The wonderful Bristol Brisfit! Also, I wanted to point out that back then in 1917 until the late stages of 1918, the Royal Air Force didn't exist, instead it was the Royal Flying Corps (RFC).
Trivia: No one called combat aircraft "fighters" in WW1. The Brits called them scouts, and the USA called them pursuit airplanes or scouts. The term fighter wasn't adopted by Britain until the 1920s, and the USA in the 1940s. I forget which one it was, but one of the funniest descriptions of a scout plane I've ever read was about a two-seat pusher. The description said "The only Albatross this airplane could shoot down was the kind with feathers."
My second ThunderBat video seen. A second one outta the ballpark. The views are amazing; easy to track... and the narrative is fresh. This video has resold me on the WWI part of IL-2 -- PS -- Never knew how or if the sim modeled pilot's bodies smacking the deck. BOOM goes the airplane and then, SPLAT goes the pilot. Loved it.
This is the fourth vid of yours that I have watched and each one from Russia to Port Moresby to Douai have been excellent from the flying to the camera work and the narrative! I've got the games, but I require a much better system.... do you have a cooling system for Ryzen?
Happy to see so much content lately. Your vids are soooo well produce, make me wanna boot IL-2 everytime.😆
The wonderful Bristol Brisfit! Also, I wanted to point out that back then in 1917 until the late stages of 1918, the Royal Air Force didn't exist, instead it was the Royal Flying Corps (RFC).
Interesting. I love how nobody had their big centralized air forces in this war
Trivia: No one called combat aircraft "fighters" in WW1. The Brits called them scouts, and the USA called them pursuit airplanes or scouts. The term fighter wasn't adopted by Britain until the 1920s, and the USA in the 1940s.
I forget which one it was, but one of the funniest descriptions of a scout plane I've ever read was about a two-seat pusher. The description said "The only Albatross this airplane could shoot down was the kind with feathers."
That was brutal. Wood and fabric. I doubt any game could ever be realistic, but that seems as close as you can get. Can't wait for the next one.
I'm really enjoying these WW1 VR flights.
The Allies had parachutes but only the balloon corps used them for "reasons".
An RFC pilot’s duty was to “stick with his aeroplane”.
@@patricksweeney1924 a continuation of the "metal is more important than meat"... or maybe the origination
"Come back victorious or not at all"
My second ThunderBat video seen. A second one outta the ballpark. The views are amazing; easy to track... and the narrative is fresh. This video has resold me on the WWI part of IL-2 -- PS -- Never knew how or if the sim modeled pilot's bodies smacking the deck. BOOM goes the airplane and then, SPLAT goes the pilot. Loved it.
"Somebody's been shot down."
I thought, "German because Allies didn't use parachutes in WWI."
Adding: As you found out very shortly, 😉
Brutal swan dive, but great fun!
I dig the WWI dogfights. Can't wait.
As it turns out, the birstolfighters getting destroyed is historically accurate to the aircraft's debut
Battle of the Somme commenced in July 1916, not April, so less than a year before April 1917.
This mission is set April 1917 during the arras offensive
This is the fourth vid of yours that I have watched and each one from Russia to Port Moresby to Douai have been excellent from the flying to the camera work and the narrative!
I've got the games, but I require a much better system.... do you have a cooling system for Ryzen?
Yeah, it's water cooled. I usually have my 3800x overclocked to 4.2 ghz, and it's still underpowered for what i'm doing
How come the rear gunners never shoot ??
Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't. The Albatros doesn't have a rear gunner
I think you need to adjust your chapter names
Yeah forgot to save the update. now I have to go scrubbing throught it again
How did the gunners not fall out?
velcro
@@ThunderBatSims and blind faith! If enough gunners believe they won't fall out, they won't!
...Fokker D7 ruled...
Meat or metal.