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Fliegerhorst Laon Athies Luftwaffe WWII

I can't comment on Luftwaffe requirements, but most RAF runways were completely unmarked. Sometimes, rarely, there were locally applied runway numbers painted on the ends, but nothing more. They should - even through to the end of the war - have been camouflaged, but to be honest, once the Allies had air superiority, no-one bothered.

The edges of the runway would be marked with "gooseneck" flares that could only be viewed when on final, or by electric lighting that was hooded to prevent aircraft not on final from seeing them. What's more interesting is that US bomber fields, in particular, had so much lighting for approach and landing guidance, that you could quite happily use the FSX default lighting! (REIL, LIRL, taxiway lighting, approach guidance and funnel lighting...)

Ian P.
 
Dimus is correct, I went trough the standard work "Vliegvelden in Oorlogstijd" (Airfields during the war), which describes the airfields in the Netherlands during the war. None of the pictures showed any markings on the runways or (paved) taxi tracks.

There are several pictures which show an attempt to camouflage the runways, by painting them (mainly 1942-1943). Most probably greenish, but the pictures are all black&white.

Cheers,
Huub
 
blanston12 said:
What I would really like is a FSX native Jeep!
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I use this Jeep Willys and recommend it for ground inspections (better model :wavey:):

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Did a little mistake. AI-Traffic is showing up KG 101's Mistels. That is not correct. The KG101 was placed on an airfield about 10 km to the north-west that is called Laon-Couvron. so i will change that and do that airfield too in the near future.

Thanks to Philippe for notifing this.

greetings
Klaus
 
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