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It has been a bit since I have posted to the blog, so perhaps a bit of an update is due....

I have been slowly reading Theodore Hamady's The Nieuport 28: America's First Fighter and it is changing the way I think about the N28 and how it should be rated in Wings of War/Glory. When the Americans are first deployed to the front, the N28 was equipped with one Vickers machinegun. That means B Deck. In reading pilot accounts it could seemingly dogfight with the best of the German aircraft, ...

So late in the day on Sunday, my good buddy [URL="http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/member.php?5268-adler64"]Alder64[/URL] and I managed to squeeze in two quick games of WGF. Our goal was to try using altitude for a change.

We selected a DH 2 and a Fokker E.III give two planes of similar ability as the "Fokker Scourge" comes to a close.

The first game went rapidly, with both planes closing to gunnery in the second turn and the DH 2 maneuvering into ...

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Originally Posted by predhead

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Book Title:

The Stand: The Final Flight of Frank Luke, Jr.

Author:

Stephen Skinner

ISBN:

0764330950

Category:

Biography

Format:

Hardback

Summary:

It is not often I read biographies, I tend to stick towards the operation side of things. But for some reason I was drawn to read Stephen Skinner's The Stand: The Final Flight of Lt. Frank Luke, Jr. The better half picked this one up for me recently as a birthday gift (shouldn't our parents - particularly our mothers - be the

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Oh Lord, do not let the better half see this post!

Because of my renewed interest in Wings of Glory, I have been buying items that continues to stoke my interest. My recent purchases are either directly related to Wings of Glory/War, or World War I reference materials. Over the last couple of months I have purchased the following:

Planes
Airco DH.2
Aviatik D.I
Breguet BR.14 B2
De Havilland D.H.4
Fokker Dr.I
Fokker E.III ...