Womenfly2

I did Beta testing for RoF. So I flew the SP missions a lot, do to times I could be available for MP. I do have High Speed Internet and a pretty good computer, Quad core with a 8800 512m card.

Even with the limited SP play the missions in RoF are still loads of fun and very hard. Then there is the flight training with Eddie, if you can just get through the training alive, which by-the-way has 5 consecutive lessons, each one being depended on the previous one being successfully completed before your allowed to move on ....... its worth buying it just for that.

I will add if you are not a patient person, then skip the 3 to 5 minute engine starting procedure which includes sitting there for a few minutes waiting for the engine in the SPAD or D.VII to warm-up. No sudden scrambling here when your field is attacked!.

As with BH&H if you want to play MP you need High Speed Internet for best play. BH&H does have the best SP play, but RoF is still an infant at this point and from the beginning was never designed for SP anyway.

I am not much for MP, did it in IL2 ... did not like it, I do prefer SP and with all game developments one must look at what the end customer wants, if you do not, you spin-in. So I believe SP will evolve as time goes on, maybe through third party modder's? if not RoF itself.

RoF is very realistic as far as the planes go, excellent DM's and FM's with the support of ground objects a close second. It will be improved upon continually, that is the base of this sim. With that said, part of the on-line requirement is that every time you login to the server it checks for the latest upgrade or patch on your machine, then downloads it before you sign in. This is done so in MP everyone has the same revision of the game, just as you would need if playing BH&H or flying a mission.

It also records your stats on a server for MP too, which everyone in MP can see .... bad thing is if your good they gang-up on you!

I fly both, each one is great in their own way. A lot of hard work has gone into both for our enjoyment and one has to give a lot of credit to them for even attempting to bring a WW-1 sim to market, anyway. The alternative is, none.

So support both, enjoy both and just have fun flying the friendly skies???.

My 2-cents worth,

WF2

Awesome! ... more, more, ..... bravo, bravo!

Great stuff, if I get a beta one some time may ask you to try it ?

 

Cheers

 

Pol

Be honored to.

Cheers,

WF2

P.S. Olham, I am at work. .. wink.

The simplicity of the design is one of the outstanding features for me, must have been very quick to build, one wing, simple tubing pop an engine on the front, relatively easy to maintain. Did you get to fly one WF2?

Yes I did, with a rotory.

Cheers,

WF2

That's what I asked myself, when I saw Test Pilot's picture: why did Fokker not build a D VIII

with an inline engine. Now you present that pic of a test version like that.

 

Do you know, why he then took the rotary instead, WomenFly2?"

Fokker owned the factory that made rotary engines. In-line engines where allotted to Albotros and others and the D.vII production. Adding to this, Fokker was not beloved by many hence he was not in favor of the upper political hierarchy which controlled the decision making for material allotment too. The rotary was loosing choice as a power plant, it had reached it limits in power development. Fokker wanting to make his plant profitable, still designed with rotary engines in mined.

Looking at the D.vIII design, it is the simplicity of a combat killer machine. Minimum materials, light weight, good visibility, fast for a rotary engine plane, very hard to see head on, and easy to fly.

The V.28 had a Goebel Goe.IIIa 145hp rotary engine.

The V.37 was an armored version of the V.29 had a Benz Bz.IIIB 195hp in-line engine.

Cheers,

WF2

This is the minimum system you will need to fly the next version of BH&H.

System requirements view here.

Start saving NOW boy's and girls!

LOL,

WF2

THIS IS A JOKE.

There are no such requirements for Phase-4.

Hey Guy's, that is great how you showed that MvR could have been hit from below. Makes it hard to believe that the shot came from Brown, there would have been a hole in the seat back then, correct?

POL: The wing cutout is finished with leather padding that is mounted to a board then fastened to the flat areas of the cutout frame, as such .....

WF2, MvR was hit on his side below the right armpit, the entry wound being at his ninth rib (the exit wound was two inches higher than the entrance wound, between the fifth and six ribs and located "about half an inch below and three quarters of an inch external" to the left nipple), so the bullet passed in front of where the seat curves downward.

