Olham

Just found this very interesting little film of German mechanics recovering a Bf 109 in the war against Russia. It's short, but commented in English - enjoy!

Well, it's easy to find, if you type your search words into the frame at YouTube. Here is the Focke-Wulf 190 A type:

Yes, as long as you don't fly below sea level. Mmuahahahahahahaaaaa!!!!!

Guess you meant this aircraft. Very interesting too: they have a Heinkel He 100 fighter there; also a Heinkel He 162 "Salamander" ("Volksjäger") jet fighter; and more than one Messerschmidt Me 163 "Komet" (one in Japanese colours). There are even more interesting planes - have a look yourself.

Yes, exactly, Don - it is due to be released in two weeks. Always.

Don't despair, Widow - I guess most English speaking people won't understand the words.

I am glad, that the OFF devs had and still have a more logical concept of advancing their sim - logically and one firm step after the other. But: OFF is really so good, that it doesn't need to "laugh behind their hands" about any bad mistakes by any other team. I would in fact regard it as tragic, if a sim, with so much enthusiasm and time and energy - so much love - put into it, should finally fail due to wrong decisions or whatever. As a fan of WW1 air combat simulation, I could only feel sad for any such sim, if it would go down. I hope it will be possible, that they can both peacefully co-exist. They approach the whole stuff differently enough, so that I believe they should be able to.

MAKO, it is a cameradery and marching song - even with a nice music - but it's the spirit of the song, that it was specificly THE SA-song, what makes me sick about it.

Wow, that was a quick reaction: the video is not available in Germany anymore! Now I only wonder, if you other nations' sons can still get it shown? But even then - I'm glad it is "off limits" for the Germans now.

Damn - then it will come out together with P4! You know P4 will be released in TWO WEEKS?

Okay, here comes. http://www.youtube.c...h?v=nNqal0ketgg And let me make that clear: I don't know much of fighter pilot Gerhard Barkhorn, and can't say anything about him. He wasn't even asked about the music, of course. It's just the use of this song, that makes me sick.

Hey, I never felt lonely with all you OFFers in the forum. And when you have a look on the Europe map (post #1) I am anything but lonely. Hasse Wind might feel lonely up there in northern Finnland - not me.

Searching YouTube for videos about fighter pilots from WW1 and WW2, I came across a video which seemed to have been uploaded by English or American users. It was about the second-highest scoring German ace, Gerhard Barkhorn. Now, what made me feel queasy was the use of the song "Horst Wessel Lied". Not only just an instrumental, but the whole text version. Now, the English or American users may not know that this song is forbidden here in Germany, nor may they understand the text of it. Well, it is a song that glorifies the SA, the "Sturm-Abteilung" - the "storm troopers". The "brown shirts" - those early uniformed hordes, that used beat up people who demonstrated for their different opinions. They were the hordes, that burned books on bonfires. They were the mainstay to help Hitler into the saddle. They were the hordes that destroyed so many Jewish shops and synagoges in the "Reichs- kristallnacht". They were not even part of Germany's military - they were a paramilitary group, and they saw themselves as the "stewards of Germany". More than any other symbol, their brown uniforms with the red arm band with the Swastika stand for the people I would have hated back then. Violent, totalitarian, fashist people. I hope very much, that YouTube will react now I made them aware of such audio contents. I cannot see many videos in Germany, because the copyrights of the originators would be getting infringed. That's alright. But I do not want to hear any such fashist droning either. .

You're not telling me, that the French would post a GERMAN TANK outside that museum - in their own capital???

Oh yes - I visited the "Imperial War Museum" - could spend a week in there!

Just found these well-made dioramas of Great War trench structures: http://sidneyroundwo...supplement.html .

I have crossed twice through the Champagne, when I traveled through France, and I liked it. As you say, the farms are still far apart from each other, and I found space, and the modest beauty of a less god-spoiled landscape. My native homeland, Ostfriesland, has a similar charakter, though it is all flat heavy and rich clay and marshes. You need an eye for the details to enjoy it. Here is a photo that always strikes me - it tells perhaps something about the space and loneliness in the Champagne - a French soldier's grave that has remained untouched since the Great War. Here is a site I just found about the Great War in the Champagne: http://www.greatwardifferent.com/Great_War/Defence_in_Champagne/Defence_in_Champagne_01.htm .

Hallo, Wels, Du alter Katzenfisch!

Yeah, indeed! Well, when you're gliding down, you can often still determine, where you want to land. Somewhere should be meadow. But then it may look better from higher up, and could be full of holes at closer sight. I think it was MvR who had once picked such a bad landing spot.

Thanks, BirdDog, that was detailed and clear.

Update 9 February 2012 - 10:58 h Berlin time (= GMT + 1) Kaische, Germany, added. The maps are in post 1 of this thread

Don't feel admonished - I am not sure if the version I have was the finished campaign version; I only thought about the others - that it would be nice, if it would be made available. But I understand it's part of the whole FM package, and that would only be annoying, if it had to be replaced with each new plane, again and again. So take your time to finish the others, and - hopefully - get it released before P4 comes out.

I just thought you talked about the Fokker D.VIII with the Gnome engine you had developed with me. Never heard of it again? But three wings? So you could get the Fokker Dr.1 closer to a flat turn? And hopefully get rid of those sometimes very strange tail first spins? PS: Hey, Kaische, I think you are not in the "OFF Forum Pilots Maps" yet? So, if you send me a PM with your town, I'll add you in there.

I know it is not an option in P3, von Baur. Still, you could fly in a French Escadrille, but use a Belgian skin.