07.10.2009, 06:06
Thanks to Agracier for this map. I got the earlier version at SAS - so these thanks are long overdue.
I've always been fascinated with this area - both geologically and for its early war events.
I once knew an old airman (long since gone) who was in this region. He flew Vickers Wellesleys - a shame we dont have those in Il2. As he put it: they were a fair size, with only a lone "peggy" up front, and a single pop-gun for the pilot . He had mates in another RAF squadron there, on Vickers Valentias. These whale-like transports were pretty much the last descendants of the Vimy bomber line. Very common transports in the middle East though -till about 41.
Maybe we could ask the Canvas Knights guys to use their talents to make one of these - as a "cross-over" for the WW2 simmers? Fun to have a large fat biplane to shoot at!
The old pilot had stirring recollections of those bizarre times around the horn of Africa- where the colonial past seemed to bump up against the almost modern. Quite fascinated me, when I was a lad.
Regarding the geology; how does your map deal with the below-sea-level areas in this weird region?
yours, felix
I've always been fascinated with this area - both geologically and for its early war events.
I once knew an old airman (long since gone) who was in this region. He flew Vickers Wellesleys - a shame we dont have those in Il2. As he put it: they were a fair size, with only a lone "peggy" up front, and a single pop-gun for the pilot . He had mates in another RAF squadron there, on Vickers Valentias. These whale-like transports were pretty much the last descendants of the Vimy bomber line. Very common transports in the middle East though -till about 41.
Maybe we could ask the Canvas Knights guys to use their talents to make one of these - as a "cross-over" for the WW2 simmers? Fun to have a large fat biplane to shoot at!
The old pilot had stirring recollections of those bizarre times around the horn of Africa- where the colonial past seemed to bump up against the almost modern. Quite fascinated me, when I was a lad.
Regarding the geology; how does your map deal with the below-sea-level areas in this weird region?
yours, felix