Olham

Hey, welcome, WW1-pilot! So you are doing that site about Werner Dittmann? Thanks for letting us show some pics here; I wanted to get everyone attracted, as it's a really big fund of information and photographs. Do you think, some of the people in the "Album eines unbekannten Fliegers" could still be identified? The guys who made this great simulation, were interested in adding one of the "unknown pilots" to their sim pilots. Do you have "Between Heaven and Hell"? If not - get it - it's worth every single cent! No, even more, cause it grows much more interest than any share! You really get into the feel of those years, and you realise, how hard it was. Hope to see you round here more now! Nah, Widow - perhaps just been flying too much recently; nerves strayed etc. (Lol!) Very good one, Ovs - good retouche and great story! Although I will really miss your "good old" avatar.

OT: Hhmm... whilst OvS seems to feel the urge to look more serious and cool in his avatar, Cameljockey's attitude is rather the opposite. I don't know, really. While CJ's could be booked under "humour", "The Black Baron of Boistrancourt" was an institution for me. Perhaps I'm getting old - seems, I become conservative.

Yes, I did mine right after trying the presets - none of them seemed "aggressive" enough. I left the front bit slow as it was more or less, sides faster, and the last bit to check six really fast. Needs to get used to first, but then it's like you're not a day over twenty (Lol!) Also very useful; especially in "nervous" craft like the Dr.1: "precision" - put that on a joystick button. When you press that, your "neck and body will stiffen up" (all moves very slow; so you aim and shoot better). If you press it again, all normal, for quick checks.

Great tool, Jammer! That will help to understand the most of it. Not perfect, of course, as it should be "...leaves the port of Helgoland 1917", but good enough surely.

Really creative, Typhoon and Lou!

Hey, Snoopy, that's a good find! Quite amazing, that a "Zeppelin" crew could even enter and take over enemy ships. Had never heard of that before.

Hmm... - may be dead by then. If you shouldn't find a David Oldman anywhere, and they give you a craft with a capital "M" painted on, then it's the one I used to fight in. Then you will take revenge, I hope!

Searching for pictures of bomb mounts outside the fuselage, I found this picture, which is (IMHO) a very good shot of a bomber in flight, banking.

I think too, that it's a bomb rack. Do you remember what it said about the craft type, Zoomzoom?

I wonder how nimble the Dr.I would have been with only one gun... We'll never know, but she is definitely more than agile enough - a real turn-devil. Currently flying a campaign of RNAS 1 since they get the tripe the earliest. Hey, Mack, then we're in the same Squadron! At least, when you've done that Nupe period!

Is it only new software, or would I have to get new hardware as well?

Hindeburgstern another one that I didn't know. With these kills and claims, I had just received two Iron Crosses - not visible here; (don't know, if they disappear, when you are killed, or if it's a problem with the screenshot) but no other medal or order. Perhaps I didn't fullfill enough mission tasks?

Although I recommended to look in to this website, I haven't seen everything yet myself. Just now, I came across the portraits of the German aces, when I searched for Walter Blume, who was my Staffelführer in Jasta 9, Sissone. Here is his portrait: http://www.flieger-album.de/geschichte/por...blumewalter.php

She is definitely the fighter craft, I would rather use in real fights, no question. And I score my most kills per mission in her. But she is so instabile and so easy to steer away from one point, that I find it hard to follow and hit something. If I could fly her well, I'm sure I could down 5-6 enemy craft in a single fight. But I feel much safer and more comfortable in my Albatros - emotion vs ratio, I suppose. I won't give up on that superb craft though - and - Allied fighters beware! - when I feel as good in the Dr.1 as in my Albatros. Maybe I'll have to let the Alby rest for a while, to learn it.

It's the second craft I tried in Campaign, after a Camel, and it's a joy to have a craft, that can really hurt the German fighters. I can't understand, why it wasn't standard with two guns? But a Fokker killer she was not, as far as I know, cause she had her time before the Dr.1 - or did they really meet at any time? Experts?

Great report, Zoomzoom! Without TAC, that can happen (what did the map say?) Do you often write claims of such dimensions? (Is that possibly what a pilot must do to get such medals awarded?) You fly this full DiD? How many pilots do or did you loose to come to a good amount of hours and kills with one of them? Since I lost my bestone from Jasta 9, I haven't really got a good one again. Tried the Dr.1 twice, but it's so different to the Albatros - so immediate on the stick, very tricky to hit. Yesterday, the 2. flight seemed to go well: - 08h28 Sopwith Camel, near our home field - 08h33 S.E.5 at La Targette field - 09h00 R.E.8 from RFC-16, east of Bertincourt field But then I messed up the landing - I came in like adrenalin-drugged, totally crazy; the Fokker jumped so wild, that I came down on a wing and crashed fatally. I find it so hard to tame that temper.

Royal Hohenzollern House Order? Why do you guys get such interesting orders? I never even saw one. Which Jasta do you fly, and which time of war?

Wow! That was a clever vid - I hope, lots of Bono-fans see that!

That was Zoomzoom's log - see post 4 here: http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showtopic=41324 But well, here we get 4 or 5 of them, before we get the "Blue Max". Don't ask me about metal - arhm, medals - they look good in the log, though.

The Order of the Red Eagle was introduced by Prince Georg Wilhelm von Brandenburg-Bayreuth on November 17th, 1705. It's original name was "Ordre de la sincérité" (Order of Sincerity), and it was inspired by the English "Order of the Garter", the prince had seen on a visit. At times, it used to be the second-highest Prussian Order. Perhaps Shredward can tell us more about it's use in WW1; I'd like to know, what makes you get one. (Certainly NOT fighting like Olham - I never had it yet; Lol!) [The picture of the Order is from "The Aerodrome" website - a site highly recommended to every- one who doesn't know it yet]

First, I didn't want to look into this thread, cause I can't stand Bono Vox. But now I see, I don't seem to be the only one here. It's not that I dislike the songs completely - if only this bloke wouldn't sing them.

Calm down and read Post 4, Hasse Wind - these guys seem to know, what they are doing. I feel we're in good hands.

Hi, Creaghorn and Siggi Something went wrong with that pilot in Jasta 7 - my screen resolution quite often gets messed up (changes setting) and then I can't go to field, but must go out again and to workshop, to put it right. So, when I went in again, I clicked "Fly mission again!" I downed 5 Camels in two missions, but the Log said: Flying hours: 0 So, I erased him and restarted. This time he will be in "Siggi's DiD/Creaghorn mode", so as soon as he survived two missions, I'll post him to you, Siggi. But I don't think, he will last - my fighting temper is just mad; I would take on "Apaches".

Hi, Daniel Much success with this pilot! Your letter actually inspired me, to make a new pilot in that Jasta (as I had never flown there yet). He even got a new pilot photo. His service begins on 21st March, 1918. He flies a D Va. That will be tough - against the S.E.s and Camels!

this is not the Pfalz pilot I was discussing earlier, he actually was killed in a head-on collision with a camel over Douai. Probably the only way to down a Camel in a Pfalz (Lol!) I rather did not like the Dr1 at first, but after getting used to it for about a month, (my gunnery suffering most due to its extreme twitchiness) I finally developed a light enough touch on the stick to become a real killer with it. Yes, she's a little witch, that follows immediately to your stick moves - even when your hands are only trembling. But in that crate, I fear nothing except my own foolishness.