Olham

Thank you all - on the weekend, I want to upload some latest new skins, after doing some final adjustments.

An old friend of mine, and flight sim enthusiast (on civil craft so far) got convinced by my reports and pictures to order BHaH. He ordered a week ago. Today I thought I give him some Tipps already, but he had found out a lot alone and through the help of this forum already; cause he had the sim already there after only one week. I thought, you devs might like to know.

My best one so far - still no 17 hours!

Jim, I knew you would make it in that Pup! My Jasta 21, based at Le Chatelet, just had a close escort of two D.F.W. over the front to a sector east of Reims. Flight 1 went near there too, but had a different path. My flight consisted of four wingmen and myself, flying the early DIII. Over French terrain, we got attacked by 6 Nieuport 17 from Esc.82, from high out the sun. Again, I sent my wings against the higher attackers with success. I came into the fight very well - within 4 minutes, three of the attackers fell, ace Francois Eugene Marie de Boignes among them. But more Nieuport 17 had joined in now, and there where still three of them, but only one of my men - wing 3 von Schniedewind. I had to help him, but first I had to defend the attack of French ace Edmond Jaques Marcel Pillou. He had got a good long range burst when he was approaching me, so he didn't last long. But now I had not much ammo left. Would I be able to save von Schniedewind? Suddenly there where 3 Albatros around that fight, then 4, 5 - flight one came down like the cavallery! They finished the last French, and off they went again. I climbed up to my D.F.W. - one of them had lots of holes in the wings, but they where okay. And I was proud of that - we had done our best!

Inspired by Ritter von Tutschek's change to Black because of the loss of a friend, I have thought about this Deep Burgundy painting. The pilot, Wolfram Ritter von Mahlow, saw a friend and comrade, who got shot down, some hours later at some trench batallion. The blood, that had dried already, had a deep red colour, that Ritter von Mahlow should never forget - he painted his craft like that, and added a death head, to sign to all opponents: you are entering a fatal encounter!

I'm shooting without any gunsights - you should know/feel, where the tracers will go, otherwise, you could never do deflection shooting.

Maybe it was "H", Strg+H or Strg+Ctrl+H If you have a compass and a copy of another, you can make one of them into the horizon by pressing Strg+1,2,3 etc. or Strg.+Ctrl.+1,2,3 etc.

Press "F5" - if you don't see any instruments then, press Control+1,2,3,4,5 or Control+Shift+1,2,3,4,5 One of that should do.

Pfalz more like - the wingtip is so angular; I think you're right, OvS. And good that you returned to your avatar. I may do so too.

Two more pics I found in the great archive.

Yeah, thanks, I know I've always been looking younger than I was (I was about 27 then); only now it seems to turn into the opposite (Lol!) Can anyone tell me more about those comic pilots? OvS seems to mean it seriously!

The wings behind the ladies look like Albatros wings to me (but I'm an amateur). Also I found this brand new produced Albatros DIII.

The colour pic of the Lozenge fabric was archived under "Ed Doyle" - maybe you Yankees know the name?

Hey, Wels - good to see you back! If that's right what you say, the Albatros' engine would NOT even stutter at sudden nose-downs, nor would it at loops? I had always though, they had solved that only on the WW2 fighters?

What about this one? Me in my favourite crate...

Hmm - I assume you talk about a TV series? Or a comic strip? Could you tell more - I don't know them. Don't know about my new avatar - the old one was a classic to me, and I'm rather conservative (in the meaning of 'keeping what's good'). So I may change back.

You are senior member now. I think it has to do with your amount of posting?

OvS, join us in Jasta 28w - we need every good pilot. Best join us in May, when we have the brandnew DIII for you - fun and Tripes guaranteed!

Jasta 28w, Wasquehal, 7. April 1917 Oberleutnant Werner Mahlo Stellv. Kommandeur An alle Offiziere Zu meinem tiefen Bedauern muß ich Ihnen mitteilen, daß unser neuer Kamerad, Leutnant Tunkmit, heute im Luftkampf gefallen ist. Er hatte bereits zwei englische Spowith Dreidecker abgeschossen, als er mit dem dritten englischen Flugzeug kollidierte. Der darauffolgende Absturz endete tödlich. Wir haben eine unerschrockenen Kämpfer verloren, der sicher noch so manchen Abschuss erzielt hätte - wir alle bedauern seinen Verlust zutiefst. Hochachtungsvoll Lt. W. Mahlo Hey, Capt.Sopwith Perhaps it was enough to make you fly with two Spandaus more often? The Albatros is not the best German fighter craft, though it was very good at the introduction of both DII and DIII. Please try the early DIII - a pleasure; and better view even. If you want an extremely deadly turn fighter, pick the Dr.1 next time. And the perfect overall killer craft is the DVII. BTW: I translated the name Sopwith directly; to sop = eintunken; so you became Lt. Tunkwith (Captain would have been 'Hauptmann', but you where new there). Enjoy your fights and stay aloft! Olham

Got it done another way - I made it into a GIF file. Before it was a JPEG in RGB - should hav worked too, or not?

No error messages.

No way - still the old pic. The new is a jpg - so all should be right. ???

Just tried to change my avatar. It's 80 x 72 pixels, and only 20 kb. It is shown as chosen in my "edit avatar settings" - but it doesn't appear? Help needed here, please...

Another good pic of the Challenger.

Launchbury - Manfred von Richthofen regarded looping and such manoeuvers as artistic nonsense. The secrets about successful fights in the Albatros are IMHO: - to follow Dicta Boelke or Mannock's rules - good cooperation with your wingmen - very good deflection and long range shooting skills - to know when you can't win The only fighter craft I know so far, where a loop really makes sense, is the SPAD. Only powerful, but not good at turning, you can dive away from an opponent, the zoom upwards and perform a loop, to see him. and maybe get even behind him.