Alfs_UK_airfields-Volume 31 - Reymerston Hall EGKW*** and Shipdham EGSA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Reymerston Hall was the home of Wing Commander Ken Wallis. An RAF Bomber Command pilot in WWII, he subsequently designed his range of Wallis Gyrocopters, one of which, 'Little Nellie', was used and flown by him, in the James Bond film 'You Only Live Twice'. A remarkable man who died in 2013 at the age of 97. The project was suggested by Willie Visagie from Cape Town who also tried it out for me, thanks Willie. I urge you to research him on the internet. *** The ICAO code of EGKW does not seem to be allocated elsewhere so I thought it would serve well for Reymerston Hall. Reymerston Hall EGKW ----------------------------------- N52.620189 E00.974265 177 ft AMSL 1.8 nm ESE of Shipdham airfield. 11 nm W of Norwich. Grass strips 07/25 Grass strips 11/29 Reymerston Radio 122.900 (allocated by default, does not exist in the real world). ================================================================= Shipdham Airfield EGSA ------------------------------------ This is the flying club airfield local to Reymerston Hall N52.6290 E00.93117 210 ft AMSL 4 nm S of East Dereham. 13 nm W of Norwich Rwy02/20 Asphalt Rwys02/20 and 14/32 Grass Shown in scenery (for microlites etc,) but not included in available runways. Shipdham Radio 132.225 Weekends Only (Should be 132.250 but frequency not available in ADEX listing?) #### INFORMATION FOR FLIGHT SIMULATION ONLY #### --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE ABOUT PARKING PLACES Frank Wallis, seen in videos, taxied his machines, under power, from workshops at rear along the narrow tree lined path to the field whilst holding the free rotors lined up fore and aft. As far as I know, the only FSX autogyros available have stub wings and with collision mode switched ON would never make it to the field. Therefore Parking #1 is in the field for microlites/autogyros to fly from. In the hope that an FSX aircraft designer out there might have a go at a Wallis gyrocopter, I have also placed Parking #2 near the workshops. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACKNOWLEDGMENT My thanks to Willie Visagie of Capetown who origionally suggested the idea to me and also tried it out as I went along. I could not find pictures of outbuildings nor the rear or far left side of Reymerston Hall so these are purely my invention. Likewise I have no detailed views of Shipdham so these buildings are made up too, so my apologies for anything that is a travesty of the truth. Shipdham was done with little detail (and little knowledge) just because it was very local and I think Ken Wallis used to pop over to there. This was compiled using aerial views from Google Earth, Pooleys UK Flight Guide, and the FSX SDK Object Placement Tool and Airport Design Editor X v1.66.5555. Non generic objects were produced using Instant Object Studio v1.02 from Flight 1. It was designed to use with FSX Acceleration and FSX SP2 so there may be problems if SP1 and SP2 are not installed. NOTE: The scenery was made to fit into the FSX standard scenery, discrepancies may occur with photo-realistic scenery. Installing ------------- See separate file. Future Projects ------------------------ If you have a local small airfield you'd like done and can provide photographs then feel free to contact me-though I make no promises! Alf Denham June 2015 alf.denham@care4free.net alf.denham@btinternet.com