Olham

Flyby and von Paulus - it is not only happening in your countries. Just remember the Starfighter affair in younger history: a perfect, light and fast interceptor with wings so small, it might have been a rocket rather, was made into a nuklear bomber after the wish of former defence minister Franz Josef Strauss. 269 lost aircraft meant, that almost 1/3 of these Luftwaffe fighters crashed.

Well, we'll see, what chrisp will come up with.

It is unbelieveable almost - if I didn't know, how badly politicians and high brass often decide. What a fighter it would have been!

Well, not only, Creaghorn - he might be lucky to spot a copy on Ebay. But I doubt that. The sim is actually so good, that no one will sell it again.

Well, that's what I had done anyway, too, Lou. But yeah, chrispdm1 - please upload it. Maybe it's even better?

Please show pictures, when it's ready, Anastasios.

itifonhom: ...when I see the see-through crosses on MvR red Albatros, I think that may these paints have been a bit transparent. The opacity of colour paints varies within the same company products. It depends on the colour tone itself. All "glowing / shining" bright colours, like yellow, orange, most reds, yellow-green etc., don't contain any "dirt" greyish additions, as they are added to more "broken" colours. So, the less "broken" a shiny bright colour is, the more will it shine through. MvR's red could not cover a black cross in one layer; but they had problems getting enough red to paint whole aircraft, already. So they haven't bothered to coat it thicker. And still, without an underlying coat of a more opaque colour, it would have shone through.

OFF BHaH is no download; check their website for the buying process, and the other questions. CFS3 should be the DVD version; then it's up to date. http://www.overflandersfields.com You may not find it the easiest way to get to get to fly "Over Flanders Fields"; but the best things in life are rarely ever easy to get - yet so much more rewarding. Edit/PS: once you have OFF installed, you can later get the add-on "Hat in the Ring" - that is a download.

Another link here: http://www.wwi-models.org/Images/Campos/CP/index.html

Here is a Camel on Booker Airfield, in the 80s. Towards the end, the light gets better, and you see two landings, one of them with a nasty kick to the left. She must have been witch to fly.

Balance of the craft, or at least vision for the pilot, might have been better on the "Comic". Carrick, were did you see that Junkers? Is it flyable? I want one!!!

From the white cliffs of Dover to the Alpes it should be about 800 Kilometer. An S.E.5 a can fly more than 200 km/h, with this craft, you could be there in 4 hours - if there are no headwinds. Wind with all it's real effects on your flying, by the way, is also now included in BHaH. But you can switch it off in "Workshop", were you can set up the sim a lot to your likes and flying/fighting abilities.

Yes, I can imagine they would.

Itifonhom, I wonder, if there ever was a painted Albatros, where the wood grain still showed through. The plywood was first sealed and varnished. Now it was already a semigloss laquer surface. When you paint a colour on that, it should become an opaque, closed colour, like on a metal surface. Although all pics are B/W, I have never seen a painted Albatros showing the grain through the colour. They could as well have been made of metal or plastic - it won't show. See the pictures of this Albatros D Va at the "Vintage Aviator"; scroll down and see the dark green painting of the tail. No grain visible. http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/node/3794

Oh yeah - cute as a nurse and pilot: Amelia Earheart! Wow, what a lady!

Just saw this craft on "Rosebud's" website. This monoplane fighter from 1916/1917 is said to have been 212 kilometer/h fast, and it seemed to fire through the propellor. Why did it never see action at the western front? Too fast at landing? Or rather an industrial competitor keeping it out? Does anyone know more?

Looks closest to Sopwith Salamander, but not close enough...

Excerpt from WIKIPEDIA: Rotary engine control It is often asserted that rotary engines had no carburetor and hence power could only be reduced by intermittently cutting the ignition using a "blip" switch, which grounded the magneto when pressed, shutting off power to the spark plugs and stopping ignition. However, rotaries did have a simple carburetor which combined a gasoline jet and a flap valve for throttling the air supply. Unlike modern carburetors, it could not keep the fuel/air ratio constant over a range of throttle openings; in use, a pilot would set the throttle to the desired setting (usually full open) then adjust the fuel/air mixture to suit using a separate "fine adjustment" lever that controlled the fuel valve. Due to the rotary engine's large inertia, it was possible to adjust the appropriate fuel/air mixture by trial and error without stalling it. After starting the engine with a known setting that allowed it to idle, the air valve was opened until maximum engine speed was obtained. Since the reverse process was more difficult, "throttling", especially when landing, was often accomplished by temporarily cutting the ignition using the blip switch. Read the whole article here: http://en.wikipedia....i/Rotary_engine

hairyspin and almccoyjr, I think it's perfectly okay to show here, that CFS3 is not at all as bad as it was in the beginning. And that simmers, who are also into WW2 sims, can use the mods for it on that field too. That makes CFS3, which is anyway very cheap, even more attractive to get. Once you have flown "Over Flanders Fields", you won't believe at all, that this is based on the CFS3 engine. Because it simply looks totally different; and so far better.

Nope!

Well, I wouldn't say I hate them - I admire their abilities, and have the greatest respect for their excellent ways of flying and fighting. And I am very proud, when I got one down, as shown above. It must have been my fifth or sixth - not a craft you shoot down often and get away with it.

Feel free to use my map, RAF_Louvert - you'd only have to do the northern bit then.

Now I may risk to get my first warning for ungentlemanly (but typical manly) behaviour here, but what about this one? You won't want to recover too soon.

The Verdun mapping project link doesn't work for me.

Lou, perhaps we should "glue" our two maps together to cover the whole available area. Did you upload yours already?