Founder Nels_Anderson Posted June 26, 2023 Founder Share Posted June 26, 2023 Flying "The Hump" Burma China India (BCI) WW2 Ops By Frank's MS Flight Sim Come see how the Allies, mainly the USA, supplied China to fight the invading Japanese in WW2. The airlift supply route involved hazardous flying over the SE tail-end of the Himalayas, hence the name "The Hump". The job was done but not without significant loss of personnel and aircraft. At the time, it was the largest airlift operation in history. Enjoy not only the history but also the flying and scenery as well. Hope you do enjoy. Cheers. Frank’s MS Flight Sim https://www.youtube.com/@FranksMSFlightSimulator About Frank's MS Flight Sim New channel begun in 2021. Visit notable airfields and areas in Microsoft Flight Simulator (MSFS). Themes so far include: WW2; Bush/Mt./Water/Outback strips; “Golden Oldie” strips; heritage/vintage strips; and aircraft accident investigations. More different themes to come. Expect a new video roughly each week. Provides brief, interesting information, often with history, geography, maps, pictures etc, and great places to fly in MSFS. Focus is on interesting content rather than production values. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgf Posted June 26, 2023 Share Posted June 26, 2023 Reminds me of the "Flying the Hump" mod for FS2004 years ago (same people?); gave you the airfields and flight plans and links to the required aircraft. There was also a "Berlin Airlift" mod. Adds variety for any sim and induces people to try something beyond airborne public transport and run-of-the-mill GA aircraft. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhrogPhlyer Posted June 26, 2023 Share Posted June 26, 2023 Frank, once again, has created an informative and visually enjoyable presentation. Not only does he give us a birds eye view of this operation and the history behind it, but best of all he ignites a desire to learn more and voyage to these locations in whatever sim version we may be flying. Bravo Zulu, Well Done. 1 Always Aviate, then Navigate, then Communicate. And never be low on Fuel, Altitude, Airspeed, or Ideas. Laptop, Intel Core i7 CPU 1.80GHz 2.30 GHz, 8GB RAM, 64-bit, NVIDIA GeoForce MX 130, Extra large coffee-black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhrogPhlyer Posted June 26, 2023 Share Posted June 26, 2023 29 minutes ago, jgf said: Reminds me of the "Flying the Hump" mod for FS2004 years ago. There was also a "Berlin Airlift" mod. So other can attempt these flights (The Hump, and Berlin Airlift). I did not find any for 2004 on this site. Perhaps on another one? One mission for flying the Hump in FSX. https://www.flightsim.com/search/?&q=hump&type=downloads_file&quick=1&nodes=111&search_and_or=and&sortby=relevancy Five missions for Berlin Airlift in FSX. https://www.flightsim.com/search/?q=berlin&quick=1&type=downloads_file&nodes=111 1 Always Aviate, then Navigate, then Communicate. And never be low on Fuel, Altitude, Airspeed, or Ideas. Laptop, Intel Core i7 CPU 1.80GHz 2.30 GHz, 8GB RAM, 64-bit, NVIDIA GeoForce MX 130, Extra large coffee-black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnuss Posted June 26, 2023 Share Posted June 26, 2023 Interesting video- thanks Frank. For history buffs (late 1930s to mid-1950s) also note that Ernest K. Gann's Fate Is The Hunter has an interesting segment about flying The Hump. In Chapter XIII - "Heat" - he is talking about, among other things, the problems with heat and with flying the C-87, the cargo version of the B-24. In my hard back copy the chapter starts on p. 250 (of 385), and the segment on The Hump starts on p. 261 (it runs through p. 271), after some discussion about almost destroying the Taj Mahal after an overloaded takeoff in a C-87 at Agra. He describes some of the goings-on at Chabua and during a flight he took over The Hump, including the way C-47s had to struggle and "hedge hop" on their way through the Himalayas due to lack of performance and considerable overloading, people losses, and more. For history buffs, that book is a marvel, covering a lot of WWII air transport (right from the very beginning of the war and of the efforts that culminated in creating the the Air Transport Command), as well as a great deal of airline history, all from his viewpoint in the cockpit of the airlines with DC-2s and DC-3s, DC-4s, C-87s and more, through the Korean War and up to the mid-50s. "Fate" is a fascinating book, and I learn a bit more each time I read it (I'm almost due again). BTW, the books and movies Island In The Sky and The High And The Mighty (movies surprisingly well done) are fictional stories closely based on some of his wild experiences that he described in "Fate." 1 Larry N. As Skylab would say: Remember: Aviation is NOT an exact Science! