Hauksbee

Trophies, no doubt, gleaned from krumpets who fell on the wrong side of the lines. But you started the thread with music; Did it help? Improve shooting? Drive you on to feats of reckless heroism?

While I stand somewhere to the left of Bullethead's Deism, it's not like Duce_Lewis was stridently proselytizing to save our worthless souls. (however much they may need it.)

After an hour of trying to shoot down somebody...anybody!...I decided that my joystick movements are set 'way too sensitive. Going into CFS3, I can find the 'Calibrate' tester, but for anything else, it points me to 'Settings', which is eluding me. Can someone point out the trail of breadcrumbs? Thanks.

Looks like this is going to take a few more steps that I had hoped for. Did a Search on my hard drives looking for Logitech. (Does not show up in Program Files) All that came up in several tries were two old e-mails to a friend written when we mentioned Logitech by name. (That in itself I find weird.) Thanks all for the help. I'll get it sorted out.

Take heart, Duck! We all come to full alert when you post. I'm using the Logitech Extreme 3D. I went to Control Panel>Game Controllers, and these shots were the best I could find...and they were basically XYZ axis diagnostics; the same I found in CFS3. In CFS1 Europe, this was an easy fix.

I was going to vote for the Caproni Ca.60, but it turned out to only have eight. [No wonder it couldn't lift off the water (LOL) ] I'll try to attach a slide show with some of the finest DO-X pics I ever seen. [Nope. Won't take a Power Point format] E-mail me at kelley02790@charter.net and I'll get it to you.

'Got a buddy who's a Civil War buff. He'll love it! Thanks.

Nice going, Olham!

...and after a lifetime of passionate, but failed, attempts, he dies, is buried, and later found to have tunneled out of his coffin, all the way across the graveyard, only to be blocked by the cemetary wall.

While watching, yet again, the History Channel's version of Voss's last fight, I saw Cronyn's name on the screen. Because it's such an unusual name I wondered if, first, is it pronounced as it's spelled? I know some English names carry archaic spellings like Cadwallader; pronounced 'Calder'. (or so I'm told. Never actually met one) And second, where might the name have come from? Is it a family name? I did a Yahoo search, but everything that came up was about his son, the actor Hume Cronyn.

Better and better! Thanks again, Dej.

Ah, yes! Ripping Yarns. Easily the wittiest, most hilariously funny bit of writing by a single Python. My all-time fave being "Roger of the Raj", in which Roger is raised in opulent luxury, (17-course breakfasts), Dad thinks the servants are still serfs, Mum bags an occasional ghillie with her grouse, and Roger just wants to become a tradesman and open a hardware store. And God help anyone who passes the sherry in the wrong direction. I think a testament to their greatness is in the continued price of the CD's. They've always been just about double whatever I thought I could afford at the time. Think I'll ring up Amazon and have another go at it. Thanks for jogging the memory Simon. Bingo! Just back from amazon.com. New copies, boxed set, $35.99 new, $21.00 used. (and I always go for the used!) Life is good.

Nice work, Dej. AND THANK YOU! That one's been on my mind for a while. Verschoyle a family name? Now I know. And Hume was his grandson? Makes sense when you think about it. I was overwhelmed by the number of very detailed entries for Hume. (and virtually none for Verschoyle) I was just skimming the text when I saw any reference to V.P. Did your source offer anything on the nickname? It has a Gaelic look to it. Might be a derivitive of 'Sassanach'. [saxon=Englishman]

Ahh....Basic Training. You bring back memories, Olham. If we had thought far enough ahead to smuggle a delicious can of Ravioli, we would have warmed it up in our steel helmets.

...lest anyone feel the Air War was glamorous! You could spend the day getting shot at, freezing your extremities off, watching your buddies die, but you had a nice safe base to return to, with clean sheets, a hot meal and a cold beer...which I'm sure is just out of camera range. (LOL)

Aha! I was trying to get back to center with F4. Thanks.

I took a D.VII up for the test. I've been away from the stick for a while (pounding out some illustrations) and I've lost my 1916-hand. Amazing how fast that happens. So instead of diving into the meat-grinder with something wobbly and very stall prone, I chose the stable, reliable D.VII. I never took any rounds in the engine. When I was behind, I was nearly out of range at all times and tried to walk/fly that fine line. He was, however, very adroit at getting behind me and I'd see tracer passing. When I was behind him, I did not, and assumed his rounds were falling short. One thing that did puzzle me was the pilots POV in the D.VII; it's offset to the right. I was always looking down the right hand MG. I noticed the same in one of the videos posted recently. I took up an SE-5 later, and it didn't happen there. Is it just me, or perhaps the Super Patch? (Which, by the by, is super! The new graphics are smashing!) .

Yes, it was. Olham, you're right, and the topic wandered.

Well, I put it to the test, and Olham's right. It's not that they jinked and maneuvered brilliantly (tho' they're no slouches) it was the combined closing speeds. If I managed to get into a firing position, it was over before I got a half dozen rounds off. No correction time. I had figured on a head-on attack, then Spilt-S to get away, regain altitude and still be out in front to try again. I even gave myself a Fokker D.VII. Not a hope. My best results (1 Brisfit down for 4 tries) was from hanging back, barely in range, weaving left and right, then creeping in and lobbing high tracer shots looking for puffs of smoke. When the return fire ceased I figured I'd hit the gunner. So, a Brisfit can be defeated; all you have to do is die five or six times 'til you get your skills honed.

A bold initiative indeed, and a clear warning to all to turn back from this madness lest it become common practice.

Waldemar has a very sensible method when closing from behind, but I've always wondered why there's been no mention of attacking from in front. (must be reason...or I've just missed it.) It would seem that if you could get out in front and approach in a very shallow dive, [the operative word being 'shallow'] the gunner has to fire over the pilot and his top wing. If it gets hot, flatten the approach or even get slightly lower. If the approach is between 10:00 and 2:00, or 11:00 and 1:00, the Brisfit should screen you from the gunner.

A while back, somebody referred to a Korean War mod built over CFS2. Anyone remember what that might have been? Thanks.

Thanks...and thanks again. It is with some embarassment that I discover that I had, indeed, bookmarked the site, plus one more! [Ah well...the brain cells are the first to go.] However; Korean Skies was not one of them, so I'll track it down and put it on the list. In addition to the link posted by Flyby PC, the other two are: http://www.justfligh.../flightsims.asp $24.99 gets you CFS2 and Korean Combat Pilot. And there's a second: Sabre vrs Mig. Same price. http://www.migman.co...iG/SabreMiG.htm A site called Mig Man. On looking at it more closely, this is the Korean Combat Pilot also.

Until that day, perhaps it would be best to be flying the Brisfit? [LOL]

Can't say right off hand, but it certanly looks good. Thank you very much.