Which Aerodrome?

[nacluv]

OK - Keep going east... :ok:

[chevvron]

Helluva displacement on the thresholds just like Elvington was.

[nacluv]

Another clue:

You will notice the QRA-style standings are all at one end, i.e. launch would be towards the 'camera' end. The clue is that this end points East (ish), not West...

[Duckbutt]

Sorry to be obtuse bur you're saying the QR aircraft take off heading East, right?

[nacluv]

Yes - that is correct.

[sidtheesexist]

Perceived threat from east so if Russian, perhaps siberia nr coast opposite Alaska ........?

[sycamore]

Not wishing to hijack the thread,but having looked at `google` as far as Vladivostok,and not found it, for those spotters interested,there are a couple of interesting Mil airfields just N of Vldk,at Artem,with loads of Migs/Sukhois?An/Tu etc;however ,at a place called Galenki about 60 miles N of Vdvk, on the western taxiway is a small jet,appears to have almost delta wing shape,with a straight tailplane,and tandem cockpit;possibly looks like the Mig/MBtrainer,or....and why are the runway numbers the same at both ends ??,or 180 out?Send a PM if you don`t want to clutter the thread...

[overfly]

not same, 02 and 20

[nacluv]

We're getting pretty warm...

By the way - sycamore is right - the runway IDs are 'upside down' at Galenki. 02 is the south-facing threshold, and 20 is north facing. That can't be right. Good spot!!

Anyway, the mystery 'drome is not Galenki, so keep going!

[jabberwok]

Any further clues to stop this hunt dying?

Russia or China?

[nacluv]

Russia. North east.

In the interests of keeping everyone happy, I will administer the coup-de-grace (i.e. the give-away) this afternoon if no takers...

[nacluv]

OK - final clue:

Kamchatka peninsula. Interceptor airfield for local-ish missile test range.

Answer later tonight if no takers...

[chevvron]

Ukinskly or Palana?

[evansb]

Klyuchi air base, in Kamchatka Krai.

[nacluv]

Thanks, Brian - spot on!

For a moment there I feared you had all given up. Was it too hard, or just uninteresting?

[evansb]

This aerodrome has a bit of history and is a bit nostalgic:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD091018.jpg

[sycamore]

Dunno about you lot, but very interesting scanning Russian and Chinese airfields; several with over 50 SU 27/Mig29,Su24,An124,hordes of helos,Russian Dak,Mig19, 3 `nuc.subs(>400ft long),and 3 Lightnings(in Kuwait)...Oh,and a couple of Backfires,..no Bears though..

[evansb]

Sorry, not in Cumbria.

[BAMRA wake up]

I wonder if this is outside the UK? I first thought of Lossie/Kinloss area given the coastline, but it doesn't look as agricultural and populated as the UK usually does.

Looks as if the aerodrome might be in the process of being dismantled - a lack of buildings, and plant working along the far runway. Abandoned after WW2? It's the classic 3 runways pattern. The b+w photo might be 1950-60's vintage, any later more likely to be colour. Is that the line of perhaps an original grass strip at the upper left? A road and possibly a settlement towards the sea.

The near landscape looks to be vegetated sand dunes so maybe not the channel coast, which is usually shingle.

Is that a VOR below the intersection?

Off to google earth....

[Double Hydco]

Is it Pembrey?

[chevvron]

St Davids?

[nacluv]

It looks like Llanbedr - without the longer N-S runway on the west side of the airfield.

[evansb]

Sorry, the aerodrome is not in the U.K. Not St. Davids. BAMRA wake up is on the right track. In fact, if I wasn't a semi-retired MI agent, I would hire BAMRA today if it would help us find a certain Islamic fundamentalist bad guy. All I am saying is that BAMRA quickly assessed the local terrain and the period the photo was shot. He/she also decided to access "google-earth" as a source of further intelligence. I like that.

[BAMRA wake up]

Thanks evansb! I'm basking in a warm glow now!

It's the Pacific coast of North Island, New Zealand and it's Paraparaumu Airport north of Wellington. Quite a developed coast now in contrast to the photo.