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgf Posted June 26, 2023 Share Posted June 26, 2023 The file I have is "The Hump", dated 5/2008; includes airfields, flight plans, schedules, files for FSN, etc. For Berlin- https://www.flightsim.com/search/?q=bas04&quick=1&type=downloads_file&nodes=14 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhrogPhlyer Posted June 26, 2023 Share Posted June 26, 2023 2 hours ago, lnuss said: "Fate" is a fascinating book, and I learn a bit more each time Belongs in every aviation enthusiast's library! 2 Always Aviate, then Navigate, then Communicate. And never be low on Fuel, Altitude, Airspeed, or Ideas. Laptop, Intel Core i7 CPU 1.80GHz 2.30 GHz, 8GB RAM, 64-bit, NVIDIA GeoForce MX 130, Extra large coffee-black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrankPilot Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 For MSFS users, flightsim.to has useful Hump stuff (just go to that site and type hump) which I drew upon in my video above. In the video I credited the artist in the flight plan pic. Cheers. PS: OMG, I love to see discussion like this following one of my videos. Did not happen on other Forums, so that says something positive about this Forum! PPS: Thanks to Nels for encouraging me to highlight my videos! 1 Frank’s MS Flight Sim https://youtube.com/channel/UCqCzobOlQLeGycCFnavVrPg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhrogPhlyer Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 1 hour ago, FrankPilot said: PS: OMG, I love to see discussion like this following one of my videos. Did not happen on other Forums, so that says something positive about this Forum! I believe that FlightSim is the only place to be for active and informative discussions. We as a forum community may not be perfect. but we sure have a good time. 2 Always Aviate, then Navigate, then Communicate. And never be low on Fuel, Altitude, Airspeed, or Ideas. Laptop, Intel Core i7 CPU 1.80GHz 2.30 GHz, 8GB RAM, 64-bit, NVIDIA GeoForce MX 130, Extra large coffee-black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avallillo Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 That video was apparently done in FS2020. Where did the period airfields come from? As an aside, I too started reading Fate is the Hunter around the age of 12, and have reread it so often that some of the things Gann writes about almost seem like my own memories! When I flew for American Airlines I met a man who had known many of the pilots that Gann flew with, and had himself written a book about the AA involvement in the CBI (which was known at AA as Project 7A). This man told me that some of the better known segments of Fate is the Hunter were mostly apochryphal - in particular, the Taj Mahal story. Apparently that was considerably spiced up for literary interest, but in any event it made for a gripping few moments of reading! Although I never met or flew with him, "Cotton" Johnson was still flying for AA when I hired on in 1977. He became well known on the property for his successful effort to prolong his career past what was presumed to be his 60th birthday, by discovering a family bible which showed his date of birth a couple of years later than he originally was told. Apparently in those days, family bibles were often the only authoritative source of information along those lines, since birth certificates were unknown in the hinterlands where Cotton was born and raised. In any event, although there was a certain skepticism on the part of his fellow pilots (!), the company eventually accepted this new data, as did the FAA, and he flew on. AA then told every pilot on the payroll that they had several months to scour their records to prove they were younger than they thought - and that after that time was up, the record would stand un-correctable. I never heard of anyone else succeeding in an endeavor like this, so Cotton may have been the one and only! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lnuss Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 Quote and have reread it so often that some of the things Gann writes about almost seem like my own memories! A nice way of putting it- I find a similar result. And thanks for the additional notes on the subject -- very interesting. 1 Larry N. As Skylab would say: Remember: Aviation is NOT an exact Science! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loki Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 4 hours ago, avallillo said: That video was apparently done in FS2020. Where did the period airfields come from? As FrankPilot notes, Flightsim.to has scenery files related to this. Plugging "Hump" into the search brings back a few options. https://flightsim.to/file/43587/flying-the-hump https://flightsim.to/discover/hump 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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