Category: WW2 Normandy

Local History – Langford Lodge , Northern ireland. Base Air Depot No. 3, United States Army Air Force Station 597

Walsh here , being Northern Irish and having an interest in the war years, I had no idea there would be so much facinating history of the period in my local vicinity .

Today my featured piece of local history is a reasonably local ( 20 miles away ) airfield that served an important function for allied bombers before heading off to the strategic bombing campaign in the ETO . Langford lodge . Finding out my grandfather was there as a civilian contractor was an added bonus.

Its always amazing finding out you have a connection to these major moments in history.

Please enjoy this excellent article from wartime NI.

Langford Lodge Airfield, Crumlin, Co. Antrim

WartimeNI : Northern Ireland during the Second World War

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Combatflite – initial thoughts

Hi all , I recently trialled the dcs related software “combat flite ” , a flight planning tool ( and more ) for dcs .

Initial tests seem very promising indeed , running on an old laptop with discreet graphics only and it runs pretty well , even with mission of up to 800 units. Some of the more powerful features such as line of sight calculation from proposed radar sights take a moment or two but give very useful results . The export to kneeboard function is quite good although it takes some fettling , I have not tried its export to dcs features yet but it does appear to facilitate mission edits and export to.miz format amongst a range of other filetypes.

So short term initial tests look good , hopefully some more testing will lead to me figuring out some more useful features and some fuel calculations are coming in an upcoming updates , this will be very useful for those longer warbird raids.

Cheers all , feel free to check it out here https://www.combatflite.com/ , this post is not sponsored and I’m sharing my honest initial experience of this software , so far , so good 🙂

I havent bought it yet but may do so shortly , cheers.

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DZ Normandy …

Another excellent and highly recommended video shared by Zenos warbirds on youtube – check it out here , it really adds some great detail about the thetre in which we fly over Normandy 1944 in DCS .

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Letter from the front 2

Nice / Honest comments from surf vr over on 4ya ww2 , although the impression that stats are broken is incorrect , they are beta and if there’s an issue the team are looking into it . Stats are very important to us and the implementation of the excellent jester script has been very solid so far , although it is a constantly developing piece of work by its creator , 4yas Lurcher . Great to hear the positives in surfs comments too as this is the point of the server – a place where we can communicate and work together with people from all around the globe with people we typically would not ordinarily meet , love this community and we hope this open and transparent way of dealing with our player base enriches the whole community .

I am hoping to do more bits like this of community input in the fashion of a diary entry as the pilots would have did during the war.

If you would like to submit an entry for conversion to this format please post over on 4ya ww2 discord page. Cheers , Walsh.

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Video Effects practice

– here ive added vignette , film grain , desaturate and a few other things using video pro x13 to try and achieve a bit more of a period feel , still a bit too contrastey ( not a word i know 😉 but promising.

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