WW2 English Airfields in FSX?

[Odie]

Hoping someone has some info they can share. I would like to know if there are any WW2 Airfields in England that survived the war and that exist today in FSX. Specifically any that Mustang fighter groups would've flown out of.

AND, can anyone recommend any pay-ware WW2 fields that would have qwanset hut hangars.

I'm also looking for some Cold War period airfields scenery in England as well.

Thanks in advance!

Odie

UPDATE: I did find this map online:

http://www.303rdbg.com/h-england-map.html

[speedy70]

Well a great deal of them still exist but not in the form they were in ww2,Biggin Hill for example.

Anyhow if you want them as they were in the war try Ian Pearsons scenery.

Here http://www.ianpsdarkcorner.co.uk/flight-sim/historical-scenery/raf-airfields/raf-tangmere/

Cheers Chris

[Sundog]

Duxford.

However, when I want to take sim pictures, I like to use the end of the runway of Orbx's Elstree, which was a repair depot in WW2, and they modeled some old tarmac at the end of the runway nicely. They also have some of the old buildings that were used to repair aircraft there.

I also use their South Hampton as well. I wish we had a couple of good period WW2 fighter and Bomber airfields done to Orbx quality.

[speedy70]

Also see here

http://www.flightsimstore.com/product_info.php?products_id=2291

Cheers Chris

PS Sundog it is Southampton not South Hampton!!!!

[nio]

Mustangs flew out of Biggin Hill as bomber escorts from November 1944 until March 1945.

A more recent visitor was at last year's Biggin Hill Air festival- link below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-_ss2RomV8

best

nio

[IanP]

Can I chime in as well here, please? :)

Just to start with, Odie, Quonset huts are too small to use effectively as a hangar, except for storage. There were a number of "over hangar" types, but none of them big enough to fit a bomber in, only fighters... So are you by any chance thinking of a Miskins Blister (or Over-Blister or Extra-Over-Blister...), like this?

http://www.tep.uk.com/the-blister-hangar-little-sutton/

If you were then there were literally thousands of those around, but usually accompanied by "proper" shed-type hangars such as the B.1, T.1, or T.2.

In terms of fighter groups, not to Orbx quality by any stretch, I've done a bunch of 8th Air Force ones: 4th FG (Debden), 20th FG (Kings Cliffe), 55th (Wormingford), 339th (Fowlmere), 352nd (Bodney), 353rd (Raydon), 357th (Leiston) and 359th (East Wretham). They've been created over a number of years, with varying degrees of accuracy depending on the information and models I've had available at the time. I'm currently trying to make a "proper" Marston sheet PSP runway work at East Wretham, but am having major problems with "Z fighting", where the terrain below shows through the runway object, so right now it's still a FSX default steel mat runway.

They don't, for the most part, have individual pages on my site yet, but they're in the "all-in-one" download - They can be found here: http://www.ianpsdarkcorner.co.uk/ye-olde-all-in-one-scenerie-downloade-filess/. There's epic amounts that I want to do with my site which right now I can't, unfortunately, so things are just getting done when they get done.

Team SDB (here's a link that may be of more use... http://www.flightsimstore.com/index.php?cPath=2_82_84_172&sort=3a&filter_id=178) have done a number of both WW2 and Cold War sceneries, but again, they're of varying ages and accuracy. There are also WW2 airfields available in some aircraft packs, such as the FCS Wellington and Hurricane, but they aren't USAAF fields. You will probably also like the Airfield Construction Group freeware sceneries (hosted at the usual two big sites, Avsim and Flightsim.com).

Edited to add: There are other people, particularly Terry Flemming and Terry Boissel, who have also done freeware sceneries, although Terry Boissel's only work if you are using photoreal scenery. I think they both upload to Avsim. There are also a couple of sceneries available here in the SOH library... Ian Elliott I think may be the name behind those? Hopefully he, or someone else, can confirm or deny that! :)

Hope that's of use.

Cheers,

Ian P.

[ian elliot]

Yep, i have a few in the library aswell, some WW2, some Cold war :wavey:. Ian's pretty much got all base's (no pun intended ) cover'd in where to look, there's quite a few lurking in the SOH FSX scenery library, you'll be surprised how many there are once you start looking.

cheers ian

[keithb77]

Hoping someone has some info they can share. I would like to know if there are any WW2 Airfields in England that survived the war and that exist today in FSX. Specifically any that Mustang fighter groups would've flown out of.

AND, can anyone recommend any pay-ware WW2 fields that would have qwanset hut hangars.

I'm also looking for some Cold War period airfields scenery in England as well.

Thanks in advance!

Odie



The RealAir Spitfire comes with "an authentic rendition of the WW2 Fighter Station - West Malling in England which has a full suite of Artificial Intelligence Spitfires taxiing, taking off and landing. The scenery comes with period Blister Hangers, shelters, tower, runway, taxiways authentic WWII layout of the actual airfield."
Ony available on DVD nowadays though...
Cheers
Keith

[Odie]

Wow, thanks all! I will start searching your suggestions down and get them into FSX.

Hey Ian, yessir, it was the "Blister" type hanger I was thinking of. Appreciate the identification; the learning never stops!

Thanks again, everyone! This will keep me busy for a while.

[Bomber_12th]

English airfields that are still in use today that had Mustangs based at them during WWII include:

Honington - Mustangs of the 364th FG were based there (today, the airport looks very different)

Duxford - Mustangs of the 78th FG were based there and it is also where RAF Mustang testing and evaluations were conducted (today, the airport looks quite different, but a good number of the original WWII-era hangars and other structures still stand - the freeware (made to payware standard) ACG Duxford scenery is very highly recommended - just as good, if not better, as ORBX scenery.

Fowlmere - Mustangs of the 339th FG were based there (today, the airport looks very different/just a grass strip and single hangar).

Raydon - Mustangs of the 353rd FG were based there (today, much of the original perimeter track and wartime layout of the airport can be seen, as well as a good number of original wartime structures - only limited aviation operations, though the P-51D "Janie", painted in 353rd FG markings, flew into/attended an airshow at Raydon in 2001.)

North Weald - Mustangs of RAF 2nd Sqdn. were initially based there before the unit was deployed overseas.

Bentwaters - Mustangs of RAF 118 Sqdn. were based there in early 1945 before moving to Fairwood Common (although unused today, and bearing next to no resemblance of how it looked during WWII, it was used by the USAAF/USAF all the way up until 1993 - through those years F-86's, B-26 Invaders, F-101 Voodoos, F-4 Phantoms, A-10 Thunderbolt II's and F-16's were based there).

Biggin Hill - Mustangs of RAF 154 Sqdn. were based there in 1945.

Odiham - Mustangs of RAF No. 2, 4, 63, 168, 170, 239, 268, and 400 Squadrons all were based there at different times during WWII.

[speedy70]

John with the greatest respect these airports may be in use today but they are far advanced from what they were in the war.

I think the original poster wanted representations of wartime aerodromes in the UK.

Cheers Chris