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...and if in despair, use the "Faith Healer" from "The Sensational Alex Harvey Band" (one of my all-time-greats).

With all respect, but that means giving the original OFF score no chance IMHO. And what a pity that would be - because the original score for OFF is among the very best I have ever heard, and I guess it is cut into my musical memory until the day I die.

Thank you for reminding me of the worst near-miss in my life... (I ALMOST bought RB3D, but then a friend said, it was crapp...Doh!...) PS: ...I guess this "Otto von Stachel" is nobody else but our good old OvS alias James Romano? http://www.hellsangels.firstflare.com/main.htm

Thank you, but why only for me? There are many flyers around here, who got addicted with RB3D. And no need to only just guess about OBD - they definitely got inspired by RB3D - and not only that; some of them have even contributed to it.

Don't be faint-hearted - WOFF shall come to those who trust.

"Whistling death" for the Corsair, Flyby.

Here's one more for you; a well made introduction into the "Corsair" IMHO - but then we must go to topic, I suppose.

Mmuahahahahaaa!!!

Or Pink Floyd: "Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day You fritter and waste the hours in an off hand way Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown Waiting for WOFF, or someone to show you the way" How could they know back in 1973? Wormhole, I say! Wait - did someone scribble on this text? Is there no respect anymore? This was a first edition "Dark Side of the Moon" album cover! Jeeze, the times...

From what I read, the Chance Vought F4U "Corsair" was called "Whistling Death" or "Whistling Pig" because of the specific sound of the aircraft in full flight. Carrier landings with a Corsair make me understand, why you should be under 30 for this sort of business - makes my neckhair raise...

We MUST be in a worm hole most certainly, or Einstein has tricked this - the two years since the BOC NEWS passed - "zapp!" - like a lightning!

Thank you, Robert. Yeah, indeed, von Baur - the vampire has no choice really, has he? And I have never heard, that vampires cause dispair for so many million people. They are in a "sniper position" - high and dry - don't see the blood and all.

Flyby, check your PMs please.

Wasn't "Camel" a nickname first? I read somewhere, that the craft's original name was just "Sopwith F.1 Biplane". It was called "Camel" because of the two bumps in the cowling hood, for the two guns.

If they can get a high enough resolution to work, so that it looks the same quality as my monitor (or even better), then it might really be interesting. I guess they should definitely better care about that problem. There are a lot of possible customers over 40, who may be wearing glasses. Here is what they say about this matter: Can I wear glasses while using the Oculus Rift developer kit? This really depends on the shape and size of the glasses. The developer kit is designed to sit as close to your eyes as possible which makes it a bit unfriendly for glasses. That said, we’ll do everything we can to make it as comfortable as possible for the developer kit and we have a lot of great ideas for supporting glasses in the consumer version (especially since huge portion of the Oculus team wears glasses every day!).

Mmuahahahahahaaa!!!! Good explanation, Flyby - now I know what you mean. I guess the bank is holding you in a kind of breath-taking stranglehold? I once had a talk about a new mortgage, to pay off an older one. The interest for the new one was much lower. The bank lady asked me, why they should do that and give up about the money. I said very quietly, but frosty: Because the vampire will benefit much longer from his victim, if he doesn't drink all the blood at once. She gave me a very irritated look and asked me, if I was comparing bankers with vampires. I just shrugged and said: It was just an example. I got the new mortgage for the lower interest. Maybe because she was a woman? Not sure...

"Pickled in amber"? "Credit crunch"? Sounds like something to eat, but I guess it isn't?

Bonaparte Dwindlehammer - Mmuahahahahaaaa!!!! The Kaiser couldn't be funnier! Yeah, it may well be that they have at least tricked something on the time line. It often appeared to me that they might be working from out of a "worm hole", but spend too much time in a restaurant at the end of the universe. Or to speak with Zaphod Beeblebrox (although this quote is absolutely irrelevant, but the quoter found it so funny, that he could not resist): “If I ever meet myself, I'll hit myself so hard I won't know what's hit me.”

Not sure if I would trust such a device, not to damage or overstrain my eyes. My eyesight is most valuable to me. I guess I would first wait for two years, to see if any problems occur.

Thank you, that sounds very interesting. Hadn't known of this book before. I'll put it on my list of "must-haves".

How is that book? I just read, it is "about the 16 months of von Richthofen at the front", and "introduced by Hermann Göring". Is it a typical Nazi propaganda book, or is it more of historical value?

Yes, I think it contains experiences from real life pilots, but settled in a fictituous Staffel. German Jasta numbers only went as high as 80 (afaik). But I rather stay with original pilots memoirs. After all we can assume, that even these contain some "Technicolor extravaganzas" (quote from "Andy Capp"); most definitely the book by Osterkamp. Edit/PS: Jentsch's book may be interesting for all, who'd like to know a little about the early days at the Macedonian front. He came to the Western Front only later, in 1917. His description of an emergency landing in a totally shot up Pfalz ("The whole floor of the 'boat' was missing, the engine was half ripped out from it's moorings.The ammunition belts had been dragged out of the compartment and they were dancing behind my Pfalz.") Very epic!

That's what I was thinking about. When we played "Cowboys & Indians" as kids, one might have shouted "Bang! You're dead!" And the other responded "No, I'm not! You missed!"

Hi, Lou - nice to see you around here again! "Jagdstaffel 356" is - as far as I know - a fictitious book?

Here are two links for German books, which were translated into English. Ernst Udet: "Ace of the Iron Cross" abebooks Julius Buckler: "Malaula! The battlecry of Jasta 17" AMAZON I know both of these books (in German), and I like them both. Buckler gives an insight into his poor family's struggles before the war, and how it felt for him to rise from a non-officer rank in the Luftstreitkräfte, to become a Leutnant (this was normally uncommon; only A-level scholars could get into officer ranks back then. He had a friendly, humorous nature, or so it seems. Udet was another feller with a good humour. He has written about his time during the whole war, beginning with an Eindecker-Staffel in Alsace, and becoming the greatest surviving German ace (via Jasta 15, Jasta 37 and Jasta 4). The book also tells about his adventures after the war. Udet was a stunt flyer and worked for movie productions, or on air shows. He also tried building aircraft with his own company, but wasn't quite the businessman. Other German pilots' books may be only available in German, I'm afraid. Here are some titles you may still find at ABEBOOKS: F. K. Kurt Jentsch: "Beim Jagdflug tödlich verunglückt?" Immelmann: "Der Adler von Lille" Theo Osterkamp: "Du oder ich" Lange: "Ritter von Schleich"