Friday Night Flight D-Day Event:
As it so happens this year is the 70th anniversary of D-Day, and June 6, 2014 is also a falls on a Friday!
So we plan take full advantage of this opportunity to do something different for Friday, June 6, 2014.
We have planned a group flight which will consist of transport and fighter aircraft which have D-Day stripes liveries.
1. On the transport side we would encourage the use of the outstanding Manfred Jahn C-47 and anyone of several D-Day stripe liveries currently available. The base C-47 package is available on Storm's oneDrive .
2. On the fighter side it is a little more open as to what aircraft you can use, but the fighter aircraft should be appropriate to the time of pre-1945, and hopefully have a D-Day stripe livery.
FRIDAY NIGHT FLIGHT BRIEFiNG NOTES:
This group flight will be a little different from what we have done in the past in that we will be flying TWO different but related flight plans. The transports and the fighters will depart from TWO different but historically important airfields, and meetup over Normandy. The combined group will then fly together, with the fighters on high cover. There will need to be a little bit of in-flight group coordination in order to make this work properly.
► FIGHTERS Flight Plan:
WarHawK has graciously accepted flight lead for the fighter group, and will be handling all aspects of this portion of the combined group flight
► TRANSPORT'S Flight Plan:
► Combined Portion of the Group Flight:
We will meetup over Cherboug in northern France where the transport will be flying lower than the fighters. The exact altitudes will be provided the day of the flight in order to maintain "operational security".
PS: Note WarHawK's official start date of this forum was just two short years ago, on June 6, 2012!
Edit by Storm: Corrected title typo.
SPECIAL NOTE: Almost all of us will be landing at LFOP/Rouen which has a sufficiently runway length for our aircraft, BUT a couple of the C_47 will attempt a landing at the adjacent parallel SOD airstrip known as ELS-1 Poupeville. It was 600 meters short, and only used as an Emergency Landing Strip, actually the first one built after D-Day.
As it so happens this year is the 70th anniversary of D-Day, and June 6, 2014 is also a falls on a Friday!
So we plan take full advantage of this opportunity to do something different for Friday, June 6, 2014.
We have planned a group flight which will consist of transport and fighter aircraft which have D-Day stripes liveries.
1. On the transport side we would encourage the use of the outstanding Manfred Jahn C-47 and anyone of several D-Day stripe liveries currently available. The base C-47 package is available on Storm's oneDrive .
2. On the fighter side it is a little more open as to what aircraft you can use, but the fighter aircraft should be appropriate to the time of pre-1945, and hopefully have a D-Day stripe livery.
FRIDAY NIGHT FLIGHT BRIEFiNG NOTES:
This group flight will be a little different from what we have done in the past in that we will be flying TWO different but related flight plans. The transports and the fighters will depart from TWO different but historically important airfields, and meetup over Normandy. The combined group will then fly together, with the fighters on high cover. There will need to be a little bit of in-flight group coordination in order to make this work properly.
► FIGHTERS Flight Plan:
WarHawK has graciously accepted flight lead for the fighter group, and will be handling all aspects of this portion of the combined group flight
NOTE: The fighter's will not land at Odiham, but overfly it on their way to Cherboug. The flight time for both groups for the meetup is about 42 minutes. The fighters will be flying faster and higher, but also just that amount longer so both groups arrive over Cherboug at the same time. Any late joining fighters will have to depart from Odiham, or get left behind.
► TRANSPORT'S Flight Plan:
► Combined Portion of the Group Flight:
We will meetup over Cherboug in northern France where the transport will be flying lower than the fighters. The exact altitudes will be provided the day of the flight in order to maintain "operational security".
PS: Note WarHawK's official start date of this forum was just two short years ago, on June 6, 2012!
Edit by Storm: Corrected title typo.
SPECIAL NOTE: Almost all of us will be landing at LFOP/Rouen which has a sufficiently runway length for our aircraft, BUT a couple of the C_47 will attempt a landing at the adjacent parallel SOD airstrip known as ELS-1 Poupeville. It was 600 meters short, and only used as an Emergency Landing Strip, actually the first one built after D-Day.
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