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HOW GAWD-DAMN STUPID CAN A MAN BE ?!?!?! In this thread I give a good advice how to backup OFF. Then I don't remember to do so myself, for two whole weeks! And then I start messing with the Pilot Dossier - I wanted someone else to be my wingman. My great wingman had fallen after 69 missions, and I got a new guy; but I wanted my previous wingman No. 2 for the job. So I simply changed the order of the wingmen and put him first. After that, I only received "error messages", when trying to start "Campaign". So I thought, I change it back as it was - no way - still "error". The only solution was: "Reset OFF Manager" - with the loss of all pilots. A pilot with 69 hours in 71 missions; EK2, EK1 and House of the Hohenzollern Order. I had flown more realistic than ever, and so I had "only" yet compiled 16 victories - almost believeable. And then this! Dammit - I could bang my useless head against the wall!

Pilots and racing car drivers are not brave or crazy - they just lack the phantasy to imagine, what could all happen.

A dubious comparison there, gordohk, but good that OFF showed you there are other things in life.

Indeed! If it still exists, someone will hold it for good, I'm sure. The French must still be proud of their elite unit.

Hey, don't say "you" - I wasn't even born then! And if anyone here should ever start something like that again, I'll steal a small sailing boat and sail all the way to Newcastle on Tyne, to help you beat them back. All I want for that is some fine British bitter, or red ale, in the evenings. Deal?

Source: http://albindenis.free.fr/Site_escadrille/Louis_Dubuis1.htm

Thanks for the detail about American farming, Lou - now I only wonder how the women survived cooking in an even smaller cabin like that in the summer heat. All I know about American farming, is from Grandma Duck - an iron lady with an iron kitchen oven. Always good for a cherry pie. Nice to see better pics of your farm house than those of Google Streetview shots. Do I even see a barn behind the house - that dark roof?

Thanks, Captain, I was also impressed to find this. The honour belongs to the McMaster archivists. Great place for research!

That's the nice campus of which university, CaptSopwith?

Correct, Hasse Wind. Have a look in there - they also present newer photos from some German two-seater Abteilungen.

The great McMaster website doesn't only offer lots of wonderful war maps - there is also this old report about aerial reconnaisance - enjoy! http://pw20c.mcmaster.ca/case-study/i-spy-my-glass-eye-aerial-photography-and-innovation-world-war-i

Every now and then, new photos are added to the Fliegerseite Buddecke. Here is the forge of Jasta 7 at their airfield Ste. Marguerite, in August 1918. The handwritten panel says: "Metalwork shop & forge Jagdstaffel 7" Enjoy the other new pics here: http://www.buddecke.de/neu.htm

Phantastic voyages here. First stop: Florida! Great variety of pics and weather there, JFM. The "burning sky" is a whammer - although our sunsets are also orange-yellow sometimes, I have never seen one like that. As for Hurricanes: we do get occasional small Tornados, strong enough to destroy huge old trees and house roofs. But they are never as big as you have them. I saw "Twister" which I liked for the story - but I guess that "surviving the storm"-bit was utter crapp. They would have been shreddered by small fast flying parts alone, I bet. Next stop: Toulouse, France! Corsaire, I have been along the Atlantic coast (Biscaya) in France, but my then-girlfriend didn't like cities. So I didn't see Toulouse. Your photos show: I missed a great "town". Next time...

A video from Achim Engel's workshop - enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHNpbYFl_qY

I guess you mean "reasonable for a sim, which will soon have a better follow-up". Cause, when the new product was just released, the original starting price was more than reasonable IMHO. I have never before seen a sim with so much knowledge and devotion put into, for such a reasonable price as OFF. Now it is - together with "Hat in the Ring!" - a real steal. Everyone who just wants to give it a try, should grab it.

Beard, you LUCKY man - you have seen all the developments over the whole long way. I came to OFF by googleing for a WW1 sim in October 2008, and quickly found this exiting name.

Washhouse Coming home alone

Isn't Great Britain beautiful? You "Tommies" have marvellous landscapes on your island!

That's a great photo, Hasse Wind - these fellers are rare to find here. But please, let's keep on topic - photos which show something of your very home; or a special place near your home, where you like to go to very often. (Why not make another thread about photography in general?)

I KNEW you'd be the NIKON type, Corsair. I also have a NIKON F601, but shame on me - I didn't use it for a long time. I had actually thought, you would use extremely good tele objectives. But you beat that with patience and clever camouflage - hats off; great work! And it must be rewarding, to see the birds so close.

Hey, hey - I didn't really doubt it - it was meant as a compliment - they look so professional. Very good work - and surely good and special equipment too.

Corsaire, these garden close-up photos are brilliant, Sir! Did you really make them? And could you (perhaps) add any little detail from your home? Could be your flying- or your kitchen corner, your favourite arm chair, a balkony or garden bench - just anything to give us an idea of your "castle".

Thank you all, guys! Hellshade, that was certainly to high a praise, Sir. Yesterday a bunch of DH-2 slowly but surely smoked my whole flight, and I couldn't save anyone. (Well, the fellers should have helped themselves, but the energy fighting in OFF is yet under- developed - I have high hopes for WOFF to change that). The fighting spread, the "sand fleas" were everywhere, and around me high and low, I had to witness Albatros falling. In the end, when my ammo was all fired, two Nieuports appeared and hunted me down to treetop level. They shot my engine out of it's compartment, and my beautifully painted bird crashed into the wood. Damn, some days I can't get ANYthing right... PS: As for marksmanship, you are definitely the cooler crack, Hellshade, I saw that several times in your own videos - the quietest hands at the guns I have ever seen.

Ah, okay - I thought you had changed the DH-2. They smoked all of my Albatros today, although it should rather be the other way round. The Albatros D.II is okay for me - slightly toned down, and still a great fighter.