Heinrich

Your In-Game Name: JG1_HignRig EIF Discord Name: JG1_HignRig [if applicable] Squadron affiliation: JG 1 If you have a particular Squadron or person that you prefer to fly with: III./JG 1 Your time zone: CET = UTC +1 Will you primarily be?: Pilot Your certainty of attending: Week A1 (Saturday, 1 November 2025) No Week A2 (Saturday, 8 November 2025) Yes Flip sides Week B1 (Saturday, 15 November 2025) Yes Week B2 (Saturday, 22 November 2025) No Besides the reported attendance, I still occasionally experience a Disco, which can range from zero to four. This is a problem that prevents me from playing on PvP servers, because I don't want to vaporise as an escort or the escorted plane, and especially not if I'm right in the cross-hairs of an enemy. Fair play above all. So that reduces my participation to ...

It's like my life: trying to put together something from things that don't fit.

I would advise buying a haptic seat/cushion or at least a vest, feeling the vibration of the A/C makes flying so much easier and real. I'd rather hand over the VR than the seat. I use this one https://simshaker.com/hardware/jetpad/ , but with all the boycotts, against Russia it may be a problem to get one.

The chances are small that I will join, but am I correct that the info about the plane set for either team is missing? Can't see it above nor on the Discord Event. Can that be added? Probably trampled ground for most, but there may be some newcomers, too.

I'm pretty sure as soon as they have it in their collection as the official owner, it will be restored in the Dutch colours. On the other hand, there is already a Fok DVII in the museum: https://collectie.nmm.nl/nl/collectie/detail/471153/ https://collectie.nmm.nl/nl/collectie/detail/571578/ Sadly, only in Dutch.

Homecoming (sort of) Military Museum brings back aircraft stolen by Nazis. An original Fokker D.VII fighter plane that flew with the Dutch Naval Air Service before World War II will be exhibited later this year at the National Military Museum in Soesterberg. The museum has loaned the antique biplane from the Deutsches Museum in Munich for the next five years. After being found in a barn in Bavaria at the end of World War II, the plane had been there for a long time. The Military Museum is pleased with the return of the plane. Curator Alfred Staarman calls it "the best plane in the world" from a century ago. The Fokker D.VII has a long history. The type was designed and built in Germany during the First World War by Dutch aviation pioneer Anthony Fokker. In May 1918, the Deutsche Luftwaffe deployed the first example on the battlefield. Germany lost the war, but according to Staarman, the D.VII was superior to the aircraft used by the Allies. Not long after 1918, Anthony Fokker transported several unfinished aircraft to the Netherlands. "After the war, he put the whole lot, everything he had left, on a train and took it to the Netherlands," says the curator. "This is one of those half-finished aircraft that came from Germany to the Netherlands and was finished here. It was then sold to the navy. The Fokker D.VII is considered the best aircraft of the First World War. So the Netherlands had access to very modern war material in one fell swoop." The Naval Air Service bought twenty Fokker D.VIIs and flew them between 1920 and 1937. What happened to them after that is not entirely clear. Curator Staarman points out that at least one example was 'waiting' at Schiphol to establish a National Aviation Museum. But, shortly after the Germans invaded the Netherlands, the plane disappeared. Staarman suspects that the Nazis stole the plane, possibly to exhibit it in Germany. Not long after the Second World War, in December 1945, American soldiers found the fighter plane in a barn in Vilsbiburg, some 90 kilometres northeast of Munich. It was not immediately clear that it was a Dutch plane: it was not until 1980 that Dutch features were discovered during restoration work. In the Deutsches Museum, a Dutch roundel, a circle in red, white and blue, by which Dutch military aircraft can be recognised, appeared under some layers of paint. And now, 45 years later, the fighter plane is returning to the Netherlands. "It's also a nice story. If this Fokker could talk, we would have had a lot of information," says Staarman. "But unfortunately, that's not the case." For the curator, the story is not over yet. Because it is most likely 'spoils of war', he wants the Deutsches Museum to permanently hand over the plane and not just lend it out. But then it must be irrefutably established which plane this was exactly. The Dutch navy had twenty of them, and it is unclear whether this is the plane that was taken from Schiphol. Research is needed, says Staarman. "We are trying to reconstruct the story with all the bits and pieces we have." The plane will be on display to the public in the National Military Museum in September.

Hello Gabi, I've downloaded your zip file and noticed some things. Because you are working on the files, please add the folders where they belong, as mentioned in the IL2 game. That way, anyone who downloads the package, only has to drop it in e.g. E:\IL-2 Sturmovik Great Battles\data\graphics\Skins. All files will be copied to the correct folder. This will save anyone a lot of work and prevent mistakes. Another thing is that your skins are in 4K (4096x4096), while we use 2K (2048x2048) as size, as laid down in the Paint Policy (see our Dicta). This reduces each skin to 5.33 MB instead of 21.3 MB. This had to do with the total amount of data in the official package as not everyone has a huge drive in the game PC. Lastly, have you added mipmaps to each file? A normal DDS file in 4K is 21.3 MB, your files are 16 MB. No rush as you have until 5 March to complete them

Because of Remembrance Day, I would like to post this short video. I'm sorry, but I could not find a shorter, proper version of the fly-through. But maybe the reason behind it is even scarier.

I must review the rest of the 2nd video, but Old English and Dutch have common ground. In the 1st video when they talk about deer (=animal), we use dier, and Old English fugol (=bird) is vogel in Dutch. In the 2nd video: "Hwaet dob we heodaeg" is in Dutch "Wat doen we vandaag". (=What shall we do today). Interesting subject. The North Sea was comparable to the savannas of Africa during the Ice Age: deer, lion, mammoth, tiger, wolves, and rhino. And then came the water ....

Your In-Game Name: JG1_HignRig FIF Discord Name: JG1_HignRig [if applicable] Squadron affiliation: JG1 Your time zone: CEST until A2, CET for A3 and A4. Your certainty of attending: Dry Run Test (Saturday, 12 October 2024): Yes Week A1 (Saturday, 19 October 2024): Yes Week A2 (Saturday, 26 October 2024): Yes Week A3 (Saturday, 2 November 2024): Yes Week A4 (Saturday, 9 November 2024): Yes Any breach of promise is due to the uncertainty of life

and it can always be done faster (sorry for the stupid music): I saw this by chance a few days ago

I'll sign up Axis. Same as Etzel no problem to fly Entente, BUT only when all of JG1 is on the Entente side.

What I don’t understand is why invest time/money in a high altitude fighter, or better bomber interceptor while hardly any one flies above 3 k. The 3 Russian aircraft I do understand. There must be some Axis aircraft left more suited for the low alt. Probably the producers don’t want to go for the experimental aircraft like the Do-335 and Moskito.

Ta-152 and the Yak-3, and better trees. Live can be beautiful Sometimes a bit weird translation but I figured out that also the Polikarpov I-153 Chaika, and the La-7 will be created.

I know that's why I put the emoticon at the end. My initial remark was to express that in general Bubblegum is a good pilot, one you want to have with, not against you. Not claiming Bubblegum for Allied. Agree there should be some balance. Not exactly though, as the Allies have the far less superior aircraft, in performance, fire power and load out. It should feel right for all parties that they have a fair chance to win or have fun loosing.