Love this one
Great pic of il Maggiore Baracca!
Mau
Just wanted to add a note here that I am still around. We decided to start a winter project of totally remodeling the kitchen. That is where I have been for the last few weeks.....in the kitchen.....literally.
Planes are starting to pile up on my desk as well. I just hope the paint jars haven't dried up.
Good to have you back Kelly.
I'm about to embark on re modelling Mrs K's sewing room, so I understand full well why you have been absent.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Ah, aren't those winter projects so much fun. Gives us a break from the yard projects of the spring, summer and fall
Karl
It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he knows. -- Epictetus
With my kitchen finally done, I welcome the yard projects.
But before it gets to warm and I am out in the yard, I just uploaded four new cards. They are currently in the moderation queue.
The newly added pilots are:
Hans Joachim von Hippel
Paul Baumer
Ludwig Weber
Hans Kirschstein
Example:
And as always, please let me know if anyone notices any errors on them. Next up will be some more Entente pilots.
Nice cards to add, and sewing room done. What more can a man require other than more planes and a G&T!
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Yes, I suspect that Remarque used the pilot's name as inspiration for his main character. Great job on the pilot cards btw; much appreciated.
To type it in WORD, try pressing the CONTROL key and then ":" and "a" in succession.
In HTML & most other windows-compatible keyboards, you should depress the ALT key, and then the numbers zero, two, two, eight from the number pad (not the numbers row above the standard keyboard), with the NumLock key off. That will give you the a-umlaut, thusly: ä . BTW, for other glyphs, this site is handy: http://www.nouilles.info/keyboard_shortcuts.html
Oh, and Baumer, without the umlaut, is pronounced pretty much like the english BOW-mer; with the umlaut, its pronounced more like BOI-mer.
This is really becoming a superior series of cards Kelly.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Thanks Rob.......I believe there are a total of 44 cards so far.
And here's another example of someone who is working for the benefit of the community. Good on ya, Kelly.
Sorry its been awhile. been very busy but did find some time to get a few cards done this past summer.
In the moderation queue is the following:
Frank Luke Jr.
Karl Sabeditsch
Karl Turek
Linke Crawford
Just like Ares, I could not find anything more on Sabeditsh and Turek than what they had so went with their info.
Up next:
Hermann Göring
Oswald Boelcke
Rudolf Stark
Should be plenty of info on these pilots. I also have on the slate after this group to go back to the Breguet pilots. Will see how I fair when I get to them.
No need to apologize Kelly, I'm just grateful that you are continuing with this project.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Thank you for all your hard work producing these cards, Kelly.
From the link that Sam provided me in his post for using umlaut's, I went back through the cards and found some typos with some of them.
I have updated the following cards to fix the ö and é:
Ludwig Weber
Hans Kirschstein
Josef Veltjens
Just about got the Fokker D.VII pilots done. Oswald Boelcke from the list above will be after that. Hugo Schafer from the WOW series will be added to the other Fokker D.VII pilots.
Also did a quick run through search on the Breguet pilots....I think these will be pretty tough to find info about them.
Thanks David.....They have been a lot of fun to make. I have just uploaded the Fokker DV.II pilots. In the moderation queue awaiting approval.
The cards are:
Hermann Göring
Gotthard Sachsenberg
Hugo Schafer
Rudolf Stark
Edit: I first uploaded Goring's card to show here in this post and noticed a typo on it. I will replace it with a corrected one once it is approved from the moderation queue
Last edited by Captain Chum; 11-29-2015 at 22:11.
Nice series Kelly, great job!
Just saw these for the first time....great stuff.
Harold Hartney and Ralph O'Neill cards are in the moderation queue.
Having a little more time to spend on more cards.....doing research for Alexander Kazakov. It looks like to me he never flew the snipe rather Nieuports. From what I can find, Ares added a sentence to the end of his profile as the snipe was used as his primary aircraft and used it when he died during an airshow. What gives? Was the airshow the only time he flew this aircraft?
Trying to finish up the Snipes....does anyone have info or a link on Clement Verner Ryrie? At the moment having some difficulty finding anything on him.
Baz (Gully_raker) asked that exact question on the Aerodrome Form in 2008 - have a look at this link. I haven't found much else on him.
Sapiens qui vigilat... "He is wise who watches"
I can't find anything other than what Dave mentioned above.
Me neither.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Thanks for the link Dave.
Spent a couple more hours on it this evening. I figure I can fill space on the card mentioning info on the AFC 4th Squadron. Then their is the problem of finding an image of him. Even went the squadron group and 4th Infantry Battalion route and no luck. I also tried searching using his "Nickname" ....... no luck
Can't seem to find anything on his snipe except for the Nexus version. Would be interesting where they got the scheme of his plane from.
Thanks gents for helping me with the search....I will keep looking but this one might be a dead end.
Updated Roderic Dallas' card to add his SE5a plane from WOW.
Also a few more in the moderation queue.
Bartlett/Naylor
The Snipes:
Alexander Kazakov
Gigoriy Saponhnikov
Thomas Baker
Ryrie is still a bust.
I have a few more done however the excel workbook I was doing them in, all the imagery shifted and shrunk and I can not figure out how to fix it. Created a new workbook. I had to redo some of the cards I just uploaded....should have the Fokker pilots as soon as I can redo them.
Updated Raymond Collishaw card....added his Sopwith 1 1/2 Strutter.
Impressive work. I applaud thee sir!
Very nice Kelly.
Fantastic work again, Kelly!
I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!
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