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Thanks again. Like I said before, I have no usable photos at all, just a Squadron listing and dates, so I wouldn't have known about the paint. :redf:

I just had a look at what's left of Rackheath to give Gary's repaints a base, but there's not much left these days, just a couple of what might be runway lines and a small dispersal area. When I get back home, I'll take a look at the book and see whether there's enough to base a version on, but it'll be a lot of guesswork unless there are some more markers to position things using.

Ian P.
 
Ian:

That would be great if you could come up with even a guess - timate of what Rackheath would look like. Some of the fields given in FS9 at those locations just aren't long enough any longer to get a heavy bomber off.

Do you have access to After The Battle's book "Airfields of the Eighth, Then and Now?" That might be a good starting point. If it would help, I could scan those pages and send them to you.

So where in the middle of the UK do you live? During Desert Storm, I was medical flight crew and we flew out of Upper Heyford and lived at RAF Croughton for three plus months.

Gary
 
I'm living in the West Midlands - my nearest airfield is the old RAF navigation school at Halfpenny Green in South Staffordshire, so the opposite side of the middle than your bases, unfortunately.

There's very little on the ground of Rackheath - it's mainly fields in Google Earth. If you search for Rackheath, the airfield is just to the right of where the name marker points. There's a Wonkypedia link in the middle of what's left, which points at this picture:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rackheathairfield_9july1946.jpg

Between that and the books I have, I'm hoping to be able to put something together. Can't say when, or whether it will be close to accurate, but I'll try.

My primary source is Ken Delve's "Military Airfields of Britain" series, which I am slowly collecting - particularly the East Anglia one in this instance: http://www.amazon.co.uk/East-Anglia...r_1_10?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225048658&sr=1-10

I'm not at home at the moment (returning there tomorrow), however for the life of me I can't get the Alpha B-24 out of Halesworth, which is accurate in terms of runway length. Did they actually use full fuel? If so, they absolutely had to use fully open throttles even on the longest runway if the Alpha flight model is close to realistic and that's got to limit engine life... I wouldn't want to try it with Accusim enabled!

Someone bump this thread tomorrow evening UK time, when I'll be back on my own internet connection, please? :d

Ian P.
 
Right. Home now.

I have runway lengths and headings for Rackheath in the East Anglia book. No layout map, but that one on Wikipedia should allow me to do that. I'll try it. If the fields haven't encroached too far into the old airfield boundary, it shouldn't be too hard.

Downham Market, unfortunately, is a different matter. There's one faint runway outline left, a couple of remaining bits of taxiway/dispersals but not a lot at all I can use. And there appears to be a farm strip in the middle of a field, that any add-on for would cause a clash with. I can give that one a go, but it won't be as easy to place... However, I now understand Henry's fascination with balsa wood aircraft:

571Sqn - 7-22 Apr 1944 - Mosquito
608Sqn - 1 Aug 1944 - 28 Aug 1945 - Mosquito

The majority of the time it looks like it was Sterlings, with 635Sqn's Lancs from 20 Mar 1944 to 1 Sep 1945 to provide some more Merlin noises.


So. Henry. You convince someone to do us true FSX Mossies, Lancs and Sterlings and I'll do you Downham Market! :d

Ian P.
 
IanP said:
Downham Market, unfortunately, is a different matter. There's one faint runway outline left, a couple of remaining bits of taxiway/dispersals but not a lot at all I can use. And there appears to be a farm strip in the middle of a field, that any add-on for would cause a clash with. I can give that one a go, but it won't be as easy to place... However, I now understand Henry's fascination with balsa wood aircraft:

571Sqn - 7-22 Apr 1944 - Mosquito
608Sqn - 1 Aug 1944 - 28 Aug 1945 - Mosquito

The majority of the time it looks like it was Sterlings, with 635Sqn's Lancs from 20 Mar 1944 to 1 Sep 1945 to provide some more Merlin noises.


So. Henry. You convince someone to do us true FSX Mossies, Lancs and Sterlings and I'll do you Downham Market! :d

Ian P.
Click to expand...
im working on it! :d
i also have the complete plans for Downham
thanks to Gary 20 :applause:
he did one for FS9
but sadly it does not work well in fsx:banghead:
H
 
Not finished yet. Need to move the tower and sort out the asphalt taxiway, but getting there... Note how close Norwich International Airport is!

What might be of more interest is that just before I took the last shot, an AI Alphasim B-24D actually took off without running out of runway. That's what happens when the runway closest to north is the long (2000yd) one, not a short (1400yd) one like at Station 365.

Ian P.
 
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