FSX Lowry AFB Scenery
Lowry AFB Scenery, Illinois. Lowry AFB was built to replace Chanute AFB (now Rantoul, IL) as a flight training field. It was eventually reduced to a non-flying base and subsequently closed, leaving only two hangars for a museum. This is another attempt to revive closed or unknown airports in the ...
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- Microsoft Flight Simulator X (FSX) including Steam Edition & Prepar3D (P3D)
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- lowryx.zip
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- Free (Freeware)
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Lowry AFB Scenery, Illinois. Lowry AFB was built to replace Chanute AFB (now Rantoul, IL) as a flight training field. It was eventually reduced to a non-flying base and subsequently closed, leaving only two hangars for a museum. This is another attempt to revive closed or unknown airports in the US. Liberties were taken with this one since aerial photos of a working airfield are very grainy. By John Hawranick, Jr.
Screenshot of Lowry AFB Scenery.
Lowry AFB was built to replace Chanute AFB (now Rantoul, IL)as a flight training field. It was eventually reduced to a non-flying base and subsequently closed, leaving only 2 hangars for a museum. This is another Sharkey attempt to revive closed or unknown airports in the US.
A couple years back, I ran into a website called "Abandoned and Little Known Airfields" by Paul Freeman. There I saw airports that I had not seen in many years. In some cases, I had only seen their ruins. It inspired me to create these airports in FS. This site has become my inspiration and reference "jumping off" point in a lot of my designs.
INSTALLATION:
All but one file go into /Addon Scenery/Scenery;
AFX_KLOW_ALT.bgl goes into /Scenery/World/Scenery
That file is a Flatten file that will be needed to - Oh, I don't know... flatten.
ISSUES:
None, other than I inserted an airport into the city of Denver.
AS ALWAYS:
I hope you enjoy this as much as I. I welcome CONSTRUCTIVE criticism and help. I do this as a hobby and, as such, charge nothing. If satisfied, drop me a line. If dissatisfied, let me know and feel free to delete it or dive-bomb on it.
License info and copyright:
This project must not be posted anywhere other than Flightsim.com without my expressed permission. You may not use it or any of it in payware without my consent.
Acknowledgements:
Paul Freeman - for his extraordinary opus.
The creators and publishers of Instant Scenery and AFX.
The many who have created libraries for scenery programs.
Google earth and Terraserver-USA.
Yours in simming,
John "Sharkey" Hawranick, Jr.
Images & Screenshots
The archive lowryx.zip has 8 files and directories contained within it.
File Contents
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| Filename/Directory | File Date | File Size |
|---|---|---|
| AFX_KLOW.bgl | 08.26.10 | 21.59 kB |
| AFX_KLOW_ALT.bgl | 08.23.10 | 519 B |
| KLOW_EZ.bgl | 08.26.10 | 780 B |
| KLOW.bgl | 08.25.10 | 238 B |
| KLOW.txt | 08.26.10 | 1.82 kB |
| screenshot1.jpg | 08.28.10 | 307.62 kB |
| flyawaysimulation.txt | 10.29.13 | 959 B |
| Go to Fly Away Simulation.url | 01.22.16 | 52 B |
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Lowry AFB was and still parts of it are located in Denver Colorado. The two hangers and many bldgs. such as the Air Intelligence Training Center and the Main Admin building where the Finance section for the entire Air Force was located. I believe the barracks that held the cadets for the first Air Force Academy are still there. I was stationed there for several years in the 1960s.