All Time Popular > Page 3353
RAF Bassingbourn, UK, 1945
(Category: FSX > Scenery)
1.58Mb (787 downloads)
RAF Bassingbourn is a former Royal Air Force station located in Cambridgeshire approximately 3 mi (5 km) north of Royston, Hertfordshire and 11 mi (18 km) south west of Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.
RAF Bassingbourn was constructed by John Laing & Son between 1937 and 1939 in the parishes of Wendy and Bassingbourn immediately to the west of the A14 (now the A1198) road. The site selected was low ground between several tributaries of the River Cam. The area had been long cleared of forest and tended to be swampy and unstable, and because the boggy ground produced a persistent mist over the large meadow the site was considered ideal for airfield camouflage.
During the Second World War it served first as an RAF station and then as a bomber airfield of the Eighth Air Force, of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF). It remains the home of the Tower Museum Bassingbourn. From 19 August 1942 to 25 June 1945, Bassingbourn served as headquarters for the 1st Combat Bombardment Wing of the 1st Bomb Division. It was assigned USAAF designation Station 121.
The RAF resumed occupation of Bassingbourn on 26 June 1945, the airfield was officially returned on 10 July 1945. The station became one of the main airfields for long-range transport aircraft. In 1948 and 1949 Avro York, Avro Lancaster and Douglas Dakota aircraft from the base took part in the Berlin Airlift, a massive operation transporting essential commodities to the beleaguered city.
In February 1952, RAF Bassingbourn received its first allocation of English Electric Canberra bombers and became the first jet bomber operational conversion unit (OCU) in the world. Canberras operated from Bassingbourn for 17 years and one of the aircraft is on static display in the Barracks. From 1963 to 1969 the Joint School of Photographic Interpretation was also located there.
On 29 August 1969, the last RAF Commanding Officer, Sqn Ldr A.M. McGregor MBE, turned over the station to the British Army as Bassingbourn Barracks.
The barracks were established, on the site of the former RAF Bassingbourn airfield, in January 1970, as the new Depot for the Queen's Division. The depot was responsible for training recruits undergoing their 19-week basic training before joining a regular battalion; in 1993 the Barracks were re-designated the home of the "Army Training Regiment, Bassingbourn" and remained as such for nearly 20 years. Bassingbourn Barracks closed as an army training location in August 2012.
The site was reopened for training Libyan soldiers in 2014 but closed down the same year.
Since approximately 1970 the site has retained its RAF links by being the home of 2484 (Bassingbourn) Squadron Air Training Corps.
Posted May 29, 2016 12:15 by Terry Boissel
Douglas TBD-1 Devastator red tail (AIRFIX)
(Category: FSX > Vintage)
1.29Mb (787 downloads)
Texture for FSX Douglas TBD-1 Devastator Updated Package, by Michael E. Roberts, to the Paul Clawson Douglas TBD1 Devastator.(file needed: douglas_tbd-1_devastator.zip). Texture by Enrique Medal. This archive contains a texture that depict red section leaders of Torpedo and Bombing Squadron Five (VT-5), which was part of the Yorktown Air Group aboard the USS Yorktown (CV-5) in the late 1930s.
Required files:
required file
Posted Apr 19, 2015 14:18 by Enrique Medal
Boeing 787-8 BOAC RetroJet
(Category: FS2004 > Civil Jets)
3.17Mb (787 downloads)
FS2004 BOAC RetroJet Series Boeing 787-8 v5. This version 5, features more improved and detailed aircraft model and textures , including CamSim's own static displays and Animated Ground Servicing (AGS).
Model design and paint by Camil Valiquette.
