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R.A.F. (M.O.D.) MACHRIHANISH (Campbeltown) REQUEST (Read 357 times)
Sep 28th, 2007 at 3:10pm

deleriousfishman   Offline
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HI!
I REALLY would like someone to make accurate and realistic scenery for this RAF base situated at the Mull of Kintyre in Scotland, so I don't have to make do with Microsofts default single runway no taxi ways version!

Incase you don't know RAF Machrihanish is now on "Care and Maintenance" (non operational) since the V- Bombers left after the Cold War ended. However, Machrihanish still sees action. It is Scotlands answer to Area 51 and is second only to Boscombe Down for the whole of the UK. It is a popular belief that the US has tested the infamous "Aurora" aircraft over Europe with the aircraft having been stationed at Machrihanish during that time. It was also confirmed that sonic booms heard in the local area during the 1980s/1970s came from the testing of the F117 A "Nighthawk" and SR-71 "Blackbird" which were based at Machrihanish when they did not officially exist! Machrihanish was once a US Navy SEALS station and still has an active NAVY SEALS building there. It also incorporates the local Campbeltown Airport which has flights arriving from Glasgow thorugh LOGANAIR. I know and love Machrihanish as I recently attended an Air Cadet summer camp there and would love if someone could recreate the mystique and the beautiful scenery of Machrihanish and the surrounding area and the once Ultra Secretive "Gaydon Hanger" that is situated at the end of Machrihanishes mammoth runway.

If someone could make this scenery for FS 2004 I swear I will cyber hug you  Grin  It would mean so much.

Thanks  Smiley
 
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Reply #1 - Sep 29th, 2007 at 9:39pm

swordfish1227   Offline
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could you pm me some pics? i know i could do an afcad but i can't do the 3d modeling.

p.s. How could the sonic booms be from a f-117, it is subsonic and almost silent...  Tongue
 
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Reply #2 - Sep 30th, 2007 at 2:01pm

deleriousfishman   Offline
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Hi!
Sorry mate that was typo I didnt mean to include the Nighthawk. Anyways i would appreciate any effort but it would still be really cool to have at least gaydon hanger.
Anyways here are some links with info/pics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAF_Machrihanish

In there is techinical data like exact length of runway

http://www.geograph.org.uk/search.php?i=1728081

LOTS of pictures

http://www.dreamlandresort.com/black_projects/machrihanish.html

even better pics

THIS IS A VERY CLEAR SATELLITE IMAGE OF MACHRIHANISH, JUST ZOOM OUT A BIT AND YOU WILL SEE THE END OF THE RUNWAY Smiley

http://www.multimap.com/maps/#t=l&map=55.44986,-5.69759|18|8



Hope this helps Cheesy
 
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