Olham

The Sukhoi "Flanker" is famous for it's "Cobra Manoeuver". It can do even more. This pilot seems to be dancing in it - enjoy!

Duke, with TrackIR, you don't really need the gunsight. You will be able to duck or crouch a little to line up the enemy craft with your gunsight. Even better: if you "learn" to know where the bullets fly. Since I mostly fly the Albatros, I have developed a feeling for where to aim, to hit the EA. Even deflection shots on ranges of 200 yards are possible. It takes a little time to get used to it, but it's very rewarding.

Damn, if I would have switched my brain on before writing... Even if I don't know anything much about Elgar except that he composed "Land of Hope and Glory" and the wonderful "Pomp and Circumstance", I would have known that he was too old to be sent to the trenches. Sometimes, my brain is more like scrambled eggs. Dohh!!!

Thank you for the links, Waldemar.

If you make a personal skin of her with a good deal of weathering, please don't hesitate to show pics, okay?

Sorry, but that sounded so funny. We Ostfriesen can't think of anything else but mice and moles; maybe Bisam rats from the landside trenches - but "tunneling fish" would sure be our end - there'd be just too many of them in the North Sea. That's why the seaward forward dyke front there is a wall of big basalt blocks.

Thanks a lot, JFM!

One reason why I never made any profiles, is that I have a brain like a sieve. I would simply forget about things I already knew. But perhaps I could try some profiles - just for the fun of making them - with your help. I'd pick a certain craft from a specific photo and work it out, and you give me the guidelines and later the corrections?

Among the skins shown here http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww1/f/415/59 there is also a tendency towards the OAW type carrying the writing higher.

Fine pics - hadn't seen most of them. The last one especially - could be Jasta 8? You seem to be much deeper into the documentations than I ever was, elephant. Looks like you have pointed out another of the differences between Johannisthal- and OAW-built craft.

How disappointed would the be, if it happened too early?

I just found these two on a quick search. Seems they didn't have na "Idflieg order form" that told them, where exactly the inscription had to be placed.

Waldemar, did you download those trench maps, or were did you get the DVDs?

Good one, Bullethead! Could be made into another zombie film version, with 'Ol' man river' co-starring.

The cello gives this Elegy a slight soreness the violins couldn't create so well. Was Elgar wounded in the Great War?

Great site! I had seen it before, but forgot to save the link, so thanks a lot for posting this, Pips! But: "Forgotten War" ??? Not here among the OFFers, surely!

Lack of experience, I'd say. They have no idea of the level the water may reach, and especially about the force and pressure of water. I often notice, that in films, big fires in buildings are mostly shown as bright burning wild flames. The firemen can still see everything and their only threat seem to be the flames. But when I spoke with a fireman, he described it totally different. Thick, dense smoke makes it impossible to see anything much; even with an oxygen mask you don't see where you are most of the time. A very different danger. If now a person only knows big fires from movies, he/she will be totally unprepared for the real thin. Is there still higher land available for "normal" prices? In my homeland Ostfriesland, men learnt to build sea dykes of immense size. But they started comparably low, hundreds of years ago. A modern sea dyke has a basic depth of 60 - 95 meters. A lot of space, earth and sand is used up in them. Now they have made them higher again, but couldn't fill it all with earth or clay. They filled the core with sand. The danger of that is: when the water finds it's way through mouse or mole tunnels, it may wash the sand out. To care for that, we have large herds of sheep. They eat their way along the dyke and step on these little tunnels, fastening the clay again. It's a neverending job.

That's quite a lot of evidence there, elephant. I just checked the book of JFM about MvR, and his profiles all show the three line inscriptions on the D.V centered, slightly lower. Perhaps it has something to do with the factory they were built in? There were Johannisthal-Albatros from the mother company, and also OAW-built Albatros. It is always interesting to learn more about these beautiful birds. For example, it was JFM, who had found out, that the winged creature in the little Albatros Factory emblem on the rudder was always looking forward, in flight direction. So, on the port side of the rudder, it looked to the left; on the starboard side it looked to the right. Even well experienced profile painters still get that detail wrong. If you find out more, please report.

Never seen the writing so high before. Even "THE VINTAGE AVIATOR REPLICA" has the writing in the lower half, as you can see here. All pics I have seen so far showed it low. http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/node/4854

View File Albatros D.V (later) Basic Skin for Jasta 2 After a lot of experimentation with plywood textures, I have come up with this version of a Jasta 2 skin for an Albatros D.V (uprated). It is meant to be a factory-new D.V, but with the hood and wheel covers painted in the Jasta's dark green already. The white tail section was the Jasta's hallmark. The wings even carry the line "Nicht auftreten!" (No step!) I wanted to provide a skin with no special, personal markings, so that everyone can attach their own designs, without building a totally new skin. The underlying basic design I worked from is the work from our OBD skinners; and without their great work I would have been lost. Submitter Olham Submitted 05/21/2011 Category Aircraft Skins

I know you like more weathering, Widowmaker. Feel free to add the amount you like. You're wrong there, elephant - the writing was below the longitudinal center line, as you see here.

Geeze, Widow - when women say: "I could eat you, boy!", you shouldn't take it literally! I mean, after all you're not a boy anymore.

For all who are not deeply into skinning, but maybe able to attach some emblem or a letter or such, I have made a factory-new Albatros D.V (uprated). The file is uploaded, but may need some time to get the approval of the forum moderators, before you can download it. Enjoy it!

Well, Border Collies are very intelligent, and when this buddy is lying so peacefully on your chest, then I am convinced, that there is no real threat going out from you, old chap!