My observation on the earlier grass strip was correct,
'The then grass Rongotai Airport had been closed for safety reasons in 1947'

Paraparaumu Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraparaumu_Airport)

evansb's pic appears on this website:

Home Paraparaumu Airport Coalition Inc (http://airportcoalition.org.nz/)

Open house!

[Duckbutt]

OK then, what do you make of this:


http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/Twyler/Puzz-25.jpg

[RETDPI]

Apart from being a lovely caption competition.
It rather looks like a plain clothes Vimy being erected.

A long shot.

Alcock and Brown's in Newfoundland ?

[Duckbutt]

Damn, thought that one might puzzle you all a bit longer. Yes, Alcock and Brown's Vimy being assembled after shipment from the UK at Lester's Field, Newfoundland prior to their epic flight.

Nice one RETDPI, over to you.

[RETDPI]

When one has spent hours in the Science Museum just gazing...............
Anyway,
Here's my little airfield

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u242/gjquick/Tabitha.jpg

[sycamore]

France,or Germany ?

[norwich]

MMM ! red and white pylons, makes me think France, and a multitude of smaller airfields ?? Keith.

[BAMRA wake up]

I did wonder about that too Keith, however there's an absence of the usual Med/Iberian red roman roof tiles and whitewash. Plenty greenery so presumably not on an arid coast. If the sun's behind the camera could we be looking north-ish?
The near buildings look to be modern, mostly gables towards us, with low roof pitches which suggest shade protection. A sizeable 'centre of town' hidden in the greenery on the ridge, going on the blocky large buildings?
Is there a clue in those non standard runway markings? Can't make out the numbers.

One wonders if the perspex and prop blur impart a false appearance of dust/ heat haze to the pic. Those big buildings and the radio towers hint at 'command economy'- eastern Europe?

[Captain Airclues]

The figures look like 06 so the runway could be 06/24. Is it in Africa?

Dave

[Duckbutt]

As an Englishman I am a bit embarrassed to admit that my snap reaction was to wonder why there was a cricket square so close to the runway!

No idea where, other than to speculate that somehow the pitch of the rooves on the buildings would suggest somewhere that is no stranger to cold weather.

[sycamore]

Judging by the no. of c/l markings and lack of others,I`m guessing it is no more than 3600ft in length,not an instrument and night runway,not part of an old airfield,and not used by heavier stuff,ie lots of rubber left,and seems to be05/6/8/9 in direction,so probably NHemisphere; not much indication of a hangar,but it could be off left,although there might be signs on the grass for taxiing,and a rather small `terminal` area.So,possibly privately owned/operated,maybe by a parachute club,landing on the `cricket` pitch;or ,of course that could all be total %^&&*%$s..

[RETDPI]

Captain Airclues is leading the pack so far..........

[BAMRA wake up]

So, it's in Africa, edge of a coastal (sea/lake?) town, not an arid area, so likely to be an prevailing onshore wind.

The buildings stop abruptly, is the airstrip in a low area prone to flooding, behind a coastal ridge? Google Earthing Morocco and SA for starters.

[RETDPI]

I'll give you a bit of a lead BAMRA as Africa is not small.
It's in neither of those countries .

[aeroplanejohn]

Is it Spriggs Payne airfield in Monrovia, Liberia?

[RETDPI]

Hi Aeroplane John,
Thanks for pitching in.
Blimey , never been there!

A further clue.
It is the sea in the distance.

[chevvron]

Looks vaguely like that place in SA where they landed a '747 on its retirement from SAA; haven't got a clue what its called but there was a video of it on these page a couple of years ago.

[RETDPI]

Chevvron,
That was at Rand Airport IIRC,( about half way between Joberg and Pretoria) onto a very narrow runway. Miles from the coast incidentally .
The challenge image was taken from a Cessna Caravan.

[chevvron]

Different tack then ; Dhekalia Barracks Cyprus.

[RETDPI]

As previously indicated, its Africa.

[JW411]

Definitely not Dhekalia; been there, seen it and got the T-shirt.

[nacluv]

Nigeria or Mozambique?

[RETDPI]

Neither Nigeria nor Mozambique.

[BAMRA wake up]

Thanks RETDPI, that's narrowed down to a few thousand miles of coast now! Enough for some casual google earthing of the bigger coastal settlements. One wonders if the photo is 'historic' and the runway is now long gone, but the Cessna Caravan hasn't been around that long and the google images are often quite old, so worth a look.

