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Sorry, Ras, no hit. The closest is Lt. Seewald, Jasta 30. Stary, there was no Knoll listed for you, sorry. UncleAl is lucky, with that name no wonder in Germany - we have hundreds of Maier, Meyer and Meier here. The name is spelled: My-air So if you wanted to fly German side; here are all pilots of that name: Leutnant der Reserve Reinhold Maier - FEA 2, FEA 10, FA 5 and Jasta 30 Unteroffizier .... Maier - Jasta 8 Vizefeldwebel ... Maier - Jasta 36 Unteroffizier ... Maier - Jasta 46 Leutnant ... Maier-Haake - Jasta 36

Ras, the time with the dear ones is never long enough. But he came back from that war of all wars alive, and had enough time left to become your best friend. Call me childish, but I believe, one day - soon or yet far away - we will meet them all again, above the clouds. And then we will wonder together, how we could have spent any of the precious time in dark moods.

Verdammtnochmal, now you have made my eyes moist, you Crumpet you! I don't know how your loss must have felt, Simon, but I had a similar event in a similar age When my parents got devorced, they sent me to my grandma in Berlin, so I wouldn't see all the misery. I had to fly alone, and the Stewardess saw that I was unhappy and dull, and she also invited me to the cockpit. It was a Lufthansa Metropolitan, a twin radial engines prop airliner for short range flights. I was 11 years old then, but unfortunately, I didn't dare to ask them much - I thought, I might cause too much distraction from their flying the lady; so I watched it rather quietly. That sure is great about Caledonian, that they liked to use your video, and particularly, that this Stewardess even remembers you. Please report, if you should really ever meet her again. Great story, old chap!

With "The Blue Max" and "Aces High", two good story lines were made into good movies. But I think, that it wouldn't suit our more modern and de-romanticised times, to make another movie like that. If there were ladies in towels involved, okay (I doubt there were many), but there were entertaining "side stories" which could be shown, like the story, when Udet and comrades built a huge kite, and then tied a little French girl to it and let her fly, to show her how wonderful it was. The chubby mother comes to the scene in a rage, all pilots run away except the one, who has to bring the kite back down. The lady cries, and hits him with a bag again and again, but he doesn't fail to bring kite and girl back down safe. There must be many stories like that. A scene with a lady was in Julius Buckler's memories. He and his friend, a Hauptmann, go out one evening, and get pretty drunk. Buckler is flirting with the French lady, who runs the pub. But then he falls asleep. When he wakes up, his Hauptmann is kissing with the lady, and Buckler is very upset and angry for days, until his friend gets into a nasty situation in the air, and Buckler helps him out. And all was forgotten. The best I could imagine Peter Jackson to come up with, would be a well produced series about the aces; showing their lifes and fights, their victories and deaths - as historically accurat as any possible.

Stary, Jewish and German don't exclude each other (although the Nazis tried to force that to happen). There were times, when Jewish people lived their German lives, just like Huguenots and other minorities. And there are Jewish communities again here, at least in Berlin, where they have their most grand synagoge. If you give me the name, I can check for a pilot bearing it. Creaghorn, KuK pilots are not included. But if your name has a meaning, you could give me the German word.

You seem to have fun, Duce! I am more with Richthofen in my fights, which may be boring to watch. He didn't use "aerobatics", but made a decided attack, in which he mostly shot his opponent up. If he failed, he would go for an advantage position again. I use "desperate maneuvers" like half loops only, when really desperate. Triplane aces can force me to try that, but very rarely does it happen. My most successful "tactic" is to damage the opponent's kite right at the beginning of a fight. After that, he is only half the match, and as good as dead.

Timewarp! My god, Barkhorn - I have "Wings of Glory" and used to fly it back in the days when it was the latest sim! I would have thought, that it had looked much greater - I remembered it more detailed; which shows, that we fill up the gaps between the pixels with our imagination. That old cheap, but effective synthetic music also brought thememory, the feelings back - it was FUN! Thanks for posting!

