Olham

First, I want to say, that I have recently warped several times, with good results. Crew was always there, plane positioned right. But just that last flight, I came out of the warp, still on own territory. So, I pressed "X" again. That warp was interrupted, due to enemies near. Alright so far. But this time,my plane stood almost headover. So I cut back throttle, to put her right again. Then I performed a half turn, as the enemies were now behind us, and began to climb towards them. After half a minute, I heard a terrible cracking noise, and screen turned red! I had just looked around and on the TAC: my wingies were further behind me, and the enemies had just appeared at the outer ring of the TAC. No other plane was near me at all! Now, my best pilot is killed, and I can't say, how? Anyone else had this to happen? And what exactly must I do, to resurrect the poor bloke?

Just had that situation - wingman shooting at MY plane. You know, why? I had pressed "help" - and that enemy in front of me was the only plane near! So, better press "help" only, when there are really enemies BEHIND you. And then: turn, cause otherwise, wing one MUST hit you accidently. But the better way for me now: I order attack on a plane, and cover them. That way, I could bring by far more wingies back home, AND made kills.

Got another SPAD XIII half an hour ago, and it's sheer extasy, when you know, what they CAN'T perform with their "speedo zoom boom diver planes", and wait just at THAT corner to nip the bud. Unfortunately, my bloodrush blinded my sights again for that red warning line, saying something about aircraft stress or so (by the time, I noticed it, the left wing had gone off). The Kaiser now doesn't know, wether to praise my kills, or to send me bills for the four Albatros, I have already cost the Reich. Some at headquarter speculate even, about me working for the enemy! That's really not fair - the crash hurt!!

Watch it, HELLSHADE, "Fritz" IS capable - dogfighting underneath treetop level is my speciality! So, when you check your six, and see tracers from somewhere between a watering can and a garden dwarf - that's coming from my Albatros D II, and could be the last you ever see. (After zatt, I like pickkink some apples - Mmuahahahahaaaa!!!!)

Welcome, Waldemar! Nice idea, that, for the future some day. But seeing, that Winder and the team are still working on patching some things, we should leave them at least some time for their private life, and sleep. We don't want them to develope a burn out syndrome, do we? I enjoy (when enemy let's me) the flights, as they come; and it is really challenging. Have fun! Olham

However - I will try to get those as a DVD box at Ebay. Timeless British humour!

Yes, "Kennst mich noch?" (Remembr me?) and "Du doch nicht!" (But not you!) I know both, but wouldn't want to use the signatures of others. I'm thinking of writing "Dich hol ich mir!" (I'll get you!) on my other Albatros.

Royce, it must be from the late seventies or early eighties. The actor beside "Mr.Bean" Rowan Atkinson, is nowadays "Dr.House" - did you recognise him?

As far as I know, the name came from the fact, that very offensive Jastas, like Jasta 11 of Manfred von Richthofen, gave up barracks, and decided to use tents to live in, cause that way, they could move much faster from one field to another. When he then decided, to paint the planes in a very colourful way, the name "Flying Circus" was given to them by the English aircrew. The decision for colourful planes was kind of psychological warfare by MvR. When his comrades said, that with these colours, they would be seen for miles, he answered: I want them to see us for miles. I want them to know, that we don't see any reason to hide. I want, that they believe, we don't fear them at all."

My system is XP, Ronbo. And I wrote "Cry Wolf" in English, for my Allied opponents often can't read German. (And I wanted the word "Wolf" on the plane, as my pilot is Wolfram "Wolf" Mahlo. In German, that saying would be "Schrei Alarm!" - no Wolf in it.)

Sorry, RRRRonbo!

Forgot the pics of Thaw's and von Ziegler's end.

Burt, pick the Douai-Arras-Cambrai area. End of 1916, it may still not be too dense. In 1918 then, you may be glad, when you didn't collide with anyone.

And it's not really found by myself - found it under BONBO's signature. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e644WFD1rgM

First time I read that much about him. Sounds all terribly like the "hell part" of BHaH.

Zatt's dsherman war technolodgy, Herr Hauksbee. Vee also had roll-up airfieldz, zatt you could also use as a kitchen table cloth. Mmmuahahahaaaa!!!!!