[nacluv]

Right BAMRA - I'll take the east; you take the west... :ok:

[RETDPI]

Suggest you guys both take the Eastern Seaboard of Africa. :ok:
I took the photo last year.

[BAMRA wake up]

Nacluv

I've done the west - as much as the imagery allows. There's the north too - Algeria to Suez. Checked out the Gulf of Guinea islands as well.
If the runway markings guesses are right it's more likely to be 'east'.
We can probably discount the arid/desert coasts.

Nothing shows up on the airliners.net 'airport overviews/Africa' photo search either.

[nacluv]

Good call, BAMRA.

I'll try Tanzania or Kenya?

[BAMRA wake up]

Go for Kenya nacluv, I'll try Tanzania - again.

One suspects RETDPI was on holiday and took an air taxi from A to B.
Zanzibar comes to mind - imagery incomplete unfortunately!

I thought I'd found it at Malindi in Kenya, perhaps it is, here's the image I found (looking the other way?), but the taxiway goes off the wrong way.

http://bp0.blogger.com/_yqEhhQ7fH4w/RYmozXwknGI/AAAAAAAAACk/QauReMzBSXk/s320/Approaching+HKML+(Malindi,+Kenya).jpg

[RETDPI]

BAMRA. Not exactly on holiday , but I take your point!.
I've been into Malindi a few times over the years and it is of a very similar feel to the airfield in question, although the layout is somewhat different.
One of the earlier stop-offs on the flight from which the picture was taken was Zanzibar.

[nacluv]

OK - I think I've got it - Tanga in northern Tanzania. Couldn't find anything suitable in Kenya, so I dropped below the border a few miles...

[RETDPI]

Well done nacluv! Tanga it is. Over to you

[nacluv]

Thanks, RETDPI. An interesting needle-in-a-haystack challenge!

It is interesting to see that in your photo, there is no evidence of the much longer grass runway (14/32) which runs across the tarmac 06/24... Unless they have dispensed with it recently?

Anyway, I'm sorry to do this but I'm going to back out because I'm off on hols tomorrow. If I may, I'll let RETDPI decide on whether BAMRA should take the controls due to his valuable input, or declare full-on open house.

[RETDPI]

Have a good Holiday nacluv. BAMRA its over to you . :ok:

[BAMRA wake up]

I declare 'full on open house' (whatever that is!)

[LFT]

Ok, here's one -

http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/dd11/DJ17DJ/bw.jpg

[Background Noise]

I believe that's Naval Air Station Lakehurst?

[RETDPI]

Oh, Those Airship Hangars!!!!!!

Tears fill my eyes.


But is it Lakehurst???? Or Recife???


Certainly not Cardington.:}

[LFT]

Far too easy, Lakehurst it is :ok:

[The Real Slim Shady]

Definitely Lakehurst

[RETDPI]

Airship Hangars 5 and 6 it would appear.


How about Hangar 1??


Now there's a thing. :)

[chevvron]

Is Recife the one in Brazil about 50 miles west of Rio?

[RETDPI]

Recife is , as you correctly say , in Brazil.
It is way up the coast from Rio at the Top-Right hand Corner of Brazil where the Atlantic is at its most narrow. Thus a logical landfall for traffic coming down from Europe along the West African Coast. Almost a straight line if you look at a globe.Then its a another 2000k to Rio , following the coast, again almost all in a fairly straight line.

[evansb]

Are we awaiting a new challenge from RETDPI?

[chevvron]

We were on an excursion to a lagoon west of Rio, and I could see from the coach to the south of the main road what I took to be a pair of airship sheds about 50 miles from Rio.
Looking on Flashearth, there's a military airfield near a town called Santa Cruz posn 22 deg 55' 48.2" S 43 deg 45' 6.5" W which has one airship shed, so where I got two from I don't know!!

[RETDPI]

For some time I wondered if I was getting confused with Sunnyvale California, which has these ( Quickbird image, note the C130's and S60s)
I presume they are the old Akron and Macon sheds.

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u242/gjquick/Airship.jpg

Ah well ! An interesting little diversion between challenges.

