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As for myself, I never had too many problems landing, except touching from time to time with the lower wing on some bad airfields. On take off in RoF, specially if you are carrying bombs, you need to be light on fuel (60% is OK as you can fly 5 hours with a full tank) and not hesitate to taxi to the other end of the field if necessary to make sure you take off into the wind (same with landing, always into the wind - but that goes in general for all two seaters) Tip for taxi in RoF : you have a thermometer view with "." + "7" on the keypad which brings a front view over the top wing.

Sorry for late reply, was busy at work and just came back home. Olham gave the right answer : Salmson A2As were also built by Latécoère, which after the war became famous for participating in the development of air mail (first from France to Senegal through Spain and Marocco, later across the Atlantic to South America), together with pilots like Jean Mermoz and Saint-Exupéry. They also built big flying boats for cross atlantic passenger flights. It is now "Groupe Latécoère" with head office in my town of Toulouse (where Airbus are assembled) and works for aviation and space industry.

I have flown many hours in the Roland C2 in OFF and Rise of Flight, not yet in WOFF. I like the plane which is fast for its time and can defend itself in a dogfight if under attack, only problem is the climb rate. (and the bad forward visibility on the ground) You have to climb slowly so that the speed doesn't drop too much otherwise (in Rise of Flight) it starts "floating" from left to right and you need to apply constant corrections, which breaks speed even more. When I feel this "floating" I immediately push the nose down to regain speed (even if I loose a little altitude) and start climbing again. The game is to find the "sweet spot" at the ideal climbing speed, which requires some concentration.

Thks for the link, I already knew this fantastic place. Will be useful for people who don't. No pb for waiting, it will give our brains a little break. I will be at work tomorrow morning and evening, so I hope some other people will jump in the game in the meantime !

OK Olham, it's all yours for the next one ! The Salmson 2A2 was the second most used french reconnaissance aircraft after the Breguet 14, and we rarely hear about it in our favourite sims. I chose to show the SM-1 because it's amazing to think such an ugly looking thing could actually fly ...

On my old XP32 PC (which is still functional) I was running OFF at 30 fps on 5 4 4 5 5 settings Core Duo E8500 + 3 Go RAM DDR2-800 + HD 5770 1Go This is why I preferred staying with XP till the end !

In the end it is up to each of us who bought and fly WOFF to try and decide what mods we want or do not want to use (as long as we don't complaint to the devs of the vanilla game). I still think it is interesting that people are proposing some. When until recently I flew OFF (which is still on the HD) it was with mods including HPW's FM and EW mod, HPW Ultimate Damage Mod and 33 Lima Arc mod, Bletchley's AA and Buddy1998 missions, Andy's sounds and HPW Weather. My Rise of Flight install also uses many mods which make it a much better experience (in my personal view) than the original !

Here comes the next one : 3200 of these airplanes were built. If 2200 were built by the designer, many others were built by a company which was before WW1 manufacturing wagons/carriage. From then on this company became famous in aviation history and is still today working for Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier, Dassault and Embraer in the town where I live. Give me the name of the airplane and the name of the company. Sub question : Before the above, the same designer built this airplane : Can you tell me the name of this one ?

In fact I wanted to see if the original picture was bigger so I could identify things on the uniform, and when I got my mouse to click on the picture, it said " thieffry.jpg size 14,82kb"

Adger : don't leave the name of the guy as name of the picture... Makes it too easy... This is Edmond Thieffry, first belgian ace with 10 confirmed victories. First one on a Nieuport 11 before his escadrille switched to Nieuport 23. He was shot down in January 1918 over enemy lines and tried to escape 6 times ( no idea how...) and finished the war as a prisoner. He had studied law and therefore was nicknamed "The flying judge". In April 1929 he was trying to fly between the most important cities of Congo (a belgian colony at the time) in an Avimeta 92 with a three man crew. They met a hurricane which sent their plane to the ground near lake Tanganyika. Still researching the other topics... I found that in 1914 as he was at the headquarters he was captured a first time by germans and escaped to Holland on a motorcycle. Funny thing I just found : he was sent to jail because he had been doing some aerobatics over his airfield, which was forbidden. This is where he met Willy Coppens, who was also in jail for being caught in Paris without any official leave authorization. This is how they became friends ! On January 24 1917 he flew over occupied Brussels with a Nieuport and dropped 4 belgian flags in different places of the town and landed with one liter of fuel left ! What a man and what a life ... Thks for the question Adger, I didn't know anything about Belgian pilots outside Willy Coppens.

