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Thanks for the lesson, Olham. I'll print this out and keep it handy. I really like the Roland and would be happy to master it.

No doubt I should...if I had a clue as to what was going wrong. I had the same problem with the DFW two-seater. I could barely get it off the ground, let alone fly it competently. Same problem with the Hansa-Brandenberg W-12 in ROF. (and much agreement on that over at ROF) Perhaps I would have been one of the hapless student pilots that never made it through flight school.

I've always wondered if those side pieces on the Nieuport windscreens were armored. In the pre-TrackIR days, lining up a shot was like looking through the mail slot on your front door. With the reduced visibility of the Nieups it was like looking at a 4" TV held up to the mail slot. I hope those side wings had a real function.

Yes, if you've got all his books, then you've read all the good bits. I liked his speculation about what killed Geoffery DeHaviland.

Here's the Zeppelin/airship hangar at Moffat Field, Sunnyvale, California. When I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, I drove past this at least once a day. Not exactly what I'd call 'snug'.

An idea worthy of the BOC, but you might have difficulty getting your CO on the program.

"Ulp!" indeed. Even with safety ropes and harnesses, I still wouldn't want to be the guy on the left.

The tank makes its debut The tank, the brainchild of First Lord of the Admiralty (and future Prime Minister) Winston Churchill, was developed by the British during World War I. British officials were anxious not to tip the enemy off to what they hoped would be a powerful new weapon, so they decided to tell people that the strangely-shaped objects they had concealed under tarps were mobile water receptacles: "tanks." [for the desert campaign in Mesopotamia] The code name stuck, and we still call them tanks today. This image shows the design of a tank used by the British at the Battle of Cambrai in 1917. While tanks were developed and used in large numbers by the Allies (and to a much lesser extent by the Germans) they were too primitive to be a major factor in the outcome of the war. Tanks were slow and frequently broke down in the middle of battle. It would take further refinements to turn tanks into the formidable killing machines they would become later in the 20th century. ['love the crank starter handle.]

Very interesting. I shall view all artillery and tanks with new eyes.

Well, the new WOFF 2.0 has been released, I bought it, and expect I'll be getting some stick time in later today. I really (that 'really' should have been in all caps!) am liking the look of WOFF. After the advent of ROF, I felt OFF looked pale and washed out. Even despite the assurances from Forum members that northern Europe really looked like that. It just didn't satisfy any more. And I must confess, WOFF was a disappointment for me. 'Seems I misunderstood the historicity of it and assumed that if I haunted the area around Vaux-sur-Somme, on or about 21 April, I'd get a chance to tangle with von Richtofen, but it doesn't work that way. And just prior to WOFF's release, I was persuaded to try a two-seater campaign. But I found WOFF's Roland C.II & DFW to be completely unmanageable. Add frustration to the disappointment. Lately, I haven't been flying much. But with the arrival of some brilliant Modders (Sweet FX, Shadows & Cloud Mod) it's a whole new game, a whole new world. It's still vastly different from ROF, but every bit as dramatic. Every bit as aesthetic. Which, for me, is a big deal. Most of what OFF and WOFF have had to offer is lost on me; I don't fly campaigns. I'm strictly a QC pilot. But this is a world I want to fly in. It's darker than ROF, bordering on gloomy, there's a palpable threat in the air. (But...this The Great War, isn't it?) I got it installed last night and after I get a few errands done this afternoon, I think I'll strap on a Nieuport 17 and go chase some Eindeckers.

This is the photo that originally gave me chills about being perched on top of a Zeppelin. It's by Alfred Steiglitz and it's about crew members doing repairs on the Graf Zeppelin in flight. For a very long time I did not know that. I thought it was passengers simply taking a stroll. Most disturbing was the figure on the left sitting down. It looked as though he might slowly slide off into the night. Later, when I discovered they were crew members working, I could see that they had safety ropes.

Got mine!

Actually, this is more like what I had in mind. The British chap is held aloft by helium, the German, on the other hand, is riding a couple'a thousand cubic feet of hydrogen.

I got to looking for 'Pemberton-Billing' Nighthawk when I found this picture. Obviously, this can't be P-B because it's German. Anyone know what this is?

'Amen' to that.

Maybe it's a Rotary Engine and he has to spin the prop to get it started? And a Blip Switch instead of brakes?

I only know that this pic. is from a German newspaper.

1911 Geary Circular Wing Multiplane... "The 1911 Geary Circular Triplane was an updated version of d’Equevilly’s multi-wing design which produced exactly the same disappointing results." Found this on 33LIMS's link. 'Could be the same.

And it's a first for me, too. All in their early 20's. Thanks Olham.

If we ever again see enough postings, then fine. In the meantime, THIS is the WOFF, OFF 3 and OFF 1&2 section.

To satisfy curiosity, I checked out the OFF Forum at SimHQ. It had exactly one thread, and that to mark the passing of Gary Tazman (HouseHobbit). I do not see a great future, or burning need, for a similar OFF/WOFF breakout here at Combat Ace

A continent on the brink of famine Germany was blessed with excellent military leadership that allowed the nation to hold its own against numerically superior foe. But it had a problem that couldn't be overcome with military tactics alone. Britain and France could draw on the resources of their vast overseas empires, and trade with neutral countries, to get the resources they needed to win the war. Thanks to the British blockade, the Central Powers were cut off from the rest of the world. So conditions in Germany, for soldiers and civilians alike, steadily deteriorated. This map, based on a map from a book published by the United States government in July 1918, shows the food situation in Europe as the war was drawing to a close. While the US government might have been tempted to exaggerate Germany's hardship, this map is basically accurate. By 1918, the Central Powers were facing severe food shortages, and things could have gotten a lot worse if the war had dragged into the winter of 1919. An increasingly desperate German citizenry began pressuring the German government for peace.

So that's it? Never heard of it before. Is it mainly a European thing?

I agree. I'd have no objection to the proposed plan if the few of us here wanted it to happen, but...there's nobody posting game news, questions, screenies or videos as it is. What would be gained?

(We're down to a Map 0 because the 'Trenches' graphic got in the mix twice) The Bolshevik revolution sparks civil war in Russia When the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia in October 1917, it triggered a civil war. Opponents organized a White Army to oppose Soviet control of Russia. The Whites were strongest in the Eastern parts of the vast Russian empire, and for a time they controlled the bulk of the land — though much of their Eastern holdings were sparsely populated. The White Army was aided by the British, French, and Americans, who didn't want to see a communist revolution succeed in one of the world's most powerful nations. But Allied support wasn't enough to help the White Army defeat the Soviet Red Army in battle. After making gains in 1918, the Whites were driven into retreat in 1919. The White Army had been largely destroyed by mid-1920, though it took another two years for the Soviets to consolidate their control of the vast territory they would dominate for the next 70 years. (There it is:40 Maps. Now you know everything about WWI)