posted 12-13- 09:15 PM               

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How many and where were they located. Pictures if you got 'em.

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posted 12-14- 02:33 AM               

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There was one at Valetta. Don't have any pics.

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posted 12-14- 02:37 AM               

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And there were more, at Ta'Quali, Luqa, and Hal Far.

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posted 12-14- 06:02 AM               

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There was also a seaplane base at Kalafrana.

Pics of the modern field (Luqa?) with a good description of wartime field.
http://www.geocities.com/Aviator_mlt/MaltaAirport.htm

This page has a German aerial photograph of Ta'Quali (pretty small though): http://www.accessweb.com/users/mconstab/beurling.htm

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posted 12-14- 09:01 AM               

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Map showing approximate location of Luqa and Hal Far airfields and city of Valetta:
http://www.tripprep.com/destina/destina_maps/political/116_political.html

Map showing approximate location of Ta'Quali (Ta Kali):
http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon/v/malta-map.html

Map of Valetta harbour (no indication of airfield):
http://www.cronab.demon.co.uk/malta.htm

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posted 12-14- 02:44 PM               

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While we're on the topic, is there a resource anywhere with locations of the major airfields during the Med./N. African campaign '40-'43? Or were most of the airfields in N. Africa just temporary stop gap affairs comprised of a few tents and any convenient level and smooth patch of desert?

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posted 12-14- 03:11 PM               

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Looking at that political map of Malta (first one in Bishop's post) makes me wonder if the planes and terrain in sdoe are not to the same scale. (ie: Planes are much bigger than terrain, foot for foot or metre for metre)

Werner

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posted 12-14- 03:37 PM               

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I read somewhere the terrain scale was about 1/3 for Dover, 1/15 for Africa, and 1 for Rhineland... When I tried to apply satellite pics to Dover, SDOE's Abbeville field was *much* larger than the textured image of the city itself. BTW the terrain is totally out of place, but I don't really blame SDOE for not having a realistic terrain... In fact it's quite fun to fly from Sicily to Egypt and back to Tunisia in 10 minutes in a Spit

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posted 12-14- 08:27 PM               

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Great links guys. Might come in handy

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posted 12-14- 10:16 PM               

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Pachy - I understand why they did it for Africa, but I'm not impressed. Also I did a map search once for the towns in the Rhineland terrain, and discovered that the riverbed is totally out of line as well.

I think they could have done 1:1 for Dover as well as Rhineland, and left Africa the way it is.

Werner

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