These are the currently known .VCR file bytes that can be hex-edited to 
create customized missions.  The source of the .VCR can be either a single 
mission or a career mission.  If your .VCR is a full-length mission, it 
is easier to find the three-byte aircraft strings if you enter mission, 
fly for a second or two, then end mission and save to a new .VCR file. 
 
Changing the colors of your aircraft 
==================================== 
 
The bytes describing your aircraft colors are in a fixed location. 
At offset 49 and 4A in hex (the first byte is offset 00) are the wing 
and fuselage colors respectively. When you examine these bytes, 
they will both have the value FF if the .VCR was a single mission, or a  
career mission in which you flew an assigned aircraft.  If it was a  
personal aircraft from a career mission, your custom color values will  
already be in bytes 49 and 4A.  Use your favorite hex editor to change the 
wing and fuselage colors according to the table below. 
 
    Value  Color     
    =====  =====     
     00    Blue       
     01    Red       
     02    Yellow    
     03    Olive 
     04    Tan        
     05    Black     
     06    Grey      
     07    White 
      
Changing the pilots and aircraft 
================================ 
 
This is more difficult because these bytes are not always in 
the same location.  You are looking for N sets of 3-byte strings, 
where N is the total number of aircraft in the mission.  These will 
be referred to as ACS (aircraft string) in the explanation.  The ACS 
for your aircraft is NN 04 FF, where NN is the aircraft code from the  
table below.  If you were leading the flight, it is the first ACS.  If you 
were a wingman, the leader's ACS is before yours.  The three bytes of the 
ACS each perform a different function.  Byte 1 is the aircraft code (see 
aircraft code table below).  Byte 2 is the pilot skill code (see pilot 
skill table below).  Byte 3 is the ace code (see ace code table below). 
Please note that if you change the aircraft type of YOUR ACS, you should 
also change offset 31 hex to the same value.  Byte 31 contains the code that

will be used to list the completed mission in the top ten mission scores on

the single mission menu.  This byte is always in the same location, unlike 
the bytes that control the aircraft you (and your friends and foes) fly. 
     
Aircraft Code Table (ACS BYTE 1) 
================================ 
      
      Code   Aircraft represented 
      ----   -------------------- 
       00     Moraine Bullet 
       01     Airco D.H.2 
       02     Nieuport 17 
       03     Sopwith Pup 
       04     Sopwith Triplane 
       05     SPAD VII 
       06     S.E.5a 
       07     Sopwith Camel 
       08     SPAD XIII        
       09     Sopwith Snipe 
       10     Fokker E.III 
       11     Albatros D.II 
       12     Albatros D.III 
       13     Fokker Dr.I 
       14     Pfalz D.III 
       15     Albatros D.Va 
       16     Fokker D.VII 
         
[note: the aircraft below are bombers and recon planes.   
 You cannot fly them, as fun as that might be. 
 Red Baron will halt the system if you try to put 
 them in the aircraft byte of your ACS string.] 
        
       0A     R.E.8  "Harry Tate"        
       0B     F.E.2b "Fee" 
       0C     B.E.2  "Quirk"  
       0D     F.2B   "Brisfit"       
       0E     0/100  Handley Page 
       0F     D.H.4 
 
       17     Aviatik C.I 
       18     Roland C.II "Whalefish" 
       19     Rumpler C.IV 
       1A     Gotha G.IV 
       1B     Junkers J.I 
 
        
Pilot Skill Code Table (ACS BYTE 2) 
=================================== 
       00     Novice   
       01     Regular  
       02     Veteran  
       03     Ace 
       04     You 
           
 
Aces Code Table (ACS BYTE 3) 
============================ 
               
Code    Ace Represented 
----    ------------------------------ 
 00     Manfred von Richthofen 
 01     Ernst Udet 
 02     Werner Voss 
 03     Lothar von Richthofen 
 04     Herman Goering 
 05     Oswald Boelcke 
 06     Max Immelman 
 07     Erich Loewnhardt 
 08     Edward "Mick" Mannock 
 09     William Bishop 
 0A     James McCudden 
 0B     Albert Ball 
 0C     Lanoe Hawker 
 0D     Rene Fonck 
 0E     Georges Guynemer 
 0F     Edward Rickenbacker 
 10     Frank Luke 
 11     Charles Nungesser 
 12     Raymond Collishaw 
 FF     NOT AN ACE - INDICATES THAT ACS BYTE 2 SHOULD HAVE A VALUE  
        OF 00, 01, OR 02. 
               
It is easiest to look for your ACS first.  Find the aircraft code in the 
table; for example, say you were flying a SPAD XIII.  Your ACS would be 
08 04 FF.  If Eddie Rickenbacker had led the flight, his ACS would start 
six bytes before yours, and have a value 08 03 0F.  Each ACS starts exactly

six (6) bytes after the previous ACS.  Once you find your own ACS, you can 
find all the others for the planes on your side, and then the ACS for the 
planes of the opposition.