J99*Hardy

S! Butzell, Avatars will work now as well as image attachments - there were some faulty access rights on some folders. If you pm me your correct e-mail address, I'll try to change it. I have registered with a .net domain e-mail address and it worked for me, so I can't tell what was going wrong.

S! Butzell, I'll check these points. For the signature Image you can choose a remote stored one. The Avatar Image might be a PHP upload limitation - I have to check this ... unfortunately I'm not that familiar with PHP. For the E-Mail-Address I must say, I have no clue so I hope I'll find a solution. We have setup thi forum for Jasta 99 events only, because last year we saw a lot of people struggling with our German language regular Jasta 99 forum (which is still our main forum). So things might not be perfect at this point in time.

Salute Gentlemen, I'm happy to anounce this years "Eagle of Lille" Match by Jasta 99. See http://riseofflight....e-2016-jasta-99and subscribe today! See you in the skys Hardy

Lol - Marx, you know these balloons have markings. Either a cross or a roundel. If it is the same as you have on your aircraft, don't shoot them

I have checekd the Stats-Server but was nt able to find the problem so I did a reinstall of the database. I hope it will work for today.

Yeah, that thing with being too patriotic and you got called a Nazi is still true - but it's a bit changing during the past years like I wrote in my first post here. It takes some time but people seem to understand that German history is much more the the years between 1933 and 1945 - and for sure we can be proud of what we made out of our nation during the past 70 years. The German Emperor Wilhem II and his cousins as well as Emperor Franz of Austria were victims of the Dunning-Kruger effect IMHO. All the European leaders wnated the war somehow - but they all knew that it would be desastrous and therefore they don't wanted it. But after the ambush of Sarajevo the all acted like sleepwalkers. Some of the newer researches came to the conclusion that Wilhem II had a manish depression. And Czar Nicolas II already had much trouble with the Communists, the war was welcome to him to distract the Russian farmers and bondsman from these fatal ideas of communism. The Frensh were still looking for satisfaction for the mortality of 1871. The Brits were afraid of loosing their "Britannia rules the waves" status and thought that it would be better to stop Germany as long as they were able to stop them. Yes, it was not only Germany that started the war - or in other words - let it happen. Finally, I believe that there are a lot of other famous Germans we could be proud of than von Richthoven. Although I'm into WWI aviation and history, I believe that Goethe, Schiller, Beethoven, Brahms, Benz, Daimler, Siemens, Röntgen and many many more which did more for Germany and the World than von Richthoven.

In absolute numbers I truely believe that there are more Americans remember WWI heros than ther will be Germans Regarding Patton I alos believe that there are a Lot of people know the name but I bet most of them know him as a WWII General and not the Lieutenant-Colonel who fought the Battle of St. Mihiel - The same you will see in Germany for instance regarding Erwin Rommel, they know him probably as the "Wüstenfuchs", a famous German Tank-General and not as the Infantery Captain of WWI who got the Blue Max for his bravery. This is not a common interest in history and fewer people know about it. However - it's kind of funny how US-Americans mythologize the "Red Baron" Thanks god - we're all different. That makes the world an interesting place to live in!

