How do you put comments next to your aviator

Baron von Richthofen (Vaclav) · #1 02-10-2009, 04:54 PM

troypiggo (Troy) · #2 02-10-2009, 05:09 PM

You mean avatar? Go to your User CP, then Edit Your Details, Custom User Title.

MrB (Simon) · #3 02-10-2009, 05:23 PM

Maybe he does mean avatar, but aviator works just as well

Baron von Richthofen (Vaclav) · #4 02-10-2009, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by troypiggo

You mean avatar? Go to your User CP, then Edit Your Details, Custom User Title.

Thank you and I did mean aviator

troypiggo (Troy) · #5 02-10-2009, 05:48 PM

Sorry, but while we're at it, isn't it Baron?

dugnsuz (Doug) · #6 02-10-2009, 06:07 PM

slip him a post-it at the airport

Baron von Richthofen (Vaclav) · #7 02-10-2009, 06:28 PM

You shot down the red baron

troypiggo (Troy) · #8 02-10-2009, 06:57 PM

Hehe. Defeated with pedantry.

MrB (Simon) · #9 02-10-2009, 07:52 PM

Just a little bit of useless semi-related info, one theory is it was an Australian that brought down the real Red Baron

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred..._fatal_shot.3F

GeoffW1 (Geoff) · #10 02-10-2009, 08:04 PM

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Originally Posted by MrB

Just a little bit of useless semi-related info, one theory is it was an Australian that brought down the real Red Baron

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred..._fatal_shot.3F

I thought CSI France finally solved that one.

Baron von Richthofen (Vaclav) · #11 03-10-2009, 03:19 PM

Is there any way of changing your ID?

iceman (Mike) · #12 03-10-2009, 03:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Vars191

Is there any way of changing your ID?

What ID?

Baron von Richthofen (Vaclav) · #13 03-10-2009, 03:27 PM

Vars191

iceman (Mike) · #14 03-10-2009, 03:48 PM

I can change it for you. Send me a PM with what you want.

Redshift (Phil) · #15 03-10-2009, 05:07 PM

Some more on the Red Baron. Yes, it was an Australian who shot down the Red Baron. His name was Robert Buie and he was a gunman operating a Lewis machine gun. I understand he became an oyster fisherman after the war and lived at Brooklyn on the NSW Central Coast.

Here's some more. My grandfather was the first soldier placed on guard duty over the wreck of the Baron's plane after it was brought into the compound of the No. 3 Squadron Flying Corps. He was told to shoot anyone who tried to pinch bits off it. Some bits mysteriously fell into his hands though - pieces of thin plywood that he made into three very small picture frames.

When I was a boy he used to get them out and let me hold them, and more recently I was able to let my sons do the same. It's an amazing thing to know you are holding such a piece of history in your own hands.

You can find out more about Robert Buie just by Googling his name - it's all there.

Baron von Richthofen (Vaclav) · #16 03-10-2009, 05:38 PM

That's not how he should have died he should have died in a dog fight shot down by a better fighter pilot
How sad

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #17 03-10-2009, 06:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Redshift

Some more on the Red Baron. Yes, it was an Australian who shot down the Red Baron. His name was Robert Buie and he was a gunman operating a Lewis machine gun. I understand he became an oyster fisherman after the war and lived at Brooklyn on the NSW Central Coast.

Here's some more. My grandfather was the first soldier placed on guard duty over the wreck of the Baron's plane after it was brought into the compound of the No. 3 Squadron Flying Corps. He was told to shoot anyone who tried to pinch bits off it. Some bits mysteriously fell into his hands though - pieces of thin plywood that he made into three very small picture frames.

When I was a boy he used to get them out and let me hold them, and more recently I was able to let my sons do the same. It's an amazing thing to know you are holding such a piece of history in your own hands.

You can find out more about Robert Buie just by Googling his name - it's all there.

A very very old friend of mine, (sadly he's dead now) Ted Smout, was one of the first people to arrive at the Red Baron's plane after it was shot down. I bet your grand dad knew him (unless of course he is your grand dad

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Redshift (Phil) · #18 04-10-2009, 09:30 AM

That's a great coincidence Jeanette. They may well have known each other. My dad has a photo of a bunch of officers sitting around the wreck. My g'dad is in the photo too, standing guard. Maybe your friend is in that photo too.

jjjnettie (Jeanette) · #19 04-10-2009, 09:39 AM

Ted's memoirs are packed in a box at the moment, but I will certainly get back to you on this.
Maybe there's something in Wiki about it??
Here you go.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_David_Smout
If you google his name, there's quite a bit about him on the net.
Don Burke even did a segment on him!!

Redshift (Phil) · #20 04-10-2009, 09:57 AM

Thanks JJJ.
Looks like we hijacked this thread, sorry, so I'd like to get it back on track with another question.

How do I get info at the bottom end of all my posts like others have. By that I mean all that stuff about what scopes people have etc etc? I've looked in the 'UserCP' section but I don't see how to do it.

Thanks