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Exactly, Creaghorn. The dynamics rather take place in your pilot's fight to survive all this. My best pilot now has reached 15.30 hours, 49 claims, and 17 confirmed victories; it's August, 10th; war comes to it's final part. The Entente is sending in more and more craft, and I feel like a child in a proud castle of sand, when the tide comes in. All I can do, is give them a good fight. The dynamic about my own fate is, whether I will survive it to the last day, or retire at the right moment, or die. For me, that is good enough. I knew when I started, that the Imperial forces lost it in the end.

Yes, TrackIR helps there, plus zooming one or two dots out. Some crates have rather bad views (like the Nieuport triangle, the Pup "ring cushion" etc.), but if you want good, clear view, I highly recommend the Albatros (all since D III) or the Pfalz (but she is not so agile for turn fighting). For me there's no plane with a better view than an Albatros D III or D V / D Va.

No, RedDog - to prevent you and Widowmaker, Rickitycrate and myself, from trying to win the war single-handed, they didn't do that. But you seem to have an influence on your personal carreer. I think, when you complete the mission task as good as possible, you might be promoted to a higher rank earlier, whereas when you rather take on every dogfight and collect kills, you receive more medals.

...perhaps the best flight sim EVER! Welcome again, Slick Wilhelm and if you eliminate the "perhaps", we could become good friends (Lol!) Yes, it IS so great! I wish you many immersive flights. If you want to fly without "radar" and as a leader, you best press "R" for Return whereever you change directions. Also, don't fly away from your field, unless all wings are close to you (I use 65% throttle, so they can catch up). Then they should be with you. And sometimes, you'll need them! (At least as witnesses). My Wingman No.1 has saved my bum several times, when I called for Help "H".

Well, it's bad enough for everyone involved - I hope they all got out with no more than minor injuries.

Hi, Widow As OvS said - too purple. The tail section bit that's missing must be that panel above the upper fuselabe side, below the above fuselage back (I think).

Hey, Widow, good idea! Why not? I'll try, how it would look on my "Weisser Adler" Albatros (White Eagle). If I change it, I'll post it here.

Two things, Saburo 1. Best put that "re-center" command on a joystick button easy to reach - you need it often. 2. Forget about gunsights. Do some QC dogfights, not for the fun, but to "learn to see", where your gunfire goes. There is a center point; you see best with two-gun crates, where the tracer lines come together. Once you know, where this is, you can even learn to do good deflection shooting - without gunsights. Maybe it's more feeling than knowing.

Hi, OvS, that picture was from this great Photo site: www.flieger-album.de Go to "Photoalben" > Photoalben, diverse This site is rewarding; Sanke cards, aerial photography, pics of crashed and conquered craft etc. Don't know if you had seen this one before: http://www.flieger-album.de/fotoalben2/Fot...11.1917%5D.html Or this picture of Von Schleich:

...and, yes - very well done; Comic-layout and choice of pics and type style; plus RedDog's idea for the right transformation/filter effect. I may also try one or two pages in that style within the coming days.

Hey, CJ, you couldn't get any younger than enjoying to watch your little son discovering the world. I envy you for good about this. Have a lot of good time!

Vott is happenink here? All zis posted on zee one day off I had from chewink der SPADs, ant spittink zem out again? Zatt looks like my Albatros, absolutely! Am I ze bad guy or ze good, in ziss fascinatink shtory? Ant vott about my Mechaniker - Brettschneider and zee ozzers are sittink near der Post room all ze time, vaitink for ze continuashion...? When vill it come? I vant to see, if I get zee confirmashions of der Claims - or even der "Blaue Max" ? If you need more pictures, I vill get some tomorrow!!

Yes, Flyboys was crap, and "The Red Baron" didn't follow von Richthofen's life either. You can watch both movies, and forget about the names, Squadrons, Jastas - just imagine, they were about some other unit. Then Flyboys is still crap; "The Red Baron" a lot better. But even there, I wished, they had worked together more with people who KNOW a lot about those craft. The dive-away scene with the Albatros is impossible with those fragile lower wing - they would break away.

Here's the only waters near Douai today. Could be that Etang at the right.

:lol: my favourite Englander really NEVER gives up about his Snipe! :lol:

Well, even if I could I wouldn't want to fly it - looks like the inlay paper for kitchen drawers. Not all that's difficult to do, is also great.

Great answer, Bullet. Like that attitude!

Good looking, but little choice so far, and very expensive. Here's the link to RODEN - they have a much wider choice of 1:32 models. http://www.rodenplant.com/HTML/framemodels.htm That Pfalz is 1:32. Makes me want to build it straight away.

The difference is, I think, that new opponents will get spawned. Maybe you can even choose how many and how often?

I tried the SPAD VII, and it is much more fun to fly (but only one gun).

What Warman did there, can be called "heroism" - or the desperate will to survive. Wouldn't you do the same, when nothing else remains? I would! And if I had a pistol, to shoot myself in case the crate caught fire, and there where six bullets in there, I'd fire five of them at my opponents first.

Hahaha!! Rickity, what have you done! It's MY job to burn that crate! Oh me oh mine, how many Mata Haris or other pinups must I have burnt by now...

Here are some German planes, that might be on the list already. Perhaps someone can say something about the early types (production numbers, fighter qualities, armament).

That is true somehow, what OvS said - no German planes? We stand alone against Britain, France, America, Australia and Canada! We also need a new craft! With the Dr.1 and the D VII, we have good late war planes (although WomenFly2 would now beat me on the head, for she wants her D VIII); so perhaps an early Fokker?

Haha! That would perhaps be the first time I REALLY earned something with my stuff - Lol!! You and everyone can click on it, copy it and do with it whatever you like. RedDog - I hope we haven't hijacked this your thread too much? Carry on and show us some more!