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The 'Duck' looks like it's related to Clement Ader's "Avion'. What country (and company) built the Duck?

I'm not clear on how the story ends. The C-119 is taking off, it loses an engine, it's noisy,...the rest of the crew leaves for coffee? Leaving you on the plane? Something's missing where those three dots are.

Good point jeanba. Ugly airplanes matched only by their goofy names.

The Dancing MJ Leaf returns! Good to see you Parky.

There goes one now! Fearing that I may have been a bit harsh on the poor Stipa, I decided to look up what 'Stipa' meant. Turns out that it was from Luigi Stipa, a designer for Caproni. The plane we see here was a test bed for ducted fan technology. It actually flew, but achieved no more than 81 mph in flight due to excessive aerodynamic drag. It is reported to have had a short take-off, a very low landing speed and so much directional stability that it was actually difficult to change direction. The ducted fan was to be used in a large flying wing, but it never happened. .

Most French aircraft are odd. It is strange that the French, renown for taste and style, should go off the tracks so badly when it came to designing airplanes; objects that would seem to cry out for sleek lines and streamlining. ps: 'Love the Caproni Stipa. I think the strategy there was for the enemy to laugh themselves to death.

...an 'erk'?

An achingly beautiful airplane...and fast. The Mossie (or is it Mozzie...?) debuted on the same day as the prototype Spitfire. A large group of top-Brass had turned out to see the candidate for the new fighter. As the Spit came screaming across the field in a low level pass, it was joined by a Mossie that held position with it all the way.

Ah, yes. 'Back when the "Gnomes of Zurich" could really wheel and deal.

"Speckled Hen all 'round, barkeep! Prosit!

I too, would like to participate in a Verdun campaign. As a General Staff Officer in Paris.

One of the threads at SimHQ mentioned that RoF seemed to be withering. I just got back from checking it out. There's a thread entitled "The Future of RoF" and the general tenor is that it's time to hold the wake. "Battle of Stalingrad" has apparently done so well that 777 is now full bore developing "Battle of Moscow". (Why not? Same adversaries, same planes, same snow, etc.) The drips and drabs of information that the boyos have been able to elicit from the Devs seem to say, "Well, we haven't completely turned our back on RoF, but we're completely tied up on BoM so don't expect much, if anything, in the near future." Too bad. It was/is a great looking sim tho' I think WOFF overtook it.

The bar is open. First round on me!

Much less than you might imagine. So much so, that you might give up imagining altogether.

Yes, it would. I have not given up on my desire to create WOFF Mods, Lou. My move is over and I am now in DeForest, WI (just spittin' distance down the road from Madison). Time to get back out on Craig's List and find a tutor for my Gmax/Modding problems. Speaking of the landscapes being a leftover from CFS3, is it possible to change them, or, is it a part of 2% kernel of the CFS Engine that cannot be modified?

One thing I've never been clear on is the black trim on early Nieuports. Was it painted on (seems like a lot of work for no great gain) or did they tape over the canvas stitching? In any event, it seems to have disappeared on later Nieuports. .

Back in the days when we were undergoing the split between CA and SimHQ, I posed a question to you and never got a clear answer because you were calling down a pox on all Forums and declaring that you were off to Facebook, You were ever the greatest advocate of having a Sopwith Snipe added to OFF/WOFF. Now that there is a Snipe, is it the ride you had always hoped it would be? (Truth to be told, I've not tried it yet myself) Was it a straight line improvement over the Camel, or a disappointment as was the Albatros D.V over the D.III?

Gasp! Next it'll be there's no Santa Claus...

Somehow I just knew this was going to be an e-banana. (the old 'loaves and fishes' dodge.)

Why am I not surprised? Well, actually I am surprised...just asleep at the switch.

Yep, there was lamentation at the BOC that night. But, now that we've prised you out of your self-inflicted exile, give us your thoughts on the Snipe. I know you had it up on a few occasions. If I recall, you posted one of the first "Pilot and Fence" pictures. Does the Snipe satisfy?

Agreed. But, in my case, it's also the Russian planes. I never developed a taste for them. ps: in your signature Camel picture, isn't that the BOC in the background?

CFS3! Of couse. Now that you refresh my memory, I think I asked this question once before. Ah well.

Hard pressed, and good luck to y'. When the Dev's are wearing their "Historical Details Hats" they are formidable. But what I always wondered about is why the WOFF lanscape doesn't match up with reality. When WOFF v.1 came out I hoped to haunt Corbie/Vaux-sur-Somme in hopes of finding MvR on his last mission. I saddled up a Camel and flew south from Bertangle looking for the Somme figuring that then I'd turn east and follow it. I flew severals times, once for over an hour. Never found it. I knew Corbie lay to the east of Amiens so I tried flying east. Again; no go. When RAF_Lou created his maps, I saw why. In reality the Somme runs through Amiens. In WOFF it passes north of the city. In reality, the Somme twists and meanders because Flanders and Picardy are so flat. In WOFF, the Somme is mainly straight lines. Is it possible the the Dev's did not feel it necessary to consult any maps for WOFF landscapes? .

Turing should have been hailed as a National Treasure, a war hero on a par with Bernard Montgomery, seeing as Monty was conducting his war with Alan's intel.