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The Pearl Harbor Attack
In response to the growing crisis in the Pacific, in early December 1941 four Boeing B-17C Flying Fortresses and two new B-17Es of the 30th Bombardment Group were flying cross country from New Orleans, Louisiana stopped at Hamilton on their way to Hickam AAF in Hawaii then on to Clark AAF in the Philippines to reinforce the 19th Bombardment Group stationed there.
After leaving Hamilton, and flying all through the night, the bombers arrived over Oahu on the morning of December 7, 1941, and faced an unusual welcome. The B-17s had arrived over Oahu during the Japanese air attack on Hawaii which triggered America's entry into World War II. The B-17C Flying Fortresses arrived at Pearl Harbor at the height of the attack (radar operators mistakenly thought that the Japanese attack force was this flight arriving from California). Some of the planes managed to land at a short fighter strip at Haleiwa, one set down on a golf course, and the remainder landed at Hickam under the strafing of Japanese planes.
In addition, twelve B-17Ds of the 5th Bombardment Group were parked on the ground at Hickam AAF during the attack. Five of these B-17s were destroyed, and eight were damaged.
The B-17Es of the 7th Bombardment Group were moved back to Hamilton from Utah for deployment to the Far East. Six of them arrived in Hawaii just after the Pearl Harbor attack, but the rest of them were ordered to remain in the United States to defend California and were sent south to Muroc AAF near Rosamond.
Flight Reenactment
I would like to invite you to our annual reenactment of the B17 flight from Hamilton AFB San Rafael California to Hickman Air Force Base Honolulu, on December 9, 2017.
Because December 7th falls on a weekday, we will take off from Hamilton Army Air Field December 9, 2017 arriving at Honolulu on December 10, 2017 at 07:30:00 Hawaii Time, to coincide with the attack on Pearl Harbor December 7 1941 at 07:00:00 Hawaii time.
This flight is not for the faint of heart. Those making this flight will be looking at 12 to 14 hours of flight time.
Here's the flight plan and weather for this flight, by Randy Cain.....
This package contains the weather, flight plan and saved flight for Ironman - 2017. It already contains the historic weather for December 6 and 7, 1941, so you won't need to worry about addon weather or other players not have the same weather as you. I've also made sure we have continuous weather tranistions for the crossing, so there won't be those huge gaps of no weather at all for the crossing that we get from either default or addon programs that don't display any weather at all, if there's no station to report the weather.
This package contains the weather, flight plan and saved flight for Ironman - 2017. It already contains the historic weather for December 6 and 7, 1941, so you won't need to worry about addon weather or other players not have the same weather as you. I've also made sure we have continuous weather tranistions for the crossing, so there won't be those huge gaps of no weather at all for the crossing that we get from either default or addon programs that don't display any weather at all, if there's no station to report the weather.
Here's a great movie that's loosely based on the real world flight.
https://www.amazon.com/Air-Force-Joh...70_&dpSrc=srch
Airspeed:....................130 KAIS
Flight Time:.................9:00 PM PDST/12:00 PM EDST
MSFlight's Discord:........Group Flight Channel
The B-17 Iron man flight will be hosted on FSV'S Join FS Sever. http://pmem.uk/joinfs/development.html
We will be using live weather for this flight.
----This secenry was created before Orbx and does not play well with it, so you may want to disable Orbx's northern California-----
FS2004 and FSX, Hamilton Army Air Field 1939
FS2004
http://www.fsvintageair.com//Files/h...9-Ham-1939.zip
FSX
http://www.fsvintageair.com//Files/h...X-Ham-1939.zip
P3D
http://www.fsvintageair.com//Files/P3D-Ham-1939.zip
FSX and FS2004 Scenery Fix
This will fix the night textures for the Hamilton runways.
http://www.fsvintageair.com/Files/hamilton.zip
simply copy and paste the Hamilton-Air-Force-overlay.BGL into FS9/FSX's Hamilton Army Air Field scenery folder and click the ok when asked to overwrite.
We could then use the Sausalito VOR (SAU 116.20) as the rendevous point.
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