WWI FIGHTER for FSX

[FIREWALL]

A couple of pics. More planes and missions and campains.

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[Raptor1]

Mmm, Fokker Dreidecker

Try not to snap the top wing

[FIREWALL]

In the readme it took an Ace with skills to fly it to it's full potential.

quote: Pilots referred to Fokker Triplane as a exceptionally maneuverable plane, due to thick wing section it could climb rapidly and all in all had perfect flight characteristics that only Sopwith Camel could argue. The shortcoming of the plane was that only highly experienced pilots could use its full potential

[Raptor1]

In the readme it took an Ace with skills to fly it to it's full potential.

quote: Pilots referred to Fokker Triplane as a exceptionally maneuverable plane, due to thick wing section it could climb rapidly and all in all had perfect flight characteristics that only Sopwith Camel could argue. The shortcoming of the plane was that only highly experienced pilots could use its full potential

Oh, they don't mention how ssssssssllllllllllllloooooooooooowwwwwww it was, and the fact that it tended to have rather nasty wing failures?

Though it did have pretty amazing maneuverability...

Though there is in fact a fighter which could be described as the best fighter of WWI, and that would be the Fokker D.VII

[FIREWALL]

Bet it didn't look as KOOL. :DL Especially in RED :D

[Platapus]

Though there is in fact a fighter which could be described as the best fighter of WWI, and that would be the Fokker D.VII


D Vii was so good that it was specifically called out in the peace treaty. :yeah:

[Biggles]

Well the Snipe wasn't too bad either.

[Stealth Hunter]

The Fokker D.VIII is my personal favorite, although the D.VII is right up there. The D.VIII, though, has the speed and relative stability of the D.VII, it has the maneuverability of the DR.I, and it has the aerodynamic body of a racing plane. It was the perfect combination. Pity they weren't introduced earlier. Germany would have owned all other nations royally in the air war.

Here's a picture of the great Erich Loewenhardt testing out a D.VIII. He shot down two Sopwith Camels in a single day with it, but he was never given one officially:

http://www.blackwaters.ch/fc/janzen/a_summ17.jpg

This is probably my favorite picture of him, just because of his yellow DR.I behind him:

http://www.earlyaviator.com/archive/1w/images/Sanke614Lowenhardt.jpg

Of course, there's also Werner Voss' photos with his DR.I:

http://usuarios.lycos.es/eduardomacri/werner5.jpg
http://www.jasta11.co.uk/USERIMAGES/winner_1102.jpg

[Raptor1]

It also had some perfectly fatal wing failures (Were those resolved, BTW?, can't remember)

[Lieste]

I personally like the Siemens Schukhert DIII and DIV.

Not the fastest aircraft of the war, but a rotary with no gyro coupling (countra rotation of the prop and cylinders), and very efficient prop.

Definitely the fastest climbers of the war by a long margin, relatively light and probably quite agile. Supposed to be a bit of a handful though.

[Biggles]

It also had some perfectly fatal wing failures (Were those resolved, BTW?, can't remember)

No, not from what I can remember. Heard they quit making them alltogether. Was at the end of the war too so...

[Stealth Hunter]

The D.VIII? Hell no. They kept making it to the end of the war. In fact, they were passed over to many of the Entente nations for future use.

And the early versions had wing flaws, but the later ones were resolved by fixing the rear wing spars. The ones that had the most ones weren't even manufactured by Fokker; they were made by Junkers, and they had a full investigation done into their designs after several cases of the E.V crashing due to wing failures. The Razor earned its name with flying colors in the end after Fokker got his hands on it.:)

[Biggles]

I was referring to the DR.I :O:

[Stealth Hunter]

Oh yeah, it still had wing problems. By late 1918, they basically stopped giving it out to frontline units. However, it was still used, just not as much. The D.VII was the biggest plane of the war by that time.

Here's a photo of Hermann Goering's D.VII (known as "The White Rose"):

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a108/Gregvan/GoeringsFokkerD.VII.jpg

[Catfish]

Hello,
very nice pics ! Thanks for sharing - this FSX add-on looks promising - has anyone played some missions, and a campaign ?! Any testers already ?

@Raptor1: Would you tell me where your picture with the airships is from ?

Thanks and greetings,
Catfish

[Raptor1]

@Raptor1: Would you tell me where your picture with the airships is from ?

Thanks and greetings,
Catfish

From the Crimson Skies intro movie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4A8eiA1jhXc), it's a shame they don't make any more Crimson Skies games/books as it's one of my favourite alternate-history universes.

If the D.VIII didn't have catastrophic wing failures, was it the E.V? I do seem to remember something about the E.V being fixed and redesignated at the same time

[XabbaRus]

Crimson skies must eb one of the best "fun" flight sims ever made.

I can still get it to work on XP. Loved the storyline and would have made a great film.

[Catfish]

Hello,
thanks Raptor1, i knew there is a game i would have liked to play :up:
Really a shame there is no sequel, made for better PCs with a similar story, and playing fun !
Besides i'm interested in all kinds of airships, so ... looks like they developed the Akron/Macon idea of aircraft carriers right into our time :cool:
I like this more than this alternate "steampunk" history ;)

Thanks and greetings,
Catfish

[Stealth Hunter]

If the D.VIII didn't have catastrophic wing failures, was it the E.V? I do seem to remember something about the E.V being fixed and redesignated at the same time

That's the one. Hugo Junkers' plant was producing it at the time, however, and after several pilots died in July 1918, Fokker knew improvements had to be made. So, he got his hands on the design blueprints, made a few spar modifications, started producing them en masse at his plant in Schwerin, and bam: the Fokker D.VIII was born. Although the E.V is known as a Fokker, it's really not... strange? I know.

You know, the Fokker D.VII didn't even need the spars on the far ends of the wings, right? Fokker tested his plane several times without them (as the first variants were), but pilots did not trust his judgement, saying that he was just asking for a wing failure (even though Fokker had done twists, turns, and spins in it with no trouble whatsoever). So, to ease their minds, he added additional supports and it became Germany's new standard plane for the late war. Pity it wasn't introduced earlier, like the D.VIII.

[FIREWALL]

I think we're going to have alot of fun especially, online competeing with our favorite kites if a real WWI dedicated flight sim ever is made.

Not a mod but a real like IL2 , WWI flight sim. :yeah:

[Raptor1]

I think we're going to have alot of fun especially, online competeing with our favorite kites if a real WWI dedicated flight sim ever is made.

Not a mod but a real like IL2 , WWI flight sim. :yeah:

Red Baron 3D was arguably one of the first real online flight sim, actually

[FIREWALL]

I have RB3D but I want something better.