Olham

Hellshade and itifonhom, you have now definitely infected me with your hype. Must I expect the game will need to get patched a lot, before it will be okay?

Not bad - I always liked the British tradition of having a "Speaker's Corner". And a police, that is not immediately there to carry the guys away.

...they'd throw 5-course menues at us?

Thank you, Widowmaker, and cheers!

I have just had one of these straining, intense and exciting dogfights you only find in "Over Flanders Fields". Flying with Jasta 32 in May 1917, based at La Jolie Ferme NE of Verdun, we ran into several Nieuport 17 from the French Escadrille 77. After only seconds I knew that there were aces in the flight, and switching on Labels confirmed that. Damn, they gave us a fight. I know some say the French wouldn't go for fights - but these fellers were over on our side, and they engaged us decidedly. The fighting took much longer than usual clashes do, and my opponent played so many tricks on me in his Nupe, that I feel like I have had some hours of training in a fighter school! The man was all over the place, and his up-and-down tactic was hard to follow in the Albatros D.II. I even performed barrel rolls - something I don't normally do - to be able to remain behind him, but he never gave me a good hitting-angle for long, and I fired a lot of ammo. Our "tango" was so close, that I could see, he carried a big serpent or dragon emblem, filling the whole fuselage side. I got him down in the end, and short before he crashed, I switched Labels on. He was Maurice Jean Paul Boyau, and he had given me a great fight. His ace comrade Joseph Maria shot my wingman down. I could get some bullets into his kite too, but then my ammo was out. He and his wingman chased me all the way back to La Jolie Ferme, before they turned round. Chapeau, messieurs!

View File Albatros D.V Skin for Jastas 12, 16, 17 or 32 ThisAlbatros D.V would have flown in 1917. It's black tail marking would fit with the Jastas 12, 16, 17 or 32. I have left off my personal black and white "M" marking, so that you can add your own emblem, sign or letter here. The skin is based on the original Albatros D.V skin file from OBD, and I would like to thank all OBD skinners for their inspiring great works. Thanks also to elephant, who helped me with many details and photos. Extract the file to your desktop. Then change "Jasta X" to the desired Jasta number; like "Jasta 12". You can also change "MySkin" into your own name. Then put the file into the skins folder in your sim: CFSWW1 Over Flanders fields > campaigns > CampaignData > skins Enjoy! Submitter Olham Submitted 11/05/2011 Category Aircraft Skins

Still far away from the comforts of the Liberator's turnable gun turrets, eyh? Why install a seat, when the guy can sit on his ammo box? We're not in this war for any cosey comfort, soldier!

Alright, the skin is uploaded now and should be approved soon.

Thank you all! elephant, I hate inverted shemes - too symmetric. I never use them. But maybe I could make the mauve a bit paler. The design was indeed inspired by Hartmann's Bf 109 - it is simple enough to make it believeable for WW1 too. Shiloh, the "rainbow things" are flare cartridges, attached outside of the cockpit. I don't know how they were coloured, but I thought it would make sense to give tham each the colour the flare shows when fired off. They had white, green, red (and maybe even yellow). Widow, thank you! I have even added a little weathering for you now!

A new skin is almost finished after 4 hours concentrated work and corrections for the distortions etc. It is - I bet no one would have guessed it - another Albatros D.V skin, but this time for the early D.V with the hunchback. I wanted to do something a bit more of a design, not just the emblem/colour band stuff. A design of a proud, young ace - nowadays he would perhaps have a pimped out car? What do you guys say? If at least 5 people here say they want to use it, I will upload it.

Yep, vents, Shiloh. The SPAD had lots of them, also on the upper and underside - see here: http://www.mincbergr...page=spad-vii-2 It doesn't have the comfortable view as the albatros, but the SPAD is a powerful plane. You should give it a try some day. The SPAD XIII with it's twin guns, it's engine-powerful speed and climb, and the stable dive of a rugged airframe make it possible for the pilot to always dominate the situation, or to leave it.

Thanks, Shiloh. The black tail and white spinner are the typical Jasta markings. But, where the heck do you read a NUMBER on the nose of that SPAD ???

Don't forget to disable the break finction (for CFS3's WW2 planes) - otherwise it may not work, as you hoped.

Funny - I have made another new pilot for Jasta 32, cause they are one of the few units flying the Albatros D.V with the early "hunchback" - and now I realised, that he is only flying 16 days later. So I guess I will delete this second feller, and work my way through these 16 days with the first Jasta 32 pilot. Somehow, the early D.V has a special touch with that headrest - even though it wasn't like much by the pilots, and usually got removed in the field. We had a wonderful fight against 3 SPD VII from Guynemer's "Storcks", and I must say, I was glad that we outnumbered them 5:3, otherwise we might have lost a pilot. Those French pilots performed a wonderful fight, and had they used more energy fighting tactics - they would have got away. The SPADs were all over the place, and we could only kill two, because we worked tightly together.

Good success, lanny, and welcome to the skies over Flanders fields! Now, if you would send me a PM with your hometown and country/state - I'd like to add you to our OFF Forum Pilots maps in the "Sticky Threads" above.

A clear mess - ah - miss, I meant.

Ah, yes , here is real weathering on that metal hood, and oily stains under the fuselage. Didn't know that about the additional pics - thank you, elephant!

It looks quite well constructed and almost simple to assemble. IKEA could learn from that.

Hey, I thought I had seen them all??!!?? Did Greg add new ones lately? Thank you, elephant - the proof that transport via road was also possible and done.

Weathering? Where do you see weathering??? That is the Wingnuts stamp!

I found this interesting picture in the photo archive of Greg van Wyngarden at the "Wingnut Wings" website. Greg has made many pics of his great collection available there - if you haven't seen them, you should visit their site and have a look - lots of great stuff. Here is the link: http://www.wingnutwings.com/ww/photogallery?categoryid=1 This photo shows quite well, how the Albatros fighters got transported and re-assembled at arrival. The wings, and the tailplane-halfs were saved in crate packings. The crew here seems to be working on the undercarriage. The wheels are still lying in the background right. I guess the transports were done by railway, whenever possible; but I have also seen an Albatros fuselage being pulled by a truck. They had lifted and fixed the tail end on to the truck, and the craft was rolling on it's own wheels. But that wouldn't do the wheels much good on longer distances.

Widow, I don't have kids, but I'm pretty sure that this counts for grown-ups as for kids: when he knows he did something wrong or even something bad, then he knows why your fuses melted down - and he knows he deserved it. On the other hand: if you later realise you did him wrong - it would be real strength if you would be able to ask him for excuse. The judgement for fair treatment is in us all - kids and parents.

This is very strange - I am running "Over Flanders fields" on a system with Windows 7 (32bit) and an ATI HD4870, and I have never had any issues with it. - Did you upgrade CFS3 to v3.1 ? - How much memory do you have installed? - Which graphic card do you use? - Did you follow the exact installation guide from OBD's website, to make sure about the install order and the patches?