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Mmuahahahahaaaaa!!!!

We will hold this hill a couple of days then, Fates, until the new supply arrives...

Yes, I thought the same... Ah, Calvin in his flying saucer! More than the forum appearance is new...

Yes, mankind can sure need a goal like this, a goal for all to keep the fingers crossed for. Mine definitely are!

They were pig ignorant I'd say!

Well, eastern front might be a bit far east - but the Italian front would be a great next goal. I always thought Austria was the older, senior Kaiserreich. But maybe since Prussia had beaten the Austrians, they did look down on them a bit. We Germans are still named "Piefke" by the Austrians, or at least the people from Vienna; after the composer of the Prussian victory march, which was played, when they paraded in Vienna. The composer had got his will, to march in front of the musicians and direct them, and the Viennese pointed at him from their windows and said: "There comes Piefke!" I guess we Germans still fall into other peoples houses with the front door (an old saying in German about a person who is always a bit too direct).

Hahaaaaaaaa - vee arr deeper into der Code of OFF zan you ssink, mein Herr Polovski! Ssank you forr der great informashion, Herr Louvert, ant let me add der Dsherrman department! Left to right: Gefreiter Volker Verbummelt (Private Volker Idledaway); Unteroffizier W. O. Habichsnur (Corporal W. H. Eredid-Iputit); Feldwebel Adolf Ablehner (Staff Sergeant Adolf Rejecter); Hauptfeldwebel D. U. Dochnicht (First Sergeant U. Never) .

Here is a link to German EBAY; this dealer has 8 Ubisoft-DVDs of "CFS3" available. This DVD grants the easiest install for OFF / WOFF. Grab them, before they are gone. http://www.ebay.de/itm/COMBAT-FLIGHT-SIMULATOR-3-KAMPF-UM-EUROPA-PC-DVD-ROM-/120454315317?pt=DE_PC_Videospiele&hash=item1c0ba2fd35 CFS3 is also available via download - see here: http://www.microsoft.com/games/combatfs3/

...and you might be lucky and find it in the download section - not sure though...

Best is to click on your name bar (top right corner of forum), go to "My Gallery" there, and create a new album called "Signatures". Once you have the new signature in an album, you copy the link address for the picture by right-clicking on it; then you should see something like "Copy link address" or similar. Then you got to "Settings" > "Profile" > "Change Signature". There you can delete the old one. Then you click on that little foto icon above the text frame, and insert the copied link address into that little text frame you get. I hope I was clear enough, otherwise just ask. Things we don't do every week get lost in the myriads of braincells we have. For the most of us, I bet - I often feel like I've dropped back to stone age after only one night with little sleep...

Toshiro, you are also added to our maps now. And if you enjoy OFF only half as much as I do, you will be in for a great time. As for the speed: the most (earlier) crates only gain speed with the nose below the horizon. Remember that, and you'll get on with it.

Update 3 August 2012 - 09:34 h Berlin time (= GMT + 1) Toshiro, Vancouver added. The maps are in post 1 of this thread

Ah, okay, great! Can't wait to see it next to Jarhead's (or better: James Dietz's) "The Circus rolls at Dawn".

Holy sh*t, I don't know what you have posted there, HouseHobbit, but what I see is twenty tons of cryptic text... ? (Only the last six lines are readable). Edit: oh, now it's gone??? Hey, are you playing any Saruman tricks here???

Dej, since we all agreed: will you send the "Special BOC Badge" to NS13Jarhead?

It'll end in tears...

Are you guys fighting a war of words? Enter your crates and shoot it out like real men! Or Hobbits... - aerh... - or Orks... however they all fight something out... Man I'm glad we have no Elves or Orks or Hobbits in our Jasta - I wouldn't even know how to address them? (I guess the Hobbits wouldn't even be able to look through the gunsight?)

Now, that is a better choice - he could at least use the dark "Apocalypse Pony".

Although I had seen "Sierra Madre" (long time ago) I didn't remember that bit. Good that you cleared that up, Jarhead, now that the BOC will definitely award you with a special badge, designed even by our Vice President. And since it is none of the "stinking" kind, I guess you will like it.

Well, I guess that real life is more complicated than "Lord of the Rings", and that these sinister sorts of people exist on either and all sides, with no clear national emblem saying: these are the badies, beat them! But you could do the missions Hollywood-style - then it would be easy: German Luftstreitkräfte = Dark Side. Mmuahahahahahaaaaa!!!!!

Now I have for comparison a photo of the lower wing of Koloman Mayrhofer's OeFFAG Albatros replica, and another of the lower wing of "The Vintage Aviator" Albatros D.Va. The major visible difference seems to be the differing thickness of the wing spar on the OeFFAG-Type, to which the V-strut got attached. But also the other spars look by far more solid than those on the German D.Va. One should think, it would have been easy for the German producers to change this?

Woooooooooow...

According to the German Wikipedia page about the Albatros D.III OeFFAG, she must have been much superiour over her German sister. Here is the essence of the article: The OeFFAG Albatros D.III had a stronger engine (Austro-Daimler with 185 PS), and most important, a totally new designed, resistant to twisting lower wing. There were the series 53.2 and 153, and in 1918 the series 253 - each with a stronger engine than it's predecessor. The last series had no spinner, because the nose had to be elongated to fit with the larger engine. With this, the OeFFAG D.III outperformed by far her German model. The OeFFAG Albatros could even compete with the Sopwith Camel; she was (only!) slightly slower than the SPAD VII. About the 1918 version 253 the pilots from Flik 61J and 63J said things like: Outstanding - the best aircraft we have ever flown; and superior to any other fighter aircraft; solidly built, reliable, agile and well-climbing. They even prefered the OeFFAG D.III 253 from the more modern Aviatik Berg or the Phoenix D.I and D.II. Only drawback of the OeFFAG D.III was the low firing cadence of the Austrian Schwarzlose machine guns. Source: http://de.wikipedia....ki/Oeffag_D.III What a great aircraft could the Albatros D.III have been with the Austrian lower wing, and their stronger engines; and the German 08/15 "Spandau" MGs. Note: see the performance chart in the WKIPEDIA website! .

You know, Beanie, that the Hobbits beat the Orks in the end? ...

I know what you mean, HD - I have been in Norway three times. Norway has hardly any industries, and if, they are down near Oslo. I was higher up, and I was amazed to see the whole Milky Way so clear, that I realised, what the name came from. Never knew before, that there are so many stars!