So, I'm a flight simulator nerd... wanna fight about it?

Herr-Berbunch · 05-11-11, 05:57 AM

If you can get Binbrook airfield in Lincolnshire into FSX (it shut about 20 years ago, remained a relief landing ground for a while but has suffered much neglect/selling off since) then you can recreate most of the flying/airfield scenes from the film Memphis Belle that was filmed there!

Or pop down to see Oberon at Bentwaters/Woodbridge area of Suffolk.

Oberon · 05-11-11, 07:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Herr-Berbunch

Or pop down to see Oberon at Bentwaters/Woodbridge area of Suffolk.

There's a fantastic freeware rendition of Bentwaters and Woodbridge on node-sim...I mean flightsim (old nickname for it 'All nodes are busy'

)

Look for twin_v3_fsx.zip

Woodbridge has got a lovely long runway (for emergency landings for Bombers coming back from Europe and indeed for the Space Shuttle)...just watch out for the holes I've put in it with my Accu-sim B-17...

Herr-Berbunch · 05-11-11, 08:35 AM

Ooh, sorry to hijack thread but I've just found Binbrook at http://www.flightsimstore.com/produc...oducts_id=1414 for <£8. This for me is a must, I used to cycle up to the crashgates and sit and watch the lightnings for hours when I was a nipper!

Oberon · 05-11-11, 08:37 AM

Cor, that must have been a sight. The roar of those engines.

I've been watching fast-taxi runs of the Lightning at Bruntingthorpe, and damn that's a beautiful sound and sight:

Such a shame there's none flying in the UK anymore.

Herr-Berbunch · 05-11-11, 09:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Oberon

Cor, that must have been a sight. The roar of those engines.

I've been watching fast-taxi runs of the Lightning at Bruntingthorpe, and damn that's a beautiful sound and sight:

Such a shame there's none flying in the UK anymore.

I'd been to Binbrook for a couple of the Lightning Preservation Groups runs when they first started, but they've since moved to Bruntingthorpe (shame for me, but it does mean they get more punters = more cash!)

Third best noise in aviation!

The second best (but the loudest) has to be a B1-B, I particularly liked them as a wake up call at about 0615 EVERY morning at Thumrait about 400m from my tent, as they took off to pound the Tora Bora mountains

The ultimate noise, Vulcans, now obviously only XH558

. No doubt in my mind. I just wish I'd seen a live QRA scramble from Scampton.

Back to OP, just pop in to any East Anglian base to load up and visit Germany.

gimpy117 · 05-11-11, 12:45 PM

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Herr-Berbunch Kaiser Bill's batman Join Date: May 2010 Location: AN72 Posts: 13,203 Downloads: 76 Uploads: 0	If you can get Binbrook airfield in Lincolnshire into FSX (it shut about 20 years ago, remained a relief landing ground for a while but has suffered much neglect/selling off since) then you can recreate most of the flying/airfield scenes from the film Memphis Belle that was filmed there! Or pop down to see Oberon at Bentwaters/Woodbridge area of Suffolk. __________________

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Herr-Berbunch Kaiser Bill's batman Join Date: May 2010 Location: AN72 Posts: 13,203 Downloads: 76 Uploads: 0	Ooh, sorry to hijack thread but I've just found Binbrook at http://www.flightsimstore.com/produc...oducts_id=1414 for <£8. This for me is a must, I used to cycle up to the crashgates and sit and watch the lightnings for hours when I was a nipper! __________________

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Oberon Lucky Jack Join Date: Jul 2002 Posts: 25,976 Downloads: 61 Uploads: 20	Cor, that must have been a sight. The roar of those engines. I've been watching fast-taxi runs of the Lightning at Bruntingthorpe, and damn that's a beautiful sound and sight: Such a shame there's none flying in the UK anymore.