Can we fax the directions on the new flight to Baghdad?
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Wanted to say something like ‘But there is always awful weather!’ and then instead CAVOK at Lands End. Nothing guaranteed these days 
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Well it seems as if folks are interested in the Air Mail route. I’ll put together something about it this coming week. Same general rules as the McMudspike event to Australia last year. Have to land in the specified cities, etc. Only major change would be the 35 hours of flight time goal, and no navaides at all this time around.
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I did a little research for the start and finish. Hazelhurst Field, Long Island NY was unfortunately closed and sold off to a Mall developer. It is pretty much unrecognizable as an airfield today. KFRG Republic Airport, Farmingdale is the closest current airport I could find, about 10 nm East of Hazelhurst Field.
On the left coast, Marina Airfield, San Francisco is now a park know as Marina Green, but I think we could land on it in X-Plane at least.
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If anyone is looking for Ortho for the route it looks like Forkboy has you covered for most of the route. Might need an extra HDD for all that though…!
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I have been downloading some of these today. :).
If someone with Xplane and someone with P3D would like to provide the list of airports (for the missing ones, we’ll use the closest current airport), I’ll check the route in FSX (the horror I know lol). To keep things fair, we’ll use whatever route is available in all three simulators.
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Reno:
The Mail Service airfield no longer exists… it is a golf course now.
Interesting reading…
http://www.airfields-freeman.com/NV/Airfields_NV_NW.htm
Rough outline of where the airfield was (in red). I guess we will just use the Reno-Tahoe Intl Airport.
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Really strange looking Hawk 
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The author of this site has done the research for us…
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So the question is, are we going to do this with a headwind (New York to San Francisco), or a tailwind?
I took a look at Reno using Forkboy’s ortho…
The golf course is the site of the original airfield (well, the northern half of it). Reno Tahoe Intl Airport can be seen a short distance to the East…
That is fantastic CP. For X-Plane 11?
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You made that? Very neat! 
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Good to hear from you CP! Was just thinking about you yesterday as they showed on TV some riots in Chile.
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I apologize for the delay in looking at FSX to figure out what airports still exist, work sent me out to town for the past week with barely time to lay down before the next day started.
I hope to get that done tomorrow or at least this week.
Totally awesome!! 
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So, tomorrow I think I will start the trek. I’m going to fly from the East coast to the West, which will give me a headwind to contend with.
My route will be…
New York: KFRG Republic Airport. As mentioned previously, Hazelhurst Field is now a shopping mall, but flying from Republic, you will pretty much fly right over the original site.
Bellefonte, PA . N96. The original airfield was on the site of the current High School. It is quite easy to find the school if you are using Ortho scenery.
Cleveland, OH. KCLE Cleveland Hopkins International Airport is on the site of the original airfield.
Bryan Ohio… 0G6
Chicago: KMDW Midway International Airport. The actual air mail field no longer exists. It was next to the Veteran’s Hospital that lies about halfway between Midway and O’Hare Intl.
Iowa City, IA . KIOW, Iowa City Municipal Airport.
Omaha Nebraska. KOFF Offutt AFB
North Platte NE: KLBF North Platte Regional.
Cheyenne, WY: KCYS Cheyenne Regional.
Rock Springs WY: KRKS Rock Springs Sweetwater Co Airport. The original field is now the County Fairgrounds at the Eastern edge of town.
Salt Lake City UT: KSLC.
Elko NV: KEKO Elko Regional Airport.
Reno NV: KRNO Reno Tahoe Intl Airport. The original field is now a golf course just to the West of the field…
San Francisco. We will have to use KSFO or KOAK but as previously mentioned, Marina AIrfield is now a park near the Golden Gate Bridge. It might be possible to land on it still. Worth a try anyway .
As @jenrick suggested, I’ll be doing this with pilotage and dead reckoning only with real weather. I was unable to find a decent DH-4 for X-Plane, but the Potez 25 is a pretty good stand in, both in size, performance and period.
I don’t see this one as being a race… it’s all about the journey. 
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Good call PaulRix.
I will do follow with some hops also.
But can’t promise to use anything period relevant