Hi all,

I have some info on Bob airfields and quite enjoy tracking down more stuff on the internet etc. So it seems a good idea to create a thread to make material available in one place for mission and campaign builders. Starting with 11 group airfields I will post stuff as and when I can. Hopefully at least one airfield a week. Biggin Hill first. By the way the images below were posted on the old SimHQ Clod forum, but were in several places. They are now all together. Please feel free to add to this thread and make it a co-operative resource for the benefit of all. Some of these pics are quite large. Right click and save image as etc to download the full size image.

RedToo.




Pre-war Lufthansa photo.


Biggin Hill in 1940.


Biggin Hill summer 1988.


Biggin Hill in 2011.


Biggin Hill 2008.

Biggin on the Bump!

Bags of airfield info in the 'bible' - Battle of Britain: Then and Now. MkV.

This book was used for such information in the making of Rowan's BoB but you are probably already familiar with this tome.

Nice resurrection Red

if we are going to keep this thread going i will just post the link to my previous airfields post , save me copy and pasting the whole lot here

MAPS AIRFIELDS SQUADRONS

Thanks Red and contributors, sterling work.

That first map I'm working with, bit of sharpening. That may be the one the developers used as the revetements are fairly similar. Still a bit of a squeeze though

Now there's the [R0G0B0] Alchemical Art of mastering splines to look forward to

Stop laughing hysterically at the back if you've already had a bash and take another chill-pill, it'll be ok

One thing that would be useful, can the developers please give us a map without the hard-coded Airfield and Airfield Points? I feel a petition coming on

Ming

Hi Ming,

AFAIK that first map of Biggin (and all the others in the same series) date from 1944. So there would probably be less to Biggin in 1940.

RedToo.

Hawkinge. Right click and save as for full size images.


Hawkinge.


Hawkinge pre-war.


War time early?


Hawkinge in 1927.


Hawkinge in 1937.


Pre war.


Pre war showing the circle and arrow.


Circle.


Circle.


Circle. The arrows at Hawkinge and St Ingervert were constructed during WWI to help aircraft navigation (which was very basic in those days) across the Channel. One arrow was cut near Hawkinge and the other near St Ingervert nr Boulogne (France) to point pilots in the right direction. Two other figures also exsisted at Hawkinge, the Hawkinge identification / landing circle for the aerodrome and a target circle used for practice bomb runs. Later the arrow was used to aid targeting of the bombing target.


Hawkinge in the 1990's?


Hawkinge 1991?

Buildings:











The Entrance and Guardhouse.

Screen shots from BoB WoV:










RedToo.

+ 1 . I played around with the spliey action, sometimes the map likes it , other times no,marco polo type of thing.Would like to lose the revetments as well.Ugly.

On a good note you can make a really good racetrack , the vehicles are too slow though, the tanks always win.Guiseppe Farina would not be happy.

Brilliant gen on Hawkinge Red

Great stuff.

Good stuff. I find threads like these fascinating.