Olham

Barkhorn - say 'Good by' to your previous life. This will be a new one now, with many a flying hour over Flanders. Congrats!

Great find, Widow - many planes I'd never seen before. Like this Sopwith Monoplane:

Hey, Widow - I feel it too! Why not? I have never tried Hi-res planes yet. Butm for screenshots - why not? And then we put them together for epic air battle pictures!

Since my first Tripe pilot made a fatal mistake, another ancestor of mine took over. Just had a ballon busting mission with him, and he killed two Albatros DV. My, it IS hard to do for an Albatros lover. Damn hard... Flight Lieutenant David Oldham Droglandt, July 29th, 1917 On our way to a German obs ballon by the north sea coast, we came across two all black Albatros DV scouts. Flight one was already turning with them, some 2.000 feet higher. But when we arrived, one of them zoomed down, to escape Lance Wells. He flew my direction, but hadn't noticed me, as he pulled up again. He climbed right into my line of fire and got some. Now he dived under my craft. I rolled her on her back and followed him with half a down loop. He did desperate zigzagging moves, but was already less manoeuverable. He got more bursts from my Vickers. They can take quite a lot, but after the third burst, he caught fire and crashed into a little wood. Now my flight - Cook, Reinard and Adolph - turned with the other German, while flight 1 travelled on. They left him to us. When I got behind him, I shot him up terribly; huge bits came off, and he went down, pulling a trail of dark smoke. So much for my dogfighting. The ballon was tougher. I made three attack runs on it, but it wouldn't blow up! It was Reinard, who got him at last. All the time, some 5 or 6 Albatros circled over the coast, about two miles away. But they didn't come down. As the Flak fire got annoiing, I went down once more to give the spotter ground crew some fire. Way back was safe, and landing easy.

Hey, that must be the site, I took the climb rate data from - had forgotten, where I found them. Thanks, Barnstorm- good site!

Yes, Widow, it may be they are rendered / 3D models; I read something like that on Miller's site. And it is a compliment for BHaH, I'd say.

It could be a) wrong file format, b) too large file - just check, what kind of formats you can upload, and how large they are allowed.

Well, I don't miss any Royals here - the last Kaiser made a rather hasty escape to the Netherlands, and we managed quite well without. But it's alright for the countries, that are still monarchies.

Thanks Hauksbee, I revisited this site: http://www.wwi-models.org/Images/Miller/re...tros/index.html There you find Mark Miller's great WW1 air combat graphics, and construction 3D graphics which are really worth investigating. Here are three pics about a clash of Bruno Loerzer's flight of Albatros' with Camels. Just click on the picture.

I think, it was always this way. And always 'italian'.

Welcome, Rayfer I never had problems with my wingmen at warping, but with petrol. It gets used up too fast, when you warp at full throttle. Best push it back to 60 - 70 %, before you warp. Also be sure your wingmen are so close, that you can read their names, when you turn on 'labels'. Then they should be with you, when you come out of warp.

Yes, it did, Hasse Wind. But I'm not too fixed on taking sides in the air combat sims about the world wars. I always liked flying the Spitfire and the Hurricane in WW2 sims; also the Lightning, Mustang, Hellcat, Zero and Frank. In WW1, I will explore all of the Allied's planes. The Tripe is a very good one to start with - easy to fly, very agile turn fighter. A bit limited view, with three wings. But if you like turnfighting, it should be great fun. I feel somehow related to the English people; I like their originality, their humour, and their beautiful country. And I wished, that more of us would give up strictly fighting for one side of the trenches. It might tear down walls in our heads, if we did. And, back in the mess, the main difference between them young pilots would just be the language.

Haha!! That's a far relative of mine, OvS, who was born in Lyme Regis, England. Me and my German brothers - Detlev, Juergen,Guenther and Wolfram - remain flying with German Jastas. Here are two pics showing a) that propeller, and b) that Collishaw didn't seem to have it. (Perhaps he was no tea-drinker as a Canadian?)

It's the screams you sometimes hear, when you hit someone hard. The German pilots scream German. British: "Arrrgh!" German: "Ahhhh!"

I didn't read an ace name; I think it was from Jasta 32. Ace Bruno Loerzer, I think, had that design. Or was it Dannhuber? Paarma? The little propeller is for the British secret weapon "OCoT-IFBD". (One Cup of Tea - In Flight Brewing Device). For that device, they invented the tea bag, which you put into a tin cup, that you then introduce to the device. With two turn switches, you can choose from three amounts of sugar: 'Tough Ace', 'Nice like at home' or 'Ladylike' , and three doses of cream: 'Cornish', 'Welsh' or 'English'. I wish, we had that in our Albatros fighters, as I'm an Ostfriese (we drink more tea per person than the English even), but the Ostfriesen are a very small minority in Germany, so they didn't bother at "Idflieg".

What triggers them, is reaching the last waypoint.

That depends on how you fly it. If you play most immersive, with TAC ("radar") and Labels "off", you can identify the Squadron only from their signs/markings. But as I don't know their all signs, I switch labes on for short time, to identify the squadron. Also, it would show you, if there are any aces with you - they are written with their full name. For the location of the kill, you just look into your map, and note data like: south-east of Ypres, or north of Bertincourt airfield.

As a result of my question, where and which the best British units are, I picked 10 RNAS for a start. I wanted to try the Tripe, as I hadn't flown it before, and - Olham way - with twin Vickers! So, now David Marlowe (see pilot photo) is going Tripehound now. This plane was incredible. It is easier to handle than the Dr.1 (which is also not too difficult), and extremely agile. So much, that - as in the Dr.1 - I found aiming and hitting someone very hard. She reacts on any stick movement at once. After the Albatros, I will have to change a lot, to become better. It is very easy to get target-fixated in this crate, as you can follow them to hell and back. Once you're behind an Albatros DV at close range, the poor devil has no chance left, except someone shooting you off his tail (which happened to me, due to my fixation). I'll carry on though (made an emergency landing west of Lens), and I'll also try the Pup.

Aroth, they do (try to) land, when you fly to the last waypoint. From there, they perform a wide turn away from the field, and return and land, which is sort of luck, when they make it - often the later ones crash into the previous, because they "don't see" each other at zero level. But try it - I had landings, that were without losses!

Thank you for explaining the kids, what they shouldn't try, Professor D. Lirium. The last line for non-latins?

Should I eat the chicken or the eggs?...

Unfortunately, I didn't mark the site, where I found these data. As the curves were a bad b/w drawing, I have done it again, in colour. Now these performance data are not "chiseled in stone", as Uncle Al would now say, and you can't sue me, when the performance of your favourite crate proves a little different. But this should show roughly, were each plane stands/stood. A pitty, they didn't do all the crates we have here...

Well, Chrsmat, you may also look at the sticky thread "command key chart" above to find all you need. When you find it hard to follow opponents (which it sometimes or often is!), you may also use the "target cone", the yellow brakets and the "labels" for identification. And you can set the difficulty lower in "workshop". Don't bother about the hardcore simmers - some day, when you got better, you can raise the difficulties, and leave some of the helps out. I don't know, how old you are and if you could get used to something like TrackIR 4Pro. That would give you an incredible overall view, once you got used to it.

RedDog, I wish you a good growing kill tally for the future. Be careful with your wingmen, protect them and bring them home - and you will see, it is so much greater than it already was!

Yes! All of your flight. I often have four wingmen, and I write them all in there. Always! And a typical line in the claims report would read: 1 SPAD13 Craft from Esc.82 hit and destroyed at 12h26, southeast of Vauxcere airfield.