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"FS2004 Scenery--Liverpool Speke Airport 1960 and 1967. Scenery to provide taxiways and details as they were around 1960 and 1967 for Liverpool Speke Airport (EGGP), UK. The airport in 1960 was relatively small, with two runways of 4192 and 5627 feet long. In 1966 another runway opened, somewhat far away from the terminal. This runway is 7500 feet long. The old runways were only rarely used after this, if ever. A new terminal next to this new runway finally opened in 1986. The old terminal has been converted into a hotel, and the old runway area has only recently been developed for other uses. This scenery uses the wonderful old terminal scenery created by Paul Derbyshire (DerboSoft). The installation procedure was constructed to comply with his restrictions found in that file. By Tom Gibson."
eggp67.zip
Graham
Liverpool 67
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Liverpool 67
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Re: Liverpool 67
Hi,
I remember going there a few times with my Dad in the late 1960 - aged 7-10 !! You could watch for free from a gallery beneath the tower. I Remember a Dan Air Aisrpeed Ambassador start up on the apron - the smoke was tremendous. It then taxied to the left around the corner to the runway that ran approximately north west, then it came back into view on its take-off run, making it into the air just before the river.
The new terminal is rather sterile with a view only of the apron and little of the runway. With the prevailing westerly wind you can usually only see the aircraft just before rotation and just after landing. There is a great place to see the planes at the east end of runway 9/27 but it's on waste land to very exposed....
I remember going there a few times with my Dad in the late 1960 - aged 7-10 !! You could watch for free from a gallery beneath the tower. I Remember a Dan Air Aisrpeed Ambassador start up on the apron - the smoke was tremendous. It then taxied to the left around the corner to the runway that ran approximately north west, then it came back into view on its take-off run, making it into the air just before the river.
The new terminal is rather sterile with a view only of the apron and little of the runway. With the prevailing westerly wind you can usually only see the aircraft just before rotation and just after landing. There is a great place to see the planes at the east end of runway 9/27 but it's on waste land to very exposed....
Regards,
Degsy
Degsy
Re: Liverpool 67
Hi,
I uploaded it to flightsim since it was now unavailable at AVSIM. However, Paul's original Landmark scenery (required for the airport conversions) does not seem to be available anywhere that I can find.
I uploaded it to flightsim since it was now unavailable at AVSIM. However, Paul's original Landmark scenery (required for the airport conversions) does not seem to be available anywhere that I can find.