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FSX NAS North Island Mast. On 13, October 1923, a special USN board directed that semiportable mooring masts (160-foot poles of steel tubing 16 inches in diameter and braced by three sets of guy wires) were to be erected at Forth Worth, San Diego and Camp Lewis (Washington State). In August of 1924, it was decided that the USS Shenandoah (ZRS-1) would make a set of flightss from her base at NAS Lakehurst to the West Coast and back, using the mooring masts at Fort Worth, San Diego and Seattle (Camp Lewis). In accordince with this plan, the USS Shenandoah arrived at the Naval Air Station North Island at 2300 on 10 October 1924, and landed on the ground. She was then secured to the mooring mast the following morning, during daylight. She remained moored to the mast for the next five days, whi
Show more... le some damage that was done during the landing the previous evening, was repaired. On 16 October the Shenandoah departed San Diego for Camp Lewis. On the 21st of that month she arrived back at NAS North Island, where she was again moored to the mast overnight. On the morning of the 22 of October, she left the mast on her way back to her home airfield in New Jersey. When the USS Akron made her West Coast visit in May 1933, she was moored to a mast at Camp Kearney (now MCAS Miramar). The Camp Kearney mast was probably not the same "High Mast" used earlier at North Island, as shorter (stub) masts were introduced following an incident with the USS Los Angeles on NAS Lakehursts High mast in 1927. The Camp Kearney mast was used four times by the USS Macon in 1934. We elected to build the North Island High Mast because there is ample photographic documentation of that mast and because it is a spectacular structure. We have been unable to find any plans or photos of the Camp Kearney mast. I hope you enjoy this model of the NAS North Island Mast as much as I enjoyed building it. LT Jim Dhaenens USN Ret. Naval Aircraft Factory, 2010 jchaenensatsbcglobal . net
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FSX NAS North Island Mast. Rating: 9.50 of 10 over a total of 2 reviews.
FSX NAS North Island Mast. Rating: 9.50 of 10 over a total of 2 reviews.
fc_13351450230075372597rating: 9
August 13, 2011
Great. i was looking everywere to find that
ace1212rating: 10
March 3, 2011
Very good If you have the Macon.