 

 

Olham; thanks for the great rely. It is truly amazing how the basic color can look so different. All based on the world in which the color is viewed, which wildly plays with all of its inherent attributes.

 

Cheers,

WF2

I don't recognise the format of that Methuen reference, maybe some of the expert modellers do, but Methuen 9C8 is equivalent to FS11105 which is: Click here!

This is a little OT; but, could someone post this color chip with a landscape background as seen if you were flying over the Dr.1 and one with a sky background as one would view her from the side. Just curious on how the color hue and tones are changed by the background color/s.

Cheers,

WF2

Dudley - do you know any links to the colour reference you mention? I can't find any.

 

Does anyone know, what the seat metal is? Is it steel? And how much bulletproof would that be? (Or not...)

RCAF_Dudley, Thanks for the fantastic pictures!

Olham; Color reference, go to the Aerodrome forum you will find an unlimited source of info on the color and references to matching it there.

The seat was aluminum. If MvR was shot from below, or as some believe above, should there not be a bullet hole in the seat? The cockpit of a Dr.1 is very tight an it is impossible to be out if the seat in it ... so?

Just curious.

Cheer,

WF2

The Rag Wing Derby Story

Enjoy,

WF2

Hey, I would settle with more planes to fly then be looking at Phase-4. I mean, how much better can BH&H get?

JMHO,

WF2

The New York Times newspaper article .... Click here.

Enjoy,

WF2

What a talented Bunch you all are?...I feel such a damn NOOBIE!!! :blush2:

.... we all were. Its all about perseverance, is not it.

Cheers,

WF2

Hey, speaking about Video cards, has anyone tried this from Nivida ..... 3D Vision with OFF ?

Just curious.

WF2

You made me look at that poster again, it's either me or it's artistic license but the main Dr1 seems to be missing its middle wings.

..... not only the middle wing Dej, but, the upper one too! ... no struts. You will see this in the movie when close-ups are shot. Parts of the plane were remove for a clearer shot, don't you just love Holliewoooood!

Ahaaaaaa ...... memories.

LOL,

WF2

The cast of the 1966 movie The Blue Max- Where are they now?

Sadly, the following members of the cast are no longer with us.

Leading man George Peppard who played Bruno Stachel sadly died of Leukemia in 1994, aged 66. Peppard earned a private pilot's license during filming, offering to fly some of the vintage aircraft himself.

James Mason, who played General Von Klugermann, died suddenly of a heart attack, aged 75, in 1984. Mason was a conscientious objector during WW2.

English actor Peter Woodthorpe, who played NCO Rupp and to grumpily has to drive Stachel on a motorcyle & sidecar through the pouring rain to vainly search for evidence of the latter's first kill, died in 2004, aged 73. The character of Rupp plays a much larger role in the novel than he does in the film.

German-born, UK-based actor Anton Diffring, who played General Von Klugermann's assistant Holbach, died in 1989, aged 71. Diffring, who was born in Koblenz, Germany, was a three-week old baby when WW1 ended in 1918.

English actor Derek Newark, who played Chief Mechanic Ziegel, passed away in 1998, aged 65.

Polish-born actor Friedrich von Ledebur, who briefly appeared as The Field-Marshall, died in 1986, aged 86. During WW1, 16-year-old Friedrich enlisted in the Austro-Hungarian Army in 1916 and later served as an officer in the Cavalry.

Charles Boddington, one of the senior stunt pilots who worked on the film, lost his life in 1971 when he crashed a replica SE5 during filming of the movie Von Richthofen & Brown.

Frank McCarthy , the American artist, illustrator and graphic designer who produced the poster for the film (see above), died of Lung Cancer in 2002, aged 78. He illustrated the posters for many famous films, including The Dirty Dozen, The Great Escape, The Ten Commandments and several of the James Bond films. He is also well-known for his Western Paintings and he was a member of the Cowboy Artists Guild of America.

