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THE VINTAGE AVIATOR AIRSHOW ............Hood Aerodrome New Zealand 24 April 2010........... The "Vintage Aviator Airshow" Part 1 - 3 can be watched in HD - do so and enjoy close looks at beautiful craft. Part 2] Albatros D.Va flight and close-ups; Tiger Moth; Fokker Dr.1 Staffel flight and close-ups; Farman FE2b; Scout Experimental S.E.5a cockpit and flight

THE VINTAGE AVIATOR AIRSHOW ............Hood Aerodrome New Zealand 24 April 2010........... The "Vintage Aviator Airshow" Part 1 - 3 can be watched in HD - do so and enjoy close looks at beautiful craft. Part 1] BE2c & BE2f; Avro 504; Nieuport 11; Pfalz D.IIIa; Fokker D.VII-111; Sopwith F.1 Camel

Josef Mai's Jasta 5 Albatros D.V in flight video - a "must see" for all WW1 aviation fans. The craft was built by "Vintage Aviator" New Zealand. I made a screenshot here. The video can be watched in rabu's link in this post (thanks again, rabu!): http://combatace.com/topic/56570-aviation-clasics-magazine-issue-4-wwi-issue/page__view__findpost__p__418682 And here are soem fine detailed cockpit interior pics from the same craft: http://photobucket.com/images/tval%20albatros%20dva/

Oh my good! Look at that video of the flying Albatros D.V of Josef Mai! Watching it, I just thought: if there is a heaven for fighter pilots, then Josef Mai must leave his cloud and secretly join this pilot, to fly his Albatros once again. What a heartwarming sight! Did I ever mention, that the Albatros is a most beautiful bird? Thank you very much for posting this, rabu!

Didn't know that about the vertical dive, Bullethead - lots of good points there. Hope the devs will take at look at this.

I may do an overclocking with help soon, thank you guys. groumf, there are many different setups possible for the graphics. Since I have an ATI card too (HD 4870) I show you my settings here - feel free to use them. My terrain looks fine, as you may check in "Screenshots" and "Reports from the Front" stickies.

Wonderful pics, Lou!

Good one, Widow!

PS: saw it now - the water looks great to me indeed! Don't need it any better. But terrain and clouds are better in OFF surely.

If you have ever tried steep dives in an Albatros, you may have lost a wing or at least a wingtip doing so. Especially pulling out of a dive hard will almost inevitably break your wings. This problem may also be familiar with the Nieuport 17, which I never fly, but which also has fragile lower wings. Now, if you still want to follow an enemy plane down fast, you can do this: bank your craft fully to one side, and give rudder the opposite direction. I'm not sure if this could still be called a "side slip", but this maneuver will make your craft "fall down sidewards", without putting much strain on wings and wires. I have shot down many a Pup or Camel after doing so - they may have been surprised, that I still was behind them.

RAF_Louvert: I am now entrenched in this RAAF campaign trying to see it through to the bitter end Lou, oh, Lou - could it be that you are easy to get distracted? I mean, do what a pilot must do, but please don't threaten us with another "sabbathical withdrawel" again, if you find you have too many pans on the fire! PS: IL2 was the first WW2 sim for me, were the aircraft looked REAL GOOD! Thanks, man!

Uuuuhhhh - the lower right pic looks nasty; wonder if he survived it. (I knew my Snipe would upset our friend from the norther English marshlands - hihih!) But those Albs are only flying accidents of rookie pilots surely - who should have shot them down?

Von Paulus, my system is a self assembled one (assembled by a friend, but I can't ask him - he is against overclocking). Is there a way to check the system, what motherboard I run? Without opening the rig and read what's printed on the board? PS: My CPU is an Intel E8300.

Update June 9; 2010; 14:16 h Berlin summertime (= GMT + 2) groumf, France, added. All the maps are in post 1 of this thread

Wonderful work, jwrich! It must be fun to be able to fly those. I tried to do that on a RC model flight simulation in a big model shop. They had it installed with a huge screen, so you could actually try to handle the stearing box. I must admit, I crashed about 20 planes, until I managed to do a landing! Useful sim - you wouldn't want to crash 20 hand built models...

Oh, I see - didn't try that - thanks, Bullethead and Duce!

If it's the red text: press the "Z" key, or maybe it was Ctrl. + Z If it is the blue text, press F5 I really recommend to see through UncleAl's "Tips & Cheats" sticky thread - lots of useful info there.

Thank you, BirdDog, will give it a go! Bigfish, my CPU is definitely overclockable, but I forgot what mobo I have. Can I get the info from my system, without opening the rig and check? I'd be very grateful, if someone could guide me how to overclock my E8300.

Great video, Hellshade; good aerobatics. I know it's hard to destroy an Albatros with only one gun, but did you have to use my beautiful kite to get him down?

Yes, one shouldn't go too far. groumf, I think you're not on our OFF Forum Pilots maps - would you post me your town and country - I'll add you then.

That is the best and most detailed pic I have seen of the craft so far - thanks, CaptSopwith! Widow, don't give up - one day, you'll get your Snipe! I'd vote for it.

Mmuahahahahahahaaaa!!!!!

Oh, fine - thank you, Paul!

From what I just found in the web, your graphic card is said to be low end. You would want to have a high end card for P3 - maybe even more for P4. The CPU should be over 3 GHz - Winder said, processor speed is good to have. Your system is 4 years old - today you have to change it every two years, at the least. If you want to enjoy your newest sims.