Silberpfeil

Interesting and informative commentary on why...

Interesting and informative video paying tribute to forty years of USMC AV-8B service following last month's official retirement of the aircraft.

Something for the FE/FE2 aficionados (and anyone else interested in antique aircraft restoration and flying). A little lengthy but very entertaining summary of Cole Palen's collection and enterprise.

If you've got some extra yellow, you might try one of these. This is a 1960 Sikorsky S-58 - U.S.C.G. first named them HUS-1G and then later changed to HH-34F designation. Interesting to note the auxiliary/drop fuel tank located lower mid-port. The helo didn't have a very good safety record, and this was the last C.G. rotary wing model before the turbines took over.

View File Sachsenberg Fokker E.V 160/18 Ltn.z.S. Gotthard Sachsenberg's E.V 160/18 has been uploaded as a supplemental skin for Stephen1918's Fokker D.VIII 1.0.0 model. You are downloading and installing this skin package and its included files at your own risk - they have been tested on FE2 with the base model only. Unzip the FokkerEV folder after downloading and refer to the ReadMe file for additional background information and installation instructions. Submitter Silberpfeil Submitted 04/14/2026 Category Fokker Skins  

No direct experience with DGVoodoo2 used with FE, so can't comment on that. My first experience has been with an older (but hardware capable) Windows 10 desktop that had FE2 installed - IIRC, there was no need to change compatibility or other settings. I upgraded the desktop to Windows 11 a couple months after it was first available and had no difficulties with operating FE2 after the upgrade. Sometime after that I purchased a new Windows 11 laptop. After installing FE2 in the new machine I experienced choppy flight experience with an occasional hard CTD. Changing the FE2 properties to compatibility with Windows 7 was a partial solution, as was checking Settings/System/Optional features/More Windows features to be sure both “Legacy” boxes were checked. Another option that seemed to help was downloading and installing the DirectX EndUser Runtimes Web Installer program that may be found at: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=17431 Good luck! And for all the rivet-counters out there, here's my mandatory forum screen pic:

Saw your note and pix sent to Mue, Stephen1918, and just wanted to chime in that your new Fokker E.V / D.VIII model looks great. Are you going to include blank templates with your package? The reason I ask is Laton's D.VIII attracted several FE skin artists (among them quack74, JFM, von Deutschmark, matzeb, and Saltfiskur - sadly, names we don't hear much from anymore) with the result being a variety of late-1918 Luftstreitkräfte pilots flying that type could now be encountered in missions and campaigns.

Yes, another birthday in the flight log, but it's really just another unpaid day on the tarmac...

No CGI back in the mid-'60's, so the Blue Max movie used a Morane-Saulnier MS.230 for the flight-test monoplane that Bruno Stachel used to create a smoking hole in the ground. That aircraft model was primarily a two-seat trainer so for film-making purposes, the front cockpit had to be covered in order for it to remotely resemble a single seat fighter. And among many other discrepancies, FE aficionados will immediately recognize the use of incorrect Luftstreitkrafte insignia for late 1918. Not really sure why I had trailing in my archives (except maybe I was going to model it at some point)...

Rutan made some good and stout aircraft! Here's an old Long E-Z I caught on its nose several years ago...