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Well then, that clears things up. 'Scots' I understand.

Good. I got that bit right, it just doesn't have to make sense. That's slang for you.

I did. The one you posted had a lot of long, complex German words (none of which was 'Richthofen') with two people struggling to find the right pronunciation. I kept waiting for someone to intervene and say which person, if any, got it right. Then I watched Creaghorn's video. The phonetic approximation I posted was the best I could do. Since it involves a sound that does not occur in English, it's not surprising I got it wrong. Anyway, my question was answered: it's not pronounced 'risht-hofen'. I'll just have to get used to the fact that the true pronunciation will be forever beyond my grasp. ps: What does "alte Schale" mean. I entered the words in several on-line translation sites and the best I got was "old shell', or, "old bowl". Neither seemed to make much sense.

What's the hole for in the Albatros windscreen? It seems I knew, once upon a day, but it's completely slipped away.

Thanks Creaghorn. After listening, backing it up and re-listening, several times, it sounds to me like "rikt-hooven". Am I close?

Right. I have been dropping that second 'h'. Thanks Hasse.

Olham to the rescue! Thanks, mate. [North and South pronounce it the same? That's a revelation. For years I've thought northern Germans spoke a more gutteral version, and the south spoke a softer version.]

...and his mate, 'Snowy' Evans. Dark horse claimants for shooting down von Richtofen. That tears it! You guys are too good.

I checked the availables on Amazon.com, and "Biggles of 266" was listed. I bought a copy, hardbound & used for $7.40 (+ shipping). I really want to find out how he brings down that Rumpler.

Manfred von Richtofen. Those steely little toddler eyes are tracking something. I really thought the Udet pic looked totally unlike any other of him. Here we go again...if you guys get this one, it'll be up to you to dazzle us, Jim.

OK. Let's try one more once...

Sorry, Eric. You're absolutely right! I was watching a YouTube 4-parter on WWI. When that pic was flashed on the screen, the narrator was talking about Billy Barker, so I thought it was Barker. Well, on to the next...

Nope.

Lots of good archival footage from the early days of Zeppelins. (Germany, Britain & America)

I assumed from this that he was born in France and more than likely lived there for a while. I looked up Claude Dornier, and found that he was born in Kempten, Bavaria. Is it possible that he inherited French citizenship through his father?

It was reported that when Hiram Maxim was in Russia drumming up customers for his new gun, he was approached by a group of young czarist officers. They called on him at his hotel, on the evening before the scheduled demonstration. They explained that they were giving him the opportunity to pack and quietly slip out of town. Maxim asked why he should do such a thing. They explained that he was sure to be unmasked as a fraud since it had be "scientifically proved that it was impossible to pull that handle on the side 550 times a minute."

So...what went wrong?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/29/my-burial-is-of-no-import-the-american-pilots-who-fought-for-france-in-wwi/?utm_term=.234381fb8a59

Is it possible to access the Damage Model Folder, as we do in WOFF and change things?

I stumbled across a reference to the Fokker D.VI; 'didn't know there was such a plane, so I googled it and found that there almost wasn't. Wikipedia described it as having a Dr.1 body matched to a "scaled down set of Fokker D.VII wings". The Dr.1 reference I can understand, seeing as any rotary/radial engine affixed to a Fokker welded steel boxy fuselage is going to look Dr.1-ish. Especially if you add the Dr.1 cowl. But how did the Dr.VII wings get on a D.VI? Were they in development together? In any event, only a handful of D.VI's were built. When the D.VII came on line, the D.VI's were retired or sent to training squadrons.

The Wikipedia article that sparked this query described the D.VI thusly: "These aircraft combined a set of scaled-down D.VII wings with a fuselage and empennage closely mirroring those of the earlier Dr.I." The implication being that the D.VII existed before the D.VI. Of course, the D.VI could have been on the drawing board first and set aside, or, both planes created in parallel.

Film shot at Jasta 6 in 1918 by Fokker himself. Apparently, Fokker's film is being shown in an auditorium somewhere and someone films the film. The person narrating can be seen walking to the screen and pointing out various things, for example, Hermann Goering had the edge of his cockpit cut down lower because he had been shot through the hip and had trouble swinging his leg up and over. The biggest problem is the sound quality and the narrator sounds like he's standing at the bottom of a very deep wastebasket.

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