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Post by bhk on Dec 31, 2006 1:14:47 GMT -5
Currently under development in Muppet Labs is the recreation of the flight made by Harry Levy in April 1945 (see this thread:- mainescenery.proboards24.com/index.cgi?board=hangar&action=display&thread=1166908863 ) The flightplan and documentation will be packaged complete with AFCADs for the staging points, plus AI and static aircraft-types typical of that period, courtesy of a Scotsman living in the wild and barren highlands and an ex-pat Sassenach living in Spain.  Should be ready to roll out in a week or two but in the meantime here are a couple of early screenshots.....   As an addendum to that other thread, I'm very pleased to say that I've been in touch with Harry Levy and he has given complete permission for his notes and information to be used. Most will be included in the supporting docs. Regards, Bruce |
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Post by cptroyce on Dec 31, 2006 13:46:46 GMT -5
Bruce- Looking forward to this flight! It ought to be quite interesting.
Regards,
Royce
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Post by Roger on Dec 31, 2006 14:02:06 GMT -5
Hi Bruce,
Looks like Stuart's Sunderland? What prop textures did you use?
Cheers,
Roger.
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Post by bhk on Dec 31, 2006 17:13:53 GMT -5
Rog, I'm pretty sure I ended up settling on JBK's Solent texture. I know it's from one of Jens' 'boats but now I honestly can't remember which! Bruce |
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Post by bhk on Dec 31, 2006 17:25:59 GMT -5
Bruce- Looking forward to this flight! It ought to be quite interesting.... I think you'll enjoy it, Royce. The fact that one of the lads who undertook the journey is still with us makes it all the more real and significant, I think. I've also been playing around with a "what if?" scenario.....how one would fly the route in a light land-based single-engined period aircraft to celebrate the 60th. anniversary of the flight in April 2005. So this time the flight is based on using a Tiger Moth in which a modern nav-aid in the form of a GPS has been fitted and the flight-plan is from airfield to airfield. Regards, Bruce |
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Post by scubakobe on Dec 31, 2006 23:50:38 GMT -5
Bruce,
I don't know if I am looking at the wrong towns, but this new flight you are making covers around 5,500 miles?
The southampton I'm looking at is just south of London.
That's sure a long flight!
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Post by bhk on Jan 1, 2007 6:58:24 GMT -5
Bruce, I don't know if I am looking at the wrong towns, but this new flight you are making covers around 5,500 miles? You're certainly looking at the correct places, Kobbe. The flight using the Sunderland model will represent the flight made from Oban (Scotland) to Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania.....nee Tanganyika) between 2nd. and 22nd. of April, 1945. Harry Levy was the navigator...an RAAF officer bunked in with a crew of RAF types. ;D These types of flights were not uncommon during the war and in this particular case they were moving to where they would be best utilised. The war with Germany was nearly over yet Japan was yet to capitulate and the war in the Far East was expected to continue, as some thought, for another year. The flying boat base at Dar-es-Salaam was home to Sunderlands and Catalinas that patrolled the Indian Ocean , often venturing as far east as India as they flew up through the Seychelles and Maldives. The other flight that I'm fiddling about with...the fictitious "what if?"...is just for my own entertainment. It's set in April, 2005....sixty years after Harry's flight. I've kitted out a couple of period aircraft (which I'll switch between when I get tired of one) - Ryan STA and a Tiger Moth - with GPS and radios and have worked out a route from Oban to Dar-es-Salaam that provides for daily legs of around six hours in the air, broken up with stops for morning tea, luncheon and afternoon tea. Very civilised!  I'm using real-world weather and so far have had a really lousy first day flying down from Oban, which I left at 8:00 AM, almost to Lands End. The wind has been gusting between 20 and 30 knots and I've had overcast and stormy conditions most of the way, finally calling it quits around 3:00 PM when landed at a little airstrip near Penzance, where I'm staying the night....or longer, if the weather is crappy tomorrow. Isn't imagination wonderful?! ;D Bruce. |
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Post by scubakobe on Jan 1, 2007 11:52:45 GMT -5
Wow, a flight like that certainly is a LONG trip. I need to work on my geography though, I'm not able to even place Scotland on a mental map. ;D Might make things easier if you guys all had states too...  After looking at the destinations in Google Earth I can see that it is a way longer flight than I will be able to do in one of those airplanes! Although, reading the actual notes from someone who has flown that route before would be interesting. Nice work Bruce.. |
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