Olham

Wow, you lucky man! That must have been an exiting day - you witnessed a very rare occasion there! There isn't too much to understand with Lozenge camo fabric. I guess it was introduced because it saved the weight of all that green, brown or mauve paint you would otherwise apply on the wings. Another reason is the way, Lozenge camo "splinters up" the object . On a captured Albatros, a British photographer realised, how hard it was to get a black-and-white picture, that allows you recognise the whole shape of a camouflaged wing. The patterns are made up of polygons of 5 or 4 colours (different for upper- and undersurfaces). They are applied on the fabric per screen printing. The pattern is made so, that the next part you print fits in to the zaggies of the previous. So you could make "endless" prints on the fabric, which was probably a roll of quite some length.

Do you have a laptop on your chest, Tranquillo? Nurse - if you read this - don't give him the joystick! No white-knuckle fighting the next 10 days, pilot!

Blimey, the Eini - the craft is okay for it's time - once you got to grips with it Us Marine (Navy) boys were out to the northern end of the line, by the sea. We got jumped by several Nieuports there, and I must say: we could hold our own quite well. Together with my wingman, I even managed to bring this "red little devil" down. Does anyone know who he is? Garros perchance? Must look him up. And is this a Nieuport 11 or Nieuport 16 ? I'm not so familiar with the characteristics of the two types.

She can be a bitch. I have flown two short-lived campaign attempts in the DH-2, and with WOFF I will definitely try a serious British campaign starting with her again.

No wonder you feel weak, Tranquillo - it will take a couple of days, before you will be on your pins again, I guess. Maybe they can tell you what to eat and drink the next time, to reproduce blood. And don't be unpatient with yourself - be a good patient. Those who love you will care and do their best, I'm sure. Give your apparatus the time to recover. All the best (but don't ask your Irish nurse for Irish whisky!) :good: Olham

Not through it's difficult characteristics, may be. But there were nasty wing failures with the Fokker Dr.1, which killed for example Gontermann. Who knows, how many non-famous pilots were killed by breaking lower wings on Albatros D.III and D.V versions? And then the Fokker E.V had wing failures again. When I side-slipped unwillingly with my Fokker E.III at low altitude yesterday, I noticed how I first got ham-fisted, trying to counter that move - without any chance of success. Only when I did the most frightening thing I could think of in that situatuion - pushing the nose down and kick rudder to bring the nose towards the ground - only then I could just catch her up, before she would crash into some trees. I must have brought some leaves back with my undercarriage.

After tweaking and fiddling with bits of other users' profiles (Charvel, Widowmaker and Polovski), and adding and changing all to my likes, I have found a profile that works very well for me in OFF - it is at the same time gently smooth as it is still very immediate. If you like, extract it and try it out. The profile goes into: Programs > NaturalPoint > TrackIR5 > profiles Enjoy!

Yeah, I bet he didn't like it either. For those more fragile early kites, getting hit by a close burst from two MG must have been devastating. Maybe he could have managed a landing still, had he not turned upwards in such a crazy angle. That craft is hard to catch up, when it stalls, and he had too little space - he slammed in.

Thanks for the detail, Gepard. I kept it simpler, cause it didn't matter for my report, wether it was the GDR or still only just the Soviet zone. I didn't know the details about the way of the currency change; good info!

What he means, Alexander, is the "old" "Quick Combat", which has to be started from within "Workshops"; bottom line, CFS QC.

Alexander, my memory is rather - scrambled eggs style. But I believe to remember, that the additional, user-made aircraft models can only be used within user-built missions. Is that correct - anyone? There are missions like "Olham's Gotha Escort" (by RAF_Louvert), which I had downloaded the Gothas for. And then they worked - but only in that mission. And don't ask me, where I had to place them, Alexander - it's too long ago.

I'm with you on point 2, Hauksbee - better firm and beautifully formed than large and... ah, let's better stop this macho talk, before the moderators feel, they must.