[Background Noise]

Are we awaiting a new challenge from RETDPI? Don't think it was him - and not to worry BAMRA;). We've had a small hiccup with my stealth post, apologies. Here is the next challenge - taken in 1983.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a297/stickshaker/ft.jpg

[sycamore]

All right,gizza clue,N,S,E,W,hot/cold ?

[chevvron]

Funny I seem to have seen that picture before!

[Background Noise]

Was it further up the page? It is west of here and still active.

[Duckbutt]

By "here" do you mean west of the UK?

[chevvron]

Vague similarity (just vague) to Shannon.

[Background Noise]

OK - to move it on, West of the Atlantic. N America in fact. Further picture clue to follow if required.

[chevvron]

Plethora of runways = USA
Airfield name on taxiway at right centre 7 letters
Surrounded by arable farm land
Threshold of runway 17 at mid right therefore photo taken pointing east

[Background Noise]

Right on almost everything. The word on the taxiway, is 'taxiway'. There's yet another runway there now.

[PaperTiger]

Is that a C-130 "gate guardian" ?

[Background Noise]

There were a number of aircraft on sticks - the others, and there are plenty, around the base were for technical training.

[evansb]

Wichita Falls - Sheppard AFB/Wichita Falls Municipal (KSPS), Texas.

[Background Noise]

Correct - Sheppard AFB, home of, the then relatively new, Euro Nato Flying Training school. The whole of flying training, all on one base, on one of 6 training bases, each turning out way more pilots than we did in total. 5 swimming pools and a base hospital - it all seemed pretty huge at the time. Dallas (JR Ewing Dallas) was still in its heyday and it was all a bit of a culture shock. Over to you, Evansb. Did you know it all the time?;)

PS to say it still looks chuffing big. That new runway must be 15,000 ft and there are a good selection of aircraft types parked around the place.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a297/stickshaker/ft3.jpg http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a297/stickshaker/uptcockpit-2.jpg

[sycamore]

No 2 is a bit `slack`!

[Background Noise]

We'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he was joining! - or maybe I was too far forward.

[evansb]

Thanks BN, that was a fun challenge. Here is the next mystery aerodrome:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD081029.jpg

[sycamore]

Possibly Burtonwood ?

[evansb]

Sorry, not Burtonwood. Not in the U.K.

[evansb]

Clue: Hangar 2 no longer stands, but the airfield is still operational.

[Cubs2jets]

Anchorage Int'l Airport PANC

C2j

[evansb]

Sorry, not Anchorage, but you are getting warm.

[saman]

Is Anchorage ever warm?

[sycamore]

How about Fairbanks,but haven`t a clue about N,or S side..?

[evansb]

Fairbanks is cooler. Michigan cooler still. Willow Run has been done.

[PaperTiger]

Does "not Anchorage" exclude Elmendorf AFB then ?

[KeMac]

How about "Sea-Tac" then??

[evansb]

Sorry, not near Anchorage, and farther still from Seattle. It is, however, a maritime locale. The base has undergone a name change since the photo was taken.

[PaperTiger]

The "Black Pearl".

Shemya/Earackson AFB Alaska.

[evansb]

Also know as "The Rock". PaperTiger is correct.:ok: Shemya airfield is located at the far western (it is so far west, it is east) end of the Aleutian chain. The base was home to a variety of Cold War missions.
You have control.
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/eareckson_shemya-island.jpg

[PaperTiger]

I'm away for the weekend so OPEN HOUSE !

[Warmtoast]

How about this?

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/thawes/ANewOne-IThink.jpg

[chevvron]

Mildenhall late '30s.

[RETDPI]

By googling "Bristol Bombay _images "

one gets to :

"14th August 1939: Soldiers of the 2nd Battalion of Royal Ulster Rifles disembarking from a Bristol Bombay aircraft at RAF Yatesbury during one of the largest aerial troop-carrying movements in Britain. The men are bound for manoeuvres on Salisbury Plain."

[chevvron]

My excuse is I identified the hangar as a T2; ridiculous really as they were a wartime construction; I don't know the designation of the domed roof hangar at Yatesbury but it was still there about 10 years ago.
Hmm 14 August '39 eh? Poland was invaded 1 Sep 39. Did someone know something? I know Churchill was warning everyone having read his memoirs, but no-one was taking much notice were they?