Gentlemen, I believe you got something wrong about us Germans. I'll try to explain... We lost two disastrous wars in the past century. At least for the last one we all should be grateful that Nazi Germany was defeated and so am I. After WWI Germany went into a deep depression mainly caused by the reparation Germany had to pay to the allies, esp. France and Belgium. It was the mortification of a whole nation - like the Germans mortified the French nearly 50 years before when they crowned their emperor Wilhem I. in Versailles after the German-French war 1870/71. Additionally the Germans haven't had the actual feeling that they really lost the war. This was the reason for glorifiying their war heros and it was the mould for that rising nationalism that finally lead to Nazi Germany and WWII. While for WWI one could say that there were a dozen of European statesman that ran into WWI like some sleepwalker and it wasn't only Germanies fault (like it was stated in the Treaty of Versailles) we can't say the same for WWII - although it was the result of some bad mistakes, also of the allied, in the 20 years before. After WWII the allies did much better - the learned from their mistakes and helped to build a new German nation and the new German society we have today where Germany is a reliable and stable democratic nation in the heart of Europe. Now, after WWII Germany needed to overcome these old and fateful nationalism. Until today German pupils are confronted with the results of Nazi Germany: the war, the war crimes, the holocaust. Today lmost every German pupil has tovisit a concentration camp. After WWII it took a while but since the late 1950ts that was a main topic in scholastic education and it formed a common mind: We Germans were responsible for two disastrous wars that caused millions of casulties and millions of mureded innocent. German history was reduced to the time between 1933 and 1945. However - there's still a sense of history and in Germany you'll find a lot of streets and places that are named after German WWI heros. Near my hometown you'll find one of the first German airfields (I believe one of the first in the World - they started there in 1909) and around that airfield streets and places are named after Richthoven, Uded, Voss, Boelcke and Immelmann. Or just look around the old Berlin airfield Tempelhof. German airforce squadrons are named after Boelcke and Richthofen. So actually we do remember! Just a question: How many Americans know about Eddie Rickenbacker? How many British know about Edward Mannock or how many French remember Rene Fonck? How many Americans have an Idea who George S. Patton was and that he fought his first battle during WWI in France? What I want to say with this is, that this is history of special interest and there are always a few people interested in such a kind of special history. Now, thanks god - German society starts to remember the more glorious history where Germans were known for Wolfgang Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, for Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz, for Ludwig van Beethoven or Johannes Brams, for Wilhem Röntgen or Robert Koch, for Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse and our whole history that has started long long before 1933 and the positive history we delveloped after 1945. And we see the rise of a new, positive national feeling, a development that started during the Football World Championship we had in Germany in 2006 where it was the first time after WWII when you could see thousands of people on the streets, waving the German national flag and proudly singing the German national anthem. I believe that this is something really surprising for French, British, and I'm pretty sure, for US-Americans, isn't it? Now, finally this national anthem we already had during our first democratic constitution between 1919 and 1933, which is reduced to the 3rd verse nowadays, perfectly describes what most Germans stand for today: Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit Unity and law and freedom für das deutsche Vaterland! For the German Fatherland Danach lasst uns alle streben Let us all strive for that Brüderlich mit Herz und Hand! In brotherhood with heart and hand! Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit Unity and law and freedom Sind des Glückes Unterpfand; Are the foundation for fortune Blüh' im Glanze dieses Glückes, Bloom in the glow of this fortune Blühe, deutsches Vaterland. Bloom, German Fatherland. Now, I hope you will understand the German soul a bit better (maybe it's just me so I hope at least you will understand my soul a bit better )

I would say you're right. I've heard an Oberursel UR.II in a plane on a Flight-Show here in Germany and it's a complete different sound. I've never heard a Gnome live, but this sound is quite the same as in RoF's N28 while the DR.I in game sounds like that Oberursel I've heard live.

This was a hard fought campaign and Red Team deserved a honourable Salute!

I don't know why, but I bet, this guy is German

In this particular case I would consider myself as the incredible lucky one.

Salute Gents! My AAR from Flanders in Flames XXIIb Session 3b: http://no-parachute.one/index.php/2015/11/01/flanders-in-flames-xxiib-session-3b-aar/

AAR from Session 3: http://no-parachute.one/index.php/2015/10/25/flanders-in-flames-xxiib-session-3-aar/

Salute Gents, Flanders in Flames XXIIb Session 2 AAR: http://no-parachute.one/index.php/2015/10/18/flanders-in-flames-xxiib-session-2-aar/

Salute Gents, it took a while, but finally... so here it is: My AAR from Flanders in Flames XXIIb Sesion 1: http://no-parachute.one/index.php/2015/10/14/flanders-in-flames-xxiib-session-1-aar/

Snags - I'm familiar with stats server since I set up one for my own RoF Server ... and I should, since i make my money with this boring comupter stuff J99 Stats server wasn't updatet for a while and I guess, the database got a hickup since it wasn't maintained for a long time. However - I apologize for mixing up the sessions - that was my fault. I'll double check next time. Salute!

Your post found its way into the SPAM folder

Salute Gentlemen! Some of you may have already noticed, since October 3rd, 2015, my brand new Rise of Flight Game Server is online! It's called "Hardy's No Parachute" and available in Mods-Off Mode in the Multiplayer list. I have planned to run several mission there, each one created on some historical background that you can find here at my blog. The first Mission based on that Idea is Lille Junction - May 1917. You will also find a Statistics Server running at http://stats.no-parachute.one:81 For further details see my blog at http://no-parachute.one and the Server overview page at http://no-parachute.one/index.php/hardys-no-parachute-rise-of-flight-server I'm looking forward to see you on my new Server!

Congratulations Red Team, you deserved the victory! Salute!

Salute Gents! My AAR from Session 4: http://no-parachute.one/index.php/2015/10/04/flanders-in-flames-xxii-session-4-aar/ Congratulations to Red Team! You deserved the victory!

Salute Gents! Baron von Myakin and FourSpeed posted some nice AAR's as a reply at my blog. It's worth reading. Check out: http://no-parachute.one/index.php/2015/09/27/flanders-in-flames-xxii-session-3-aar/

Poor guys that need to cheat to get a nice lady into their bedroom But OK, the end justifies the means.

This sounds a bit like an excuse to me Accepted! I don't know much about the German Frauleins, but fighting an enemy 2. vs. 1 won't impress our lovely russkiye devushki Salute! Hardy (Don't take that serious!)

Salute Gents, here is my AAR from Sesion 3: http://no-parachute.one/index.php/2015/09/27/flanders-in-flames-xxii-session-3-aar/