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  1. A Pretty Bit of Coding...

    Hauksbee replied to Hauksbee's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion

    I agree. It was, on the whole, a brilliant bit of film editing. Two small planes against the breadth of the Russian steppe. Cockpit shots / distance shots. Just the right time of day. . Here's another that I found in the same viewing session: .

  2. RAF Cartoon from WWII

    Hauksbee replied to JimAttrill's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion

    The Germans really should have won The Battle of Britain, but it was the banter that brought them up short. In the time it took to puzzle out a "how's y'r father?", a Spit could climb into the saddle and 'dickeybird' the blighter. Besides, a 109 only had 30 min over the target; 27 of which was spent with a German-English Dictionary.

  3. RAF Cartoon from WWII

    Hauksbee replied to JimAttrill's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion

    Nope. sorry. Didn't get a word of that.
  4. Never gonna' happen!
  5. I'm sure it didn't help that he was a compulsive skirt-chaser, and he quickly got fat and bald.
  6. Here y' go: Ernst Udet and Elenore Zink. The marriage lasted about four years due to Ernst's 'party-animal' habits. .
  7. That'll cost you a Fokker pic.
  8. A Winter Eindecker on a hot summer day. Let's see those pictures, guys. I'm running out of Fokkers.) .
  9. I waz always a little slower than the rest of the children.
  10. (?) Wings, per se, are not a commodity. Wood is. Are you saying that Fokker drove Germany into a wood shortage? (?) A tricycle Fokker? Do you have a pic?
  11. I admire your dedication; the Alb certainly is the "Glamour Girl" of WWI. (If you can't overwhelm them with firepower, dazzle them with beauty!)
  12. Yes, that's the same 'Kid'. He ran in Joseph Pulitzers New York World from 1895 to 1898, and later in William Randolph Heart's San Francisco Examiner. That a bit before WWI, but everybody knew the Kid. (Calvin and Hobbs hasn't been in print for over 10 years) So I figured he'd still be current in the minds of WWI pilots. An all-yellow Dr.1 is very much out of character...but it is bold. When are you going to post a Fokker for us, Olham? Or are there only Albatros's in you portfolio?
  13. Only flown by me. It does seem to be staggeringly effective against Allied fighters. There's a "WTF? Effect" that throws off their aim.
  14. 33LIMA: I'm taking the 'Fokker Request' to mean any Fokker and not just the D.VII. This Dr.1 is "The Yellow KId". Assuming that a flashy paint job is an invitation to come up and fight, I adopted the Yellow Kid as a mascot since the Kid is irreverent by his nature, and, to my eye, yellow is the color that can be seen at the longest distance. .
  15. Here we go: one of the easiest planes to take a good picture of. (second only to the Albatros.)
  16. "Meet the Fokkers". I love it. Just a sec...let me get my helmet and gloves.
  17. There's always a demand for a good forger, and other fly-by-night skills. If they come after you, Jim, deny everything. We'll back you up.
  18. You guys on the night shift...!
  19. Found this on YouTube in a short video on strange WWI weapons. Weighted heavily toward helmets and steel body armor and dog-leg shaped rifles with periscopes for sniping over the lip of a trench, this is the Mauser C-96 M 1915. Invented by the Austro-Hungarian Air Force, it involved 10 Mauser C-96 pistols (7.62) lashed together. It claimed a rate of 1000 rnds/min (probably not including re-load times). Its service life was 1915-1916; just until machine guns supplanted it. Its effect was probably more like a shotgun. .

  20. Mauser C-96 M (1915)

    Hauksbee replied to Hauksbee's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion

    I wonder how much trigger-pull it took to fire all ten Mausers at once?

  21. Mauser C-96 M (1915)

    Hauksbee replied to Hauksbee's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion

    Here's the whole video clip...
  22. But the pusher engines served as excellent armor for the pilot and fuel, albeit at the cost of the engine itself.
  23. Simple?

  24. What a wonderful tribute...

    Hauksbee replied to UK_Widowmaker's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion

    'Know anything about these lads, Simon? Are they, perhaps WWI re-enactors?
  25. https://www.yahoo.com/news/100th-anniversary-battle-somme-000000240/photo-p-british-troops-during-battle-photo-000000339.html
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