HumanDrone

Much thanks, Pol. Gotta find my way around better - I didn't see the WOFF/WOTR Tech Issues forum.

Hi all, particularly Pol! I haven't been around for ages. But I recently screwed up Windows 10 and had to reinstall, and lo and behold the Battle of France expansion is out! So I bought it, downloaded it, and... do I have to have WOTR patched current before doing the BoF expansion install? Or is it a cumulative thing, similar to a patch but oh, so much more! Thanks all! And... this is more or less the "official" forum again? I can't keep up with two of them...

Wow, I haven't been around for a while, but the I come back and see this! You undoubtedly don't know me, but I've sure seen you around a lot back in the day. I'm very sorry to hear it, and give you my hopes and prayers that you can find comfort and hope and maybe even a miracle as you go through this.

That's very good to hear, my man. Blessings to you, I hope you get on healthy past the ol' century mark!

Thank you, my friend! Very glad to "see" you (posting, that is) again! How goes it with you? And to you and all yours, the very best of Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Herr Olham, I hope I do not seem too forward, but try to take my advice, dear sir, and recall the Christmas of 1914. As to family squabbles - not only do I remember it, I am living it with several of my children. And you just never know... Their grandmother could pass away, for that matter any of us could. My door is open, but will they walk through it? Merry Christmas to you, and to one and all! May your homes be blessed with peace, love and hearty laughter, with good food, and great memories

Sheesh, I can't keep up with things... Thanks , Olham for the recommendation up there a ways. What you illustrate there could be a flutter resulting from vortex shedding. If that connection point can pivot, it allows the flutter at a lower frequency than if they had made a stronger connection able to resist twisting. But that may have its own problems, who knows? They may have needed the flexibility for airframe twisting or shearing. But as well as vortex shedding, the faster you go, the more the streamlines want to "jump" that camber under the wing, as well, and perhaps that leads to buffeting as the flow comes "unglued" from the bottom of the wing - I'm not an aerodynamicist, but I've had some training that way. This whole thread is what scares me, though. By the time I can actually get some flying time, all of you good, knowledgeable, helpful and kind folks will have moved on to other things. Cie la vie, I guess, but gee willikers...

I haven't "given up" on WOFF at all. I love the sim and the camaraderie; I disliked the move to SimHQ because it split us up. WOFF Forum members have been far and away the most genteel and likeable folks I've ever had the pleasure to deal with, and the sim, in my view is a work of art, historically reverent, and actually a valuable tool to teach youngsters with, if you can nab them. We all know this is no arcade game; if you cannot fly, if you don't know your craft, your opponent's craft, good tactics and airmanship, you're dead. It feels real, it brings in the deadly perspective, at least for me, of that awful moment when you realize you've ended another man's life - or that yours is about to end. Olham, I remember you writing about your satisfaction of bringing your wingman home; I haven't had the pleasure yet, it's all I can do to get my own tailfeathers home, and my campaign pilot hasn't even seen any combat yet! It amazes me how these guys even got to their assigned area and back, much less fought in these crates. But real life has been just ludicrously busy for me for a long time. I may snatch a few minutes here and there for a quick flight. I have a single "throwaway" pilot that I trained and am flying early in the war, but in those few quick moments I generally go QS, don't fly a full mission, and it doesn't get logged. I haven't been around here too much because it's tough to keep up with two fora when most of the "action" is over at the other, like it or not. I just hope that by the time life actually settles down for me, that we still have a solid core group of "good guys" to hang out with and swap the stories, of which I've seen so many; get help, etc, maybe even contribute something for once. I miss the action, to be sure. And it's quite natural, after all this time, for folks to move on. But I love the sim, and all the good people that inhabit these forums. Hauksbee, I remember our meet-up at Wright-Pat last year, with RAF_Louvert, Mike, Jenks, CW3SF, and all the others, good times! I hope we can do it again sometime. Best to you all, and Godspeed!

I've missed seeing those! I'll try stopping by more often!

TV? TV?! What about WOFF? HERESY! I present to you the Worlds' Shortest Poem: Fleas Adam had'em. I'll get my coat... I can see myself out...

Olham, I like your theology! Hellshade, you make a good point too. For that matter, so does Hauksbee! And we must tread lightly for there is nothing to incite the passions and make enemies of friends, than a "discussion" of religion or the power vs the goodness of God. Hauksbee, if you have a chance, take some time and read a book by C. S. Lewis, called "The Problem of Pain" wherein a very bright man wrestles with that very problem. I am one of the few people, I think, who've ever read that book "backward" - not "God, if you love us, why do we suffer?", but "God, how could you have allowed me to cause such pain? why did you not stop me, even kill me?" By the time I got to the third chapter, I was bawling uncontrollably, which was awkward, because I was doing night shift on a job in New York City. & I'd be more than happy to discuss it with you privately.

Now your first thesis, that goes 'way back! "You can eat from all the rest, but don't eat of that one tree, Adam!" I recall watching a fellow make his first parachute jump, years back when I was a kid. One tree, half dead, near the hangar, only one for half a mile in any direction - and watching his legs start kicking and a "Noooooooo!" as he went right into it. Broke his leg, poor fellow.

I always liked the (probably apocryphal) one about the British Airways pilot landing in Frankfurt and awaiting taxi instructions. The story is that you simply taxi to your gate in Frankfurt without ground control instruction (which may have been possible in a less congested airfield shortly after WWII, certainly not today). The tower chastised the pilot for not knowing where his gate was and asked if he's never flown to Frankfurt before, to which he replied, "Oh, yes, several times. But I didn't land."

I'd give my eyeteeth if we could come back here. It was a bad stroke of providence the way things fell out; I don't balme Pol or anybody at OBD, and certainly not Erik, but I only have time for one of the two. I came over here to say this from Hellshade's post at SimHQ. Still, look how much nicer! Look at the avatars, banners, all the fun stuff, & room for general Barminess (as in my footer). Maybe I need a macro to double post to both sites. But I agree what we have here is worth preserving. Maybe I'll have to put some effort into making that happen, just show up here more.

You and me both, pal! They'd have to add about a half a dozen zero's to my paycheck before I even started to think "maybe...".

Ulp!

You're right i had to look again! Bet he's pulling in to fuel up often!

I'll still vote for yours, Olham - I like the little propeller in the front! I got my brother-in-law the Red Baron's autobiography for Christmas, and read it myself - a wonderful, sad story. Criminee, some of those bikes - if you wrecked they'd have to hose down the road and strain the water just to find something to bury!