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Are the guys at that shop ex-automechanics? That sounds like some of the lame answers they would give to people.

That's actually the box-spar. Look a the remaining ribs on to portside. It passes through them at midpoint. Lothar was just luckier than Gontermann and Pastor. I read the story a long time ago, but it was something to do with the fabric coming loose from the top plane of the wing, and that it damaged or caused the loss of the starboard aileron. Again, it was a long time ago that I had read the story. It was in one of the books I used to get from the library. The thing is, if you lose the fabric from either the top or bottom side, it effectively disrupts the lifting quality of the wing, and it can cause terrible stability problems. But it appears that Lothar had good skill in handling his crate, and a lot of luck, as it could have easily claimed his life. The facial injuries he received would have been from coming into contact with the butts of the spandaus. They are not very forgiving.

With those icicles, now would be a time to invite those you dislike over for a visit. The impliment melts, and there's no evidence.

Olham, I would think the level of vulgerness would depend on the pilot. If he was a lowly little gefreiter from the trenches, then he would probably not mind being referred to as the lavatory Baron. Where as an aristocratic gentleman would probably opt for something more pleasant.

Yes, do keep us posted. Someone may come along with the same or similar issue, and if the info is already here, it can be very helpful.

You can start here: http://www.theaerodrome.com/isearch/index.php?domains=www.theaerodrome.com&q=3+view+drawings&sitesearch=www.theaerodrome.com&client=pub-9021205038260322&forid=1&channel=0029775758&ie=ISO-8859-1&oe=ISO-8859-1&cof=GALT%3A%23000000%3BGL%3A1%3BDIV%3A%23BAB79F%3BVLC%3A000000%3BAH%3Acenter%3BBGC%3ABAB79F%3BLBGC%3A918D70%3BALC%3A000000%3BLC%3A000000%3BT%3A000000%3BGFNT%3A000000%3BGIMP%3A000000%3BLH%3A0%3BLW%3A0%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.theaerodrome.com%2Fimages%2Fsearch.gif%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2F%3BFORID%3A11&hl=en Shredward may have an idea or maybe have the Austrian Albatos. Not a lot of pics of them, although they were different looking with the bigger engines up front, and the blunt round spinnerless prop.

Yeah, I got wireless here with a transducer right outside my window pointing to the tower, and it took almost 3 hours to download. Too bad they don't have DSL, cable out here in the sticks.

I never fly them. It is suicide to do it as it is right now.

Jist have ta pile it higher bro! Like our Canadian neighbors sometimes have to do. My greataunt and uncle lived in Montreal all their lives, and they had snow piled up over 6 ft from time to time.

Stop it Hairyspin! You're giving me ideas that will probably wind up putting me in the booby hatch! But I do like the idea. I suppose all one would have to do, is make a large single panel, then clone and turn where needed, then cut to shape. The wings could be done by slicing the panel, then just wrap the vertices accordongly. Same for the tail feathers. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO is that an idea. But I have to finish the Halberstadt CLII first.

Ignorance may be bliss, but it also leaves us at the mercy of others. And the costs too, if they happen to be a bit crooked in their ways.

You could try reducing the ground object density in the Workshops, and see if that will afford you a few more FPS. The less stuff on the ground being drawn, the better. Also, any of the info stuff that crops up on the screen can be turned of in the checkboxes where the Dualpass Render stuff is at. The targeting cone, and then also things like disabling shadows and all that kinda stuff. Is your CPU the 3800+? Those usually kicked some butt. And they were very friendly to overclocking.