Jerry Goldsmith, the American composer of the film's score, passed away in 2004 at the age of 75. A prolific and much-admired composer, he wrote the musical scores for close to 200 films between 1957 and 2003, including The Omen (for which he won an Academy Award), The Agony & the Ecstasy, First Blood and most of the Star Trek films. He was nominated for Oscars another 17 times during his career.

On a happier note, the following cast members are still with us:

Ursula Andress, the Swiss actress who played Countess Kaeti von Klugermann, celebrated her 73rd birthday last month and is still as elegant and beautiful as ever. Everyone remembers her for walking out of the ocean in a white bikini in the James Bond movie Dr No but I choose her bath-towel scene in the Blue Max as her sexiest moment.

English actor Jeremy Kemp, who played Willi von Klugermann, is 74 years-old and still going strong.

German actor Karl Michael-Volger, who played Hauptmann Otto Heidemann (and who also played General Rommel in the movie Patton), is 81 years-old and living in Germany.

Northern-Irish actor Harry Towb, who played adjutant Kettering, is 83 years-old and still working. He appeared in two episodes of the long-running British TV soap-opera Eastenders in December 2008. Kettering is another Blue Max character who is given a smaller role in the film than he has in the original novel.

English-actor Derren Nesbitt, who played Fabian, is 73 years-old. He recently appeared in the movie Flawless in 2007. He was almost blinded whilst filming the movie Where Eagles Dare in 1968 when squibs in his chest designed to stimulate the impact of bullets, accidentally exploded upwards into his face instead of outwards as they were supposed to. He was arrested for physically-harming his first wife in 1973 after she confessed to having an affair and he was convicted of assault. He now lives with his second wife in the UK.

Douglas Slocombe, the Cinematographer for The Blue Max, is 96 years-old and lives in West London with his wife. He was nominated for a BAFTA award for his work on the Blue Max and was nominated for an Oscar for three other films. He won the British Cinematographers Lifetime Achievement Award in 1995 and was awarded an OBE last year. He has been Cinematographer for over 50 films, including the first three Indiana Jones movies for Steven Speilberg. Born in 1913, Slocombe would have been a five-year-old boy when the real-life events depicted in The Blue Max would have taken place.

John Guillermin, who was Director of the Blue Max, is 83 years-old and is retired and living in the UK.

Stunt Pilot Derek Piggott, who flew the Fokker Dr 1 under a bridge during the filming of the Stachel versus Willi scene, is 86 years-old and living in the UK. He has amassed 10,000 hours in the air as a pilot of both powered aircraft and gliders.

Enjoy,

WF2

View original here.

Good video, except the Dr.1 they show doesn't actually have a rotary engine in it.

Yes, its the one from ORA with a Warner Radial, geeee guys!. Its interesting in that I felt the same effect while flying the rotary D.vIII. I also felt it in my Pietenpol powered by a Model-A Ford engine with a 84" diameter x 43" pitch prop. I believe in the Piet this effect, a lot less then a rotary, was do to the large prop.

Is this effect modeled in OFF? If so, to what extent?

Cheers,

WF2

I play violin and viola. The guitar must be hard to keep on your shoulder and bow???? ... LOL!

Good for you, music is a wonderful language, you can speak to anyone with it. Its a life long journey to learn to play an instrument, to get good at it you need to practice, practice and then practice.

See you on youtube!

Cheers,

WF2

A few WW-1 songs that I posted before: Girl with Violin

I think to really receive an unbiased review, one needs to seek someone who is into WW-1 airplanes historically and technically, is NOT a pilot in RL and has not flown OFF or read to much about it.

One would need to set them up with the latest full working sim, not show them to much, let them fly around for a week on their own, any help should be via this forum only. Then have them write a review. That would be about the most unbiased article you can get. I also think this would be representative of the average flight sim'er.

In MHO, no one here on the forum or flight sim forums would be without prejudice or be predetermined to OFF.

This being a commercial adventure, I would be very careful on the selection.

Just my 2-cents,

WF2

Herr OvS ... love the new avatar!

Has anyone used the new TrackIR5 with OFF?

If so, could you comment on comparing the versions 3 & 4 to it, or either one, if you have had an old one before.

Just curious to see if its worth the new model.

Cheers,

WF2