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I am back flying UE after a couple of years off!
JimAttrill posted a topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion
What with Viruses and stuff I have some time on my hands so will have another go at UE. The bottom has fallen out of the Rand - it has gone from 14: USD to 19: USD recently so I don't think I can afford PE at that rate. However UE is good enough for me!- 1 reply
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How many of us still fly WOFF?
JimAttrill replied to Hauksbee's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion
I've been away for about a year, not playing any games at all. Anyway, I've finally got fed up with reading about Brexit so have reinstalled WOFF UE and the patch up to version 4.21. I'm a bit out of practice and never was a good pilot anyway but will have another go. -
Hello hello hello, is there anybody in here...
JimAttrill replied to RAF_Louvert's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion
I haven't been around for a while but quite fancy joining in a new DiD campaign run from here. Like most of you I am not keen on SimHq at all. Anyway Happy Christmas (a bit late now even if it was my birthday!) But Happy New Year for tomorrow. -
What, exactly, happened here?
JimAttrill replied to Hauksbee's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion
Good to see you are still around Olham! -
I miss the "good old days"
JimAttrill replied to Hellshade's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion
I did a lot of work for the DID Campaign revival mostly with Olham who was very active at the time. When Nov 11th 1918 came around a lot of people lost interest in WOFF and this was before UE came out. So I also miss the good old days! -
TrackIR 5 not working with WOFF UE
JimAttrill replied to Mike Dora's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion
I am still around occasionally. But I don't post as much as I used to. Sorry about that. -
How many of us still fly WOFF?
JimAttrill replied to Hauksbee's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion
I thought I would start the easy way in a BE2c but the first time I tried to land it I crashed and died. The second time I crashed and wrote off the aircraft but didn't die. I seem to be a rotten pilot. I suppose I could let it land itself under autopilot but that is cheating. Maybe I'm using the wrong throttle setting or something like that. As a proud ex-member of 4squadron RAF (with Harriers 1969-1973) I would like to fly the whole war with that squadron. Could be a bit boring though, as they only flew BE's and RE's ... -
How many of us still fly WOFF?
JimAttrill replied to Hauksbee's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion
What has happened to Simhq? The site is now unreadable. Not that I care. I had a terrible time with WOFF UE. It would crash all the time so I decided to reinstall. I then found my installations didn't work - they stopped at some sort of British Medal. However, eventually I found a backup installation that actually worked. Lots of crashes still so I reinstalled DirectX and C++ runtimes and at least I can now fly (sometimes). The trick seems to be to do a QC until it starts flying then Quit that and go to the campaign. I also had fun and games with TrackIR - it didn't seem to want to load a driver at all. Eventually at about the twentieth installation it actually worked. TrackIR would run up and not find the hardware and the red led's didn't come on. Now it seems to work again. The thing I don't like about all this is that I usually manage to fix things but can't remember what the latest try was or have any idea about why it suddenly worked. Such is life with pooters.... -
How many of us still fly WOFF?
JimAttrill replied to Hauksbee's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion
And best Xmas wishes to you also, Mr Hood over there in Sydney Oz. To Celebrate I am going to fly UE for the first time this new year and see how it goes. Dangerous, I think! -
How many of us still fly WOFF?
JimAttrill replied to Hauksbee's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion
Well I am going off to fly WOFFUE or whatever it is called. I may try some of the new aircraft as well. -
"If 3 workers dig a ditch with a length of 8 meters, a width of 2 meters and a depth of 3 meters in 4 hours - how long would 8 workers need to build a house with 4 walls 4 meters high and a roof?" Easy question really ....
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How many of us still fly WOFF?
JimAttrill replied to Hauksbee's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion
Hi Olham, it shows the differences between aircraft that took place in a very short period, from first flight to Mach 3 or so. My father was 'old school' RAF served from 1922 to 1958 with some time off in the 30s after his first enlistment ran out. He never really understood jet engines so although we were both the same trade we had little in common. He was still in the RAF when there was conscription and couldn't understand the modern all-volunteer service that I was in. That I would leave work on Friday afternoon and only have to be back on Monday evening without a 'leave pass' to my name he found very strange. (This was when I was going from day shift to night shift and gave a long weekend). I could even leave Germany, go back to the UK for the weekend and then be back at work on Monday. I don't think he had much to do with aircraft in his last years and was senior by that stage so didn't do any spannerwork. In fact he ended as the NCO in charge of the Para training hangar at Abingdon, watching army paras being thrown about in harnesses etc. They also used to throw them out of an ex WWII barrage balloon with a basket underneath and I as a kid used to watch this. He did tell me some interesting things sometimes, like this one: How do you grind the crank on a RR Eagle V12 engine with nothing but a big block of lead, two long bolts with nuts and two long pieces of wood? I found that hard to believe but it showed how things had changed since those days. -
How many of us still fly WOFF?
