Hauksbee
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Watching some "IL-2 Battle of Stalingrad" clips the other night, I found this one of two Sturmoviks doing right-down-on-the-deck attacks. Beautiful photography; good pacing. But best of all, there's a moment at around 7:20 where the two planes are flying up a very shallow river valley. They bank gently left following the bend of the river. The trailing IL-2's port wingtip just barely touches the surface and a spray of water flies up. Just a kiss, and the plane flies on, but someone had tweaked the physics engine to allow that delightful minuscule moment to happen. .
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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.
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Nope. sorry. Didn't get a word of that.
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Never gonna' happen!
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I'm sure it didn't help that he was a compulsive skirt-chaser, and he quickly got fat and bald.
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Here y' go: Ernst Udet and Elenore Zink. The marriage lasted about four years due to Ernst's 'party-animal' habits. .
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That'll cost you a Fokker pic.
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A Winter Eindecker on a hot summer day. Let's see those pictures, guys. I'm running out of Fokkers.) .
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I waz always a little slower than the rest of the children.
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(?) 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?
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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!)
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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?
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Only flown by me. It does seem to be staggeringly effective against Allied fighters. There's a "WTF? Effect" that throws off their aim.
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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. .
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Here we go: one of the easiest planes to take a good picture of. (second only to the Albatros.)
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"Meet the Fokkers". I love it. Just a sec...let me get my helmet and gloves.
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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.
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You guys on the night shift...!
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I wonder how much trigger-pull it took to fire all ten Mausers at once?
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Here's the whole video clip...
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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. .
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But the pusher engines served as excellent armor for the pilot and fuel, albeit at the cost of the engine itself.
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Simple?
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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? -
July 1st, 100 Years Ago: The Battle of the Somme
Hauksbee replied to Hauksbee's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion
If the Somme doesn't stand out like Verdun (to the French) it may be due to the fact that the two should be considered one battle. The Germans attacked Verdun in February and the battle dragged on until December. The Somme, in July, was England's contribution. It was hoped that a British success (and the British were very optimistic) would cause the Germans to fall back from Verdun.In the end, the French defense and the British attack simply defined the concept of bloodbath.
