Lewie

I should say that my newer machine is an AMD 64 2.0 Ghz processor, 2 G's of ram, laptop with the GeForce GO 440 64 Megs (MX 440) video card, so this looks like it should be able to run OFF phase 2 under CFS3? BTW thank you Cameljockey, PM sent. Thanks everyone for the warm welcome.

Ah so it is, Thank you Jarhead, and S! I'll have to get the CD and try it out. Curmudgeon? Heck, I just figured he was a New Yorker transplant. Cheers

http://www.overfland....com/sysreq.htm Yes read that already. It doesn't address the earlier versions though, does it? I'm sorry, that's a weird question, not sure how to reply..

Yes, but I'm seeing user's machines that aren't what I'd consider minimum spec at least for OFF version 1 or 2. The screenshots for OFF from about 2008 aren't looking like there's a lot of polys or detail so I'm assuming my newest machine should run versions 1 or 2. Or am I so completely out of the development loop in my assumptions, that OFF 3 and 4 are entirely different beasts?

I hope I'm not posting a 205, but I just discovered this series, in it's entirety on Youtube. If you've seen the series it's a deep historical study of the of WWI and it causes, unfortunately for us propeller heads it's a bit scant on actual WWI aircraft. It's in 10 minutes sections totalling 4 per episode, I believe it's all of 28 episodes so prepare some time for watching. Cheers

What about the Dutch band Focus? I've had a couple copies of Hamburger Concerto since it came out in 1973, ( I'm really old..) I consider it as seminal as Pink floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon" or 'Meddle'. On Vinyl and CD Birth by Focus The entry to the Second side of Hamburger concerto "Starter" with Thjis Van Leer on keyboards still gives me goosebumps.. Have any of you folks heard of The Decemberists?

I'll have to figure out what 3D format you guys normally use for CFS3-OFF. I can import to a lot of different formats but scaling is also important.

Thanks for the welcome Bullethead Virtual beer round on me.. I have this love of oddball two seaters, I've got the rough 3D models of a Farman H20, a Farman H22 seaplane, Farman F40, and a SPAD 11. One plane that I notice that gets considerable lack of attention in most WI sims is the AR1 and AR2 The Avions Reconnaissance or the ' Antique Rattletraps' as the US service crews flying under the French referred to them. They were supposed to be a better replacement for the obsolescent Farman and Voison pushers, but because of Renault's quality and delivery problems with their newer water cooled "V" engines, they didn't get the newer 220 HP Renault but had to use the first version of the water cooled V-8 which was only 180 HP, and they weren't much a an improvement over the Farman F40 because of the engine ad airframe weight. I'm going to make a virtual AR-1 here someday, it was fairly common in French bomber/obs squads during the later parts of 1917.

You know, even in the US During WWII there were effects of nationalities from the past of immigrants names. My father worked for the petroleum industry during the war. He is descended from a family that spoke both German and English in the household and he had a slight German lilt to his speech. He had to move to a different city when the plant he worked at expanded production. He soon discovered that the head of the new plant was very hateful of Germans. Well with my father's surname and his accent, Dad was actually kept under close watch and was subject to subtle harassment. His own father was born here in the US but because they had lived in a community that spoke mostly German, well the accent and the surname was suspect and he eventually had to leave the new cracking plant and return to the original. It caused Dad considerable distress. Thanks for sharing that about your Father Olham. Cheers Lewis

It's ArgonV's mod for SDOE Fighter Squadron, called FS-WWI. It's a free download. You can add your own content, if you have OPS 3D editor. Sorry for the darkness of the images, it's an early dawn raid. cheers, and apologies to the mods if it seems like I'm posting in the wrong forum.

You know what, it's purely defensive, when the Albatrosses arrive the first thing they shoot at is me, and they keep on trying to shoot me! Well that and the balloon winch, lookout tower and the AEC bus. (I might have a mod come along and put the kybosh on my posting FS-WWI images in an OFF topic forum. ..) You'll have to send your own Schlasta CL types of planes if you want photo's.