That was my thinking too. Doing the contoured metal with the texture. Don't have powerful enough rigs to run that kind of monster. With scalloped trailing edges, don't over do it. Look at some of the real planes. They aren't that prominent. And yes the TE doing that was from the use of "wire" as they called it for the trailing edge. My Albatros DVa model used very thin piano wire epoxied in for the trailing edge, and the doped silk actually pulled the scallope in, but it isn't very thick at that point. you would have vertices so close together, it wouldn't be very noticable. Even if you were to tackle something like the SPAD 2 seater that came up in a post a while ago. Also, because of the undercamber most of the planes had in those days, the top vertice would only need to be moved down to the bottom one. The tough part would be if the wing incorporated washout at the tips, or at the wingroot, to flair the wing into the fuselage. On the DVa model, you could cheat a little, after the silk was attached to the frames with dope, you would use a spray bottle with water to lightly dampen the fabric, then the best thing was to set in direct sunlight to dry it, as it shrunk the silk tight as a drum. Apply 2 coats of clear dope thinned 50 / 50 with thinner, then apply coats of sanding sealer, wet dry sanding between coats until the pores were filled. Then the color coats would be applied. Kinda sucks as it is difficult to find the old materials to do it that way anymore.

Just make a cookie cutter, and do lots of slicing. Then close the gaps. I suppose that would be the best way to get that done. I was thinking of messin' around with the Juckers CL monoplane. That would be interesting to simulate the corregated duralumin that was a trademark of Junkers planes until the end WWII. There were a couple attached to most 2 seater squadrons. There is adifference though in the way the fabric goes over the wings, than it does over the stringers on a tubular fuselage. Same thing for the Hawker Hurricane. The fabric over the rear fuselage wasn't so much scalloped, but created flat areas between the stringers. The same thing wold have happenned to the wings if they had stringers running spanwise acroos the top and bottom of the wing. But since the ribs have a gentle curving to them, the fabric is going to follow the contour by itself.

Vyrago, One thing that may help, is to get a second harddrive that is compatable with the one you have, and set them up in a RAID. It can help to pump things up, and is a lot less expensive than a new video card. Just out of curiosity, how much memory does your 9800 GT have?

Hey! I like Uncleal's candidness! Keep it sir! Better to be honest! That's my motto!

Thanks for the warmth there Olham! Only thing is, I can't troll for pike muskie and bass from my Albatros DVa.

Hey OVS, you may want to offer asome Kentucky windage for scaring off he cold instead. We're supposed to get 10+ inches here, which is weird, as we're supposed to be in that snowbelt that goes through the thumb area of Michigan, and we've dodged the bullet so to speak so far this year. It has dumped north, south, and east of us, but we've been relatively unscathed so far. But I do have the chains and plow on the Craftsman ridin' mower, as the driveway is about 250 ft long here at my uncle's place.

Hey BH, I don't worry much about making 3D ribs on the planes, especially if the leading edge had any plywood sheeting up forwards anyways. Looking at pics of planes and seeing them in museums, the fabric didn't sag like the scalloped effect between the ribs anyways. And the ones that did like the SE5, weren't that strong anyways. Most of the time, even the JN4 that used to be at the old Stapelton had the fabric flat between the ribs, and the only way you knew exactly where the ribs were, was from the stitching, and or rib-tapes anyways. Now in flight, you will notice from time to time the fabric ballooning or sucking in on the ribs, but that is from pressure changes. And until we get uber 'puters that can handle that kind of graphics, it's like building a stock plastic model out of the box, with no enhanced details. You can see it on some of the videos where there is a camera mounted on a strut, and you can see the wing fabric billow, and flatten, especially in turns where wing deflection and air pressure cause it to happen. It would be like one of the effects of diving to fast, you should see your wing and tail fabric balloon from the high speed dive.

Vyrago, You can start here: http://www.com-central.net/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=118 Just make the tweaks in your CFSWWI Over Flanders Fields folder instead of the CFS3 folder. It's a good place to start for the basics, and you can go from there.

I don't mind which side I fly on. I prefer the GAS over the others, since I like the aircraft designs. But I like flying with a SPAD or SE5 squad once in a while. Love them inline engined planes.

Lookin' good there OVS! Any 5 color patterns? Just curious is all.

Never go after an enemy that your wingmen are engaging. You'll live longer.

By the later part of 1918, German flyers began to use them. Although they didn't always work, enough did. Yes, observers would bail out from those gasbags, and parachute to safety.