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If you want to see the cutie in flight - here is Kermit Weeks flying his Fokker D.VIII. I'm not so sure, if the 4-colour Lozenge is correctly done, but enjoy it anyway. http://www.clipwings.com/index.php?command=show_video&video_id=1269

As far as I know, the claims system will be improved in that way, that it will recognise more key data, and wether your listed witnesses were close enough to witness your kill. I am masochistic enough to say, I'd like it, when all exaggerated claims would get rejected. That might make the victory numbers a bit more realistic. And if they stll leave that button in the "Workshops", you could switch realistic claims off, if you don't like it.

As far as I know, not. It should be the same plane. But after the wing failures and withdrawal of the E.V, Fokker must have decided to give her a new name - just to appear reassuring, I guess.

Here is a link to "The Aerodrome" galleries. This painting by Steve Anderson is said to show an impression of that victory (last victory of the war - I don't believe that, but at some point they may have just stopped confirming victories). According to this painting, the poor British feller was a Sopwith Camel pilot from No. 203 Sqdn. http://www.theaerodr...image.php?i=619

Yes, Hauksbee, he made it; and he even survived the war. I have visited the Canal near Chauvignon and that water bassin (in Google Maps) , and found one crater- like pool next to the modern motorway - it could be a mine crater, and even that one Jentsch dropped into. I guess the French he heard were soldiers right over the Canal on the other side, shouting to each other about the crashed craft.

Bullet, I'm not sure if this was the reason for the sim dropping my victories occasionally, but since I got more memory (from 2 GB to 4 GB) I hardly had that happening anymore. It happened, when I had longer missions with several events, and then also took the time to make paused screenshots. But now this problem seems to have gone.

At FLICKR I just found this feller, who has posted lots of satelite pics with drawn in positions of ancient aerodromes. Not sure, wether he is correct, but I'll dive deeper into that. Here is one of my personal OFF favourite airfields - Marchais: http://www.flickr.co...hoto_6538934721 It seems there is a magazine or map collection called Anciens Aerodromes - interesting stuff! There are tons of such pics... .

If I should have had to make a choice out of all OFFers I know, who this story would come closest to - I would have picked your name immediately, Bullet!

Mmuahahahahahahaaaaa!!!!!! These are such great moments indeed! Not only in Westerns! Yes, you can very well wonder how - but I bet they will do!

Thanks for the heads up, guys. Yeah, from our brothers with the darker tan we can definitely learn what coolness is, and rythm. Makes you swing at once! Here is a sweet example - the power of reggae:

Shot down by French Flak - or: The Sturdyness of a Pfalz D.IIIa (Excerpt from K. F. Kurt Jentsch: "Beim Jagdflug tödlich verunglückt?") I am still reading Karl Friedrich Kurt Jentsch's book "Beim Jagdflug tödlich verunglückt?". Now I came to a passage, where he is getting shot down by Flak, and how his sturdy Pfalz D.IIIa faithfully carries him back over the lines, before "she dies". I thought you might like to share this part, and since I don't know of any translations of the book, I translated it for you to share. The people back in Jentsch's days expressed many things even different to nowadays Germans, and I have tried to keep his own 'speech' as far as possible (so excuse me, when it doesn't read like proper English). I posted it in the other forum; here is the link: http://simhq.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3644697/Shot_down_by_French_Flak_or_th.html#Post3644697

Lou, I would have never dared to try that - but when you say it works fine, then your word shall be enough for me.

Yeah, I asked one of the "real cracks" today (he had offered to "look at my code" to check it), and I found him helpless. He was amazed to see my way of approaching the problem, and found it looked "logical somehow". He only found some wrong bits, I had to solve the other problems myself. Ghasp!

Here's "The Aerodrome" about the Fokker D.VIII: http://www.theaerodrome.com/aircraft/germany/fokker_dviii.php

sparrowhawkms, I definitely ditto the TrackIR pros here. TrackIR is able to put you into the cockpit, no less. You will feel like really flying the crate. You will look out left and right, down the port side of the fuselage, a quick check of your six; it is the device to turn your sim into an almost real life feeling. Sounds expensive? Drop cinema and pizza service, drinks and magazines - whatever. You'll be surprised how soon you can save 120,- Dollars.

I guess you mean the victory of Emil Rolff (on 17 August 1918), who died only two days later, when the wings of the same Fokker E.V collapsed. The skin of Emil Rolff (Jasta 6) is in the huge skin pack of OFF. The craft shows a white lightning on the fuselage sides.

Lou, do you mean you have two installs of OFF? I hope someone will come up with an easy to understand as for how to install and use the Italian Campaign? Otherwise I'd be lost... I'm not good at such things.

Impressive list, Bullet! jean, I would love to welcome more French flyers in this forum and WOFF - I keep my fingers crossed with you guys.

HouseHobbit, if you have built missions with Stumpjumper and others, and you want to upload them to this forum's download section, then that is perfectly okay to use the OFF stuff in these missions. This OFF forum even has a section for user-built missions; see here: http://combatace.com/files/category/353-maps-missions-and-campaigns/ What you can not do is to make a package (a DVD or whatever) and distribute that on any other ways, as that would be a copyright infringement.

Sure, Hobbit - use my skins; they were solely made for the "Little Italy" Campaign.

Hobbit, sure - full permission; my Austrian skins were solely made for this. I wonder if anyone with historical knowledge has provided you with data about the airfields and bases used by the various squadrons and units through the war in Italy?

Thanks, Hauksbee! Well, AC/DC were never my cup of tea so much, but I have other noisy stuff I can use. My problem is, I don't want to learn to take an engine apart and re-compose it - I only want to drive the damn car. When I read the scripts and explanations, they make perfect sense to me. But if I must write similar new own scripts, my formulas always look different than those from the book. (I had the same problem already in school with mathematics...)

Some people, like Wojtek, have a hand for building super-detailed model. This one is in the scale 1:32; I guess it is from "Wingnut Wings". Look at the several pages with photos of the completion of a great build. http://www.greatwaraviation.com/forum/index.php/topic,1750.45.html

Now summer is standing in the open door, about to travel south. The mornings are getting a bit chillier, the first leaves are turning yellow. I am at school again since 5 weeks, and I must say it is a tough job. I had forgotten how hard learning and memorising were. When I come home, I am not even in any mood to fly (which is a very serious sign of stress for me). But I also think it does me good. Not sure at all, if I can still become a fully cerified web designer, but even if not - I guess I will learn enough to become at least an uncertified one. Why bother? In the evenings, I often just listen to one of my hundreds of records. It brings me back down and makes me feel homely and comfortable. For all who carry a burden - or maybe more than one - have a short moment of rest and listen to this little piano piece by Eric Satie. Perhaps it helps a little.

1. Arthur Gould Lee: "No Parachute!" 2. Cecil Lewis: "Sagittarius Rising" Both absolutely great reads, believe me! If you ever wanted to kind of accompany a British pilot of the Great War through his war days, weeks and months, you will surely find these books valuable. Edit: I do usually feel more "naturally at home" with German Jasta in OFF, but these two gentlemen really managed to bring the British pilots' everyday life and thoughts - their flying and freezing; their singing and drinking evenings in the mess - so close to my German soul, that I felt a deep empathy with them; and a very comfortable one.