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The Dr.1 was hot. No two ways about it. But it did have its drawbacks. First was that 110hp Oberursel engine. It was underpowered. And while the third wing gave it lift and great climb, it extracted a price in drag. The Dr.1 was slower than the new Allied fighters coming on line: SE-5, Camels, Brisfits, and once it reached it operational altitude, its performance fell off. The operational life of the Dr.1 was short, in part because the Allies quickly figured out its shortcomings and instead of engaging, simply ignored it and flew around them. Still, if anyone dropped down into the Fokker Tripe's arena it was a very dangerous opponent. Dutch: As far as I know, the Ford Tri-motor was designed as a way to get around Hugo Junkers prohibition on licensing the Ju-52 in America. I'm sure that the design team was well aware of other similar designs, like Fokkers. More than this, I cannot say. Jim: You always post great pictures, but so often they are 'way too big. Not long ago I posted a way to use Microsoft Paint (which comes as part of every Windows machine) to make reductions. Would you like me to post that again? edit: Dutch: You're absolutely right. There's a very strong family resemblance there. .

What an odd place for it! Is the fuel tank directly under it by any chance?

That is really cool that a Swiss Airline is flying Ju-52's. I could decipher (with my High School German) that they had four. I'm assuming these are originals? Ju-52's were common in Europe, but not in America. We had Ford Tri-motors. Henry Ford (the car industrialist) wanted to build Ju-52's under license for the American market but Hugo Junkers said 'no'. Henry didn't like saying people saying 'no' to him, so he put together a design team and simply copied the plane.

Very nice, well made film. I wonder where that airfield is because when they are spinning the prop. there's a Ju-52 sitting in the background. I wonder also, if that Dr.1 had the standard Oberusel engine? I was surprised to see it do an inside loop. I'll have to try WOFF and see if I can do the same. And there's a gauge sitting between the guns. Is that an ammunition counter?

I think New York and California are closing in on that number.

If you're talking about a world populated by cars like these, Dutch, I say "Bring it on!" .

I guess my mental picture of the remote, faceless Dev's was one of the stars coming into perfect alignment and a disparate group of WWI nuts finding each other and starting to swap bits of code until OFF#1 appeared, and that, somehow, there would always be a WOFF and a Forum with my morning coffee. Of course, the mass exodus to SimHQ burst that little bubble. An alternate WWI world with magic and dragons? I'm on board. Wodin has put in a request for Steam Punk elements. And why not scrap the machine guns altogether and have all Planes carry Le Prieur-style javelins with heavy enchantments? What could be finer than watching a Balshazzar VI class Dragon roaring with rage as he corkscrews earthward belching smoke from a punctured fire-bladder? All two-seaters would have archers in the observer seat with short, but very powerful asiatic recurve bows. Dutch_P-47M: ("If the devs are talking about non WW1 project, is it not just a matter of what kind of non WW1 games they like and playing??? ") Quite true. However; that is a broad field of choices. Hence our fevered speculation.

I guess the revelation that the Dev's are moving on to a non-WWI project puts paid to the notion that they're played out as a team. Now the watching and waiting begins.

Does the windscreen deflect rain drops around the cockpit, or do you still get hit in the face by rain drops going 100 mph? As on a motorcycle.

Sounds great, Tony. Thanks.

Wow! 'Must have been a moment of profound satisfaction. (And you're restoring a Lancaster too? You guys don't shy away from big projects, do you? Keep us posted on that one too)

The poster in the top right-hand corner: is that the same Baverische Flugzeug Werke that hired Willy Messerschmidt and produced the Bf-109?

Here's a few more WWI posters. .

Now that's efficient design!

Cool! Thanks for the picture, Olham.

You may be right Dutch. The old CFS3 Engine is coughing and wheezing and it simply has no more to give. After all, every time you sit in the cockpit (in Campaign mode) the whole of WWI is going on all along the Western Front. I think that probably exceeds, by far, what Microsoft had in mind when they wrote CFS3. I think it's equally possible that the Dev's themselves are played out. They've been at this for, what...fifteen years? (More or less) And they still have to have day jobs. I suspect they have come to realize that the WOFF community is as big as it's ever going to get, and that our Wish List will always be bigger than they're capable of delivering. And if I'm correct, the Dev's don't even live in the same country. OFF/WOOF has been built by e-mail. It must take exceeding dedication to hold a team together for this length of time when it's not even possible to have a beer after work.

All I really want from WOFF GOLD is for OBD to cover my bar tab at the BOC. As for historically correct airfields...we're working on it.

That reminds me of my Chinese friends in downtown Taipei, Taiwan.

Sixteen years in game should lend a certain perspective on flight sims, Eric. Some say it's a steadily shrinking niche market. How do you see things? Is it shrinking, growing or maybe just a steady state?

Watching a YouTube video about WWI flying, I was struck by the narrator's pronouncing 'Bertangles' just as you'd expect for a English word: "Ber-tangles'. But being a French word ( the pronunciation of which always confounds me) I had always assumed that it would be pronounced "Ber-tan-glay". Can someone set me straight?

I can't remember who said it, (perhaps George Bernard Shaw?) but referred to the English and Americans as "one people separated by a common language".

That's encouraging. I have seen pics of the face masks before, but my understanding of those is that they were to ward off frost bite. i noticed that when Göring was getting out of the cockpit at the end of Olham's clip, he peeled off his goggles, then the flying helmet, then a balaklava-like hood, and then appeared to remove a set of ear-plugs. Were ear-plugs at all common? Were WWI planes that loud?

"BEH-tong-leh". Allright! That's a great site, Olham.

Perhaps when we see WOFF GOLD, we'll see more of the 'old dogs' hanging out here.

Interesting. But were those names of people or places? The last sounds like a place name, and German to boot. And how often could a pilot know exactly who he was facing in combat? In the case of famous aces with very distinctive paint schemes, maybe. But this is a German plane. The Allies did not sport highly distinctive artwork and the names do not seem to be very British, or even French. So...place names?