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Is 'seasoned' the equivalent of 'marinated'?

This may well be due to the much longer exposure times needed in early photography which required the subject to sit very still.

Don't hold back, RAF_Lou, just tell us you really feel!

AT LAST! A good pedant when I need one. (Upon looking twice, the rudder on the book cover above is white.)

In the film, "The Great Waldo Pepper", Redford is chatting up Susan Sarandon, telling her how the great German Ace, Ernst Kessler (Udet) had the name of his girlfriend, Lola, painted on his plane. I had always assumed a kernel of history in that, and that LO! probably stood for 'Lola'. Now we see that his fiance' was Eleanore. Does anyone know if 'Lola' or 'Lo', was a pet name for Eleanore?

A very pretty girl! And is that a Siemens-Schukert that he's sitting in? ('turns out that it is. When I went to check the spelling, there was a gallery of S-S planes. I started to browse, and guess what...?)

OK. There it is. Thanks, Captaine.

OK. That's settled. I'll append a note on the picture. Thanks, Olham.

A while back, there was a thread concerning the color scheme of von Richtofen's triplane on the day he died...whether is was completely red or not. I think the consensus was that it was not. I just ran across this pic in a archived folder which I'm pretty sure I downloaded from that conversation; but didn't label. May this be the plane in question? .

Thanks Winder. I'll copy this advice to a Word file and keep it my desktop WWI Flying folder so I can remember it when I need it.

Am I right in recalling that the "Geordie" dialect is peculiar to the Newcastle-on-Tyne area? I mean, you're right smack up against Scotland there.

It probably also explains that he must have been in outstanding physical shape to survive that many wounds, and lay in No-Man's Land for two days with no food. What a guy!

OK. Could you point me in the right direction...where to look and what exactly am I looking for. (I'm not too good at poking around the box.)

You're right! Good stuff, indeed.

Thanks for the additional tips, Pol, but I did a System Restore (dated back one week) and it seems to be working OK. I now have two new pilots. (...and you think I was ignoring you, Widowmaker...LOL!)

Then there was the Australian Light Horse charge on Beersheba in Palestine in 1918.

Well, clearing the hard drive didn't do the trick. My computer-tech guy suggested that I move about 10Gb of data, not applications, because that would require uninstalling & re-installing. I moved the whole of "My Documents", a total of 23.7Gb. I tried OFF, but when I tried to enlist a pilot, I got "Run Time Error '480'. Can't Create Auto Redraw Image" again. This time, when OFF crashed it took my desktop wallpaper with it. Time to try the "Widowmaker Cure". Stay tuned.

Olham: What does 'on the collar' mean?

As it turns out, the C: drive is nearly full (3.47 Gb remaining out of 139 Gb) but I have two other 500 Gb drives that are virtually empty. (This machine was built by my computer-tech guy when I was doing a lot of 3D modeling/animation which created big files. I'm running 8 Gb of RAM. I'll talk to the computer-tech guy about moving a sizable amount of stuff to the other two drives. Widowmaker: I'll keep the System Restore as a back-up plan.

It just got worse. Figuring that the 'Reset' buttons would be in Workshop, I found them, and did a Reset for OFF. It seemed to include CFS3 also. I backed out of there, went to Main Menu and selected Quick Combat. OFF objected that there were no pilots. I went to Pilot Dossiers and tried to enlist a British pilot. When it prompted me to select a squadron, I clicked and immediately got my old nemesis, "Run Time Error 408", etc. I tried this three times. Now, I can't get in to OFF at all. Is this re-install time?

I can't see that anything has changed. I only fly Quick Combat. Have done so since I bought P3 and installed it on this machine, which runs Vista Pro 32 bit. It never happened before yesterday. Just ran another test flight. Same thing happens. Olham: Where do I find the 'Reset' buttons?

Cool. There was a lot of work in that little film.

Today, all my Quick Combat flights went well, but when I closed out and returned to the Quick Combat page, instead of allowing me to modify anything and/or return for another go, I got the following message: "Run Time Error '480'. Can't Create Auto Redraw Image". I click OK and OFF shuts down. I've never seen this message before. What's it mean? What should I do?

So there you have it. Patience and pleading will work, albeit slowly.

All true, but easy for us to say 100 years after the event. Back then, all ideas carried equal weight until disproved. (Usually by meeting the ground abruptly) The British aviation historian, Charles Gibbs-Smith, made an interesting distinction about the pioneers of flight. He sorted them into two categories: the "Airmen", and the "Chauffeurs". The latter were sure that an inherently stable design could be found that required only that the pilot steer it in the direction he wanted to go. Santos-Dumont, for the most part, fell into this camp. That's why he designed the 14bis with the pilot standing up. The "Airmen", on the other hand, realized (in the words of one of the Wright Brothers) that flying was like riding a high spirited horse. It required constant attention and the ability to react instantly. Brazil loves to replicate the 14bis in the hope of challenging the Wrights. It's here that Gibbs-Smith made another important distinction. He said there is "true flight" and "powered hops". The pioneers knew exactly what they wanted. They wanted to soar like eagles, not flutter like barnyard chickens. (the latter being uttered by Wilbur in one of his less charitable moments in France). Gibbs-Smith pointed out that 'powered hops' of several hundred meters were all well and good, but to claim 'true flight', a plane should be able (at a minimum) to take off, fly for 1/4 mile, make a controlled turn, fly back, make a second controlled turn and land at the starting point. This the Wrights did, and Santos-Dumont was gracious in ceding the laurels to them. It's interesting to see the 14bis actually fly, and as far as I can see, better and longer than Santos-Dumont's attempts in France. I'll assume that it landed safely further on down that runway, but I'd really like to see it make a turn and come back.