Aerial photos of BoB Airfields?

[ATAG_Dutch]

Originally Posted by bongodriver

Heres a strange thing......you can view historic aerial images in google earth but when you look at biggin hill in 1945........it dissapears (twilight zone music)

Very True.

In bored moments at work over the last 4 years, I took to sticking pins in every airfield I could find on Google earth, then googling the name of the local villages with 'RAF' in front of them to name the airfield. Zoom in to anywhere in Norfolk and you'll spot the typical letter 'A' shape of the runways, even if it's long disused.

Which brings up a further question. The arrangement of the runways at Biggin in the game looks 'wrong' as they more or less come to an apex at one point rather than the classic 'A' shape.

Does anyone know if this is accurate or not?

Cheers.

[Bakelit]

Maybe this thread from another BoB sim helps a little:

http://shockwaveproductions.com/foru...d0b0152dfab935

Not a lot but it's a start. The A2A BoB2 modding crew has a wealth of historical knowledge and there should be much more info buried in other forum threads. And... I love that sim for its AI!

[No1 Cheese]

Originally Posted by Bakelit

Maybe this thread from another BoB sim helps a little:

http://shockwaveproductions.com/foru...d0b0152dfab935

Not a lot but it's a start. The A2A BoB2 modding crew has a wealth of historical knowledge and there should be much more info buried in other forum threads. And... I love that sim for its AI!

BLOODY BRILLIANT,cheers mate

Cheese

[bongodriver]

The fields do look infinitely better than Cliffs but I can't make any sense of what they have done with Biggins runways.

[bongodriver]

Originally Posted by Dutch_851

Very True.

In bored moments at work over the last 4 years, I took to sticking pins in every airfield I could find on Google earth, then googling the name of the local villages with 'RAF' in front of them to name the airfield. Zoom in to anywhere in Norfolk and you'll spot the typical letter 'A' shape of the runways, even if it's long disused.

Which brings up a further question. The arrangement of the runways at Biggin in the game looks 'wrong' as they more or less come to an apex at one point rather than the classic 'A' shape.

Does anyone know if this is accurate or not?

Cheers.

it is pretty much correct, Biggins runways indeed did come to an apex, but now only 2 of the runways are still used and the central one is a taxiway, the main runway is 03/21 and the smaller 11/29 is for light aircraft only.

[ATAG_Dutch]

Ok, thx bongo.