For general information, here are two pics of the FBA Type B ( Museum in Portugal who used them) And a picture of the "best seller" FBA Type H ( from the Royal Museum of Armed Forces in Belgium ) Equiped with a V12 150 HP Hispano-Suiza it was in 1916 the fastest seaplane and with 150 kmh was even faster than most scouts of the same time. I guess take off and landing on water must have been a bit wet for the crew !

Congratulations Adger, you are spot on ! On one hand I sent a "false track" by writing his offices where in London ( which is true ) as he was french ! On the other hand I sent a message saying he had learned english and spanish in Americas, which meant he was not from an english speaking country. Although he was born in the west of France, his father was from Alsace, hence the german name. You guys even got the right brand of cars he was selling ! The US Company was indeed Viking Flying Boats from New Haven and the picture was taken at the US Coast Guards in Biloxi, Mississipi. In fact I learned this all a few months ago while reading a special magazine edition on the french airplanes of WW1. It's funny to see this guy and his seaplanes are generally unknown when he built 2870 of them, plus some more produced under licence in Italy between 1914 and 1918... Bring the next one !

It depends a lot on your CPU speed, but I would think you should be able to run on 5 3 3 5 5 settings in Workshop. You'll probably get a 30fps or so which is playable. (This is how OFF was running on my old XP PC until November last year)

The pleasure lies in the research...

OK here we go : One main question and three subsidiaries to separate those who answer easily to the first one. 1/ Main question This man has built two thirds of the seaplanes used by Allies in WW1. (2870 between Aug.1914 and Nov.1918) The first offices of his company founded in 1913 were at 29 Charring Cross Road in London I would like to have the name of the man and the name of the company 2/ Sub question 1 This is the first plane he designed which could actually fly (1911). Give me the name of the plane 3/ Sub question 2 His seaplanes were built under licence in the USA and used by the US Coast Guards between 1935 and 1939. What company built them ? 4/ Sub question 3 His first job between 1903 and 1908 was in northern and southern Americas where he learned english and spanish. This is when he heard about the Wright brothers, and it changed the course of his life. What was he doing there ?

Oh man ! I knew I shouldn't answer, but it was about France, I had to...

As french pilot, I have to give it a try : Maurice Boyau - 35 victories Was a famous rugby player before the war (I live in rugby land...) Started the war in the 144e régiment d'Infanterie In October 1916 he joins Escadrille N77 (nicknamed "l'escadrille des sportifs") His Nieuport had a dragoon on a white fuselage. What he shares with Willy Coppens is probably balloon hunting. (he was among the first ones to use Le Prieur rockets on his Spad XIII) He was killed on Sept 16 1918

May be celebrations come more naturally to the winning side ?

And how did the Albatros against the Tripes ?

Time for the usual advice : http://www.overflandersfields.com/Downloads/WOFF%20Key%20Guide%20Print.pdf

Women generally don't have big gaming needs. Playing The Sims 3 on a laptop is quite possible... They probably don't play hardcore flight sims !

You pan either with the joystick hat or with the keypad 8, 2, 4, 6. Two different outside views : Chase view where your airplane is always horizontal and the landscape moves around and spot view where the landscape is always horizontal and your airplane moves around. In the views cycle with F1 is also a "Player to target view" if you selected a target inside the TAC with "TAB", and this view can be reversed with "V" to have the view from your target (then by pressing TAB you can cycle through all enemy planes around)

Olham, this was second degree joking ! I forgot to add the smiley...

No worry, nothing can be worse than having Vista installed on your PC... (except maybe Windows Millenium Edition, but this was a long time ago...)

This is really basic "files and folders" management as you find in any "PC for dummies" book * You unzip the zipped mod file anywhere ( I have a special "Updates" folder with a sub-folder for each game where I store everything downloaded for that specific game - with a copy on my backup HD and another external HD). * When that is done, you can just open it to see what is inside. * From there you can add or delete any folder stage you want. Watch out, WW1Scenery belongs to OFF !