Olham

True, this behaviour of descending to the right and climbing to the left is represented in OFF. (I tried the Camel only once in RoF and didn't notice any tricky torque effects there at all. Their Camel is a totally faked super fighter.) But the left turn of the real Camel was so much slower, that the veterans would rather perform a 3/4 right turn instead of a 1/4 left turn or so I read. I don't know if I remembered the tactic from post #1 correct. From how you describe the torque effect, it would make more sense to dive in a left turn, and then to climb in a right turn. I also hope Lou knows some better.

Yes, and if the Alb comes back, it does so with guns pointing forward at the Camel. That's the trick. You got it wrong - the Alb dives right and then climbs left - a move the Camel couldn't follow very well, due to the immense force of the torque effect. The Camel turned great to the right, and absolutely bad to the left. (An effect which isn't represented very much in any flight sim - Camels are usually far too easy to handle IMHO) They were not such over-experienced aces like us, with countless victories and hundreds of own deaths on the slate. .

I think he just buttons up his coat. I see no anxiety, but maybe the strain of the last sorties?

He was flying Albatros; forgot to mention.

Well, Tony, here is a video of both craft in the air.

Ages ago I read somewhere, that a pilot used this trick, when a Camel was after him. He first went into a right-turn-dive, from which he pulled out into a left-round-climb. (I hope I remember it correctly) Does anyone here know, who said this, and if there is any more of this pilot's tricks in the internet?

This is one of Kermit Weeks' "KermiCam" videos which he makes with a helmet camera while piloting aircraft. Seems he bought one Albatros D.Va replica from "The Vintage Aviator Ltd" for his "Fantasy of Flight" collection. It's nice to see him do the settings before and after flight, and to hear his final report. He goes up with TVAL pilot Gene deMarco, who is flying an R.E.8. We see that Kermit finds it hard to get at the British two-seater, and Gene says at the end, that he didn't even fly with full throttle (if I understand that correctly). Anyway - it's a pleasure "to fly" over the beautiful British landscape at the "Shuttleworth Collection", where they met. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=i973gkkRNhs

I have seen photos of Eduard Ritter von Schleich, were his face/tan is dark as a Tuareg. There could be two good reasons for that: 1. the sun was not behind the photographer, but was rather hitting the lense from slightly forward left or right 2. the pilot may have been one of those people, who get a pretty dark tan in summer (usually dark-haired guys) There would bwe a third good reason, but it's naughty to assume that: - when the guy was drinking too much and constantly had a red face from that (I had this suspicion from several Berthold photos)

Yeah - in his hands the word "to knock the enemy out" gets a whole new meaning! Maybe Trenchard said something like "We must throw at the Germans what we have!" Mmuahahahahahaaaa!!!!

To add something rather respectless: the photographer caught him unexpectedly in a moment when he didn't make a "normal" respectable face - he looks like a "square-teeth zombie" to me. I'm with Jim there - he was just helped into the coat. So he would be back from a sortie. The dark face could simply just be shadow.

Watched it again in highest resolution; it is so brilliant that I can watch it full screen, which I recommend. For all who may not know: click on the toothed wheel at the bottom under the video screen, select the highest (HD) resolution, and right of that, the middle or the right frame, to get medium size or full screen. After flying another sim a lot lately, which has a more modern visuals/graphics engine, I had thought WOFF could not reach there in this respect. The video proves me wrong. Even though the visuals may not be that modern, it is the overall touch and atmosphere, the harmonious tuning of the whole design - and something I can't quite put my finger on - it is the total of the feelings, which creates a world, which is really there, and for which I still haven't found a better word than "totally immersive". I only know: I want to be "in there"...

Well, I guess you might be so proud of the new damage models, that your subconscious makes you do that. Which is okay for us Huns; less work. No, wait - you crashed INTO our craft... Damn...

Just saw (and heard!) it on YouTube - the new sounds from Creaghorn are great!!! Nice to see more detail - must watch it again. Pol, did you fly the planes? Are you a re-born Kamikaze pilot???

My dad passed away in that same year. Not quite the same kind of loss, but still... I remember the call from my sister like it was yesterday. And the feeling was beyond description.

I won't hold the congratulations, von Baur - you had what you had; none of us knows how and when we will end (and it is definitely better that way). It is not the length of time, it is rather the quality of a relationship, and here I believe I detect there was so much quality and even class or style in it... You both look so proud of each other. You may still feel you should have shown your love even more - but I bet you showed it very often. Congrats on what you had together and what is was - however short it may be feeling - so many have far less.

You're right, von Baur, it should have been 10 kids each. I have corrected it.

Okay, these kids made their choices as follows: i-Pad = 10 kids (mostly boys) fluffy white rabbit = 10 kids (mostly girls) mountain bike = 0 Me, I was surprised about this - not one single kid chose the bike. In my own youth that would have been No. 1, I think.

I'll tell the real outcome this evening. Any more guesses?

Ah, now we are getting in the gear! I'll give you all some more time. Jarhead, all three is not an option - they had to decide for just one - would you try again?

C'mon everybody, make a guess.

Okay, let's wait for some more answers/guesses, before I tell the result.

Just saw a test on German TV: 20 kids at the age of 5 years were asked what they would choose to own. There was an i-Pad, a white rabbit and a mountain bike. What do you think - how many kids picked what?

My thread title is definitely wrong for southeast Australia... All the best to all of you down under!

Sid, I see it in the news every evening. First the immense fires, and now the devastating floodings. We seem to get this regularly now, even here in Germany we had such high water lines, that the river dams partly broke and land was flooded. We may have to build houses on poles in future, and we may need very strong beliefs or will, to clean and build up after each disaster.

Ah, that's another view point to confirm the relativity theory. Where will you have to ship to?