OohRah!
Give 'em hell Cat

Thanks Cat, I jumped on there too, that evens it up! If we can get Olham to jump on the Entente, I'll know the end is nigh!

The "Old Geezer" will sign up ASAP!

I would not miss one of your Challenges for anything. By George, the ole SE. have not flown one in a while but she's got wings so I think we will have a go, what!
As always Rick, smashing video. Hard to believe it's been a year. Count me in!

Just how is this done??

Can we join if we haven't upgraded to v2.0+?

MFair, always a pleasure to have you on board, sir! We can try to out-live each other!

CW3SF, Just tell me what side you want to be on and I will add you to the board on the first post.

Smosh, I don't see why not, I guess you won't have the wind? Shhh! Just don't tell anyone!

Sign me up! I prefer to fly an S.E.5, but I'll take the Fokker if you need to move someone to keep sides even. I'm as likely to die in either!

Rick, Thanks for the offer. I went ahead and joined Jasta 12 and set the date to 1 July 1918 with my name
of CW3SF . Flying only " practice combat " and will not fly missions until 11 April.

I hope the " Arthur Ritis " in my right wrist can go the distance.

Sounds like spanking good fun, old boy. Please count me in and put me on whatever side is short. Luv your challenges although I don't last long .

Welcome aboard, guys! carrick58, I put you on the German side which evens things out nicely!

Rick, I have a suggestion you may want to consider to add to the competition....

Make the squad vs squad competition with a different point system. So, even if the top scorer is on one side, the other squad could still win. That way, the outliers (i.e. Aces in the group) will not skew the results of which side wins.

You would need to put a limit to how many points one person can contribute to his squad in order for this idea to work..... Oh well, food for thought.

Rick, do you want a web capture page as before?

Just click on the link in my signature below

Okay, that would be my 1st Challenge - and since there are no Spads involved, I'm in
Hmm... SE or Fokker... difficult Decision. Both great Planes. This sure is something like the Porsche 959 vs Ferrari F40 Rivalry of the 80ies...
I'll simply be the last one to enlist and take the Side that still needs a Player, so that the Numbers are Equal.

I can't get excited about cabbage, even if it's imported Russian, so I'd like to go with the mushy peas instead, if I may, Rick.

[quote=Rick_Rawlings]MFair, always a pleasure to have you on board, sir! We can try to out-live each other!

Reminds me of the scene in "Open Range" just befor the big gunfight when Boss tells Charlie "sound like you got it all figured out", to which Charlie replies, "Yea, right up to the part where we don't get killed!"

Great movie, MFair, you could put Robert Duvall in a documentary on Mattress Salesmanship and he could probably make it interesting.

loftyc bean and kidney pie it is!

Nietzsche, we'll get you in where we can.

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Since Rick is being kind enough to host another one of his marvelous challenges as well as offering up that spiffing coffee mug as a prize I thought I would help out by sweetening the pot with the following:



A good, sound, ex-library copy of the 1968 Doubleday hard cover printing, (in original dust jacket), of Duncan Grinnell-Milne's classic, "Wind in the Wires", first published in 1933. For those not familiar with this wonderful work, it is the memoirs of Grinnell-Milne's flying experiences in WWI including his time with 56 Squadron where he piloted the SE5a. This is the companion volume to his lesser-known work, "An Escaper's Log", first published in 1926, which tells of his time in a German POW camp earlier in the War and his eventual escape and return to service.

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You are exemplary, Lou!

Sry...will have to pull out as my rig cant handle 1918 even on the lowest settings. I could in OFF though, but thats not the point. One day one day...