Hauksbee

In your last picture, there appears to be some winged 'angels' ascending in the sky. Are these the sould of your victims? Nice poster in your sign-off block!

It's annoying, but the trade-off is the open space in the upper wing.

"Amen" to that! I've loved 3D modeling for years and have used about a half dozen apps., but I never could get my head around 3DStudioMax, or its cousin, G-Max. I've bought tons of books which had tons of advice on all sorts of problems, except mine. I'm convinced that the only way to reduce the learning curve on these two apps. is to be sitting next to someone who's already good at it so you can ask questions. Well done, Rooster! It's a beautiful model.

World War One was unique in that it, for the first time, mobilized the full might of each industrialized nation. Prior to, armies campaigned in the summer, re-fitted in the winter. Even long conflicts were episodic. Now it was continual, and the butcher's bill was horrific. All sides demonized each other to an extent never seen before. I know the poster Olham refers to. I thought I had a copy on my HD, but it appears not. ( I post a similar) The term "Hun" preceded the poster. It was an unfortunate term used by Kaiser Willhelm (who had a foot-in-mouth fixation) in a speech to German troops being dispatched to China for the relief of the legations during the Boxer Rebellion. This was seen at the time to be a heinous breach of international protocal. (the 9/11 of its day.) He urged them to "...conduct yourselves like the Huns of Attila."

Look in the lower right corner next to "Reply". There should be an "Edit" and "Delete" there.

While checking the Udet footage, I found another link: This is the Paul Mantz crash from the first "Flight of the Phoenix". I recall seeing the film as a pup, and lamented to a friend that we never really got a chance to see the cobbled-together Phoenix fly; only a series of quick close-up shots. That's when I found out that it had crashed during the filming. I'd always understood that Mantz had clipped the top of a sand dune with one of the skids. Seems that's not so. Here's the real story.

It puts a whole new face on his accomplishments. But, I notice there is an Iron Cross, second class, but no first class. I'd have thought the first class would have awarded soon after.

Nice one, as usual, Olham. If I see a yellow Albatros coming, I'll be sure to duck into a cloud. ps: Not sure what's doing it, but I've tried this post three times and it keeps adding itself to Ras's post. (Hope you don't mind the extra company, Ras. LOL)

My copy of Computer Pilot arrived a few minutes ago. Guess who's the full-color, two-page tarted-up Sim of the Month? And it's not us!

Checking "frequently" is never enough. .

Perused Computer Pilot one last time before calling it a night. On the last page, (Coming Attractions for December) they promise a full review of ROF.

Nice work, Stump. But I can't help but feel that the stability problem, at least in part, was due to putting the observer above the props instead of below. As I recall from an earlier thread, there are some CFS3 problems with making this work. Are they overcome yet?

Olham, you always dig up the most interesting stuff! If the commercial art business ever gets TOO frustrating, you have a great future as a research analyst.

Now that's one beautiful model! But...where do you keep it in the house?

It's good to see OFF acknowledged at all; the praise is an unexpected plus. T'would appear the blush is off the Russian rose. Has there been anymore thought given to a Wikipedia article?

Wow! indeed. I've heard references to this poem, heard two-line snippets quoted in films, but never read the whole. Another poignant line, by John McPhee, also in reference to pilots, "These were't men who danced on the lips of danger for the thrill of not being swallowed." The situations described were not analogous, but catches the sense of hovering on the razor's edge, and when it all goes bad, it's fast and final. Thanks, flynn. It's good to know that the iPod generation still reads this stuff.

That's pretty much what I remember reading about Taubes. Igo Etrich based the wing design on a Zinonia tree seed pod sent to him by a naturalist working in SouthEast Asia. It resembled a maple seed with its two wings, but with up-turned tips that made it glide. The Taube was considered pretty placid to fly as long as you didn't ask too much of it, which, in 1910 was saying a lot. If you could nurse it to altitude and keep in there, you were flying, and who could ask for more? Interesting observation on the forces needed to make a wing-warper respond, Bullethead. The Wright Brothers must have been two very strong guys after their years of practice on gliders, and then the Flyers.

Interesting. So, do you think it's a replica Taube, or modern gauges fitted to an original? Stump? Is there more to the original photo?

Me neither. What threw me for a bit, was how many gauges on the instrument panel. 'Thought that would put it much later than Taubes.

It was a shot in the dark, but in my green years I had a fascination with Taubes. The central pylon suggested a wing-warper, and the steering wheel put it (perhaps) pre-joystick. Is there more to the photo?

One other thing ocurred to me last night when I checked this thread: the color values of the pilot and the cockpit interior are so close that, at first glance, I had thought the SE-5 cockpit was empty. Perhaps taking the Eraser Tool, with a small brush, and a low opacity value, and work in a highlight on the left side of his flying helmet and left shoulder?

If things are going to get that real, can live ammo be far behind? P6, perhaps?

'Got a pylon...maybe a Taube?

There y' go. Looks real to me.

Good call. I am not a fan of motion blur, nor do I ever use depth-of-field blurring. Mainly because I've never seen it in real life. Those of the 'blur-persuasion' often take me aside and patiently try to explain how "the eye is like a camera and...", but if I ask if the people behind me are out of focus, or, if a passing car looks blurry, they shift to words of one syllable and tell me how the eye compensates...yadda yadda. What it comes down to is, nobody has seen this effect unless in a photograph, or in a single frame from a movie. Because it always happens in film images, any 2D image without it is now deemed 'unrealistic'.