JimAttrill replied to Hauksbee's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion
Hi Olham, yes I was an old aircraft mechanic, but engines only. To me the airframe was something that got in the way when trying to service the engine! I had read that the V-strut allowed the lower wing to flex (obvious really). So I reckon the best choice is the DII in 1916? From an engine point of view, the early DB and BMW straight-six engines were a good bet until the Hispano V8 in its various versions started to appear. Of course the best engine of the first war was was most likely the RR Falcon V12 of 14 litres as used in the Bristol Fighter and the RR Eagle V12 of 20 litres capacity. Unfortunately they were both hard to make in large quantities. My father worked on RR Eagles from the Vimy and later the Napier W12 Lion in the Virginia. He told me some amazing stories about how these engines were serviced in those days. -
How many of us still fly WOFF?
JimAttrill replied to Hauksbee's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion
I still fly occasionally in a Camel and some German two-seaters. As an ex-member of 4 Squadron RAF ground crew on Harriers I had hoped to run a campaign through the whole war. A bit boring though as they flew BE2s and RE8s. I do miss the DiD campaign which was my main reason for going to the 'other' forum. Maybe I should try an Albatros. Which is the best one and what time is the best? Olham will know that of course. Hals und Bein bruch! -
That seems to be an about-turn of sorts.
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Looks rather Russian to me. Strange exhaust layout as well. And if that square thing on the side of the fuselage is the camera it only looks suitable for taking pictures of the top of the lower wing.... But maybe it is a radiator and the guy in the front cockpit is holding the camera.
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Yup, it's an Albatros B II. Never seen a picture of that one before. What colours are used in the Russian Cockade? Looks like Blue and white.
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Thar be sumthin' in them thar WoFF woods, thar be...
JimAttrill replied to 33LIMA's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion
Remember the steam train on the runway? I liked that one until they fixed the bug. I once got my hand smacked in the program by shooting down my wingman from the rear seat of some aircraft or another. The last time I tried that nothing happened at all. I was hoping to be court-martialed -
I got into trouble for doing the same thing. I wanted another pilot for the DiD campaign. The other userid was removed and I kept away for a long time except to lurk sometimes from a fake URL. I always seem to enrage Polovski about things. Since the end of the DiD campaign last Nov 11th I have lost interest in that forum anyway.
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I recently found a copy of The Rescue Flight at a second-hand bookshop. I bought it but found I couldn't finish it. Maybe I've grown up a bit in the last fifty years
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In earlier days I was lucky enough to work on some piston aircraft engines - a dirty job, but fun. One of these was the Bristol Hercules, a 14 cylinder two-row sleeve valve radial. Being a sleeve-valve there were no tappets to adjust but still 28 plugs to change! It was descended from the Jupiter as were all Bristol radials. All designed by Roy Fedden. Later I worked on RR and Bristol-Siddley jet engines and even saw the Concorde Olympus being run in reheat on the testbed. I carried on from my father who was too young for WWI but joined the RAF in 1922 and worked on RR Falcon, Eagle and Napier Lion engines in the early days. I have just watched the whole video and have a couple of comments: Firstly, I disagree with the pronunciation of Do as 'dough' (as in bread). That would be the same as pronouncing Me as in give it to 'me'. Me was always pronounced in English as 'emm-eee' and Do pronounced as 'dee-oh'. (and Fw can only be pronounced as 'eff-doubleyew'). And the Do 335 while a great achievement is not the only aircraft with that 'pull-push' configuration. Note the Cessna Skymaster and the military version the O-2. If you want to read about flying the Do 335 Eric Brown flew one in 1945-6 and wrote about it in one of his books. The one he flew later went to RAE Farnborough and crashed, killing the pilot after a rear engine fire burnt through the control cables. IIRC the aircraft was very fast but not very manoueverable.
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If I can be picky, if you look at the first pictures of the Do-X the commentary says it had Bristol Jupiter engines but the actual video shows the later version with Curtiss Conqueror in-lines and not radials. It is believed they were used on the cross-Atlantic trip because they were American and would popularise the flight there. Other videos show the radials .... The Jupiter was the most successful engine of the 20s, being made under licence by Siemens, Gnome-Rhone, Alfa Romeo, Pzl in Poland, Walter in Czechoslovakia and Shvetsov in Russia. In fact the Russians made the most! An uprated version of the Jupiter - the Bramo 323 powered the early Do17s which brings us back full circle!
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If you are Scots you should get the pronunciation right. The German is close to the Scots 'loch'. I remember at school in the UK spending a long time trying to get the word 'nicht' right. When I lived in Germany all the locals said 'Nay' as I was close to the Dutch border and they spoke Platdeutsch. I found the dialect of Hamburg closer to what I was taught at school.
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Boelke and Nurse Blanca...
JimAttrill replied to Hauksbee's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion
I dunno who did it but it doesn't sound anything like what it looks like. Maybe it was done by a sheep I'll be visiting my niece there in a couple of weeks. The only Welsh I could understand last time I was there was their word fof STOP because it was painted on the roads in big white letters. (I have forgotten what the word is and the internet is no help). -
BEST of WoFF - WORST of WoFF (planes, that is)
JimAttrill replied to 33LIMA's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion
This one also didn't work too well ... many people tried quadroplanes as they thought they would be even better than triplanes but that was not true.