Have you checked out some of the special features that are available on our website?  If you click on the “download” link you will see all of the vehicles that are available for your online playing pleasure.  You can also check out the terrain downloads that are available on Aces High.

On that page alone are quite a few terrain downloads.  You do not have to download all of them; you can download a new terrain whenever you choose as you play the best flight simulator game on the market.  Just another reason why so many flight sim players choose to play Aces High.

Welcome to summer!  What better way to spend your summer vacation than playing Aces High, the best darn combat flight simulator on the market?  And you might as well sign up for our Special Events so you can take on the best of the world in head-to-head competition.

Today, June 19^th, we have another AHXARL, or Aces High XTreme Air Racing League and then tomorrow, the 20^th, we will be having another Snapshot event.  Read about them, sign up and then strap on your helmet and fly the online skies with Aces High.

You might be surprised to learn that Alaska was quite active during World War 2.  In fact, the list of airfields built in Alaska during the war years is quite an impressive one.  Well, at Aces High we aren’t surprised because World War II is our life and we devour this information so we can make Aces High the best combat flight simulator on the market.

Since much of the European Theater was fought in mountainous terrain with cold temperatures, Alaska was the perfect location for training flight crews and pilots.  The colder temperatures allowed for training to occur in simulated conditions so that gear and equipment could be tested before being used in actual combat.

Here, then, is a partial list of the airfields built in Alaska from 1941-1945 and what they are used for today.

• Akak Army Airfield; now Naval Air Station Adak
• Amchitka Army Airfield; now Amchitka Air Force Bace, currently abandoned.
• Alexai Point Army Airfield; now closed and abandoned.
• Casco Cove Coast Guard Station; now the same.
• Annette Island Army Airfield; now Annette Island Airport
• Todd Army Airfield; now Bethel Airport
• Big Delta Army Airfield; now Fort Greely
• Cordova Airport; now Cordova Municipal Airport
• Gakona Landing Strip; now part of Alaska Highway 1.
• Galena Airport; now part of the Alaskan Air Command
• Gambell Army Airfield; now Gambell Airport
• Juneau Airport; now the same
• Kiska Island AAF; now closed.
• Ladd Army Airfield; now part of Alaskan Air Command

This is just a partial list; we will complete the list next week as we continue this series.  What perhaps is the most interesting fact about the airfields built in Alaska is that a fairly high proportion of them are no longer in use. That is highly unusual as we tour the airfields built during WW2.  We have spoken earlier about the fact that the investment made during the 40’s has paid back many times over because most of these airfields are being used for civilian use today.  Not so in Alaska!  Perhaps because of the brutal weather or the remote location, but whatever the reason many of these airstrips are no longer in use.

Whatever the reason, the point still remains that a massive civilian and military effort was made in Alaska to prepare pilots and flight crews for the war.

We hope you are enjoying this series about airfields.  Every bit of information that we can gather helps us to make Aces High that much better of a flight sim game.  Our goal, after all, is to make the best World War 2 Flight Simulator on the market.

As another weekend approaches we find two more Special Events that are a must if you are serious about Aces High.  Any flight sim player worth their salt would want to take on the best players in the world and that’s what the Special Events are all about.

On the 15^th we have an FSO, Frame 3, and on the 16^th we have the ever-popular Saturday King Of The Hill.  Sign up alone or with your friends but don’t miss the action and challenge of taking on the best combat flight sim players.  You won’t be disappointed.