Active since 1916, RAF Wittering has played a significant role in almost every major conflict for the last 100 years, including the Battle of Britain. The Harriers saw action in the Falklands, Balkans, Gulf War II and Afghanistan.

During World War One the Station served as training facility for pilots (a role to which it has now returned). During the Second World War, the station was very active during the Battle of Britain and the Blitz in 1940–41 in No. 12 Group. The airfield was bombed five times, with seventeen people being killed on 14 March 1941. Aircraft from the station downed 151 Luftwaffe aeroplanes and 89 V-1 flying bombs. 

During the early 1950s the airfield at RAF Wittering was redeveloped to accommodate the arrival of the jet age. English Electric Canberras arrived in March 1954 and Valiant B1s, the first V-Bomber, arrived in July 1955.

Valiant bombers from RAF Wittering were detached to Operation GRAPPLE, a series of British nuclear weapons tests of early atomic bombs and hydrogen bombs carried out in 1957 and 1958 in the Pacific Ocean.

During the 1950s and 1960s all three V-Force bombers operated from RAF Wittering: the Valiant, Victor and the Vulcan.

In 1969 the Harrier arrived. It was an association that lasted for over forty years. The Harriers were involved in almost every major UK conflict including the Falklands, Gulf War Two, the Balkans and Afghanistan.

In 2006 the Station became the Royal Air Force Expeditionary Logistics Hub, with the arrival of No 85 Expeditionary Logistics (EL) Wing. No 42 Expeditionary Support (ES) Wing stood up in 2007, providing a command structure for the engineering units of the A4 Force.

In 2010 the airfield fell silent with the retirement of the Harriers, but was reactivated in 2014. Wittering now provides elementary flying training to the next generation of RAF pilots.

Installation

To install the scenery, unzip the "Zip" file and place the scenery folder into your Community folder. 

To see all the objects you will need all the Asobo airfields (particularly Paderborn EDLP), plus the Library files listed below.

The Harrier GR3 model can be downloaded from:- 

https://militaryaiworks.com/download-hangar/file-library/download/97-aircraft-models-fsx/825-ai-bae-harrier-ii-gr3-t4-raf-gutersloh-3rd-4th-sqn-jyai

It can be converted for MSFS by using the MSFS Legacy Impoorter Tool:-

https://msfs.touching.cloud/mods/msfs-legacy-importer/

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Version 1.1

Various scenery enhancements, inclusion of Vigo Wood Vertical Landing Pad, white line markers for Rolling Vertical Landings abeam the control tower and Mexe pads (100 Sq ft metal mesh pads) to simulate off base operations.

Library Links

UK2000 Common Scenery  =  In the Free section of the MSFS Market Place

EGOV by Skell300  =  https://flightsim.to/file/9361/egov-raf-valley-custom-built

EGOW by Skell300 & Superspud  =  https://flightsim.to/file/4558/egow-woodvale-ab-custom-built

EGTC by JayFlySim  =  https://flightsim.to/file/6905/cranfield-airport-egtc

EGWU by Gobby  =  https://flightsim.to/file/5306/raf-northolt-egwu

EGDR by Superspud  =  https://flightsim.to/file/26191/egdr-rnas-culdrose-upgrade

EGYM by Nickb007 = https://flightsim.to/file/27131/raf-marham-egym

EGSU by ChicoMick = https://flightsim.to/file/28581/egsu-duxford-airfield-complete-edition