Jasta 15, Bonneuil Ferme, 27. April 1918 We were on a ground support mission at the front line bow, south-west of St.Quentin. Flight 1 had gone up high; so we were at 11.000 feet. The huge towering april thunder clouds painted a dramatic scenery. Suddenly I saw them: two flights of SPADs coming down like falcons from some 3.000 feet higher on flight 1. When we got there, most of friend and foe had chased each other down towards the deck. But 3 SPADs had remained up here, and began their attack on us. I sent von Marchlewitz and Beckedorf after the others, and took up fighting "my" SPADs with von der Ziegler behind me. One of the three also travelled downwards. The SPAD attacking me first now, was William "Bill" Thaw, covered by a wingman. When he saw, that he couldn't get behind me, he also played the falcon. Knowing about my wing structures, I followed in safer spirals. When I came down, he came back up again, and the turning began. Now, I know how to turn into a SPAD, and soon he only got punches. His wingman can't help - von der Ziegler is like a bulldog after him. Two-and-a-half minutes later, William Thaw digs his nose into the dirt like a dying boar. But now I realise, that the other SPADs must have "smoked up" all of flight 1 plus my wings 2 and 3, or chased them to the horizon. Flying over von der Ziegler, I had noticed briefly, how 5 or 6 SPADs all jumped on him. Moment of a hard decision: flying on would just now get me over the line, over our grounds. Turning round would make me confront all these SPADs, to get out von der Ziegler. Before I had finished a wide half turn, von der Ziegler had been wiped out. And now, I flew right into that swarm of mad hornets. To cut it short: I made it around again and, taking hits, to crawl back over the lines. While the 103rd were still mad after me, I had to perform a crash landing, surrounded by trees. I just made it alive. Next time, I shouldn't turn round for an already lost wingman, if I want to survive all this. Right? How hard must a pilot become in these days?...

Yes, it's a Hansa Brandenburg W 20. See this modeller's site: http://images.google.de/imgres?imgurl=http...l%3Dde%26sa%3DG

Hi, CW3FS To change your controls, you hit "escape" in a flight / QC; then in the menue appearing on the right, you choose "controls". To change any of them, do NOT try to overwrite the preset one first, by click "add new assignment". Now you can make a new assignment on the keyboard, or press the button, you'd like to use. After that, you could delete the previous assignment, but you can leave it as well. In the wingmen commands, you'll see "help", "attack my target", "spilt" and "return", for example. All of these can be put on a button of the stick. I use TrackIR 4 with the sim, and it is absolutely fantastic! Hope, I could help. Have fun! Olham

Hey, Ronbo All former RB3D players, I read posts of here, are overwhelmed with OFF "Between Heaven and Hell"; and so am I. But it will feel much more realistic, and therefor harder to survive (unless you choose easy settings). I can't think of anything else, I'd like to fly more (except, perhaps, Oleg's "Battle of Britain" - if it ever appears). About the skins: it is unbelievable, how many skins I could choose from. I'm flying German planes mostly, and the team did ALL the skins of the aces, very beautifully. You can choose any of these for your own plane, if you like. And, yes, you can create your own skin, but it's more work, than in a pre-configured "ace paint shop". You have to have Photoshop or another program, to work on bitmaps with. But some of us did many own skins already. Best see our sticky thread about skinnig (it has an extra place, you'll find it on the forum's first page/list of content)

That was a real great fight! I had a similar one against aces in Pups, with a D III. I managed to survive it, and kill three of the six. But, as I had lost all my men, or they had got carried away by their opponents/fights, I didn't get a single claim allowed (errenious)! That was hard! My new wingman with Jasta 15 may be like your Otto Gund - I'll report, when we reached the first 10 flights.

Thank you, Jammer You will soon come up with something similar? Your slideshow is promising! And nice music - please, show us some moving action!

Leutnant Hasse Wind, I vellcome you on ze right side of ze lines - ze Kaiser's side! Here, you vill get ze tough planes vizz ze right amount of ammunission, and almost all have TWO gunzz! And you can paint your bird however crazy you like - vee are ze "flyink ssircuss"! It may not last long, sso: enjoy your f(l)ights! [see the thread "a tear comes to the eyes" by ROOSTER. It IS hard, to live longer here. But as long as it lasts, it's worth every second. And all you said about this sim, is true! Welcome!]

ROOSTER, 21 missions flown is a helluvalot - at least for me! So, don't give up! You made a mistake, and in war, one mistake could end your life. In your case, it "only" spoiled one sim pilot's carrer. Spaatz's kills-to-mission relation shows, that he was already one of the more careful pilots. He didn't make one or two kills per mission. He could have lasted longer. Learn from the incident. And climb back into your cockpit. I wish I could show a log with 20 and more missions yet. (I'm working on it!)

GAW & RICKITY The Freak Brothers are still printed here in Germany (at least some years ago), as Special Editions, in Rotbuch Verlag. I have just found "The Mexican Odyssee" again. And I have little books about only Fat Freddy's Cat. All absolutely great stuff - can read it every year again.