RAF Wattisham......finally!

[Wolfhound]

the shelters are missing and i see no buildings only taxiways and runway and there is no other Bgl,s off Wattisham present

[delbydoo]

Sorry to be basic, but have you added the scenery through the scenery library, above the addon scenery entry?

[Wolfhound]

i solved the problem i forgot to remove the apache uk bases the scenery is now correct

[delbydoo]

Great. Glad you got it sorted

[mikeblaze]

Hey Daryl....

Good looking scenery, glad I could help a little to liven it up. I bet you didn't catch the small but embarassing omission on my F-4J models, it will be fixed with an update to be included in my upcoming F-4J (USN) release.

MP

[delbydoo]

Hah nope I didn't so you could have gotten away with that. The scenery was done by the lovely chaps here, I just kicked up the afcad to make it compatible with Phantoms

[Firebird]

Check for exclude files. I had that when I added the MAIW Apache scenery the HAS were missing due to an exclude from and earlier item.

[mojo58]

So, if i just remove the Apache Bases scenery, the HAS's and buildings will stay and will aircraft parked out there?

[delbydoo]

So long as you keep all the files I listed in the readme, you can delete what you want; the ones I listed pertain to Wattisham.

[timbob1]

Daryl, very nice mate, I can't find it but one of the phantom's from 56 had a red tail fin? (one also lost a fuel tank and another lost a panel on his right engine). Cheers nice seeing them back again mate

[delbydoo]

Thanks mate.
As Alan Partridge would say, aah..haah :lol: It is there, somewhere, bit I can't remember for the life of me what the serial was.....XV420 rings a bell but I'm not sure

[delbydoo]

The situation with Team SDB has been resolved after a couple emails from Mike Dews, and he has now replaced mine with the one originally done by Frank Safranek for the package. It all boiled down to putting the wrong file in the package - we've all done it at some point

[timbob1]

Here's some oldies from Wattisham during a Battle of Britain exercise mid 80's I'll have to find the F-4 shots.

[timbob1]

Ok in 1992 the red tails were "O" XV494 "N" XV473 "I" XV424 "X" XT903 "R" XV460 that's as far as I can find. I like the "dirty" look of the F-4's you have captured those spot on mate.

[delbydoo]

Lovely shots mate. Those two in the first pic, are they decoys? I assume they are because it looks like one is parked on the grass.

[Stewart Pearson]

Ok in 1992 the red tails were "O" XV494 "N" XV473 "I" XV424 "X" XT903 "R" XV460 that's as far as I can find. I like the "dirty" look of the F-4's you have captured those spot on mate.

As far as I can recall, did they not paint all the aircraft with the Red Tail during their last days of operation?

I recall there was one of them sitting at Benbecula Airport, just after 56 Sqn stood down.

[timbob1]

Yes they were both decoy targets to give the Luftwaffe f-4's a target, Stewart I think you are right mate, there was also one with a sharkmouth, LOL don't re-repaint them all Daryl

[delbydoo]

No mate my sites are set clearly on 89-90 period.....

[Firebird]

XT901/Y was the one originally painted with the sharks mouth, back in '83, but it was designed so that the nose cone could be transfered to other aircraft.
I believe that on at least one occasion that the nose cone was transfered to another and I also believe that a second nose cone was produced. I heard that it was kind of semi-accepted but then the 11 Grp SASO saw them at an air show at Finningley and threw a wobbly, something about paint reducing radar range so they had to be removed. All this happened after I left the Sqn so I can't give confirmation.

[Chrisb]

Someone is being modest about the sharkmouth aren't they Steve.

Who thought it up guys.....Our Steve.

Chris