[Warmtoast]

RETDPI has it exactly right, Yatesbury it is in 1939 - and I thought it would be hard!

Over to you RETDPI

[RETDPI]

Thanks Warmtoast!
As you will have seen I really didn' t have a clue myself!:O

Having a pool party at the moment whilst we watch the local airborne celebrations of the first flight of the Harvard. I'll post in a couple of hours.

[RETDPI]

O.K.
This photograph was taken around the same time as that of the previous challenge........

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u242/gjquick/AAiedrome0001.jpg

[chevvron]

A youthful Rearsby?

[chevvron]

Nah second thoughts - Luton Airport (in a Lorraine Chase accent)

[RETDPI]

Chevvron. Luton Airport mate!! :ok:
When Edgar Percival built his class machines and when you could walk across fields to get there.
'Twas even thus in the 50's when RETDPI's dad worked there.
Over to you - and well done!

[chevvron]

Course I should have qualified that as it's not the original Luton Airport (Barton) where the Luton Minor was conceived! It was that double hangar in the centre that gave it away - still there I think.
I haven't got access to software to post so once again Open House.

[shack]

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h21/Blunebottle/CopyofLincoln.jpghttp://www.pprune.org/%5BIMG%5Dhttp://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h21/Blunebottle/CopyofLincoln.jpg%5B/IMG%5Dhttp://www.pprune.org/%5BIMG%5Dhttp://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h21/Blunebottle/CopyofLincoln.jpg%5B/IMG%5D

[shack]

Jenkins you too must be an ex-Brat. Halton House in the background is a give-away.

!948 52nd entry engine running as quoted "a bit rich mixture".

Notice the fire bottles in front of the aircraft all left to their own devices with all the brave brats doing a runner.

I have got subsequent pictures if anybody is interested.

It's all yours Jenkins

[shack]

I'll try again. Back to my youth

http://%5BIMG%5Dhttp://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h21/Blunebottle/Guess.jpg%5B/IMG%5Dhttp://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h21/Blunebottle/Guess.jpg

[KeMac]

Pure Guess - Odiham?

[Upyer RRR]

How about Strubby?

[denis555]

Or even Gütersloh ?

[BEagle]

Ashill Wood in the background?

[norwich]

Must be Watton then ? Keith.

[shack]

Ashill Wood in the background?

Yes BEagle it is, I might have guessed you would remember. Do you want to name the airfield and post a new one or let it run?

[BEagle]

Thought so!

It is RAF Merryfield, the picture must have been taken in around 1953.

The woods in the background were regularly shot by a local organised shoot - my father and his business partner used to wait for the birds to cross the aerodrome fence and then bag a pair of pheasants each before legging it!

Here's another one for you, not too difficult I would imagine:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/nw969/4Nov.jpg

Austin 1100 and Morris Oxford Ser. IV?

Edited to blur the numberplates on the Landrover and the registrations of the Carvair and Ambassador to make it a little more challenging.

[shack]

It is RAF Merryfield, the picture must have been taken in around 1953.

Close BEagle, it was 1952 when I left CFS, before we got the Vampire T11s hence the row of Meteor 7s and also a Vampire 1.

Not sure about your AirLingus but I know a man in Spain who will know.

[AfgAirOps]

Bristol Airport?

1965, Ambassador G-ALFR?

Rgds
AAO

[RETDPI]

Hmm. Lulsgate Eh?
Quite a long day out in the tumbril for you to get that photo, Beags.:E

[BEagle]

AAO, yes, it is indeed Lulsgate!
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/nw969/Internet/zxzxz.jpg

Photo was taken in 1965 (not by me though). Dan Dare Ambassador was G-ALFR and Aer Linctus Carvair was EI-AMP.

I remember Lulsgate from slightly earlier days when Doves, Herons, Pionairs and the brand new Fokker Friendship were using it. Had my first flight ever from Lulsgate in 1962 in Piper Carribean G-ARDS - which is still on a current CofA! It was a posh new aeroplane for the Bristol and Wessex Aeroplane Club in those days!

