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jankees

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  1. Very nice!

    It reminds me a bit of the old Corunna Downs airfield near Marble Bar in WA. That too used to be a B-24 base, used by the USAAF and RAAF that is still around. I visited it often in the '90's when we were doing field in the area, and my wife even flew there with a C-47 for the Marble Bar centenery. I was jealous, but was in France at the time. It was fun going there and have this perfectly straight runway after endless kilometers of dirt roads.

    Here's an old aerial photo: https://www.airhistory.net/photo/263436

     

    and me landing a B-24 on it in MSFS:

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    I was there again two years ago, most of the old metal stuff that littered the area was gone, but the runways are still in reasonable shape, and the taxiways and revetments for the bombers are still visible, as you can see in MSFS as well

     

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    some background: https://www.exploroz.com/forum/117789/sunday-history-photo--wa

    or here: https://caravan.hemax.com/Destination/13847/Hidden_in_the_WA_Outback

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