Oh brilliant. Such an iconic airfield. It deserves the kind of treatment I see you’re giving to RAF Kenley.
And if @RobCap1966 were to return to his Puss Moth project they would have just the aircraft to fly it in! 
Thanks for finding that, but could you try the link again, please? It doesn’t seem to work.
Don’t worry about finishing quickly on our account. The tour of Kenley will be its own part of the tour, mostly independent of the other three, which means we can work on your timeline instead of the other way around.
@EnjonUK That sounds like a wonderful idea! Thanks to both of you for the suggestion. We’ve never heard of Crawford and Keiller or their book, but we’ve thought about such a tour in the past. We binned it when we discovered how poor some of our chosen sites looked in MSFS (Fovant Down and its badges, for example, has a particularly nasty texture “seam” and red line running right through it, and some of the chalk figures are presented as buildings).
But now I’m anxious to try again! We’ll have to finish the Kenley/BoB tour first, and I’ll do my best to not dive into Wessex from the Air yet since I’m easily distra—SQUIRREL!
Sorry…what was I saying?
— PW
Does this one work?
(Is anyone else finding that Google’s sharing links are becoming a problem?)
And Keiller is particularly associated with Avebury, where there is now a museum dedicated to his work.
And here’s a link to one of OGS Crawford’s other signicant works
(Fun fact since we have got to him, my original idea for a name for “Time Machine Designs” was “OGSC Designs” but it felt a bit too obscure!)
Yes, those links work for me now. Thanks!
— PW
Hi all, following the discussion up the thread about wayfinding around Kenley, the release will now have signage for all of the buildings.
Here is a selection of what we have in mind:
We hope these will help you to find your way around. We will also add some detial about each building into the User Guide.
“Dope Store”??? 
It’s where you Store the Dope! (but not that kind of dope…)
That will be a welcome addition, for sure, although I feel guilty for causing you and the team extra work!
Nag and I are still writing and researching our Kenley tour, although we’ve greatly reduced the number of sites in Part One. We figured there wouldn’t be much to see along the Kent and East Sussex coasts, but Heavens to Murgatroyd, were we wrong! Tourist railroads, a World War 2 trans-channel pipeline pumphouse, multiple RAF and Luftwaffe crash sites, beachside observation posts, and even an abandoned RFC flying field! The hardest part of writing any tour is deciding which amazing things to leave out.
BTW, thank you for the livestream the other night. Unfortunately, we were both travelling and had to satisfy ourselves with the replay. It was interesting to witness how the sausage gets made!
— PW
Not a problem. It was something we had been thinkng about anyway and they will be reused for another airfields.
And to add another small item to your crowded itinerary, as a side project one of the team has modelled the sixteen “Cuckoo” Air Sea Rescue barges that were developed to help aircrew who had to ditch.
They were placed at intervals five miles off the coast from Grimsby to Selsey Bill, covering the North Sea and the Channel.
We will be placing them this week and then releasing it as a freeware for anyone that is interested.
Glad you enjoyed the livestream, we will keep broadcasting when folks are working.
More scenery? You’re killin’ me, Smalls. 
I’ve never heard of the British Cuckoos or the German “Lobster Pots,” although Nag is familiar through his reading. We’ll add them to the list, although they may be a separate short tour.
Thanks again to you and the team!
— PW
We like to try and add value by exploring the less well known corners of aviation history!
Meanwhile, back at Kenley, on 29th July 1940, a Blenheim Mk.IV bomber of 110 Squadron crashed making an forced landing at the airfield.
It was one of six thhat took off that morning RAF Wattisham, each tasked with bombing a different aerodrome in Northern France. This aircraft - serial T1923 and crewed by Sgt. Reginald Sims (Pilot), Sgt. Richmond (Observer) and Sgt. Gray (Wireless Operator / Air Gunner) - was returning from Lannion on the Brittany coast.
On landing it swerved to avoid a gun pit at the end of the runway and tipped onto its nose.