You have the helm!

[AfgAirOps]

Thanks for the info :ok:

The next one, picture from Google Earth (obviously);

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/RJPotts/noname.jpg

Rgds
AAO

[Duckbutt]

[gom mode] What does it say in post one about Google Earth photos again?

[/gom mode]



With the greatest respect of course.

[AfgAirOps]

What does it say in post one about Google Earth photos again?


Does that mean you dont know where it is!! :}


It says try to use eldery photos and not G.E. pics. I.e. it doesn't say G.E. pics cant be used.....

To be extra sure everyone is happy though, this is the same airfield;

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/RJPotts/where.jpg

Rgds
AAO

[Bigt]

Alot of vehicles seem to be using part of the runway....

[evansb]

Near the banks of the Euphrates River, west of Fallujah, is the mystery aerodrome, known as Habbaniyah, Iraq.

[sidtheesexist]

Only just catching back up with the thread. I'm with evansb on Habbaniyah. 2nd pickie is an RAF A Class hangar I do believe.....

[AfgAirOps]

Near the banks of the Euphrates River, west of Fallujah, is the mystery aerodrome, known as Habbaniyah, Iraq.

Over to you....

You've spoilt my impending clue about Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory :}

Rgds
AAO

[Krakatoa]

Trying to remember if the new runway a few miles away was also known as Habbaniyah

[Background Noise]

That is the original RAF Habbaniyah, site of 4FTS' defence of Iraq. The camp layout is still almost recognisable as RAF. The plateau airfield just SE is now called Taqaddum,

Tony Dudgeon, who died about 4 years ago, was CO of the FTS in the war when it was regarded as a bit of a rest tour until the Iraqi Air Force had a go at them. He attended the 90th anniversary dinner and his tales - including methods of finding the airfield at night - were spellbinding. There is an interesting Habbaniyah site here RAF Habbaniyah Association (http://www.habbaniya.org/)

[chevvron]

Isn't it an early 'C' type hangar ie before the 'hipped roof' design was introduced? (I think there are still some at Abingdon or Upavon)

[evansb]

Here is the next "Which Aerodrome?":
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD081105.jpg

[chevvron]

Gebel Tarik maybe?

[evansb]

Sorry, not Gebel Tarik, Gibraltar. Go east.

[sidtheesexist]

RAF Shaibah, mesopotamia?

[evansb]

Sorry, not RAF Shaibah. Right country though.

[sidtheesexist]

How about Shaibah's nr neighbour of RAF Basrah? I'm pretty certain it's not RAF Hinaidi...............

[evansb]

Sorry, none of those bases. The city and region is still in conflict. The base was the site of the RAF's first involvement with moving large numbers of troops by air.

[AfgAirOps]

Kirkuk?

Rgds
AAO

[evansb]

Kirkuk is spot on:ok: AAO has control.

[AfgAirOps]

Thanks.

The next one;

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/RJPotts/where2.jpg

Rgds
AAO

[AfgAirOps]

Thought someone would've had a go by now.......

Still an active airfield although not operated by the 'organisation' which originally built it. Close to the site of an infamous early 1900s shipwreck.

Rgds
AAO

[chevvron]

What shipwreck?

[Bigt]

The Baron Inverdale was wrecked on the coast of Masirah in 1904.....will the loss of all hands

[AfgAirOps]

Jenkins is correct so, Open House.

gds
AAO

[evansb]

Here is the next "Which Aerodrome?":
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD081110.jpg

[AfgAirOps]

Wild guess......

Kunsan?

Rgds
AAO

[evansb]

Sorry, not Kunsan, South Korea.

[RETDPI]

Shooting totally from the hip,
Labuan?

[AfgAirOps]

Is it one of the K- bases?

Rgds
AAO

[KeMac]

Butterworth

[evansb]

RETDPI is correct:ok: Again! The aircraft are RAAF Sabres at Labuan Borneo. (Lapangan Terbang Labuan, Sabah, Malaysia). You have control.

[RETDPI]

Thanks evansb It was a close call with Butterworth.
As today is the 11th .
A wartime scene......

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u242/gjquick/AAAirfield0001.jpg

[The Real Slim Shady]

Looking south / southwest given the position of the sun. Runway in the background aligned east / west or southeast / northwest.

