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Hihihi - well, if you Crumpets like flying such horribly painted German kites... And our Finnish expert here is definitely a sado-masochist. The right plane for you, HW, to Finnish your oponents off! Mmuahahahahahaaaaa!!!!!!

Raaaahhh!!! Do you guys think this is FUNNY?!? To maken an old veteran and highly decorated ace collapse by getting visual poisoning with enemy-bad-taste?!?!? Von Paulus, you too?!?!? Tch!!! Shame on you all!!! Moderators! Help!! Ban these designs for very bad taste!!! Pleeeeeze!!! Raaaahhhhh!!!!

The Bordeauxred Baron: "Yes, you say quite rightly: YOU painted my Albatros pink! (Gasp!) Now, we Germans are very liberal about colourful fighter planes; everyone knows that! But pink Polka dots on purple aircraft can only originate from a Hobbit mind! In my Staffel, I would threaten the guys with execution for the case anyone would commit such forms of war crimes! Pink aircraft! (Barf! Vomit!! Thud!!!)" Unteroffizier Meyer: "Sani! Sanitäter!! The Baron has collapsed!"

Raaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!

Okay, thanks Dej, will do. Edit: Dej, do you know how to insert a picture at "The Aerodrome"? I put the graphic into a private gallery here at CombatAce, copied the URL-link and inserted it at "The Aerodrome" - but all I get there is a text line?

Wether their influence can be defined or not - their heritage and their genes are still there, I'm sure. Some of the stones show crosses - does that mean, that the Picts had contact with early Christianity?

Memories are good as what they are: Memories. We can't make them any better by copying them into the presence - they are part of the past. Nobody can take them away from us. One day, "Over Flanders Fields" will rather be a memory (hopefully when we still have "WOFF III" or however it will be called). And it will be a sweet, sweet memory for me, filled with great music, which is already written onto my inner hard drive, and which will accompany all the wonderful scenes of great encounters - or sometimes simply flying over a lovely landscape in the golden late afternoon sun... .

Now I have added two other views (from GoogleMaps) to my picture; so there is the final version now in post 1.

Great stuff, everyone - funny thread really! Despite the fact, that the Germans have been anything but friendly with the Jews in younger history (and I'm well aware that this is a bold understratement!), the German language contains several Jewish, or better "Jiddish" words (Jiddish seems to be a Jewish language mix of Polish and German). To really blow something is in German: etwas vermasseln. This comes from the Jiddish "Masseltoff", which means "good luck". When you talk about your whole lot of relatives slightly negative in Germany, you may call them "Muschpoke". This comes from the Jiddish "Mischpoke" or "Mischpoche", which means "family" For boldness, we sometimes say in German "Chuzpe", which is also from the Jiddish.

And no unfair Photoshopping! ...

Gee, sounds like holidays with a high fun factor. I wish you a jolly good time, Widow! And remember - without photos, no one will believe how big the pike was!

Now I found an aerial photograph at "The Aerodrome", and so I could determine the exact location on the map. (See first post - I changed the pictures). I had to stick two different maps together, cause Douai lay at a cross point between two war maps. The canal is not linking up exactly, but that is definitely a map incorrection. There was a house on the aerodrome ground, which can be seen in the photo and the map. I think it's done.

From originals I have seen in photos, it seems that the hollow area on the back of the crown was deeper, and also the whole rear of the badge seemed a bit more like a hollow negative of the frontal form?

No idea, Lou - it looks so old and true; I could have fallen for it! Now some other idiot did! Mmuahahahaaa!!!!!

Made me wonder, why they chose to restructure a "wrong" built plane, instead of building a new one, like Achim Engels' "Fokkerteam Schorndorf" do. But what do I know ... ?

I looked the word up in my online-dictionary, and the most of the meanings were like you say, HumanDrone. But the was also another meaning: "unloading point, unloading area". So I guess it's a kind of shag or tent, where the suppliers drove the things to and unloaded and stored them. The bataillons sent their own trucks there then, when they need ammo or whatever. .

Thanks for your interest, Duke - seems I have found the map symbols explained at that maps site. Here is a wider bit of map of that area, with explanations. I don't know if this kind of stuff ever interests anyone here? I often seem to get carried away with such sort of research. .

Update 26 Juli 2012 - 13:58 h Berlin time (= GMT + 1) Freiherr_Wulff, England added. The maps are in post 1 of this thread

When Jasta 11 was established, their first aerodrome was "Brayelle" near Douai. I looked that up in "The Jasta Pilots", and found the dot and number for this airfield north of Douai in that map. So I began searching there, but couldn't find a village or settlement of that name there. Then I went to the war maps at McMaster University and searched around Douai. That way I found the sign for "German aerodrome" above a settlement named "Brayelle" west-southwest of Douai. The map was from summer 1918, but I guess the place is still the same airfield, from where von Richthofen led his own Jagdstaffel into combat early 1917. . .

One more question: do I still need JSGME for it? Or is there... Well, two! Two more questions! Is there a good self-explaining install guide and info with it?

"Ze Dsherrmans vill vin ze warr! Mmuahahahahahahahaaaa!!!!" Never seen "Top Secret!" yet; sounds funny!

There are exceptions though - when the Russians are not only the badies. "The Hunt for Red October" (with Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn and Sam Neill) was one such film (and one I really liked). Also "Gorki Park" (with William Hurt and Lee Marvin - also a film I liked a lot) .

Geeze - must the women equal their rights to this extreme extent?