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  2. Posted

    All your recent works look really good, guys - for FLYING CIRCUS as for BATTLE OF BODENPLATTE! 
    I hope that at least some of the Picardie/Flanders/Ardennes landscapes can be used for BODENPLATTE and FLYING CIRCUS - that would save time.

    Since I made an early purchase, I find it hard to wait much longer for FC, and for my beloved Albatros scouts. 
    All the drooling may finally leave me too dehydrated to be fit to fly! :pilotfly:

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    On 1/3/2019 at 2:34 AM, 33LIMA said:

    I finally come to grips with a classic...

    I love to see someone having so much fun with an air combat sim! Nice reports and story!

    Mind you: it must be "Kriegsberichterstatter" - that British rule "no i after e" doesn't count for German. And it's wrong anyway - there are words like "weird" or "their" or "heir" etc.

  7. Posted

    Hey, Dutch, old Matjes! 
    Well, FC is yet only an early purchase with no content but two aircraft. The landscape is from IL-2 Battle of Kuban, and therefor lacks historic authenticity.
    I really hope it will become a great sim.

    Yeah, a Belgian Esc. with Hanriots should be added. The could also use the Farman!

    You are right about the immersive factor of OFF and WOFF. I guess I will never find that a second time, anywhere.
    RoF and now FC are more for online flying and fighting, but WOFF entertained me for years in single player campaign - something you cannot just plan and build -
    it has to do with true passion, with far more hours than dollars, and with love and devotion.

  8. Posted

    So Raine is also still in active service, I see? And he will make a new DiD Campaign? That is nice to hear - boy, we had so wonderful times with that!
    My regards to him - he is a worthy successor for the DiD Campaign.

    Not sure if I will join at any point next year. I first want to buy me the ultimate edition, WOFF UE, just for the sake of it all and a fine little company.
    But that'll have to wait 'till after Xmas, when the bank account fever pitch will be down to normal again.

    Then I heard, that Pol announced several new planes for WOFF UE, which he said would be free for those who own it? Did he say which planes?

  9. Posted

    Hello, Lou, old fly-barn! Hello, Hasse, Eric and Jeanba, and all!
    When I see a message of a member I remember, in the right frame of the forum, then I check in! Nice to hear from you all!

    I don't fly recently, but die in tanks. I am REALLY, REALLY waiting for IL-2 "Flying Circus".
    Cause, when the landscapes get as good as in the IL-2 Kuban map, then it will be amazing! They will build the known towns like Arras and Douai etc.;
    and the rivers and canals. The aircraft got improved; the new damage model is less "Flyboys" but more realistic. Took me hundreds of rounds to kill
    a Fokker Dr.I with a SPAD XIII, and the wings, though hit many times, did not crumble away! Great!

    What are you guys flying/playing?

  15. Posted

    On 9.2.2018 at 2:14 AM, Adger said:

    I still miss Combat Ace for all our OFF/WOFF postings :sad:  Ah well. Take care Pal

    A few more. Fictional skin i believe by Raf Louvert. Thanks Lou!

    Well, I literally put all into (W)OFF I had to offer, over several years. So I guess it's only normal that you reach a point some day, when you move somewhere else.
    (W)OFF gave me far more than any other sim or game was ever able to give me, and I still believe, that I will come back to it one day.
    But right now I am flying WW2 in IL-2 (the new one).

    Yes, the skin must be from RAF_Louvert (greetings, Lou, if you should still read here!) - the emblem was from a German cigarette or cigar company of that time.

    Have fun, Adger - maybe one day we'll meet again - over Flanders fields... :pilotfly:

  18. Posted

    On 13.12.2017 at 5:47 AM, hood said:

    I had my 95th birthday last August and am doing pretty well really.

     

    11 hours ago, HumanDrone said:

    Blessings to you, I hope you get on healthy past the ol' century mark!

    Same from me, Hood! You can do it - your generation was made from ironwood!
    A neighbouress of my mum will soon get 101 years old, and she looks like she can make the next tenner full!

