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FSX NAS Sunnyvale KNUQ 1933-1994. A BRIEF HISTORY: In 1931, the city of Sunnyvale acquired a 1, 000 acre (4 km2) parcel of farmland bordering San Francisco Bay, then sold the parcel for $1 to the US government as a home base for the Navy airship USS Macon. The location proved to be ideal for an airport, since the area is often clear while other parts of the San Francisco Bay are covered in fog. This is due to the Coast Range to the west which blocks the cold oceanic air which is the cause of San Francisco fog. The base, originally named Airbase Sunnyvale CAL (it was thought that calling it Mountain View would cause officials to fear airships colliding with mountainsides), was accepted created by the U. S. Navy on February 12, 1931 and dedicated NAS Sunnyvale on April 12, 1933. After the de
Show more... ath of Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, in the loss of the USS Akron on April 4, 1933, the Air Field (but not the Naval Air Station) was renamed Moffett Field on September 1, 1933. After the ditching of the Macon on February 12, 1935, and until 1941, the Navy transferred claimancy of NAS Sunnyvale to the War Department and the installation was under the control of the U. S. Army Air Corps. In 1941, control of the facility was returned to the Navy, which (this time) named it NAS Moffett Field. From the end of World War II until its closure, NAS Moffett Field saw the development and use of several generations of land-based anti-submarine warfare and maritime patrol aircraft, including the Lockheed P2V Neptune and Lockheed P-3 Orion. Until the demise of the USSR and for some time thereafter, daily anti-submarine sorties flew out from Moffett Field to patrol along the Pacific coastline while Moffetts other squadrons and aircraft periodically deployed to other Pacific, Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf bases for periods of up to six months. On July 1, 1994, NAS Moffett Field was closed as a naval air station and turned over to the NASA Ames Research Center. NASA Ames now operates the facility as Moffett Federal Airfield. Since being decommissioned as a primary military installation, part of Moffett has been made accessible to the public, including a cordoned portion of the interior of the massive Hangar One. extracted, in part, from Wikipedia ABOUT THIS SCENERY PACKAGE: This scenery is a joint effort between myself and John Stinstrom. I did the ground excludes, textures, roads, Hangar One and the Helium Tower. John did the other NAS Sunnyvale structures. RECOMMENDED AIRSHIP PROCEDURES FOR FLYING AT MOFFETT FIELD: Please read the documentation on flying the airship Macon, included in the USS Macon download, for more information on flying her from NAS Moffett Field. I hope you enjoy this model of NAS Sunnyvale as much as I enjoyed building it. LT Jim Dhaenens USN Ret. THE Naval Airship Factory, 2010 jdhaenensatsbcglobal . net
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FSX NAS Sunnyvale KNUQ 1933-1994. Rating: 9.00 of 10 over a total of 1 reviews.
FSX NAS Sunnyvale KNUQ 1933-1994. Rating: 9.00 of 10 over a total of 1 reviews.
mitsoswurating: 9
April 17, 2011
Nice one
