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When he said the leash made Biggie nervous, I thought there would be real problems with being in the cage and lifted up. But he was really cool about it.

We're trying to breath some new life into the BOC Mess here. SimHQ is rather soulless.

Greetings, Javito. Give us an update.

i got it: you just copy and paste. Originally, I clicked on the 'make-a-link' icon and pasted into the little box provided. Thanks, Olham. Interesting video: a modern pilot talks about rotary engines and nuances of flying his own Pup. .

Cool videos, but I could wish that they wouldn't use that high distortion 'fish-eye' lens. It makes the beautiful Albatros look like it was drawn by Doctor Suess.

How do we get the video to show in the text window? At SimHQ a YouTube URL shows up right away.

Whatever I'm flying seems to want to bounce around. 'Can't keep the gun-sight on the target, even if the target is flying straight and level. 'Seems everything I do over-corrects. Where in WOFF can I adjust Scale/Speed settings?

'Went to QC and ordered up a sky full of planes (10 SPADS & 10 D.VII's) and charged into the center of it. It would seem as though my problems with keeping my gun sights on target have more to do with my current lack of practice ( and the innate squirrellyness of the Dr.1) than with joystick settings. First, I went to Workshop and restored my Thrustmaster settings to default. It didn't help much. Then I dug out an older Logitech stick and switched over to a D.VII. Much better. Seeing as this was a somewhat hurried test, I didn't set up TrackIR, (I've just moved from Massachusetts to Wisconsin) and TrackIR's still in a box on my desk. I just kept circling until a SPAD crossed my nose and then I latched on. Things seemed to go pretty well. He squirmed and twisted but I kept snapping off short bursts and eventually he went down. I heard bullets whipping through my canvas so I had somebody's attention, but no blood on goggles and I thought I was OK. But after the SPAD went in, I kept losing altitude. I decided to try landing in NML. As soon as the wheels touched, the engine caught fire and I was toast. . . . . I was just a bit too slow to catch his crash. .

Probably every pilot will give you a different answer. I re-set mine (in the workshop) to Default and it didn't do much for me. Check out the SPAD & D.VII thread above.

Finally found it. (not the easiest setting to access) Go to workshop (upper left corner) and click on Keys/Controller. That will bring up the big page. Follow the numbered boxes 1-4. No.4 will have the NullZone/Scale adjustments. .

...and glad to hear it. After a brisk start, the number of new posts seems to have fallen off.

After reading jeanba's post about needing some French two-seaters, I started poking about looking at Farmans. None of them had much aesthetic appeal, but the one below, the F.120 Jabiru, has got to be a strong contender for "World's Ugliest". .

True enough. Even as a QC pilot, you fly in their skin, look out through their eyes, dread the enemy's attack as it gets closer, cringe as the sound of bullets ripping canvas get louder and closer.

I found the film clips rather blurry, but his film editing was really good. Good shifts between in-cockpit and out, long shots and close up. The captions were difficult. They weren't on long and his English is dodgey which made it hard at times to follow the narrative. What program did he use?

BlitzGreek: I see you're the new kid on the block. Where are you from? Are you an OFF/WOFF flyer?

I think the P-38 was a very difficult plane to dive away from.

Beautiful indeed. But I'd hate to look back and see one on my six.

Here's the reason I never got excited about Red Baron: . . It was just too clunky looking. I had no feeling of flying a real airplane, only of pushing some poorly drawn graphics around the screen. And without a TrackIR, the between-the-wings view was like like trying to spot enemies through the letter-slot in a door. It was ugly and frustrating. I really tried to like it, but the light wasn't worth the candle. The bar has been set so much higher now, I don't see how he's going to make it.

But a lot hit the market through Estate Sales when the medal holders die.

It does seem as though the designer went out of his way to make ridiculously complex. ps: Here's the website I gleaned those photos from. It has a wealth of very early pioneer aircraft, ugly and outlandish. http://www.456fis.org/THE_HISTORY_OF_FLIGHT_-_ONE_OF_A_KIND_WONDERS.htm

Better yet, I'd have to say that the Vedovelli takes the marbles. The only thing that might boot it from first place is the question of whether or not it ever flew. Getting off the ground is not an excessive demand if you want to be called an airplane. A caption to the top picture said, "The only text reference to the Vedovilli I can find is in "Triplanes" by Peter Bower and Ernest McDowell (Motorbooks International, 1993). In it they mention ..."...it went through possibly four modifications and was tested over a three-year period at Issy-les-Moulineaux....The last variant literally fell apart during a taxi run in 1911." Here the aircraft seems to be in its best condition - note that the side panels are fully enclosed at the rear and it has a simple undercarriage. [Paul Dunlop] .

...and here they are: "Pip, Squeak and Wilfred". A brief search on Yahoo turned up a truckload of images. Apparently these little guys were incredibly popular. They existed in just about every form of merchandising you can imagine: stuffed animal toys, cast figurines, clocks, board games, children's bowls, and much more. The newspaper cartoons that carried them were sketchily drawn and utterly humorless (as were many of that age: 1938) For example, the second strip (the black & white one) requires a paragraph in the top right corner to narrate the action. 1. Pip, Squeak and Wilfred tell Egbert to leave the house and never come back. 2. Egbert says he's hungry. 3.He spots some sidewalk artist's drawing of a feast. 4. He's so shocked when he sees they're not real that he passes out. 5. When he comes to, sitting by the drawings, folks think they're his and fill his hat with money. Real knee-slappin' stuff. .

What did "Pip, Squeak and Wilfred" originally stand for?

4 30mm cannon? That's one helluva punch!

Generally, the bigger the ammo, the less you can carry, but with a 30mm, you only need get tagged with one round to ruin your day. Tony: are you all pilots on this project? The question being: who gets to fly this beast when the construction is done? (Do you have complete blueprints from DeHaviland?)