'My Part of the Sky' offline campaign released

[gprr]

Hi all

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

brando-
Best wishes for you and get well soon.

Cheers
gprr

[dflion]

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

[gprr]

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

[dflion]

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

[Mogster]

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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[dflion]

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

[gprr]

Originally Posted by dflion

Hi gprr,

This book is a great read, which vividly descibes his flight experiences during WWII which I hoped I have captured in the campaign.
DFLion

I think you did a very good job

Cheers
gprr