'My Part of the Sky' offline campaign released
 

I have just released (on Mission4Today.com) a 65 mission campaign based on the diary memoirs of the British Fighter Pilot, Roland Beaumont.

The missions in the campaign cover his three tours in the RAF -
1. Hurricane air defence in the 'Battle of France' and 'Battle of Britain' 1940 (24 missions)
2. Hurricane night fighter defence and offence over Britain and France 1941 (7 missions)
3. Typhoon (Tempest) ground attack missions over the Channel and Low Countries 1942/3, Tempest operations throughout D-Day, defence against the V1 flying bomb attacks and Command of 122 Wing in Holland for the final onslaught against the German homeland 1944/5 (34 missions)

http://www.mission4today.com/index.p...etails&id=3285

I hope the 24 missions featuring the 'Battle of France' and 'Battle of Britain' will 'wet our appetities' for Oleg's forthcoming 'Battle of Britain - Storm of War' flight sim.

I decided to use the large 'Gulf of Finland' map to simulate the BOF and BOB scenarios (the narrow section towards Leningrad) - this area seemed to work well in the campaign. I can't wait until we get the real map! I am also hoping we 'might' get a flyable Typhoon in the final release of IL2 - all you can do is wish?

Hope you enjoy the campaign.

DFLion

Thanks, I'll d/l it tonight!
I've just read "Day of the Typhoon" and was looking for simular missions, so your campagne is more than welcome.

Hi DFLion

Can't DL it - extremely slow pace.

Thanks
gprr

I don't think that's DFLion's 'fault', gprr.

Mission4today is a dedicated file-server and the download is dependent on your bandwidth as well as theirs.

I got 87% down while typing this

B

Hi brando

I dl"ded three other campaigns from m4today at avg of 130 kbs but this one goes at 19 kbs:(
130 is bad enough-have 310 kbs bandwidth.
Just think that if one creats and posts works for the community,he would be also intrested about how well things are going with it.

gprr

15kbs for me.

Hey Brando it's really good to see you back so soon. How you doing mate?

@ gprr

I hear you, but I don't see that it's DF Lion's mission that is slowing down M4T. Maybe you have just picked a busy time of day for downloading.

@ mads

I'm doing pretty good mate! :) Weak as a kitten and rather battle-scarred, but I've been sleeping way past the 6 hours max that I got before the operation. Pain greatly decreased too - it's looking good.

@ DF Lion

I was looking for a good off-line campaign to, er, 'get my hand in' again. Thanks, S!

B

413KB/sec here, gonna give this one a try, cheers mate

Hi all

Manneged to dl it at a turtle pace for more then an hour and it opened fine,just flew the first mission:grin:
(did try to dl it yesterday with the same slow pace...)

brando-
Best wishes for you and get well soon.

Cheers
gprr

'My Part of the Sky' campaign download problems
 

Hi gprr,
I have just come 'on line' down here in 'the land of OZ' - sorry to hear you were having download problems. It looks as though you have now got it ok.
The download file is a an 84mb zip file, so it is quite large (mostly filled up with excellent aircraft skins).
Thanks for your help brando and kristorf - there a certainly many variables when you are downloading - one of them is my son going over our internet limit?
Let me know how you go with the campaign - Roland Beaumont was certainly an exceptional and gifted pilot.
DFLion

Hello dflion

Thanks for creating the campaign,enjoying it very much,it is mighty hard to deal with german planes with the Hurricane 1938 mg's but its chalanging.By now flew 6 missions and its great.
It is very nice that guyz like you and IceFire are creating missions according pilot books like the Clostermann book( love the Storm clouds campaign that IceFire created according it)
I red the Clostermann and Alan Deer books and will try to get Roland Beaumont's book.

Cheers
gprr

That's great news brando. I am very happy for you that the operation seems a sucess. Here's to continued recovery.

It was a week ago, right? Sometimes medicine makes you scratch your head in amazement. (been through my share of experiences.)

'My Part of the Sky' - enjoying campaign
 

Hi gprr,
Glad to hear you are enjoying the campaign. One of the great features of Oleg's IL2 classic flight sim is that you can create campaigns that are very historical - this feature will only get better when Oleg releases the 'Storm of War BOB' flight sim.

I had difficullty getting hold of my copy of Roland Beaumont's book 'My Part of the Sky'. I finally picked up an excellent condition second hand copy from 'alibris books' -www.alibris.com
This book is a great read, which vividly descibes his flight experiences during WWII which I hoped I have captured in the campaign.
DFLion

dflion: this link showed up on M4T the other day, courtesy of Duggy. Within it, if you look for the TSR 2, you will find an excellent colour, but mute, video of Roland conducting a BAC test flight. Some good views of RB dismounting the aircraft, at the end of the 4 min video.
Cheers . . .


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RB test flying the TSR2
 

Thanks Mogster,
I will have a look at this film clip.
What a sad story the TSR2 saga was - obviously with Roland test flying the aircraft it would have been a fantastic plane if it had become operational.
In his 'My Part of the Sky' memoirs you quickly get the feeling of his absolute 'love of flying' - his descriptions of aircraft handling and weather flying conditions are superb. You can see why Hawkers grabbed him to be one of their test pilots during the war.
DFLion

I think you did a very good job:grin:

Cheers
gprr