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Indeed, UncleAl! But much nicer than "mad cow disease" (although - for others sometimes similar).

Searching for trophy pics, I found this great site: www.jasta5.org And there was a pic of a trophy, Jasta 5 made for MvR. http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http://www.jasta5.org/Jagdstaffeln_5/images/misc/MvRTrophy.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.jasta5.org/Jagdstaffeln_5/red_baron_j5_history.htm&usg=__uAY-k9LbI02sncnvBTi3_LShAk0=&h=2816&w=2112&sz=528&hl=de&start=32&tbnid=LvvvLfQFHSAp8M:&tbnh=150&tbnw=113&prev=/images%3Fq%3DTrophy%2Bvon%2BRichthofen%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Dde%26sa%3DN%26start%3D18

Someone must have given some Russian a good amount of money then, I guess?

Welcome, Firecage You are on the map already - now you can't step back anymore, pilot! If you have family, spend as much time with them as any possible - they may not see you much no more, once OFF has arrived. You should read the "Tips & Tricks" sticky above, and the FAQs on the website www.overflandersfields.com Oh, and if you are wearing glasses - clean them. You may see the real specs in the sky better.

I'm still trying to get the German Marinekorps hex camo colours better. I have checked Dan San Abbott's fabric samble photo again, and took up the colour info of several more pixels; so I came to a different value. Of course you can come up with lots of varieties, but it is interestingly darker in it's appearance; maybe more like on some b&w pics? I attach it here - feel free to judge about it.

Update 08/30/09 13:40 Berlin time (GMT +2) Firecage, Oklahoma, added. (Okyone, now you're not lonely there anymore more) the maps are in post 1 of this thread

RedDog, you can also use the "lasso" (set on: straight lines). With that tool, I do a "choice field" first; when that looks right from its angles and proportins, I save the choice (give it a name, to find it again), so I can reload it later. A choice can be moved, when you first click on the first tool (rectangle choice), and then press the arrows for left , right, up, down. A choice can also be transformed; go to "choice", "transform choice", then to there, where you find "transform", and now you can transform it there (distort, enlarge, turn etc.). Now I don't know, if your Photoshop would use my English words, sorry - I can only try to give you ways. The "choice" means an area, marked by an interrupted scribbly line. Very important: always choose the right tools, otherwise you do undesired things. But in "windows" (in the top bar), you can open "protocoll" or "report" or how you call it. In there, you can always make many steps undone by pulling them down into that little dustbin. Maybe for "choice" they use "sample"? Don't know...

Mine is pure phantasy, but looks good.

Hm - I always seemed to find wrong info on the S.E.5a then. In my chart it is even faster than the SPAD XIII? The Aldiss sight isn't my problem - those struts looking like a headover "V" are. But I'll give that N17 a try. Are they assigned with "Lewis", when I choose an Esc. for campaign?

Perhaps you want to try the Albatros DII, Roger? Flying the Imperial "Dark" Forces side? The Nupes are not my cuppa for one main reason: the terrible sight. You have that triangle (N 17?), or a kinda protection screen in front of you. They are nice for flying, but terrible for fighting IMHO. If you want turn fights, the Imperial Luftwaffe can offer you the Fokker Dr.1 (nothing turns better), and the DVII (best overall fighter). My beloved Albatros versions II and III are good, when they are new designs - a mix of boom&zoom and turn fighter. When you can shoot precise, they are a great weapon with their two machine guns. On the Entente side, you should try the early Sopwith Pup (very nimble, good climb), the incredible Triplane (extreme turnfighter). the S.E.5a (fastest fighter, good for turning and boom&zoom, two guns). And the Camel anyway. I am curious how the later Nupes will be sight-wise; maybe more to my taste.

He said it in the first post, Stump: Animation Master.

Hasse Wind, here is a book from AMAZON Germany - still 65,- Euro; not cheap. http://www.amazon.de...l/dp/381320541X And a website of the Seeflieger (interesting the craft list from 1914): http://www.seeflieger.de/geschichte/geschichte6.php

A very special design. Here are two pics with sources. www.directart.co.uk www.marineflyverforeningen.dk

Indeed, Lou, they where! Even without historical knowledge, simply from flying OFF, you must realise the immense step, aviation made in only four years of war - from a kite like the Eindecker to powerful aircraft like the SPAD XIII or the DVIII. Thank you all again - a lot of detail knowledge around here.

