FSX /P3dv3,v4,v5 Arsenal VG 33
The Arsenal VG-33 was one of a series of fast French light fighter aircraft under development at the start of World War II, but which matured too late to see extensive service in the French Air Force during the Battle of France.
Native mdl by A.F.Scrub
RFC Beaulieu at East Boldre, Hampshire; aka no 19 Training Squadron (depot) Station RFC ;home to Nos. 1 and 70 Training Squadrons; No, 79 Squadron (With Sopwith Dolphin). Later in 1918 became No. 29 Training Depot Station. not to be confused with the ww2 airfield of same name. built the other side of the Beaulieu to Lymington road.
On Sunday 1 May, 1910, a large crowd of people came to East Boldre to watch a flying display by William McArdle and J. Armstrong-Drexel, who were flying two Bleriot monoplanes.
Despite refusal from the Office of Woods, they had built two sheds, one for a hangar and one for a workshop, and they hired some local lads to clear a strip of heathland for the runway; creating the second flying school to be opened in the UK, (the first being at Leysdown on the Isle of Sheppey). There a some photographs in circulation from this period of the early planes resting on local chimney stacks.
The flying school closed two years later in 1912 and the airfield reverted to quiet grazing land but in 1914, one of the sheds on the airfield was taken over by the Royal Flying Corps (forerunner of the RAF). By 1915 the demand for pilots on the Western Front was so great that the training school, called RFC Beaulieu was built on the area. Three iron hangars, several huts and the Officer’s Mess (which is now the village hall), were built in the village during 1915. By 1917, four more large hangars, a powerhouse, workshops and accommodation for airmen, airwomen and officers were built on the Beaulieu to Lymington road. Known as 'The Squadron' ; the task of this side of the airfield being to practice pilots in air combat drills that they would need on the front in France. Probably the world's first 'Top Gun' school!!
Three squadrons were formed at RFC Beaulieu before being moved to France. 84 Squadron still exists and still considers itself to be a Beaulieu Squadron. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No._84_Squadron_RAF)
Until 27 July 1918 the function of the site was a Training Squadron Station. After this date its function was listed as a Training Depot Station and School, RAF; specifically, No. 29 Training Depot Station. The camp was closed in 1919 and most of the buildings were removed, at the behest of the landowner Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, on whose estate it was built.
The Officers mess is still present, doing duty as East Boldre village hall.
FS9 as I don't run X ; feel free to adjust and tweak as you desire; and no background poly as Sbuilder won't run on my system.
You'll need the ACG Duxford, MAIW and UKVFR scenery libraries (not included here) and Stow Maries sceneries as I've borrowed objects from those in your static objects folder for buildings to show, also Sid Schwartz' 2 d objects for the 'BEAULIEU' letters to show.
This is a reworking of the stock sceneries for the area at the NE end of PNG, from Awar westwards as far as But. 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 PNG sceneries, but it should work as a stand-alone scenery as well.
Contents:
New Ground2K scenery for each, including fringing reefs.
New airbase scenery, made using FSSC.
New gsl infrastructure.
New custom Landclass & Waterclass.
Some simple missions using the stock F4U-1A Corsair for viewing the gsl airbases & scenery
The base scenery is as developed through to mid-1943, & the base gsl reflects this.
Known conflicts:
Installing this scenery pack will require the archiving of some the airbases from Pen2win's AF Papua New Guinea scenery.
AF_PNG
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PNG_Boram airbase is replaced by a new airstrip.
PNG_Wewak-Wirui airbase is replaced by a new airstrip.
PNG_But East-Dagua airbase is replaced by a new airstrip.
PNG_But West airbase is replaced by a new airstrip.
Until the middle of 1943, apart from the established airdrome at Wewak, much of the area was only covered by a small number of small grass fields, mainly used pre-WW2 in support of the church missions & plantation operations.
In early '43 the Japanese began expanding Wewak & improving the 1937 runway at But, & commenced development at Dagua & Boram. All these locations came under Allied air attacks almost straight away, & all fields were pretty much complete by the middle of the year. So in this pack we have a single gsl option, depicting the fields during the period they were fought over.
I did add a few other small strips for historical interest.
Credits
Thanks to: Jean Bomber for his inspiration, advice & support. He talked me through getting to grips with G2K & more…
Maskrider for all his airbase packages & the blended airbase tutorial. This set the standard for airbase sceneries for the game.
Rhumbaflappy for the new more accurate world mesh – it was a desire to make best use of this development that is the driver for many of my scenery projects. He also developed the vtp1 fixer programme to fix display errors in vtp bgls compiled from Ground2K.
GavinC for his reworking of the stock airbases, making individual base reworking/ revision much easier
Shessi for his water textures, that were the inspiration for my reworking of Jimkos Pacific Blues, & indirectly lead me to develop this latest set of water textures.
Lindsay Watt for all of his scenery objects & innovations.
Wolfi for his scenery objects.
Xavier for all his scenery objects & airbase sceneries, opening up a larger world for us all to fly in.
Martin Wright for all the various software tools that are so useful!
Russell Dirks for his EZ landclass programme, making large scale land/ water class adjustments possible.
Christian Fumey for his excl8 & Ground2K programmes, making the creation of completely new scenery possible for CFS2.
Unit: 1/LeLv26 Kilpasilta, Finland Mar 1943 (this aircraft had 5 victories with various pilots)
Pilot: L. Kalkkinen
The FIAT G.50 Freccia (Freccia means Arrow in English) was first flown in February 1937. The G.50 was Italy's first single-seat, all-metal monoplane with an enclosed cockpit and retractable landing gear to go into production. Italian pilots disliked the sliding cockpit canopy, which was not easy to open quickly. So, in later production series, an open cockpit was adopted.
Fourteen G.50 were drawn from the first Series I production batch and shipped to Finland in January of 1940. They were assigned to LeLV 26, then stationed at Utti, but the unit was still in training when the so called Winter War with Russia ended with a peace treaty in March 1940. The enclosed cockpit canopies perspex began yellowing and fogging leading to the removal of the sliding canopies and painting over the fixed rear canopies.
Twenty one more G.50s were delivered during 1940 (two lost in transit), this time from the Series II version. Finland declared war on the Soviet Union on June 25, 1941 after the Russians bombed several Finland cities. With LeLv26, The G.50 saw its longest and most successful service in the two Finnish wars against the Soviet Union, the Winter War of 1939 1940 and the Continuation War of 1941 1944. Overall, LeLv 26 achieved 52 kills against only 2 losses in combat.
Credits
Captain Kurt: Aircraft model, VC, paint textures, aircraft flight files, and .dp.
Kelticheart: Prop blurred texture.
Gauges, as far as I know, credit goes to kelticheart, mvg3d, Chalachew, Beepee, and Gius for their WWII Italian gauges.
The panel, much modified, is based on an IL-2 panel.
Thank you to all of them for their hard work and attention to detail.
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