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So true, Lou - a chance that is now forever gone. I thought similarly about Michael Schmeelke's more than lucky coincidence of meeting Viktor Schobinger, former member and ace of Jasta 12 (the "blacktails"). He talked about his work on his book about Jasta 12, in his kitchen with a friend, and mentioned, that he would like to find Viktor Schobinger, who had been one of the Jastas Staffelführer (CO?). Schmeelke's wife stood by the sink and heard that, and she mentioned, that an old man of that name was living near them - she had met him at the baker shop. Schmeelke got in contact with Schobinger, and got a lot of detail, facts and fotos first hand now. How lucky he was there! If only those CGI artists would watch this old material with open eyes, that would help a lot already.

Funny - I had the feeling, that "Hell's Angels" had some intense and serious looking air combat scenes. Even the close-ups of the pilots, although partly overacted, may be pretty close to RL. And Arthur Gould Lee also made the mistake in the first encounter, to look behind him, when he heard and saw the hostile gun fire. According to Arthur, the clashes often were over extremely quick, and he could still not find anyone, neither friend nor foe. It doesn't seem that they did much extreme turn fighting. Attacking pass and gone. Although, I'm not half through the book - maybe they come to that later?

Perhaps it has a McCarthy bug? Mmuahahahahahaaaaa!!!! But seriously now - did you change anything else; does any light cast a reflection on your glasses at that angle? Does it also occur without any sim on, but just with the TrackIR setup and test menue screen?

"Sagittarius Rising" is one of the very few WW1 air combat books translated into German. I will order it next month, when I have finished "No Parachute!" The German title is "Schütze im Steigflug". These two titles were the most mentioned ones here on the forum, when we were on about books about that theme.

Okay, I hope so - wouldn't want to lose you, Lou.

One thing gets me worried, Lou - the landing gear doesn't seem to have any suspension? Don't break your back at landings!

Yeah, I remember to have seen the bottom pic from you. I hope you can finish it some day. Looks like a fake DH-2 "Razor" so to say. Should be fun!

Maybe I didn't get it, but: why should you want to convert terrain mipmaps?

Give me five, Javito - for me OFF P3 is 100% of the reason why I upgrade right now!

Damn, Lou, you Americans have so many great things we still don't have here. I would love to share an Eindecker UL with someone, but here, the cheapest UL are far too expensive for me, or you may fly a kite-like thing for less, which looks silly. Then there are tons of rules and regulations you'd sure have to learn first. And definitely far less open space (although Ostfriesland might be okay). Will you ever get yourself such an Eini?

CFS3 can use two cores, or so I heard. If you had a quad core CPU with 3.3 GHz, it should run like hell, cause the other two cores could share the other jobs. Thank you for the tips, Mike.

So you're kept away through your work - and me, I can't fly because of the mobo still underway. I'm sure you will worship the fewer hours you can fly now even more. What's a UL ?

Thank you, Mike - the graphic card would be my next investment, before I could play this.

Well, seriously - it DOES look great, and I love such detail. But then I need the rig to perform it. I will soon have the CPU and mobo for it. But then I may also need a NVidea 560, or even 590?

Pedals do have the additional toe brake function, which turns into rudder response in OFF. It needs to be switched off.

When they show every single nut popping out of a breaking up wing, it's no wonder it eats fraps. But it sure looks great, no question.

A fine action clip there, Mike! I didn't necessarily need more violence - I had only asked for more action, cause everybody else seems to have extreme stutters with "Cliffs of Dover". You don't seem to have them. So it may be as Oleg said years ago: the systems to play it on must be far advanced? What are your system's components (CPU, memory)?

Shiloh, even if there won't be a way to preview them on the 3D model; there is a way to preview them even now: download the freeware IRFANVIEW. With that fine program you will be able to browse through all the OFF skins (more than 3.400 !). You'll find them here: (your sim folder) > campaigns > CampaignData > skins

Does this video mean, you can only fly "Cliffs of Dover" without enemy aircraft around??? Or were you just carried away by the joys of flying a Spit?

Damn, I had thought I would be able to concentrate on 1 or 2 pilots in P4 - but with all these planes looking so new and so great - how could I do that? Great stuff, Sandbagger. You're rather a SandMAN today - making me dream of days and planes to come....

Damn, Lou, I hope these books are not responsible, that you come here less? But hey - congrats anyway!

There were both conditions in air war, I assume - clean, freshly painted aircraft on one hand, and then those which had to fly very many sorties in short time, and so looked more shabby. But you're right, Hasse Wind - the military guys clean and polish a lot. The pilots didn't have to -the ground crew did that part of the job. Many types were not in use for more than half a year; so you wouldn't get too much weathering. Then there were the rotaries which exhausted burnt oil and ruined the painted canvas. Those craft's visual appearance must have "worn off" much faster.

Ah, great that you still had the link, Creaghorn! And you are so right - this video's little story was made with so much love! Thank you for bringing it up again!

Yes, they were indeed transporting troops and material, Hellshade Each and every German Jasta airfield is very close to a railway station. Of course, the railway system may have been more dense compared to nowadays. When you fly in Flanders, between Ypres in the north and St.Quentin in the south, and you fly low enough to see white steam trails, you will find occasional trains.You should simply follow their tracks. I have met 3 trains in two years - but I wasn't searching for them. You can even attack and destroy them with rockets.

Takes long to learn it all first. Later you find better and better ways - and quicker ones. Enjoy it, and you'll make good progress!