Posted Sep 11, 2014 09:54 by camil valiquette
FSX DB70 WVA Aircraft Update Files
(Category: FSX > Vintage)
80.93Mb (787 downloads)
Wide View Aspect flying (WVA) is a resident option in FSX. It is not by default activated. The aircraft are displayed differently in WVA and it is necessary, in this project, to provide files to place overlay windows and the bomb sight in the correct positions to maintain accuracy of an attack on the dam walls. You must have Part 1 installed and if you already fly WVA or wish to, then this updated MUST be applied. For simplicity this update will replace all Plane-Design flyable Lancasters in PART 1. The Project Ai's are not affected by the change to WVA. An illustrated Pdf Manual provides background and installation instuctions. With the permission of the Chief Designer at Plane-Design - Ed Walters this package has been prepared by Ross McLennan. File name DB70_WVA_Update1.zip
Posted Mar 20, 2013 21:14 by Ross McLennan
FS2004 Double Pack Features For Pilotable Armed Merchand Cruisers
(Category: FS2004 > Misc)
6.22Mb (787 downloads)
FS2004/FS2002 doublepack for pilotable armed merchand cruisers (download from Usio no Ibuki required). One ship is the japanese "Asaka Maru", the another one the german auxilary cruiser "Thor" in 2 versions. This are very detailed CFS2 warships of WWII from from Masazumi Kaneko in a high quality but without VC. My AddOn provides a pilotable ships with bridge-, 10-cm gun and AA-gun-views, sounds and special effects. Bitmaps and configuration by Erwin Welker
Link:
http://www.geocities.jp/usio_no_ibuki/index.htm
Required
file (external link. Please
report if broken)
Posted Oct 10, 2011 11:22 by Erwin Welker
Ukraine Scenery Package Part 4
(Category: FS2004 > Scenery)
16.64Mb (787 downloads)
Ukraine Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy
UKHA-Akhtyrka, UKHB-Bliznyuki, UKHC-Chervonoye Pustogorod, UKHD-Kharkiv Sokolnyky North, UKHE-Kharkiv Lyubotin, UKHG-Kremenchug, UKHI-Izyum, UKHJ-Poltava, UKHK-Kremenchug Kakhnovka, UKHL-Lokhvitsya, UKHM-Velikaya Krucha, UKHN-Lebedin, UKHP-Poltava Suprunovka, UKHR-Kochubeyevka Artemivka, UKHT-Mirgorod, UKHU-Kupyansk Uzlovoy, UKHX-Khorol
Posted Aug 12, 2011 13:07 by Andrey anta
CFS2
39thFS P47 Thunderbolt
(Category: CFS2 > Aircraft)
1.08Mb (787 downloads)
CFS2
39thFS P47 Thunderbolt This
is the complete aircraft,panel and sound are alaised to the stock
Corsair. This is a factual repaint of the P47 that the 39th Fighter
Squadron flew during WWII in the Southwest Pacific theater. Chuck'Led'Selby.
1.1MB
Posted Jun 10, 2008 11:31 by archive
CFS2
Mod and re-paint of Doc Blacks fine Bristol Beaufighter.
(Category: CFS2 > Aircraft)
2.91Mb (787 downloads)
CFS2
Mod and re-paint of Doc Blacks fine Bristol Beaufighter. Includes
Panel & sounds. Bristol Beaufighter Mk. X 30 Squadron, Royal Australian
Air Force Tadje Strip, New Guinea August 1944 An Australian Beaufighter,
but still a Mk.X built in the UK - later on Beaus were also built
in Australia and designated Mk. 21. This pariticular aircraft serverd
with No. 30 Squadron RAAF in New Guinea. 3MB
Posted Jun 10, 2008 11:32 by archive
CFS1
Brunsbüttel-Harbour on the Elbe River, Germany.
(Category: CFS1 > Scenery)
0.34Mb (787 downloads)
CFS1
Brunsbüttel-Harbour on the Elbe River, Germany.
Scenery addon for CFS 1 created by Wolfgang Grünewald. 346K
Posted Jun 10, 2008 11:32 by archive
CFS1
Stock P-51 DP file with Bomb Modification
(Category: CFS1 > Aircraft)
0.04Mb (787 downloads)
CFS1
Stock P-51 DP file with Bomb Modification.
I found the original mustang a little bit boring, so I've made a new
DP-file for it wich gives you 8 bombs(!). NOTE: de file is for the
original CFS mustang and it is a BETA-version. You can use it in another
p51, but there might be bugs if you do that. 42K
Posted Jun 10, 2008 11:32 by archive

