Olham

The Photo Archive at the "Wingnut Wings" website is always good for interesting pics. http://www.wingnutwings.com/ww/ Here is one from a German Naval unit. The Jpeg description reads: "Albatros D.Va Marine Field Jasta, Neumunster Seefrosta. Note the Halberstadt Cl.II no.24 & Albatros D.III no.12" The crosses mean it must have been taken in 1918. Not sure, if they mean, here are both, MFJ and Seefrosta planes together. Or were the Seefront-Staffeln (Seefrosta) parts of Marinefeldjagdstaffeln (MFJ) ? And who's planes/markings do we see here? A question for our historians.

Lou, enjoy a peaceful Sunday - no, forget the "peaceful"; I guess you'll make a sortie or two. And so will I - I will enjoy my new graphic card with my new Jasta 14 pilot in late October 1916. (I'm lucky - I won't have to freeze like those tough chaps surely did).

Sorry, but I never tried anything like that. I guess I would be lost with more than one screen. I saw a lot of reference at the Microsoft and the AMD websites, but no trail of breadcrumbs to any download. I wish you more luck with the next poster for your efforts.

Hey, Lou - a conference, eyh? One lof the dry sort I guess. Well, I came in to late to help you out. Been at friends, cooking, eating, chatting.

All BH&H requires will be CFS3 patched to 3.1 or so; plus the OFF patches (see: www.overflandersfields.com). Ahem - is that my drink over there? Oh, thanks! Well I think it does.

Update 17 March 2013 - 01:38 h Berlin time (= GMT + 1) OldSimmer, Oklahoma added. The maps are in post 1 of this thread

...if you passed away within these two weeks... OldSimmer, forget about Phase 2, do yourself a favour and get yourself "Between Heaven and Hell" plus "Hat in the Ring!", and you should have a big adventure. All together costs only 29,98 $ if I calculated it correct. "Call of Duty"... Huh! Did I mistake your avatar for a pilot? Tch!!!

Robert, your spirit will not lie at any specific place - it will be able to be everywhere. So you will find the sim. You won't have the limitation to sit outside the action behind a screen - you will be able to fly any of those aircraft. Now that should be fun!

An advantage at our age is: two weeks go by like "whoosh!". A clear disadvantage is: I always keep forgetting that I am still only waiting within these two weeks...

Hey, I remember your striking face well, OldSimmer - nice to see you back! If you want the best experience, you should also get "Hat in the Ring!", cause with that came a Super-Patch and Final Patch, which changed the AI behaviour even greater! Best you check the install sequence at www.overflandersfields.com It is a great step from Phase 2 - and you're right: you won't survive it! Mmuahahahahahaaa!!!!

No time to listen through it right now - how was he treated in the POW camp I wonder?

Flyby, now you've done it: you made me burst out laughing into the coffee cup I had just led to my mouth! Good my keyboard is watercoffeeproof! Good one!

"Meine Frau und Poker" (my wife and poker) - that's great, Stump. Give 'em full house!

Update 12 March 2013 - 13:02 h Berlin time (= GMT + 1) stoney66, Indiana added. The maps are in post 1 of this thread

Indeed! It shouldn't be allowed to shoot down any Albatros!

Well made introduction into the starting proceedure and cockpit instruments of a great fighter plane: the Vought F4U "Corsair" (by ZENO WARBIRDS). The Japanese feared the "Whistling Death" - named after the characteristic whistling sound of the flying craft. I had the chance to see one on the ILA Airshow near Berlin in 2006 - it is a giant of a fighter, and when it gave full throttle, I was deeply impressed by the sound (and almost got blown away).

This video (sorry for the poor quality) shows at 4:10 the start and flight of an early Caudron. One scene was made using a camera on the wing, filming the pilot in his "boat". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMjctr7pa1E

Wayfarer, if you want to see a complete photo build story of an Albatros, "The Vintage Aviator" has it. It is an absolutely great documentation of their building of the first Albatros D.Va replica. See here: http://thevintageavi...a/build-gallery .

Hey, and I always thought I had been a little bit crazy in my youth! I had beautifully assembled plastic model kits in 1:32 scale - impressively large fighters like the Bf109, the Mustang, or a Japanese Mitsubishi J2M3 "Jack". They were all wonfully painted as good as I could in those days. And then, one day, I placed them all in our sand box like on an airfield, put little and larger firecrackers into them, made little trails of benzin to them, and ignited them. My mother was seriously worried about "the violence in me". She asked, if I wouldn't regret it, to have destroyed all this work of many hours. But the only thing I did regret was, that I didn't have a camera, to make slow motion scenes of it all.

Hauksbee, it is not a "Balkan cross" - Germany has nothing to do with the Balkan. It is called in German "Balkenkreuz" ("e", not "a") - a cross of (straight) beams so to say. This cross was introduced in March or April 1918; the former "Tatzenkreuz" or "Eisernes Kreuz" (cross patty or Iron Cross) had to be overpainted the new way.

Oh, what a nice picture. Didn't have this one yet - thanks for sharing, Widow! Maybe they look deadly - like sharks? But I also find, their curves and their sleek lines are timeless beautiful. You know - although there were better fighters in the later war, I am still only attracted to fly the Albatros. Even though winning my fights gets harder and harder, and at some time almost impossible... It must be love...

Wow, that looks dangerous! I wouldn't want to get into a burst of that craft in my Albatros! Looks like an ancestor of the Lockheed "Lightning"!

Guys, I bet the Sopwith company was well able to build the wing frame between the struts stabile enough to hold everything together as it should. I don't think it would have shown any performance issues, as the cutout is in the very center of the wings - should be no problem.

Okay, now that you said it... I'm not so familiar with the Camel, but after checking some photos, I see that the "attic window" looks wider indeed here; also the rear cutout is not a small round but a square wider one. I never fly the Camel because of the bad vision it offers. So your wish is very understandable to me. I wonder why they didn't build them all like that?

Can't get the picture any larger, so I can't make out what the field mod is???