Sure, why not? Other WWI Combat sim OT Zone:.. I mean my favorite part of FS-WWI is to man the twin Vickers in the back of the Thornycroft AA truck and decorate 'Vaulx' airfield with crashed remains of strafing Albatrosses. I'm probably quite a bit better than I would be in reality, but it's fun.

So did you mod the Albatross for OFF to have working valve pushrod action? When I was doing TargetWare's mod I had done an Gnome Omega with functioning valve gears which was a feat in itself as it was a absolute bastidge to co-ordinsate and plot the XYZ placement, alignment and child-child relationships of all the parts. I also did the valve monkey werks for a Renault 8C which worked out much better because of the 2:1 engine to prop rotation speed. There were some severe limitations to 0.64's animation editing.

Well I don't know if you would like it, as I know there is a trend in German beers towards a sort of a clean, hoppy aftertaste. I think it's pretty good, and I do like Heffeweisens that are made locally. I like 'thicker' beers, and I'm assuming you're comparing it to Guinness Stout, which is in my opinion pretty awful in it's aftertaste.

Well I'm OK with beer googles. If a find myself downed behind enemy lines, I'll bring one out of my favorites from the Pacific Northwest, Rogue Brewery's Dead Guy Ale. That I have a nephew who works for them doesn't help matters, not one bit..

Well I didn't get into modding RB3D as they already had lots of aircraft at the time, and learning hexidecimal editing seemed unfathomable, so you didn't miss too much.

I don't think it's available anymore, 'tis a shame as the old crew at the Prospero forums were helpful. Most of the skins used in FCJ ended up in WFPII, I'm not certain if Kess' music made it though. Shredward, Greybeard and Polovski all migrated to OFF, times change. All for the better, Cheers

The super patch for Redbaron3D, 'Full canvas Jacket II" had some beautiful music created by it's main modder, Kess. I asked asked if I could record the music for my own personal CD's and he allowed this. I've had comments about the music from friends and family when I've had it in the background. It's still on my play list occaisionally.

The original BE1 was an amalgamation of scuttled Bleriot monoplane parts, from what I've read. It was called 'The Silent Aeroplane' when it was first flown because the Renault was pretty quiet compared to the Gnome. The engine used the prop drive off of the camshaft drive, so the prop turned at half engine speed, they had to bolt two props at 90 degrees to each other to utilize the slower rpm of the Renault. At the time it set records for altitude and economy, it was pretty advanced for 1912.

In a tail wind there wouldn't be any air being blown backwards, as the airmass the plane is flying through is relative to the actual speed of the aircraft. That's why the Germans had a natural occuring advantage with the prevailing Westerly airflow over France. It tended to make the trip back West for the slower Obs flights take longer.

The BE2 that the BEF reported to duty with in the Autumn of 1914 wasn't quite the same aircraft that latest version, the BE2d that VA has restored, is. The original had wing warping and the barely adequate Renault 8C 70 hp aircooled V8 that the Royal Air factory copied and improved upon slightly. I think the RAF was trying to add some manuvuerability to that last version before the Armstrong Whitworth FK8 and the 'arry Tate made their appearance, Bloody April took a terrible toll on both Quirck and Fee crews.

Yes, in fact the RFC did start to include electrically heated suits and such for the FE2B crews during the Winter of '17 You can understand why. I also believe the Caproni CA33 bomber gunners wore heated suits, those little cages they stood in must have been miserable without heat. Didn't the high altitude Rumpler CVI with the Maybach 260 hp engine have oxygen tanks and heat for both pilot and gunner/observer?

I've ridden enough motorcycles in cold weather to make a guess that the tractor airplanes would probably have not radiated enough heat to made much difference, especially the rotaries, which required that their heat and exhaust be channeled away from the aircraft. With the rotary, in addition to the unmuffled exhaust poured out a fine vapor of unburnt Castor oil. Also most WWI aircraft with water cooled engines seemed to have mounted their radiators well outside the cockpit. Open cockpits with a fair amount of opening between the coaming and the pilot, no matter how bulky the flying Sidcot, there would be a substantial loss of warm air even if present. A.V. Roe was on to something with the 1912 Type "F" monoplane..