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And another cut'n'paste special with no pics... Yes, yes, I know, fix 'em already...

Although best known as home to the green-nosed Mustangs of the USAAF 359th Fighter Group, the grass airfield at East Wretham actually started the war as an RAF Bomber Command station, operating the Wellingtons of 301 and 115 Squadrons and even Lancasters of 1678 Heavy Conversion Unit before being handed over to the arriving American units.

I'm afraid this is another cut'n'paste special until I get time to sit down and sort it all out, but I wanted to get a link up on the site.

Yet another of the numerous 8th Air Force fields scattered around East Anglia, RAF Leiston has the advantage - or disadvantage - of being barely inland from the North Sea and thus the first place that many damaged aircraft saw as being a refuge.

Yes, it's out... But it's also proving a teensy bit popular, from the fact that their server went from 0 to 100% instantly, so you might want to wait a short while before trying to buy it!

We know there's an AVG livery and an RAF desert livery in the pack from Jaggyroad Films' latest release, so you can download Baishaxiang, Ma Au and Landing Ground 113 while you are waiting for a download slot... ;)

The P-40 is available from A2A Simulations, of course, and also simMarket

Volunteers required for combat duty in the Far East!

The last two scenery releases for this year from me are "Ma Au Airstrip" in Burma and "Baishaxiang" in China.

Both are intended for use with the upcoming (hopefully fairly soon!) A2A P-40B with Accu-Sim, but will work just as well with any other P-40 or similar sized aircraft. An AVG paint is recommended, of course.

Caffiers in Northern France was home to III Gruppe, Jagdegeschwader 26, from 1939 until they were forced out by the advancing Allies following the Normandy invasion.

These days, the site is reverted to farmland and shows no trace of its former use or users.

To download, click here.

I've also just uploaded two fictional "WW2 era" airfields, representing front-line temporary airstrips in the North African theatre; one for Allied and the other for Axis aircraft.

Landing Ground 113 (L113) is in Western Egypt and represents an Allied forward strip, while Al Qa'arah (QLAQ) in Eastern Lybia does the same for the Axis powers. There are only about 100NM between the two, to make "patrols" overhead the opposition relatively easy. Navigation, on the other hand...? It's the desert. Good luck!

It's only on a temporary page at the moment, but I've uploaded version 1.0 of RAF Bassingbourn in Cambridgeshire to the site.

Most famous as the home of the 91st Bombardment Group (Heavy), although it also spent a long period as an RAF station, Bassingbourn is now an Army training base and still very intact.

To download click here.

To go with some sceneries that I hope to release within the next couple of days, I have uploaded a new version of my FSX object libraries to the site.

The major changes are that some of the bomb dumps now have bombs in, I've added the DLW object libraries (most of which I didn't actually make myself, I bought them...) and I've added the Austin Tilly (which I did make myself and boy can you tell!)

To download, click here.

For the man who can never have enough P-51Ds in his life (that would be me then, but I can't afford them, bah).

John Terrell and Warbirdsim have announced the release of the next package in their P-51 Mustang collection, "Little Freinds II", covering early models of the P-51D without the dorsal fin and with earlier cockpit arrangements.

The package includes three paints for stations I have already recreated and the number of repaints is increasing rapidly, so no doubt there'll be more there too. For details, visit the Warbirdsim product page

I don't know whether anyone will care, but this place is, or at least I am, now being a bit of a Twit.

@IanPsDarkCorner will find me and I'll try to keep people up to date with what's going on around here and what can be expected... However you might find the odd attempt to communicate with the local Police helicopters on there too, sorry. They spend more time Tweeting each other than they do chasing crooks, I'm sure of it. But they do occasionally have some fun "spot the aircraft part" competitions too.