1926 - East Frisian Islands

[bhk]

Uploaded to Avsim and Flightsim today (Sunday AEST):-

Set in 1926, this compact flight sees you flying a Junkers W-33b on your twice-weekly "milk-and-bread" run from Emden and through the islands, including Heligoland (or "Helgoland") before terminating at Borkum, the western-most island in the German Frisian islands.

Your flightplan takes you in an anti-clockwise direction and you terminate at Borkum.
There is no schedule...if you feel like having a chat with the locals en-route, feel free to do so, just so long as you get to Borkum to pick up the mail before the Post Office closes.

Additional scenery files are required :- ostfr40.zip and helgol09.zip. Also the Junkers Ju-W33b aeroplane by Hauke Keitel and Rolf-Uwe Hochmuth:- juw33fs9.zip.





Bruce

[leylandspurr]

Nice one Bruce, and topical, I've always like this plane and it fits this scenery very well.
How about the flight of the 'Bremen' for a suggestion?

[bhk]

Leyland,
This is the "Bremen" to which you refer?
www.askaboutireland.ie/show_narrative_page.do?page_id=172

One could always fast-forward through what Fitzmaurice called

"Interminable hours of endless flight"

Bruce

P.S.
I like the caption to the photo on that opening page, in that they were waiting for Favourable Weather.
That'd be a long time coming in Ireland, wouldn't it?!

[leylandspurr]

Yes Bruce, that was the one I meant, here are some more links:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bremen_(aircraft)
development.southdublin.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Itemid=1
www.sdublincoco.ie/sdcc/departments/econdev/publications/pdf/BremenBookletSDCC.pdf
www.airport-bremen.de/index.php?id=15&L=1
(this last one starts with Bremen airport history, but continues into the story of the flight)
Sounds like a real tale of 'derring-do' and some famous names were involved in the search for the plane when she had to make her emergency landing.
Another of those heroic stories that just seem to disappear into the mists.
Leyland

[bhk]

Thanks, Leyland.
I'll have a look at re-creating this epic.

Cheers!
Bruce