The next scenery pack is almost ready for release.
This extends along the northern coast of PNG from where previous Houn Gulf package ended, just north of Finschhafen, & gets you as far west as Hansa Bay.
Some of the pre-war landing grounds of the Eastern Highlands will be included. Although of limited use in a Combat Sim, they have interesting histories, & some should be just as challenging as landing back on a pitching & rolling carrier deck ...
For example,
I'll include the strip at Aiyura. The Australian Army Terrain study called this strip "a death trap", only suitable for lightly loaded DH Dragon or similar. Situated in a bowl shaped valley, the runway was ringed by tree cover. It had a hill at the SE end, & was only used uphill, towards this hill! The location was also reported to be susceptible to cross winds
Built close to the river, its short grass runway had an approach over trees & hill escarpments to its East.
The runway was spongy, with potholes covering the SW end of the clearing, so the Australians quickly determined it completely useless for operations, even by light aircraft...
Spring 1944, & the encirclement of Rabaul is completed with the capture of the Admiralty Islands & the St. Matthias Island Group NW of Kavieng, New Ireland.
SeaBees get to work & quickly establish a significant airbase on Emirau Island...
Gave the diggers some time off, spending some time improving my G- Max skills ...
Still a WIP ...
It's a frankenstein mash-up of the Pakayan/Sandydog Martin 139 WH-3, with elements of Paul Clawson's B-10, & crew figures adapted from Dave Garwood's Avro Anson crew ...
I was playing around with Stuart Green's Betty the other day. Another wonderful bird. I just need to fix a few things in the VC gauge wise...A few gauges are missing from the VC that show in the real-battle-panel that I have installed...
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