Thanks for those kind words Mike, I am happy you guys are now discovering the great fun it
is to fly in this DBW-1916. I love any era aircraft and to fly them in the IL-2 game is just super.
Yes, even tho some of these airplanes are Franken-planes, just research into how many airplane designs and types
actually flew in WW1. There were thousands of them.
Just the other day I downloaded a few PDF books and discovered another 400 airplanes I never seen before
from WW1 ...including a rare R-series German bomber with a wing-span of 170+ feet long that I never heard of or read
it before in any book/website, If I did not see the photo of it, I would not believe it.
ALL ww1 airplanes were actually real franken-planes of one sort or another. They were improving upon their designs all the time.
They did not have any fancy wind-tunnels to test their designs, no specialized machinery to build them, it was merely building
them with light materials and flying them to see if they were any good.
Its the same thing with the DBW-1916. You are the "test-pilot" and the "ace pilot" at the same time, in an age where aircraft
combat rules did not exist. The rules were still being written and mastered in the skies.
I have found myself cursing off the designers of these airplanes sometimes during my flights, asking myself "Why can´t this bucket of
wood fly like a P-51 or an Me-109!?!? Damn you Fokker!!!"
And the answer is very obvious, modern fighter tecnology was still to be invented in WW2!!
so I have to make do with what I was given to fly in combat in 1916 ... and try to survive.
Soon I will post another bunch of skins for another cool airplane for you guys and gals to enjoy your flights in WW1.
This time its going to be an Allied machine, a real classic from the 1914-1915 era, and one of the first to see combat.
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