FS2004 - Roosevelt Field - WW1 Era. Where back in 1911 you would have seen Bleriots and Curtiss Pusher machines buzzing around over the Hempstead Plains.
"Roosevelt Field - WW1" is the second "trilogy" of scenery for Roosevelt Field. The first (already released to Avsim and Flightsim) being "Roosevelt Field - May 20, 1927", the day when Lindbergh flew off to Paris and history. The third will be "Roosevelt Field -the Golden Age of Aviation" (30's Era). In this scenery I have covered the beginning of Roosevelt Field around 1909 thru WW1. Back then The field was known at the Hempstead Plains Aerodrome but the name was changed in 1917 or so to HazelHurst Field when the Army operated it. This scenery contains most of the major interests at Roosevelt Field between 1909 and the end of WW1. It is represented by the Moisant Aviation School, Glen Curtiss's interests,the US Army during WW1, and by the US Transcontinental Air Mai Service.
- Moisant Aviation School became one of the first business to locate on Hempstead Plains around 1909 when it moved its 5 concrete and steel hangars down from Mineola Field (a mile to the west). Glen Curtiss also moved his interest from Mineola to Hempstead Plains. One of Moisant's students was Harriet Quimby who was the first American woman to earn her licence. The School used American-made Bleriots for its training.
- Glen Curtiss had a training school as well as constructing aircraft on Hempstead. The FS2004 default Curtiss Jenny is a good plane to fly in this scenery as there were lots of Jennys - especially during and after WW1.
- The Army took over Hempstead Plains and renamed the western side Hazelhurst Field and the eastern side as Roosevelt Field (after the death of the son of Teddy Roosevelt) They added another 8 larger "green" hangars. These hangars are represented in this scenery as well as a refreshment/viewing stand in front of them. Also represented are 4 single army barracks.
- The US began its Transcontinental Air Mail Service with the eastern end here at Hazelhurst field. It's represented by the Air Mail Service hangar.( all I know is that it is somewhere in the northwestern corner)
Installation: Copy the bgl files into the 'scenery' folder where you add in your 'add-on' scenery. Copy all the texture files into the 'texture' folder where you add in you 'add-on' textures. If you have installed my other two Roosevelt Field sceneries, be sure to only enable the one you want to see in your "Add-on" otherwise they will be on 'top' of each other. It works best with either Rob Gainer's Eastern USA mesh, or FSGenesis's Northeastern Mesh.
Notes:
I could not find a good 48-star US Flag to use so I am flying the flag that survived 9/11 instead (as in all my sceneries).
Links:
A good read about Roosevelt Field is called "Roosevelt Field - World's Premier Airport" written by Joshua Stoff & William Camp. ( http://www.windcanyonbooks.com/index.html?target=p_72.html&lang=en-us )
The 'Cradle of Aviation Museum' on the internet at http://www.cradleofaviation.org/.
Copyright and Distribution:
This scenery is released as Freeware. Copyright William F Shea. As freeware you are permitted to distribute this
archive subject to the following conditions,
- The archive must be distributed without modification to the contents of the archive. Redistributing this archive with any files added, removed or modified is prohibited.
- The inclusion of any individual file from this archive in another archive without the prior permission of the author is prohibited. This means, for example, that you may not upload an archive that uses our visual or flight models with your own aircraft or include it in a package containing a panel or aircraft sounds without first obtaining the authors' permission.
- No charge may be made for this archive other than that to cover the cost of its distribution. If a fee is charged it must be made clear to the purchaser that the archive is freeware and that the fee is to cover the distributor's costs of providing the archive.
- The authors' rights and wishes concerning this archive must be respected. Copyright 2004 by William F Shea. All Rights Reserved.
Credits:
Thanks to Matthias Brueckner for EOD.
Thanks to Derek Leung for FFSC
Thanks to Josha Stoff (Curator of the Cradle of Aviation Museum)