You may have wondered sometimes, if an ancestor of your family - father's or mother's line - could have been a pilot in a German Jasta or Marine Feldjasta. Ras came up with that question, and I will search through the two lists in the book "The Jasta Pilots" by Norman Franks, Frank Bailey and Rick Duiven. This is mainly interesting for Americans, who have European ancestors. But even some English or French names may have German roots - in my Jasta, my second wingman's name is "Winslowe" - a name that also appears in Great Britain. Some names have a meaning, which can be translated. "Cook" would be "Koch" for example, and there are 8 "Koch" listed. I don't mean, that he really had to be a Jasta pilot - only, if the name appeared somewhere, so it might be more imaginable for you, that it could have been so, and make you start a German campaign in that Jasta, where the name appeared. (Many will of course be disappointed, if their names are not listed). If you are interested, send me 4 - 5 names; I'll check it for you then.

Ras, the only source I know is the book "The Jasta Pilots" by Norman Franks, Frank Bailey and Rick Duiven, as Dej already said. I just recently got this book. It contains a long list of names of the Jasta pilots, and the Marine Jasta pilots. I would see through the alphabetical names lists for you, if you could send me a PM with your ancestors' names. What I can say already, is that there is no "Rasmussen" in any written form of that name in both lists.

Lou, you seem to be even more fit on Photoshop than I should be as a graphic designer! The headover word in the stamp should be "Charlottenburg", which is a central district of Berlin city. I'll have to re-do it anyway after putting my photo in. Thanks a lot - you have done most of the work!

On the Waterfront Whenever I want to feel free, and closer to my homeland Ostfriesland, I fly with MFJ 1. Today I was flying with the aces Leutnant zur See Voss, Flugobermaat Luitjens and Flugmeister Brenner. We had a great harvest - we sent down 5 FE2b; and returning we ran into four Nieuport 24, which we also destroyed.

Barkhorn, the Dr.1 is perhaps easy to fly, but not at all easy to aim and hit with. And by the way, it turns better than the Camel.

Well, men have flown to the moon for somehandsfull of stones and dust - it's all only a game. And most is crazy.

Bruce, your processor is a bit slow for this sim, I'm afraid. What you should try once, is to RAISE the setting - it is often heard here, that OFF runs more smooth with HIGHER settings. Leave terrain detail on 2 or 3, put scenery detail to 1 or 2; but push up the others. Aircraft: 5 Effects: 3 or 4 Clouds: 3 - 5 (clouds don't seem to be a problem) You can switch off "shadows" in Workshop; also set "Scenery detail" low there.

Here is one, Lou - I sent it per PM, but I think you can also download it from here.

Looks great, Lou! I love such additions to our immersion! With this idea, you got me hooked for another British Campaign carreer now. I don't have the time right now, but will later send you all required to make me one. I'll have to do a decent pilot photo. I might even add a German license, if you don't mind? Or did you intend to make one?

Well, in it's time, when it was new, it was a good fighter! After some training, you can get used to this pusher, and I would always prefer it to the Eindecker. I even had a DH-2 campaign - until Rudolf Berthold finished my young life. He KNEW how to fly and win in the Eindecker!

bruce, after a while, there won't be no need for E-mails telling you that someone answered - you will be unable to resist checking the forum at least three times a day! Easy British craft: early: Sopwith Pup, Sopwith Strutter mid: Sopwith Triplane, Sopwith Strutter, S.E.5a, Bristol Fighter late: S.E.5a Viper, Bristol Fighter

Update June 29; 2010; 20:26 h Berlin summertime (= GMT + 2) Jackstraw, Ontario, added. All the maps are in post 1 of this thread

rabu, the customer comments are rather bad. Maybe the original (German ?) version is good: haven't seen it though.

George, if you search through my recent posts, there were three with video links to the Vintage Aviator Airshow. Here is the address of Part One - you'll like it! http://combatace.com/topic/56605-the-vintage-aviator-airshow-2010-in-hd-part-one/page__view__findpost__p__418917

The ways you British win your wars!

You noticed the tail sections - very good. But what I was wondering about, is that there is a Mosquito in the picture.

Don't even have to watch - I remember, that the aircraft in "Flyboys" were too fast all the time, and those in "The Red Baron" part of the time, too - especially in dives. One should think, it wouldn't be too hard to find advisors, who KNOW how those craft did fly. They could even only watch some of Wanaka Airshow to get the idea. Do they think, people today would not like watching any craft flying below jet speed?

Jack, would you please send me a PM with your town and country? I'll add you to our "OFF Forum Pilots Map" then (see Sticky Threads above).