Post by connieguy on Oct 21, 2021 5:32:20 GMT -5
Canadian Forces Base, Goose Bay and Goose Bay Airport, CYYR
Like Ernest Harmon Air Base, Frobisher Bay and sites in Greenland, Goose Bay was built and developed during the Second World War to faciltate the movement of aircraft from the US and Canada to western Europe for use against the Axis powers. There are some interesting comments on this early phase of its history in Gann's Fate is the Hunter. Also like the other bases mentioned it later played a significant role in the Cold War, hosting an important US base, and bombers and fighters were stationed there which were intended to both deal with the threat of incursions by Soviet aircraft carrying nuclear weapons across the North Pole and also pose a similar threat to the Soviet Union. Among the bombers involved in this latter role were British aircraft which included Avro Vulcans, but the air forces of other NATO countries were present too. The US part of the base closed in 1976. There were also facilities for civilian aircraft and Goose Bay was used for refuelling on (I think) an ad hoc basis by airliners crossing the Atlantic, depending on the headwinds concerned.
See further en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFB_Goose_Bay
And there is an important collection of historical photographs on John Hewson's Flickr page here:
www.flickr.com/photos/12530375@N08/albums/72157719757234161
In 2008 Flight Ontario released a very fine scenery for Goose Bay which is still available, with an accompanying fix, on Flight Sim. Their other sceneries included the Leapfrog Project and these could be downloaded from their website. I still use their Prestwick from the Leaprog Project. However, the website received no further additions after about 2012 and went offline in 2021. In conjunction with our scenery for Ernest Harmon (CYJT) we have been working on additions to the Flight Ontario Goose Bay for some time, and these will turn it into a working air base with many ai aircraft (for those who want them). As we do not have permission to redistribute the original, the installation of this new version will begin with the downloading and installation of the two original files. Some of the contents of those files will then have to be deleted and our material added.
Like Ernest Harmon Air Base, Frobisher Bay and sites in Greenland, Goose Bay was built and developed during the Second World War to faciltate the movement of aircraft from the US and Canada to western Europe for use against the Axis powers. There are some interesting comments on this early phase of its history in Gann's Fate is the Hunter. Also like the other bases mentioned it later played a significant role in the Cold War, hosting an important US base, and bombers and fighters were stationed there which were intended to both deal with the threat of incursions by Soviet aircraft carrying nuclear weapons across the North Pole and also pose a similar threat to the Soviet Union. Among the bombers involved in this latter role were British aircraft which included Avro Vulcans, but the air forces of other NATO countries were present too. The US part of the base closed in 1976. There were also facilities for civilian aircraft and Goose Bay was used for refuelling on (I think) an ad hoc basis by airliners crossing the Atlantic, depending on the headwinds concerned.
See further en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFB_Goose_Bay
And there is an important collection of historical photographs on John Hewson's Flickr page here:
www.flickr.com/photos/12530375@N08/albums/72157719757234161
In 2008 Flight Ontario released a very fine scenery for Goose Bay which is still available, with an accompanying fix, on Flight Sim. Their other sceneries included the Leapfrog Project and these could be downloaded from their website. I still use their Prestwick from the Leaprog Project. However, the website received no further additions after about 2012 and went offline in 2021. In conjunction with our scenery for Ernest Harmon (CYJT) we have been working on additions to the Flight Ontario Goose Bay for some time, and these will turn it into a working air base with many ai aircraft (for those who want them). As we do not have permission to redistribute the original, the installation of this new version will begin with the downloading and installation of the two original files. Some of the contents of those files will then have to be deleted and our material added.
Screenshots:
Canberra at Goose Bay, 1957
And in the scenery:
F-89s of the 59th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, 1957
And in the scenery. F-89s made for this scenery by David Wooster.
V bombers at Goose Bay, 1959:
And in the scenery:
Aeroflot at Goose Bay, 1959:
And in the scenery:
Goose Bay, 1962: