Overview
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This is a historic British RAF airfield from which to fly your biplane, warbird or cold war aircraft. The ICAO EGAT is fictional (currently unassigned in real life). The original Tangmere ICAO EGUT is being used in MSFS 2020 for Walton Wood which is actually GB-0057.
This download comprises four Packages representing:
RAF Tangmere ca 1940, still with grass runways and many dispersal pens.
RAF Tangmere ca 1960 with tarmac runways and including many dispersals and blast walls.
RAF Tangmere Domestic Site
Tangmere Military Aviation Museum ca 2023 (a personal indulgence of the author)
The two airfield versions should not be placed in the community folder at the same time whilst the Domestic Site and Museum can be included or can be omitted to reduce GPU load.
Most buildings are low-poly simple representations as are most static aircraft found in some packages. The latter are not flyable although you can obtain the flyable Hawker Hunter, see credits below. Most of the other static aircraft are available in flyable versions from flightsim.to or the market place.
The 1940 version has grass runways and perimeter track, Belfast hangars, the Garage Hangar, Flight Huts and brick/grass-bank dispersal pens around the perimeter track. The hangars are open and display the Belfast roof support structure which gave the hangars their name. These structures can be seen from overhead through the roof skylights. You may even find a 1930 MG Midget tucked away.
The 1960s version has extended tarmac runways and perimeter track with Type T2 hangars and many dispersal points with their blast walls. The Hangars are open, displaying the geodetic roof support structures. You may even find a classic 1930 MG Midget tucked away.
The Belfast and Type T2 hangars are all open and display representations of the roof trusses/supports. In both cases the station commander has forbidden the risky practice of flying through the hangars!
The Domestic site leans heavily on historical photos and the diorama at the Tangmere Military Aviation Museum although some smaller buildings have been omitted with graphics load in mind.
The airfield history, below, gives an indication of the range of aircraft that could be flown from RAF Tangmere in MSFS 2020, where available.
Installation
Unzip to a local folder and move or copy required folders to your Community folder.
Credits
Miscellaneous historical photos from the web and much reading!
Hawker Hunter available from flightsim.to and used as static aircraft with permission of the author Dave Garwood (DG Designs) https://flightsim.to/file/35150/hawker-hunter-package
History
RAF Tangmere came into being in 1917 as a Royal Flying Corps (RFC) training base until 1918 when it was handed over to United States Air Force as a training ground.
In 1919 following the end of the war it was moth-balled.
In 1925 it was re-opened in the, now, Royal Air Force (RAF) which was formed in 1918 from the RFC.
In 1926 RAF Tangmere became the home of No 43(f) Squadron.
In 1927 No 1(f) Squadron was re-formed at RAF Tangmere.
In 1942 No 161 (Special Duty) Squadron A flight began operations from RAF Tangmere as part of the Special Operations Exceutive (SOE).
Throughout the war the airfield was home to a very large number of rotating Squadrons and was quite often used for emergency landings by RAF bombers returning damaged or diverted due to bad weather at their home base.
On 6th June, D-Day, RAF Tangmere was the nerve centre for the operation of 56 Squadrons.
Up to the end of the second world war various Squadrons flew the Sopwith Snipe, Armstrong Whitworth Siskin, Gloster Gamecock, Gloster Gladiator, Hawker Fury, Hawker Hurricane and Supermarine Spitfire in various marks up to MkXVI.
Post-war, various units were homed there including the Central Fighter Establishment, the High Speed Flight taking Air Speed Records in Gloster Meteors (1946) and the Hawker Hunter (1953), the Day Fighter Leaders School, Enemy Aircraft Flight, Fighter and Night Fighter Development and Training units and at one time a fleet Air Arm unit. Until closure in October 1970 RAF Tangmere was home principally to the Meteor and the Hunter.
In 1981 Tangmere Military Aviation Museum was established and opened for the first time in June 1982.
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