Variety of types including a glider by the looks of things and Typhoons.

Market Garden springs to mind so probably somewhere in East Anglia.

[evansb]

Maupertus, France?

[RETDPI]

Not in France , As far as I am aware.

[evansb]

RAF Charmy Down near Bath, England ?

[KeMac]

Ramsbury at a very rough guess but it could be any one of a number

[sycamore]

Somewhere in Wiltshire ?

[evansb]

Can I change my guess to RAF Chilbolton ?

[RETDPI]

You guys are getting warmer and warmer.
This is another shot from the same era at this place.

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u242/gjquick/A1afield0001.jpg

[KeMac]

Greenham Common

[RETDPI]

Greenham Common would have been occupied by the U.S.A.A.F. at the time these images were taken.

[The Real Slim Shady]

Is it Coltishall?

[RETDPI]

The station in question is closer to Greenham than Colt.

[chevvron]

Looking at the tiffys in pieces, how about Langley?

[RETDPI]

There is a clue in the presence of the other types parked around as well in various stages of undress.
No not Langley.

[Speedbird48]

It looks a lot like an MU given all the various makes models and marks in between.

Lyneham, Aston Down, etc.

If so I must call "Open House" as I am travelling in the colonies!!

Speedbird 48.

[sidtheesexist]

White Waltham per chance?

[KeMac]

Tarrant Rushton

[Flap40]

How about Ford?

[RETDPI]

None of those so far...
You guys are getting me worried :)
This base has not been noted before..................






Wokka ....Wokka.....Wokka......... :)

[MReyn24050]

"Wokka, Wokka" would suggest RAF Odiham but that must be much too obvious
Mel

[sidtheesexist]

Benson.........

[Flap40]

Weston Super Mare?

[chevvron]

Looking at the architecture of that building top left, I'm inclined to guess Germany - Gutersloh? (I think 18 Sqdn used to be based there and they've got wokka machines.)

[RETDPI]

Mel!!!
Welcome back!
I was getting worried as we haven't heard from you for a while.
It's Odiham,
Post D-Day when it was an aircraft repair and support depot.
You have control :) : )

[MReyn24050]

Thanks RETDPI I have always been here in the background. Here is a nice easy one.
Mel
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c67/sabamel/Airport/Airportquiz039.jpg

[dixi188]

Go on, give us a clue.

You said easy! Only if youv'e been there.

[MReyn24050]

Sorry dixi188 I honestly thought this would go within minutes. A clue, well they get a lot of cruise ships visiting the area as well as holiday flights.

[Cubs2jets]

Singapore Changi

OOPS! That's not right.

C2J

[dixi188]

George town, Grand Cayman!

[MReyn24050]

That is the one the Owen Robert's International Airport, George Town Grand Cayman. :ok: You have control dixi188.
Mel

[dixi188]

This my first try at posting a picture, hope it works!

http://s353.photobucket.com/albums/r394/dixi188/th_AviationJune2008006.jpg

This has been done before but it was a very old photo so I hope its allowed. (also its the only airport on my laptop)

Too easy I expect.

(sorry the photo is so small, I still have a bit to learn about hosting)

[minuteman]

Zurich!

Open House if correct....

[dixi188]

Zurich Kloten it is.
Try this if it works.

http://i353.photobucket.com/albums/r394/dixi188/PICT1732-1.jpg?t=1226677897

[PaperTiger]

Henderson, Nev.

[dixi188]

Not Henderson, but I flew from there to here.

[Toxic Thrust]

Is that some of those twin Otters with the big scenic windows I see?

Grand Canyon Airport KGCN?

[dixi188]

Not KGCN Grand Canyon Airport, but close.

[effortless]

Gray Mountain

[evansb]

Grand Canyon West, K1G4, on the Hualapai Indian Reservation.

[dixi188]

"evansb" is correct.

Grand Canyon West!

[evansb]

Thank you. I visited 1G4 in July, OAT 43C (110F). Here is the next mystery aerodrome:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD081115.jpg

[BAMRA wake up]

I was going to say 'haven't a clue' but there are some pointers there,

The landscape looks glaciated and relatively treeless, the trees in the foreground are conifers, so I'd say relatively 'northern' (or southern) continental, with cold winters.

