Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
8AK7 - Bullen Point - Alaska North Slope 7

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• alaska_north_slope_7-1.jpg
• alaska_north_slope_7-2.jpg

File Description:
The town of Barrow is in the far north of Alaska, and these are coastal villages or radar installations to the west, south, and now east of Barrow. There will be further additions. Bullen Point is a DEW station Air Force base 240 miles east of Barrow and 75 miles east of Oliktok. The runway is just under 4,000 feet of gravel and aligned 05-23; this is approximately at right angles to the default FS9 alignment and how that came about is something I doubt Bill Gates could explain. Most of the DEW buildings have now been removed (including the large hangar, which is unusual) but as I had a layout I made the whole site as it was originally, way back in the days when the north slope was still a wilderness. The AI is one day a C-130, on another a Cessna, and on a third a DC3. When I started this North Slope series it was my intention to create the full monty and make all the oil and gas installations and Deadhorse airport etc. I have come to realise that the oil side is impossible to make. There is so much of it and each bit is as time consuming as Heathrow while the actual airfields are more like Rockcliffe CYRO, so a lot of effort for what is just background to an adjoining airfield. But at the same time, if I make the new airstrips it is impossible NOT to make the oil installations as they are the dominating feature. So no new airstrips, and this is going to be just the 1960's or 1970's, when the oil business was only exploratory and the airfields were for villages or DEW stations, and Harmon Helmerick had his dirt strip on the Colville River estuary and was guiding hunters and fishermen and had just started to help out Sinclair Oil with oil exploration in 1966. Read his book. Download my previous post of his field.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Concorde at Heathrow

File Description:
FS2004 Concorde at Heathrow scenery. This small scenery addon places a Concorde on the tarmac near runway 27R at London's Heathrow, which is where the last one really is at the time of writing. A second smaller scale Concorde is located at the entrance roundabout to the airport, where the current small scale model is. Original model by Graham Waterfield. Scenery assembled by Martyn Becker

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
EGLK Blackbushe 1955-1959

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File Description:
EGLK Blackbushe 1955-1959 Opened in 1942 as RAF Hartford Bridge it was used for fighter, bomber and photo reconnaissance work before being renamed Blackbushe and transferred to the Ministry of Civil Aviation in 1947, becoming London's second airport. It was closed in 1960 as a result of the development of London Gatwick. Before that it had become home to the rapidly growing British independent airline industry and often provided a valuable alternate for Heathrow when it was restricted by fog. It was also a major European base for the US Navy. Since 1960 it has continued to serve general aviation under private ownership on a much more restricted site. This scenery is part of the California Classic retro environment.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
EGLL / LHR London Heathrow

File Description:
Welcome to London. This is an extensive rebuild of one of the world's most important airports. Heathrow has been fine tuned and updated from the default version with the remodeling of Terminal 3, the A380-capable gates, and a more accurate T1, T2, and T4. You will also need to download and install Heathrow Building Works by Matthew Ministry (heathrow_building_works.zip).

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Golden Wings - Heathrow, Feltham, and Heston airfields

File Description:
Regression of London Heathrow (EGLL) area to 1930s for Golden Wings by Bill Lyons, the installation includes the removal of the default EGLL from the FSGW3 set-up.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Heathrow - Myrtle Avenue (Beta Test)

File Description:
This is a small scenery add-on designed to work with the UK2000 Heathrow Xtreme Scenery. It adds the famous spotting area known as Myrtle Avenue, which is situated near the threshold to Heathrow's runway 27L. It also includes some detailing of the A30 perimeter road, in order to enhance the views of approaching aircraft in this area.

The scenery is released in Beta Test form, and I therefore welcome comments and suggestions as to how it can be improved or enhanced. Please refer to the included read me for more details.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
London Heathrow New ATC Tower

File Description:
The new ATC tower at Heathrow stands a full 87 meters as the most promonent sight on the airfield. Now you can add it to the default FS2004 scenery using this addon. Though the tower is not yet fully completed the addon here has been created using all available data as to dimensions, location, and physical appearance. Recommended for use with Pete Davies AFCAD file available here at the avsim file library as asix9_egll_2005.zip. This AFCAD file has the correct gate locations for the position of the tower. Enjoy!!!

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
RAF Bovingdon EGWX 1955

File Description:
Bovingdon was a London airport of some importance and used as an alternate by (at least) BOAC and Pan Am after the Second World War, partly because its elevation of just over 500 feet made it less subject to poor visibility than London Heathrow. It had been built for RAF four-engined bombers near the village of Bovingdon in Hertfordshire and was used by Bomber Command from June 1942 but transferred to the US Eighth Air Force in August. They only flew operational missions with B-17s for a brief period and after that it was employed for crew training until September 1944 when it became the base for the European Air Transport Service. It was returned to the RAF in 1947 but handed over for use by civilian airlines while retaining significant military roles. The RAF Fighter Command Communication Squadron was based there and in 1951 the USAF assigned the C-47s of the 7531st Air Base Squadron to it, though other USAF types visited in large numbers on a transitory but routine basis. The USAF left in October 1962 but the RAF remained there until the airfield was closed in 1972. This scenery recreates Bovingdon, with period traffic, as it was in 1955.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
The First Heathrow. The London Airport 1946-1955.

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• egll_1953_london_heathrow-1.jpg
• egll_1953_london_heathrow-2.jpg
• egll_1953_london_heathrow-3.jpg
• egll_1953_london_heathrow-4.jpg

File Description:
The site upon which the airport now known as London Heathrow was built was acquired by the British government by compulsory purchase from Fairey Aviation in 1944. Thereafter development continued apace and in April 1955 terminal buildings and a control tower in the central area came into operation. Prior to that the terminal (which continued in use as the North Terminal for some years) had been on the northern boundary of the airport immediately adjacent to the Bath Road. This scenery represents The London Airport, as it was then called, in this first phase of its existence, that is between 1946 and 1955. Users will need to have already installed the FS2004 Custom Scenery Library Version 4 which is available from Tom Gibson's California Classics site here - http://www.calclassic.com/scenery.htm And the EZ Scenery Library - link available in the Read Me.

Category: Flight Simulator 2004 - Scenery
Vintage London Airfields

Other files which are related to, or may be required by, this file:

• Vintage London Airfields (Download #46194)
• Vintage London Airfields - Missing Textures (Download #46994)

File Description:
Vintage London Airports for FS2004 Version 1.00, 31 March 2004 freeware by John McKeon, Limerick, Ireland ([email protected]) for Microsoft Flight Simulator FS9 (FS2004) Description: These scenery files represent three airfields, Brooklands, Croydon, and Hendon situated around London, England in the Golden Age of aviation, between 1930 and 1940. Brooklands, the oldest airfield in the UK, developed inside the classic banked oval motor race track opened in 1909, and was the birthplace of the British aviation industry and the starting point for a number of pioneering flights. Now sadly reduced, Brooklands holds an aviation museum and still operates as an airstrip. Croydon was the pre-war London Airport for Transatlantic and Far Eastern flights, replaced in 1944 by london Heathrow, and now built over. RAF Hendon was the venue for spectacular airshows before the war, was a crucial WWII airfield, and now holds the RAF museum and the Metropolitan Police training college.