Repaint- Albatros DV Udet Skin for Aerocrate's Albatros DV
By John P Fortin (Blood_hawk23)
The repaint is of Ernst Udet's Albatros D V of his Jasta 37 bird in September of 1917. This maybe the plane in which he had his duel with Georges Guynemer.
---Guynemer scored another double victory on June 5, but during that period of intense combat, an incident occurred that somewhat contradicted his relentlessly deadly image. In his book, Mein Fliegerleben, Ernst Udet described his dogfight with a lone Spad near Lierval:
"Sometimes we pass so closely I can clearly recognize a narrow, pale face under the leather helmet," Udet wrote. "On the fuselage, between the wings, there is a word in black letters. As he passes me for the fifth time, so close that his propwash shakes me back and forth, I can make it out: 'Vieux' it says there — vieux — the old one. That's Guynemer's sign. Yes, only one man flies like this on our front, Guynemer, one who had brought down thirty Germans. Guynemer, who always hunts alone, like all dangerous predators, who swoops out of the sun, downs his opponents in seconds, and disappears….I know it will be a fight where life and death hang in the balance."
Udet, though a consummate flier in his own right, was unable to outmaneuver Guynemer. "I try anything I can, tightest banks, turns, side slips, but with lightning speed he anticipates all my moves and reacts at once," he wrote. "Slowly I realize his superiority. His aircraft is better, he can do more than I, but I continue to fight. Another curve. For a moment he comes into my sights. I push the button on the stick…the machine gun remains silent…stoppage!"
For what Udet described as the longest eight minutes of his life, he struggled on while trying to clear his jammed weapons. At one point he was pounding on the receiver with both fists when the Spad flew over his Albatros. "Then it happens," Udet wrote. "He sticks out his hand and waves to me, waves lightly, and dives to the west in the direction of his lines."
Udet remained convinced ever since that Guynemer, seeing his plight, had spared him in an act of knightly chivalry. With the benefit of hindsight, however, a later, less idealistic breed of fighter pilot might have thought the French ace's noble compassion somewhat misplaced, given the total of 62 Allied planes credited to Udet by the end of the war.---
Original Aircraft: Gary Aumaugher and Model by David Eckert
This download requires the Aerocrate's Albatros D.V aircraft available here:
http://www.aerocrate.com/documents/Alb_DV.zip
The download includes only those texture files that require replacement in the original aircraft texture folder.
Discussion Thread
By John P Fortin (Blood_hawk23)
The repaint is of Ernst Udet's Albatros D V of his Jasta 37 bird in September of 1917. This maybe the plane in which he had his duel with Georges Guynemer.
---Guynemer scored another double victory on June 5, but during that period of intense combat, an incident occurred that somewhat contradicted his relentlessly deadly image. In his book, Mein Fliegerleben, Ernst Udet described his dogfight with a lone Spad near Lierval:
"Sometimes we pass so closely I can clearly recognize a narrow, pale face under the leather helmet," Udet wrote. "On the fuselage, between the wings, there is a word in black letters. As he passes me for the fifth time, so close that his propwash shakes me back and forth, I can make it out: 'Vieux' it says there — vieux — the old one. That's Guynemer's sign. Yes, only one man flies like this on our front, Guynemer, one who had brought down thirty Germans. Guynemer, who always hunts alone, like all dangerous predators, who swoops out of the sun, downs his opponents in seconds, and disappears….I know it will be a fight where life and death hang in the balance."
Udet, though a consummate flier in his own right, was unable to outmaneuver Guynemer. "I try anything I can, tightest banks, turns, side slips, but with lightning speed he anticipates all my moves and reacts at once," he wrote. "Slowly I realize his superiority. His aircraft is better, he can do more than I, but I continue to fight. Another curve. For a moment he comes into my sights. I push the button on the stick…the machine gun remains silent…stoppage!"
For what Udet described as the longest eight minutes of his life, he struggled on while trying to clear his jammed weapons. At one point he was pounding on the receiver with both fists when the Spad flew over his Albatros. "Then it happens," Udet wrote. "He sticks out his hand and waves to me, waves lightly, and dives to the west in the direction of his lines."
Udet remained convinced ever since that Guynemer, seeing his plight, had spared him in an act of knightly chivalry. With the benefit of hindsight, however, a later, less idealistic breed of fighter pilot might have thought the French ace's noble compassion somewhat misplaced, given the total of 62 Allied planes credited to Udet by the end of the war.---
Original Aircraft: Gary Aumaugher and Model by David Eckert
This download requires the Aerocrate's Albatros D.V aircraft available here:
http://www.aerocrate.com/documents/Alb_DV.zip
The download includes only those texture files that require replacement in the original aircraft texture folder.
Discussion Thread
