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Solomon Sea, Milne Bay, & Buna-Dobodura by UT released!

The short length landing grounds were only in use for a matter of months, during the advance towards Buna-Gona.

It is difficult to get in with a C47, but it can be done. Approach low & slow, with a shallow glide slope, & use your flaps!

They also shipped troops up in Hudsons, I haven't tried that yet.

The runway lengths & orientation are extrapolated from an Australian Defence Air Navigation Chart. These fields lack the sophistication of the later Dobodura fields, but they served a vital purpose, allowing US & Australian troops to be repositioned & leapfrog towards the Buna-Gona area by air rather than by sea.

I have no idea how they managed in anything without flaps, such as a DH84 Dragon... :dizzy:
 

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UncleTgt,

Many thanks for all this wonderful scenery, this is something I hope to install soon! :santahat:
 
Its a stand-alone scenery, designed for a Rhumba mesh install.

from the readme:

"This is a reworking of the stock sceneries for the Buna-Dobodura area at the SE end of PNG. It is designed for use with Rhumbas mesh, but the scenery excludes provided should mean this works well in a stock mesh install too.This scenery builds on & extends the areas covered in my previous Solomon Sea & Milne Bay sceneries, but it should work as a stand-alone scenery as well."

There are potential conflicts with elements from Maskrider's Papua New Guinea airfield set, but these are clearly identified.
 
I'll be doing more work on the Beaufighter Campaign I sent out a while back to few people in the forum.problem is so far it's all in 1942.

TheBookie
 
Seeing as Buna was non-operational as an airstrip from October '42, & was recaptured by US & Australian troops by the year's end, it's not surprising the missions you have are all from 1942.

The scenery includes a JAP Buna gsl, so I think all that's required is to develop replacement gsl for the Horanda & Dodobura areas that doesn't include the later airfield complex. Sounds easy, but would take some time to achieve. But it's doable.

For your Beaufighter timeframe I would leave the landing grounds at Raways & Soputa in place, but remove Popondetta, Girua, Horanda, North Embi & Borio.

It could be argued that Popondetta could also be left in, it was used as a landing ground for C47's from NOV'42 onwards, but my version is too developed, it would need to be replaced with a simpler strip.

I also did some gsl for Oro Bay. To accurately represent this timeframe that should also be stripped back to a small harbour facility only.
 
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