JimAttrill

This may help from Wiki: "Brunswick green is a common name for green pigments made from copper compounds, although the name has also been used for other formulations that produce a similar hue, such as mixtures of chrome yellow and Prussian blue. The pigment is named after Braunschweig, Germany (also known as Brunswick in English) where it was first manufactured. It is a deep, dark green, which may vary from intense to very dark, almost black. The first recorded use of Brunswick green as a color name in English was in 1764. Another name for this color is English green. The first use of English green as a synonym for Brunswick green was in 1923. Deep Brunswick green is commonly recognized as part of the British racing green spectrum, the national auto racing color of the United Kingdom. A different color, also called Brunswick green, was the color for passenger locomotives of the grouping and then the nationalized British Railways. There were three shades of these colors and they are defined under British Standard BS381C – 225, BS381C – 226, and BS381C – 227 (ordered from lightest to darkest). The Brunswick green used by the Nationalised British Railways – Western Region for passenger locomotives was BS381C – 227 (rgb(30:62:46)). RAL6005 is a close substitute to BS381C – 227. A characteristic of these colors was the ease for various railway locations to mix them by using whole pots of primary colors – hence the ability to get reasonably consistent colors with manual mixing half a century and more ago." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shades_of_green#Brunswick_green Here is the Flying Scotsman being hand painted with British Racing Green http://www.flyingscotsman.org.uk/flying-scotsman-gets-painted/

Wasn't that V strut arrangement known to be a design fault enabling the lower wing to flex more than it should?

Luckily this aircraft isn't available in WOFF - The BE9 It wasn't just the British who had aircraft like this - SPAD and Siemens both designed aircraft of a similar layout. Who'd be a gunner?

Hey Mr Burning Beard, if you are a signwriter who can spell you are one in a million At one time I used to walk past a bottle store (bottle shop in Australia, off-licence in the UK, dunno what it is in the US) and the windows were covered in very nicely signwritten and painted adverts for the booze inside. They couldn't even spell whisky right! At one time I worked for a firm making lorry (truck) bodies. They used to keep a good eye on the signwriters for spelling mistakes because the clients would notice. I did admire the skill in painting of the signwriters - I could never do that. And you may enjoy this sign from Swansea in Wales:

Here's a well-known joke about pilots: Q. How do you know if there is a pilot in the room? A. He will tell you

I was interested to hear the narrator refer to an "airplane driver" which is what we used to call our pilots to annoy them

I'll believe it (although I tend to believe anything). Anyway he seems to have buggered off

Hi Hauksbee, I have sent you a PM.

I have almost got banned from SimHq and for a long time I would not go there except to look at my PMs and have a good laugh. They got upset because I had two signons which is apparently outside the rules. As I have about 50 usable email addresses it is hard for them to keep me out. Personally I think we should try to attract more users to this forum.

I liked the FE2b because you could see from the cockpit. Some aircraft have almost no vision forward unless you cheat with F4. I always wondered how Lindbergh flew the Ryan with no forward vision at all!

I never liked the other forum much and now with the new format I like it even less. Hasse Wind says he has changed the default view for the better. I must try to do that sometime. Well I tried all the other views and they are all awful.

Hello? Anybody home? I have just increased the memory in my desktop to 14Gb from 8Gb. This is mainly to run a VM W7 guest under W7 host and each guest snaffles memory. I also have an XP Pro guest for various reasons. But I don't run them all at once normally. Now I could.... I'm not sure that running WOFF UE I see any difference - most likely not. Oh, and I have downloaded the BBC 'Great War' series which I used to watch on BBC2 every Wednesday evening back in 1964. A great series especially as it includes interviews with veterans who have all since passed on.

It always says that. But you can go home if you want to and succeed in your mission. I haven't flown the Caudron yet but will have a go.

I know very little about Micro$oft except that they love making money. Unfortunately for them, not from me. I can't see them letting anyone get away without paying for anything. I think they have done more to set back and destroy the pc movement than any other organisation. End of Rant.

I pop in here about once a day but don't often post. But be assured that I will read your posts and reply if required.

It is interesting that there is no mention of CFS3 over there - whether it is needed or not. But I can say (as a great installer of WOFF for various reasons) that WOFF UE does not require the CSF3 disk although I had it ready as usual. I have no idea what the legal whatnot behind this must be but it rather looks as if OBD has reached an agreement with Micro$oft or whoever. But nobody is saying anything.

Maybe we should all show the URL to this site in our SimHq posts?

R/L internet and hardware issues have stopped me doing much flying. But I will carry on with my did Campaign which is stuck at the 2nd of Nov 1918 so far. Just to see if I can live till the end this time!

A handsome bunch of geezers :biggrin:

And OBD have now taken the decision to give a 20% discount to WOFF3 users.

OBD have now decided to give a 20% discount to WOFF 3 users - you qualify. You have to send your purchase details to OBD support by email.

The RAF engine was a Renault in disguise and the Hispano-Suiza for the SE5 was made by Wolseley. The Cirrus and Gypsey engines after the war were basically on a Renault block. The French engine industry fell behind Britain after the war with the best engines made by RR and Bristol.

It rather reminds me of the Monty Python sketch ...

I do know that German pilots had nicknames for their aircraft. But nothing like the general 'RAF slang'. I spent 7 years in the RAF and we all used lots of slang terms to each other (and a lot of swearing not to be repeated at home in front of Mother). Much RAF slang was actually Navy slang eg. 'hit the deck' - my father tended to call the floor the deck. But the RAF didn't use deckhead = ceiling or bulkhead = wall as they do in the Navy. But armourers were always called plumbers (a derogatory term but they loved it) and airframe fitters were called riggers although they didn't do much rigging any more. Engine fitters (what I was) were normally called by the old word 'fitter' and later 'greasers' or 'oilers' because the job was a bit dirty to say the least. Later on they became 'sootys' but that was after my time in 1973. And the word 'liney' had a special meaning to the squadron people. I was a liney for a few years and loved it.

And it was uncomfortable in bed with all those medals