), cutting mines free. They usually have a valve somewhere on them to add compressed air or water(?) to set the depth at which they would be neutrally buoyant. Here is the website with Japanese "hydrovanes" found in the Pacific. http://www.pacificwr...vane/index.html

I have read about this plane, that it's constructor introduced "hydrovanes" on the floaters - whatever that is???

Hey, let them finish their work on the Western Front first, HW, please!

Sounds lesser, but it washed away many people's houses and goods outside of New Orleans.

Yeah, instead of "Flying Fortresses" they could have used "Flying Barns" full of bombs in bales of straw. Farm workers instead of bomber crews would have thrown them out of the barn - aerh... bomb doors using big hay forks. In the rear fuselage they could have had hens, to supply them with fresh eggs, which they could have boiled or fried in the navigator's little cabin. They could have had one or two pigs, for the bacon, and - aerh... - ah - ... - forget the thought...

Now, zatt'z ein great Deal, mein Herr! Salut!

Lou, I guess we would get shown round, if we asked them politely, and they'd sense our enthusiasm. Maybe they'd even invite us to take the back seat in the Brisfit, and watch the Albatros fly next to it. But they would only give you the craft to fly, if you had the money to pay for it, I guess. If I should ever win the big jackpot, Lou, then I'll invite you, and we'd both fly to New Zealand!

The geniuses used bales of straw to dampen the power of the explosion. Windows got shattered, the bales caught fire and got blown into some houses. Some burnt half down. Damage costs: over a million. And they can't even really blame the Allies for this!

We all are, Widow - part of human nature - we might learn something about life and death...

Hey, you look as healthy as a squirrel, tranq! And as for the weight - you would have rather got me worried, if you had lost some. Putting on weight is a sign of being alright and well. Thanks for the pictures - I guess you had the finest of holidays there. And I can imagine the delicious pasta and other great Italian food, that left it's marks on your hips!

elephant, after first hesitation I have considered your details about Jasta 37 markings, and changed my skin. I first had attached the colours of Ostfriesland, my homeland - black, red and blue. But since you said the emblems were all in black + white, I now took the white stallion horse from the arms of Niedersachsen, the German Bundesland (state) in which Ostfriesland lies. The last mission was a great success. We escorted 5 Hannover Cl.II, and all of them returned with us. So did my wingmen also. And all that despite the fact, that we got attacked twice, by the best the British could throw at us! I managed to shoot down 2 Sopwith Camel with a white capital "Y" on their wings. On our way back we got engaged by some S.E.5a, and I damaged one, before my ammo went out. My wingmen worked like excellent clockwork. It was all precision. I felt really proud of my black bunch, when we continued without a single plane missing. My five wingmen and I, and behind us the 5 Hannover from FA(A) 256, Marckebeke.