Hmmm - makes one wonder, why they have two medals for a very similar reason. I'd say they could have used the "Airbridge" medal for the other causes too? And the old one even looks a tad better IMHO. Damn, the military - they'd ask everything back from you, what they can. Arthur Gould Lee or Cecil Lewis - one of them had landed his scout in a terrain, which was a bit later overrun by the Germans. He remembered the flight watch and ran back to the craft under threat of life, to get it out of the aircraft cockpit. He then wanted to keep it as a wartime souvenir. One or two days later, he received a message - they asked him to hand over the watch the other day in the morning.

Next time you send them a copy of the James Dietz painting with you - they can't beat you off then anymore. Good luck next time, Jarhead!

Wikipedia shows some interesting and informative pictures of the days, when West-Berlin was isolated within the Sowiet-controlled GDR (German Democratic Republik), by the surrounding wall. The Soviets had controlled and cut off all land supply routes - it seemed a question of time, when West-Berlin would have to give up. But the Americans did not accept this as an inescapeable fate - in a tremendous effort, they organised the supply of a whole city by air transport: "Unternehmen Luftbrücke" (Operation Air Bridge) was installed. Here is Wikipedia about the facts: The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Allied control. Their aim was to force the western powers to allow the Soviet zone to start supplying Berlin with food and fuel, thereby giving the Soviets practical control over the entire city. In response, the Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the people in West Berlin. The recently independent United States Air Force and the United Kingdom's Royal Air Force flew over 200,000 flights in one year, providing up to 4700 tons of daily necessities such as fuel and food to the Berliners. Alongside US and British personnel, the airlift involved aircrews from the Royal Australian Air Force, the Royal Canadian Air Force, Royal New Zealand Air Force, and South African Air Force. By the spring of 1949, the effort was clearly succeeding and, by April, the airlift was delivering more cargo than had previously been transported into the city by rail. The success of the Berlin Airlift brought embarrassment to the Soviets who had refused to believe it could make a difference. The blockade was lifted in May 1949 and resulted in the creation of two separate German states. The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) split up Berlin. In remembrance of the airlift, three airports in the former western zones of the city served as the primary gateways to Germany for another fifty years. http://en.wikipedia..../Berlin_Airlift There are still many Berliners, who lived, when all this happened. They may have been among the kids on that hill of bomb damage rubble, just outside the airfield. And when you speak with them about the "Luftbrücke", their eyes may get moist, while they tell you, that the pilots often threw chocolate bars - attached to little handkerchief- parachutes - out of their cockpits, when they saw the waiting children. And you can feel, how gratefull they still are. A total of 101 fatalities were recorded as a result of the operation, including 40 Britons and 31 Americans, mostly due to crashes. Seventeen American and eight British aircraft crashed during the operation. They are not forgotten - the Berlin Airlift Monument in Berlin-Tempelhof shows this inscription at it's base: "They gave their lives for the freedom of Berlin in service of the Berlin Airlift 1948/49".

Update 16 June 2012 - 11:43 h Berlin time (= GMT + 1) Alexander48, California added The maps are in post 1 of this thread

Hmm, you got me wondering there - I had thought I used Herr Prop-Wasche's DM. But I don't see anything like "DM" in my JSGME Generic Mod Enabler. Or how is the DM named? HPW? Anyone?

von Baur, I wish your son a safe return - I can imagine how happy you must be.

Widowmaker on British TV - how desperate must they be?

Good idea, HumanDrone! Now, where's our president, to declare the pub open?

Hmmm - ... I have read the trilogy, and Noomi Rapace played Lisbeth Salander very well. Only the look, the physics I had expected more child-like - Rapace is definitely physically stronger. She played Lisbeth very well, like she was described in the books.

She recently played a gypsy in the 2. Guy-Ritchy-Sherlock Holmes.

This screenshot shows, how much damage I still get, even though I use "High-res Skins". Enough for me!

Yes, such pics are rather rare. What asthonished me was to see, how they have just nailed a few rather thin beams together to form a "crane" for the engine - great improvising those days.

Found this picture in a website Carrick has posted today over at SimHQ.