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Finally found that scene from "Kelly's Heroes" - Donald Sutherland as "Oddball" was just great. He also had some "paint granades", to shock the enemy "psychologically". This was surely NOT the right moment to use them...

Okay, here is a link. If you still don't find the preview movies and screenshot link - they are at the right. http://overflandersfields.com/info.htm And you must have missed this: the official forum is SimQH now. http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/forums/89/1/Over_Flanders_Fields.html

Oh dear! A Camel Jockey on horseback, trying to perform synchronised twin-archery throught inbetween the horses ears! ... It'll end in tears! ...

That is an interesting detail I didn't know yet - thanks a lot for posting, Pips!

Yeah, I bet he would have loved to attack in full gallop! But they may not have so many teachers to replace the wounded! Mmuahahahahahahaaaaa!!!!

Drivers are far too often even too stupid to drive a car two-dimensional. Adding the third dimension would mean adding disaster. But I guess some of us would love to have this one:

Well, that confirms my worst secret fears...

A "Fahrtmesser" on an aeroplane should be an "airspeed indicator". A "Tachometer" shows you the speed of your vehicle, independent from the RPM. You could drive 50 km/h at very different RPMs, right? While the RPM indicator does exactly that - tells you the rounds per minute. If you do not see the difference between these two, then you are hopeless cases.

Bullet, all Albatros and Pfalz wingstruts were of metal. And I'd go so far as to assume, that it was not allowed at all, to drill holes of any kind into wing struts. .

When did you last see through the screenshots, Bullet? The Gothas are there. (Or maybe they were in one of the preview movies, not sure.)

PS: ...anyone seen "Kelly's Heroes"? With that film I learnt to know Clint Eastwood and Donald Sutherland. I liked it how they tricked out the Tiger in a small street (and first accidently fired a pink colour granade!); or how the "Dsherrman" tank commander "opened" the bank with the remaining Tiger. Saw it with my dad, and he was laughing bucketsful.

Hauksbee, your tanks look even "dark-side"-isher than the real German tanks!

Now that's the right picture to demonstrate the matter - thanks, elephant. What makes me worry at hindsight is, that the anemometer was attached more firmly than the V-strut reinforcement rod. God, they knew little yet about the effects of turbulences...

Well, when Kurt Wolff was wearing his night cap for good luck, I wouldn't be asthonished at all to find a teddybear in a fighter cockpit. After all, many of them were still mere boys.

Bullet, such flanges don't need screw holes in the strut. Do you not have these in America (see my pic a bit further up)? The screws would be left and right of the strut, and by srewing them real tight, you would fixate the two halfs to the strut. This is quite well fixated for ordinary use. But when a plane noses hard in like this one (it went all head-over), then the laws of mass acceleration can push the anemometer forward. The whole flange is still intact, with screws in, but it turned round the strut like a ring on your finger.

I have never been at war, but when I saw the scenes in "Band of Brothers", when they have their first encounter with German tanks in Normany - boy, I can imagine how this could drive the sh*t out of you. The other very well made film scene is that one in "Saving Private Ryan". Here you got an idea of how it was, when you could hear the screaching tank chains long before you could see the iron beast. And you got an idea, how well it was protected by the Panzergrenadiere - like the hounds of war around their iron master. These scenes really made me shudder with goose skin.

Okay, here is another photograph from "Wingnut Wings" (vanWyngarden's) collection. It shows a crashed Pfalz headover. The metal clasp/bracket/clamp is very well visible.

Jeeze - you must have an accelerated metabolism! ...

I don't believe that the Germans would have used fabric lashings. That is a pretty "lose" method, and therefor very un-German. Also, these instruments were very expensive. They would have used a screw clamp (or however you call those things). You see on the back of this MORELL Anemometer from 1917, that it was prepared to be screwed on to a hold.

Bang goes another illusion - I had always thought, those chaps were sitting so upright and straight, because they were the stern type of men who never bow down so easily...

Nope. It originally came from Val de Travers, Switzerland. Then the French also produced it. The Germans must have got it from them. Etc. etc. PS/Edit: From Albatros to Absinthe in 5 posts - what times are we living in...

That's definitely true for myself - I sometimes can see my soul shining through! Maybe it was a very irritating title from the start. But the discussion continues here: .

They look like very early colour photography; the whole effect is nicely done, Captain. Especially the first pic could well be a war postcard. Good luck with the new semester and the journey plans, Cap!

Ah, well, if you had good reason...

More than a month has passed since I posted my last screenshots. (I have begun with school on 6 August - I will learn Web Design - hopefully...) But today I have resumed my Jasta 28w campaign. We are operating from Wasquehal in April 1917, still flying the Albatros D.II. Today we sighted a new British fighter - the "Scout Experimental", short: S.E.5. The craft seems to be very sturdy, and it is very fast and climbs very well - I'm sure it will make our life here much harder in future, when the pilots know how to fly it perfectly. But today I could shoot one up. The engine caught fire, and the S.E.5 crashed into a little wood.