    To all you old (and young) WOFFers around here still, and for you Eric and all the fellers at the forum command tower:

    I wish you all a comfy and cosy Xmas, and sound and healthy and happy new year 2018! :bye:

     

     

  21. Posted

    4 hours ago, Hauksbee said:

    I know the Soviet Union chose "The International" as their anthem.

    That was their anthem only until 1944. After that, this anthem which I used in the video, was introduced. And, with a changed text, is again used for the nowadays' Russian Federation.

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    Speaking of National Anthems, does Germany still use "Deutchland uber alles", or did the  National Socialists ruin that for you?

    Yes, we sing this verse still today. One verse was dropped tough, which described the old frontiers of Germany, which shrunk after WW2.
    And yes - the Nazi regime DID ruin a lot of the feelings, with which we would sing our anthem.
    Any other nation is singing their national anthem with much more pride than we Germans do.

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    Putin is being aggressive these days, but it's nothing like the old days of Stalin/Krushchev/Breznevh.

    Well, my honest opinion is, that the US politics are often much more aggresive than Putin ever was.
    A lot of any Russian moves are getting very much distorted in Western media.
    For example, Russia did not "occupy" the Crimean pininsula. They had always been there - it is their Black Sea Naval base.
    They didn't have to occupy it - the majorityof the Eastern Ucraine people have stronger relations to Russia, than to far away "western" Kiew.
    But that won't get told on TV.
    While the American interests are always being understood by our anchormen, the Russian interests are not even regarded.

    But we are getting on the thin ice of politics here, and I don't want to start a looong debate about all that.

     

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  23. Posted

    3 hours ago, Hauksbee said:

    Olham: was it you that said, that in Germany, it was always "Bf-109", never "Me-109"?

     

    Well, the confusion about the fighter series correct name came from a change of the company name. Here is WIKI about it:

    "It was commonly called the Me 109, most often by Allied aircrew and even among the German aces themselves, even though this was not the official German designation.
    The designation "Messerschmitt Bf 109" was issued by the Ministry of Aviation (German: Reichsluftfahrtministerium) and represents the firm that originally built them,
    the "Bayerische Flugzeugwerke (BFW - "Bavarian Aircraft Works").
    The confusion arises because design work began in 1934 at the BFW firm and, as was customary, the model was designated by the prefix Bf.
    On July 11, 1938 the company was renamed Messerschmitt AG due to Willy Messerschmitt becoming its new owner, and the prefix Me was applied to all new models
    after that date, whilst existing types retained their Bf prefix."

     

  24. Posted

    7 hours ago, Hauksbee said:

    I was hoping to see the Henschel-129 in there, but, no go. 

    The Henschel is announced for "Battle of Kuban". But careful! As fa as I could see, "Battle of Kuban" can already be pre-purchased - but it is NOT available yet.
    At least not in Germany.

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    It will feel odd not having an extra wing over  my head.

    Not only that.
    The whole cockpit view feels terrible, compared to the vision on the Albatros!
    Secondly, everything happens in double speed - you may feel like Charly Chaplin - almost dizzy!

     

    Here are 2 videos I made in IL-2 "Battle of Stalingrad" (Kuban map on a MULTIPLAYER server...)

     

     

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  25. Posted

    On 17.11.2017 at 7:39 PM, Hellshade said:

    I have been looking at some of the IL2 Battle of Kuban videos...

    Afaik, "Battle of Kuban" is not even released yet, Hellshade.
    What you have seen must be videos which were made in MULTIPLAYER servers of "Battle of Stalingrad", where they have a Kuban map already.

    As for "FLYING CIRCUS":
    I see the old stupid approach happening again here. There are many late war aircraft in the first set, but no Albatros D.II or D.III, or D.H. 2 or Sopwith Pup, which were elementary.
    The other aircraft will later be sold to us - again - which raises the price for such a sim quite a lot, if you want to have several them.
    When the new sim is more or less the old sim in "new clothing" and with new landscape, then such a sales policy is - IMHO - pretty cheeky.
     

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