Carriers.....

migman29 · Post by **migman29** » 02 Sep 2006, 21:48

As you probably know Ben, ships' Ident letters are a single letter i.e,H for Hermes,V for Victorious,J then A for Albion,O then R for Ark Royal,T for Thesius and so on.

Shore bases are given two letters i.e,VL for Yeovilton,BY for Brawdy,PO for Portland,Cu for Culdrose and so on.

Generally speaking,when Small Ships Flight helicopters were embarked then the name of the ship would be painted on the nose of the aircraft
below the three digit aircraft code.

Mark :-({|=

AndyG · Post by **AndyG** » 02 Sep 2006, 21:53

There is another 'British' carrier available, albeit payware. The Razbam Skyhawks Pack 2 contains a reasonable HMAS Melbourne, which can obviously double for a good number of RN and Commonwealth carriers. There's been a long thread on this over at the Outhouse, which has so far produced a much improved Af2 file and a revamp to represent HMCS Bonaventure. So far nobody has worked out how to relocate it though.

AndyG

Post by **DaveG** » 02 Sep 2006, 22:31

When I did the Hermes, I managed to get it into Gmax, and recompiled it as an FS9 scenery object. This meant it could be placed anywhere easily with programs such as RWY12 or EZ Scenery.
I don't know how to move standard scenery objects, sorry. :sad:

Post by **TSR2** » 02 Sep 2006, 22:33

Cheers DG. Hermes it is then... lots of them! lol

I know Hermes is quite a modern carrier, but can anyone give me some ideas as to where to put a few carriers (Beyond the British Isles) which would be the area's they opperated in during the 60's, 70's

steve p · Post by **steve p** » 02 Sep 2006, 22:59

There is also a freeware French carrier "Arromanches" - which started life as HMS Colossus. Goodness knows where I downloaded it from... :redface:

Best wishes
Steve P

Post by **TSR2** » 02 Sep 2006, 23:20

Cheers Steve... I'll add her to my list... She'll make a good home for some of the FAA stuff

Here is the link if anyone else is interested....

http://joel.maillot.free.fr/fs2k2_Porte_avions1.html

TobyV · Post by **TobyV** » 03 Sep 2006, 00:48

Ben Watson wrote:Cheers DG. Hermes it is then... lots of them! lol

I know Hermes is quite a modern carrier, but can anyone give me some ideas as to where to put a few carriers (Beyond the British Isles) which would be the area's they opperated in during the 60's, 70's

Hermes isnt that new, it was laid down during WWII but only completed in 1959

From my book on Ark Royal IV, I think they pretty much went anywhere and everywhere, East Med would be one place. I also have photos of the Ark alongside USN vessels and even passing the 'then' under-construction towers of the WTC in New York, around 1970ish.

Theres a quite remarkable photo of a Russian Kotlin class ship cutting across the stern of the ship in broad daylight, but in a later incident a Kotlin actually collided with the Ark whilst it was conducting flying operations!

Kevin · Post by **Kevin** » 03 Sep 2006, 03:32

I don't think anyone's mentioned Lee-on-Solent so far: it had quite a long history, going back to the Smith-Barry School (where the 'Gosport Tube' and the modern method of flying training was developed during WW1).

Although mostly used for helicopters in recent decades, it could accommodate the earlier generations of jet fighters.

Of the same generation as RNAS Ford was the RNVR aerodrome at Stretton, just west of Manchester. In the early '50s, while my Dad was flying Spitfire 22s & Vampire 5s from Ringway with 613 Sqn RAuxAF, Stretton was operating Seafires.

Other RN aerodromes of the late 40's -'50s included Culham, Evanton, Eglinton, Edzell, Wigtown and Worthy Down. Most, if not all, of these are long gone, however.

Cheers,

Kevin

migman29 · Post by **migman29** » 03 Sep 2006, 21:11

Blimey,I'd forgotten all those.

Lee-on-Solent's code is or was LS.

I'm sure I've got a photo somewhere of either an Attacker or SeaFury at Stretton.

Bramcote(BR) was another 40's-50's RNAS.

Mark :-({|=

Just remembered,Eglinton's tail code was GN.

steve p · Post by **steve p** » 04 Sep 2006, 12:46

Edzell was US Navy rather than Royal Navy. The Yanks moved in after the RAF vacated the site and set up a communications monitoring site.

Suprised that Milltown hasn't been mentioned yet. Seem to remember that the Navy used it almost continuously from the end of WW2 until the early 1970s.

Best wishes
Steve P