View Full Version : One for the PPRuNe detectives!
I have no idea where this is or even what country it is, the photo could be backwards as it is scanned from a slide so I don't know what way round it is. No idea when it was taken either!
Any help gratefully appreciated
http://i211.photobucket.com/albums/bb198/Flyer719/OVERSEAS/Unknown/scan0001-001.jpg
I have posted it on AiX as well:
Another one for the AiX detectives! (http://www.airfieldinformationexchange.org/community/showthread.php?9660-Another-one-for-the-AiX-detectives)!
oncemorealoft
13th Dec 2012, 21:24
It is almost certainly a USAF Strategic Air Command base of mid to late 1950s.
If you look closely in off the taxiway that bisects the picture top to bottom there are a number of large swept wing (but not that swept) aircraft which probably are B36s. There are a few others dotted around. That fits in with the more obvious straight winged, silvery aircraft being Stratotankers (can't remember proper designation)
Telekon
13th Dec 2012, 21:36
Where: It's Travis AFB, California.
When: That will need a lot more investigating than I have time for I'm afraid. :)
Chris Scott
13th Dec 2012, 21:52
Not my scene, and the resolution is disappointing (as usual), but are we looking almost head-on at about six U2s in pairs line-abreast in the fore-to-middle ground, plus a similar number a bit further away?
Apologies for the resoloution Chris, not alot I can do as it is an old slide.
I was thinking USAF base as well but thats as far as I got!
treadigraph
13th Dec 2012, 22:06
I think it could be Travis AFB (https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=travis+afb&hl=en&ll=38.260963,-121.93202&spn=0.034506,0.084543&fb=1&gl=uk&hq=travis+afb&cid=0,0,18001706810124243292&t=k&z=14)? Taken from the west. Staggered runways look right.
Chris Scott
13th Dec 2012, 22:32
REF,
No need. You should see my old slides... A triumph of hope over experience.
lauriebe
14th Dec 2012, 05:34
I tend to agree with treadigraph. Looks like Travis AFB during the B36 era.
treadigraph
14th Dec 2012, 06:18
Looking at it more closely this morning, B-36s head on and perhaps C-124s side on?
Groundloop
14th Dec 2012, 07:56
Definitely B-36s and C-124s. The pairs of white blocks between the B-36s are the special maintenance docks which sat over the wings.
Thanks for the help folks, I agree its definitely Travis AFB.
BEagle
14th Dec 2012, 08:27
I'd go along with Travis AFB.
From Google Earth:
1993:http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/nw969/T93.jpg
2012:http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/nw969/T12.jpg
Brian Abraham
14th Dec 2012, 23:41
Flew into Travis as a pax on a C-97 one December night in '67. The drive from the BOQ to the flight line to catch a C-130 the next morning was a mind blowing sight of wing tip to wing tip C-141 and C-130. Seemed like the entire US inventory. This Aussie country boy was over whelmed.