CFS Scenery Add-On "Northolt"
for Combat Flight Simulator 1

The airfield at RAF Northolt is older than the RAF itself. Located in the London Borough of Hillingdon, the military airfield became operational in June 1915 when BE2c aircraft flew defensive patrols against Zeppelin raids over London. The oldest building on the Station from Royal Flying Corps days still remains. The Officers' Mess, built in 1929, is still operational, as are several hangars and buildings dating from the mid 1920s.

In the 1930s, RAF Northolt was the first station to operate the Hurricane and during the Second World War was again one of the key airfields in the defence of London. During the Battle of Britain, northolt was 'home' to a series of allied and British Hurricane and Spitfire Squadrons, including a complete Polish Wing.

No 303 Polish Squadron clocked up the highest allied scores during the Battle of Britain, with Sergeant Josef Frantisek, a maverick Czech national and 'honorary Pole' becoming the highest scorer of the Battle. In 1943, RAF Northolt's Spitfire Mk IX Squadrons became the first Spitfire Wing as a unit to operate over Germany.

One notable flight took place in 1944 when liberator 'Marco Polo' flew non-stop from Washington to Northolt, taking a mere 19 hours and 46 minutes.

In 1946 the airfield was loaned for civil use whilst Heathrow Airport was under construction and by 1952, Northolt was the busiest airfield in Europe, handling an annual total of 50,000 air movements.

Today, this airfield has the task of providing VIP air transport, mainly for the British Crown.

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This scenery places the additional runway07, buildings, fields, trees, ground vehicles, static planes, searchlights and more to the default CFS scenery of Northolt.

On this scenery, I show some old static trucks (API macros) created by me, a few months ago, the Bedford OL, Chevrolet C60 and the Austin K2 ambulance.

Whatever you do, have fun with this. This kind of scenery would not be possible with the utilities-tools and support of Pascal Meziat, Tom Hiscox, Brian McWilliams, Trevor de Stigter, Rafael Garcia Sanchez, Martin "Wizard" Wright, Mike Rennie, Ralf Triebel and Manfred Moldenhauer. Thank you very much!
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Installation:

Go to the CFS main scenery folder and make a folder named Northolt.

Unzip the files directly to a Northolt folder, all subfolders will be created automatically!

After unzipping the structure of that folders has to look exactly like this:

CFS ----
scenery
----- Northolt
-------- scenery
-------- texture

Go to CFS and start in freeflight. Add the scenery to the scenery-library
(World / Scenery Library) - Add Scenery.

The BGL path to enter is exactly:

=:\=\scenery\Northolt\SCENERY\*.BGL

You may copy and paste the line above!

Name the scenery "Northolt" and don't forget to _activate_ it by checking the box!

You can access the initial points by clicking GOTO Airport, the airfield is added to the CFS airfields list.

Do not drop the ground vehicles texture files to your main CFS texture folder, otherwise they will eventually overwrite some of your other CFS textures!

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Credits:
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The scenery was designed with Pascal Meziat, Tom Hiscox and Brian McWilliams utility program Airport 2.6; Martin Wright's MkAFD and Scasm 2.88 by Manfred Moldenhauer.

Thanks to Mike Rennie, Rafael García Sanchez, Jorn Kudla, Robert Waszkiewicz, Martin Wright, Dan Geis, and Ralf Triebel, creators of the main api macros and textures used on this scenery. (and me, of course, as creator of some macros buildings using Ralf Triebel's textures).

Some api macros as made by me, using Easy Object Designer (EOD), Version 2.0.47 (© Matthias Brückner) for ground vehicles.

The RAF static planes macros was designed with MDL to BGL utility program by Trevor de Stigter (Copyright © 1998/2001 ), and Convert R8 by Martin Wright (Copyright © 1999 ).

The static planes are in separate files, to make easy the task of delete them, for missions creators who use the library objects.

Thanks too to the Microsoft Corporation for developing the CFS.


Copyright and Distribution
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As freeware you are permitted to use and distribute this
archive subject to the following conditions:

- The archive must be distributed without modification to the contents of the archive.

- No charge may be made for this archive!

- You have no right to include this scenery to a CD without written permission of the author

- You have no right to include this scenery in a commercial pack in any way.

- You have no right to change this scenery whithout written permission
of the author.

- All authors' rights and wishes concerning this archives must be respected.

© Edmundo Abad, 28/07/2011
Santiago- Chile
eabad5@live.cl

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