19.04.2009, 14:06
Flying_Spud thanks for the info. Almost all of my airfields are dirt strips with many using different parts of the dirt strip or taxiways of the Imphal main field. I have the long asphault looking Imphal Main runway at Agartala, Feni, CTG and Dohazari as these were well established allied bases.
There is a description in the book BURMA THE LONGEST WAR about the material used on runways. Can't remember the name but it was some type of canvas covered in oil. This was also used when making the jungle road down the Myintha River valley from Kalemyo to Gangaw in the great offensive toward Meiktila. Many gallons of oil were used. I think it was like 1 gallon per square yard of road.
So I think this material can be represented by the long asphault looking runway.
by the way the airfields around Akyab were Japanese until about 1945. I've got details on who had control of the airfields and a long list of airfields (from a website, can't remember name). I built only the necessary and main fields (list is on previous page of this discussion thread).
One has to remember that the Japanese moved from airfield to airfield a lot, shifting planes from one area to another and staging for brief periods at forward bases with the major bases at places like Shwebo, Prome, Akyab, meiktila, Rangoon area.
I think I read somewhere that Toungoo Main had a concrete strip. I built it using dirt plates though. Toungoo-south is dirt using a section of the Imphal Main taxiway.
Solved the problem of taxiways giving me a headache mentioned earlier. Silly me, I was using Taxi waypoints for what should have been the Runway waypoints. I can rest easy now after hours of testing!
There is a description in the book BURMA THE LONGEST WAR about the material used on runways. Can't remember the name but it was some type of canvas covered in oil. This was also used when making the jungle road down the Myintha River valley from Kalemyo to Gangaw in the great offensive toward Meiktila. Many gallons of oil were used. I think it was like 1 gallon per square yard of road.
So I think this material can be represented by the long asphault looking runway.
by the way the airfields around Akyab were Japanese until about 1945. I've got details on who had control of the airfields and a long list of airfields (from a website, can't remember name). I built only the necessary and main fields (list is on previous page of this discussion thread).
One has to remember that the Japanese moved from airfield to airfield a lot, shifting planes from one area to another and staging for brief periods at forward bases with the major bases at places like Shwebo, Prome, Akyab, meiktila, Rangoon area.
I think I read somewhere that Toungoo Main had a concrete strip. I built it using dirt plates though. Toungoo-south is dirt using a section of the Imphal Main taxiway.
Solved the problem of taxiways giving me a headache mentioned earlier. Silly me, I was using Taxi waypoints for what should have been the Runway waypoints. I can rest easy now after hours of testing!