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Do you really want to use it for yourself? Cause it would be easy to do, and I could do so. Perhaps on a black fuselage? If you really want it, tell me so - I will then send it in the near future.

Great progress, Widow - I just don't find the time to get deeper into the tool box of it all. But it's all here to be found and read later, I hope. Rooster, the idea of OvS doing a video teaching program ain't bad. But I think he should appear as in his avatar. That would be a great show!

Could be, that they fly away, when: - they are out of ammo - when they are too damaged for turn fighting I had that several times (I still use TAC sometimes), that I realised the enmy (red) specs moving away over their lines and turning white again. When I didn't or couldn't follow, they had escaped.

Vell, I can only repeat myself, again and again: if you vant zis distructive ant impressive veapon power, zen djoin ze Kaiser's Jastas. Sign here! Viss our twin gunz ant 1.000 - 1.100 roundz of ammunition, , you can literally saw der enemy planez too piessez! Mmuahahahahaaa!!!!

No, it happens, that they try to get away! I had a fierce fight with SPAD XIII, and one of the two remaining pilots, whom I had hit severely, tried to escape. He flew off towards his heartland, and as the SPAD is pretty fast, I had to do some long range shooting, to damage him more, so that I could catch up with him. I was still some 800 feet behind him, but made some hits, when, all of a sudden, he rolled on his back and pulled right into the soil. On the other hand: you can hardly get out of a fight, that's begun. You can only try that with an undamaged, fast enough plane, or when you still have an advantage of height. Everything else is like turning you back to an attacking tiger. Hopeless.

CJ: Actually it's PLAGIARISM. Well, UncleAl often finds his own southern forms for words - or are you perhaps very cheeky, and mixing "plagiarism" with "plague", Uncle? Hey, Gous - nice to hear you have fun. Perhaps you will make some movies, when you have FreeTrack? I intend to, but must first get my rig updated. Fraps get low, when I switch on FRAPS.

Well, I believe, OvS and the other skinners have researched it all well. Here are some pictures, corresponding to OvS' words above. All info from: The Wings Palette http://wp.scn.ru/en/ww1/f/415/59 The planes shown are: Unit: JG I (Serial: F.I.102/17) Pilots: Rittm Manfred von Richthofen (JG I, August-September) ObLt Kurt Wolff (Jasta 11, September, he killed on this aircraft) Note: engine cowling maybe Red. Unit: JG 1 (Serial: Dr.127/17) Pilot: Rittm Manfred Von Richthofen Unit: JG I (Serial: Dr.141/17) Pilot: Rittm Manfred Von Richthofen. Unit: JG I (Serial: Dr.152/17) Pilot - Rittm Manfred von Richthofen. France, March 1918 Unit: JG I (Serial: Dr.161/17) Pilot - Rittm Manfred von Richthofen. France, March 1918 Unit: JG I (Serial: Dr.477/17) Pilot - Manfred Von Richthofen. France, end of March 1918. Unit: JG I (Serial: Dr.425/17) Pilot - baron Manfred Von Richthofen, 1918. Aircraft was painted in Red at factory. Richthofen is top-scoring ace of World War I with 80 kills. He was shot down on 21 April 1918. Unit: Jasta 11 (Serial: Dr.454/17) Pilot - CO of Jasta 11, Lt.Lothar von Richthofen. France, March-April 1918. Flown this aircraft in March 1918 he shot down 3 enemy plane. The last plane is of Lothar - for Uncle - it was not red, but yellow at the tail. Yellow was the colour of a cavallery regiment, Lothar had served in before.

For a phase of learning, I even went a bit further (shameless, the purist says): I had TAC on, marked the first white spec (they are still white often, as they fall down on you from some 12.000 feet - my plane always breaks up, when I try that!) Then I pressed F4, until I got a view of the enemy plane. Now, with button for "next target", I could switch through them all. Now, I knew plane type and number of enemies. Nothing, I shouldn't have known (them AI pilots know I'm down there, too). Helps a lot. Just for learning.

Right, I'll give 'em a good try in "free flights" - sounds, like they're worth it; and maybe I pushed them too hard. I couldn't hit a barn.

Lou, that looks like the almost right clothing for a two-seater to me. (Must have been terribly cold up there at 12.000 - 15.000 feet) Zoomzoom, I have also one pilot resurrected - same glitch, and he was my best man. But I got the game pretty late, and most pilots die early; so I don't have a good kill tally yet. Like you, I will also fly without warping, when I have uprated my rig (hopefully soon).

Hauksbee, that looks terrific - what are your gun settings in workshop?

Thank you all for your great contributions. And, yes, Snoopy, you found your way to a wonderful community. Welcome!

That is new to me (and maybe others). So, the movie IS now available IN ENGLISH?

Bullet, the HARDCORE model means, that both, enemy and your planes, can take more damage, are a bit harder to destroy. But only so much, that it appears more realistic to me. I still can down a SPAD with two very good, or three medium good bursts. For the guns, my setting is on "normal". But I'm still confused there, what the various gun settings would mean. Perhaps, you could write an explaining list, Winder or Pol? Anyway - I like, what I have now.

It's rather opposite, CJ - I can't seem to fly with real pedals. I have them, but find them useless. I always get into idiotic sideward stalls in manoeuvers, that I can do very well with my rudder-included stick. They just behave totaly different.

This model will never fly, but the guy will build another. And if he can find an original benzine filter (or something near), he already has the engine there to get up with it.

Great report, Cameljockey! Makes me think of one more carrer: as a D VII pilot (never flew it in campaign yet). And I have an old FF stick - but not sure, if it has rudder in the stick.

From my own experience: it will make you feel better, and next flight will be like a deserved vacation (as long as you don't run into me and my Albatros - Lol!)

MvR and his crew never did "scrambles" - they regarded it being suicide, to roll over the field with an attacking Squad above them. Sounds familiar, eyh? Has anyone tried the old trick: to wait, until everyone tangles, and then go up?

Enjoy! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmJPNEop8T4&translated=1

Enjoy these (the music is another matter of taste, but what can I do?): Building Albatros D III Albatros D V Albatros Albatros D Va

Hey, Widow As everyone seems to recommend their joysticks, why not present mine here? It's a Thrustmaster T.Flight Stick X - I'll show you my set up below. It works good for me with all the buttons. I think, though, the HOTAS Cougar would be more precise (plane flying smooth and straighter, especially when shooting!), but I can't seem to get used to my SAITEK rudder pedals.

Geez - Geier, what's the matter? Had a good smoke? Or have you read, that good old Bob will come to town on his never ending world tour?

Hey, UncleAl, we like to be "stuck with you round here". And if you should ever get the money together, I hope you'd still remain with us, eyh? We'd sure miss your grumpy ways...

Hey, ZoomZoom and Lou, could you, perhaps, stop that "battle flirting" and remember, we have a war going on, we should take serious? (Lol!) What do you two fly at the moment? I have 3 carreers with Albatros (D II, D III, D Va), and one just started with a Dr.1. But they are all so new yet, I have only three confirmed kills (on th D II).