Thanks Reg. Next:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ler/Puzz47.jpg

A few years before the above photo, the pilot of a flight departing from here achieved an aviation first. This did not receive as much publicity as it might have done because the attention of the world's press was diverted elsewhere at the time.

Are these guys doing break-dancing to the audience :ooh:?

It's the Whitfield Aerodrome, Dover.

And the first event you are talking about is the first flight from England to Germany, which took off from Whitfield on 18th April 1913. Flown by Gustav Hamel with a passanger in an 80hp Bleriot monoplane, he did the 245 mile journey non stop, in 258 minutes, through rain and hail storms, landing in Cologne.

Or, maybe: Harriet Quimby, the first woman to fly the Channel (1912), using Gustav Hamel's biplane, see above.

Whitfield, Dover it is Reg. I was refering to Harriet Quimby's flight which was pushed off the front pages by the sinking of the Titanic two days earlier.

You have it.

Thanks Duckbutt!

Should have understood from the date of her flight :uhoh:

Here's your next

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/...um110000-2.png

Switzerland ?

Ciarain.

So far so good, Ciarain :)

Looks like an arrestor barrier at the end of the runway, so military?

Yes, military. Current use GA (maybe still both).

And the question could be which ones of the areas in the picture are (were) military….

Ambri nr Airolo?

Correct Duckbutt.

No longer military, just a short part mid-runway is used. I think the barriers are just temporary.

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/...18um133220.png

Over to you :ok:

Thanks Reg.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ler/Puzz48.jpg

British Columbia?

Not Canada

This is the view from the south. Unsurprisingly all take offs and landings have to be over the lake:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...er/Puzz48a.jpg

Gravelly Valley Airport, Lake Pillsbury, California ?

You've got it evansb, all yours.

Thanks Db. That was an excellent challenge. You had me looking in Tasmania for a bit. Here is the next mystery aerodrome:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...0/EASY_ONE.jpg

No. 39 SFTS Swift Current, Saskatchewan.

Sabredog is correct:ok: Swift Current, Sask. AKA "Speedy Creek". (CYYN). Your turn.