Rumor has it, that underwater there is tons of Nazi Gold still today, but where ??? People are always searching for treasures. But what would you do, if you had lots of gold? Sink it in a lake? Or put it into bank safes in Switzerland? There are treasure maps from the old pirates. Many people searched and still search for them. But why should they still be there? If I had been a British king or queen, when those maps first appeared, I would have sent out the right men to bring those treasures home. Robert Louis Stevenson wrote the book "Treasure Island". He was from a familiy of engineers; they built lots of lighthouses for Britain. When you search for a treasure, it would be good to have engineers on board. And when the treasures are yours, you hand the maps out to the world again, to wipe out the traces, that could lead to you. People love secrets. Secret maps. Ideas of treasures. But treasures rarely ever get lost from those, who are the mighty ones. Just an idea...

Wow, RedDog, you got the connection from side pattern to back pattern very good! Do you see chess boards now? Lol!

Well, now Arizona can stand together. There are OFF Pilots there - could you help Roger?

Great model, Hauksbee, right colours or not - they look believeably "German colour style" to me.

Wow - great works, Sandbagger! In future, more and more will discover the SPAD in BHaH, I'm sure.

Roger, you could try the "CFS3 reset" or the "OFF reset" button, to elininate the mistake. Not sure, if it will help. But if you use those, the pilots are all erased, and you may have to do some settings again.

This sounds like hell in the sky there! Which Jastas do the 148th have to face in mid 1918?

...like guiding the artillery with red, green and white flares? Yes, would be a great addition, but since the basic CFS3 is a flight sim, I don't know, if the artillery could be made to react to your signals.

Okay, the last pic 24 is the control handle of an early Fokker, with the fire buttons; I'd say the Eindecker. Here's Wikipeadia about the craft: The Fokker E.III was the main variant of the Eindecker (monoplane) fighter aircraft of World War I. It entered service on the Western Front in December 1915 and was also supplied to Austria-Hungary and Turkey. Design and development The E.III was basically an E.II fitted with larger, newly designed larger wings, that had a slightly narrower 1.80 meter (70-7/8 in) chord, slightly less than the 1.88 meter (74 in) chord dimension on the earlier Eindeckers, going back to Fokker's original M.5 monoplane aircraft. The E.III retained the same 75 kW (100 hp) Oberursel U.I engine, but had a larger 81 l (21.5 gal) drum-shaped main fuel tank just behind the cockpit, which increased the Eindecker's endurance to about 2½ hours; an hour more than the E.II. Most E.IIIs were armed with a single 7.92 mm (.312 in) Spandau LMG 08 machine gun with 500 rounds of ammunition; however, after the failure of the twin-gun Fokker E.IV as a viable successor, some E.IIIs were fitted with twin guns. Fokker production figures state that 249 E.IIIs were manufactured however a number of the 49 E.IIs were upgraded to E.III standard when they were returned to Fokker's Schwerin factory for repairs. Operational history The E.III was the first type to arrive in sufficient numbers to form small specialist fighter units, Kampfeinsitzer Kommandos (KEK) in early 1916 - previously, Eindeckers were allocated singly, just as the E.I and E.II had been, to the front-line Feldflieger Abteilungen that carried out reconnaissance duties. On 10 August 1916, the first German Jagdstaffeln (single-seat fighter squadrons) were formed, initially equipped with various early fighter types, including a few E.IIIs, which were by then out- moded and being replaced by more modern fighters. Standardisation in the Jagdstaffeln (and any real success) had to wait for the availability in numbers of the Albatros D.I and Albatros D.II in early 1917. Turkish E.IIIs were based at Beersheba in Palestine while others operated in Mesopotamia during the Siege of Kut-al-Amara. At last I attach a photo of an Eindecker cockpit, and a link to the page about the handle. http://www.aeroconservancy.com/german%20page.htm

Thanks for the info. So they even had voice com in the later war? Was it too large for a fighter craft, that they didn't use it? Or did even fighters have it in the end?

I read somewhere, that the artillery was often guided by two-seaters, directly from the air. Now, they had no radios. So, how did they do it? Did they use flags? Did they wip with their wings? Does anyone know that?