T1923 had not been removed from Kenley by 18th August and is later recorded as having been destroyed in an air raid. It is assumed that it was destroyed during the raid on the 18th.
We are finalising a likely position and condition but you will see it there in the scenery.
We’ll take the Albatross and use the longest runway in the area…the English Channel!
Thanks again for this “extra” project. It really demonstrates how useful MSFS can be for education and historical research! I’ve uncovered a great deal of information about the Cuckoos, including detailed descriptions and photos of what is likely the wreck of ASR-12 off Pagham.
And for anyone who’s interested, the beautifully restored ASR-10 is displayed at the Scottish Maritime Museum in Irvine southwest of Glasgow in North Ayshire.
And we’re off to the races.
T1923 was one of a batch of 650 Blenheim Mk.IVs built between March and October 1940 by Rootes Securities at its factory adjacent to Liverpool’s Speke Airport. Based on general production lists, she was likely completed during the first or second week of July, which means she was only two to three weeks old when she was wrecked at Kenley on 29 July.
Nag says: Sgt. Sims and his crew flew all night and were likely critically fatigued. The roundtrip from Wattisham to Lannion alone would require almost four hours. Worse, T1923 crashed at 0540, about twenty minutes after sunrise. Anyone who’s been fatigued knows the absolute misery of flying and landing into a sunrise. “Brain piercing” is a suitable description. I’d say Sgt. Sims was lucky he found an airfield!
So glad to see T1923 included in the scenery! Will we see the Master, Magisters, and Proctor that were destroyed on 18 August, too?
— PW & Nag
I guess that would be obvious way to do it!
This is fascinating; (thanks to Nag 
). Fatigue and light might also explain why they didn’t see the the gun pit at the end of the runway until it was too late..
I have plotted a straight line course from the airfield at Lannion to the end of the main runway at Wattisham. Landing on Kenley’s main runway requires a deviation of only 3.7 miles from that track (assuming they flew it as a straight line return). It is also on a very similar heading.
There are unconfirmed reports that Sgt Sims thought he was landing in a field, which might speak to the effectiveness of Kenley’s camouflage, at least to a fatigued pilot at sunrise.
However, is it also possible that Sgt Richmond was able to navigate them to Kenley deliberately?
Either way, I think this helps to confirm that the accident probably happened at the end of the mainway runway.
We noticed the same geographical relationships! We do question whether T1293 flew that course, though, as it passes almost directly over the Gun Defended Areas surrounding London. Overnight on July 28/29, the Luftwaffe struck targets in Scotland and near Birmingham and Manchester, but also a few locales in southeast England, including Edenbridge only a few miles southeast of Kenley. They were apparently busy mining in the Thames Estuary, too.
Assuming Nag’s four-hour flight, T1923 would have departed Wattisham between 0130 and 0200. The Luftwaffe was apparently back over the Channel by 0245, about the time T1923 may have passed near London. Of course, we don’t know the protocols that were in place at the time, but I’d personally be wary of flying over anti-aircraft guns manned by a bunch of sleepy and potentially trigger-happy blokes!
Nag says: I would agree that T1923 probably landed northeast at Kenley. Why Kenley, we’ll never know. Wattisham lay about 63 nautical miles or about 22 minutes northeast of Kenley. Perhaps the aircraft was damaged or running low on fuel?
Returning to the subject of fatigue, I can tell you from experience that a pilot’s aeronautical decision-making capabilities degrade rapidly when fatigued. I wouldn’t be surprised if Sgt. Sims arrived over Kenley’s threshold both high and fast, making an overrun inevitable. To make matters worse, the Blenheim had no second pilot to say “ya’ know, skipper, we could just go around again!”
---- PW & Nag
I don’t think I saw it mentioned… perhaps some implementation for the 2024 EFB could be used for bringing documentation for assets to readers in the sim?
That’s a good idea, thanks. It will need some exploarion at this end but is something to add to the list.