The lake/river has a milky sheen so perhaps glacial meltwaters flow in.

Mining activity with stilling ponds at the far side of the lake. Possibly some sort of quay at the water's edge for loading of ore?

Oil storage facility in the near foreground, no company logos, so maybe a government facility.

Older? short runway parallel to the apron and later main runway parallel to the lake/river.

My money's on somewhere in Canada/US.

[sycamore]

Don`t forget the `interesting` scrapyard,and the golf course....!

[twochai]

Depends upon your definition of Central Canada (Westerners claim title to all lands west of the Ontario/Manitoba boundary) but nowhere in 'Central' Canada has topography similar to the above, that I can recall.

[grizzled]

There is no doubt: Kamloops, BC, Canada (CYKA).

A top spot in Canada for fishing in the spring and fall, golf in the summer, and skiing in the winter. I first flew into Kamloops in May 1971! The tower had only been open for a year or so and was still a temporary cab perched on top of what looked like a high-voltage electricity transmission tower. Where are those old black and white photos? . . .

Grizz

[evansb]

grizzled is correct. Kamloops, (CYKA), British Columbia, located in south-central B.C., at the confluence of two branches of the Thompson River, and Kamloops Lake. You have control.

[grizzled]

Thanks! Give me an hour to go through some pix and upload a goodie!

Grizz

[grizzled]

OK . . I realised I shouldn't post a pick right now as I'm currently on the opposite side of the earth from evansb (and the rest of you sods lucky enough to be somewhere in the western portion of North America). Which means -- what with sleep and work -- I won't be ppruning for the next 20 hours or so.
OPEN HOUSE it is!

grizz

[The Real Slim Shady]

OK, then I sneak this one in:

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b197/av8tor100/35.jpg

[PaperTiger]

No takers ?

OK then, it looks like Texas to me :}

[The Real Slim Shady]

Thanks PT, I was beginning to wonder if it was too tricky.

It isn't Texas or the USA: pretty much 180 out there. Although there is a hint of it in LAS.

[Upyer RRR]

I'll take one of my wild guesses at Greenham Common!

[KeMac]

Its not Greenham, it looks more like somewhere in Africa or the Far East. I will take a stab at Colombo

[PaperTiger]

a hint of it in LASEgypt then. Pyramid and whatnot.

[The Real Slim Shady]

Further east than the Pyramids.

[aviate1138]

How about Novosibirsk?

[The Real Slim Shady]

If I knew where it was I would say No, not Novobrisk: tad warmer climes than anywhere in Russia but you are on the right road.......2nd clue.

1st clue was

It isn't Texas or the USA: pretty much 180 out there. Although there is a hint of it in LAS.

[Cubs2jets]

Urumqui, China?

C2j

[Davidsoffice]

Mandalay, given the clue?

[The Real Slim Shady]

DavidsOffice, 10 out of 10, Gold Star, big tick VG. Over to you.

The new Mandalay International which replaced the old airport, formerly used by the RAF many years ago. The civil terminal is on the north western side and the ramp on the south east (foreground) is the military ramp where an occasional MiG would appear.

The terminal can cater for 6 widebodies at a time, but the largest visitor is the ORBIS DC 10.

[Davidsoffice]

Open house!
I have some fots but not in the office.

[PaperTiger]

Try this until something harder comes along...

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3288/3045818499_0dbfc6cc7f_o.jpg

[KeMac]

I don't have a clue where it is (presumably USA) but it's a nice nostalgia picture.

[twochai]

Hmmm...

Northwest Orient DC-3, Convair 240/340 on the wall showing the new equipment that the Municipal Airport might eventually aspire to seeing, sparse vegetation and sparsely inhabited, foothills terrain.

For a real SWAG, how about Boise, Idaho??

[merlinxx]

Shoot, that's an Eastern DC3 & poster but where the heck is .......CIPAL Airport.

PRINCIPAL AIRPORT, but where the .....................can't be Tri-Cities looks to late for that.

Bum confused:*

[norwich]

Surely its the well known US ????? Municipal Airport ? Just which one is a bit tricky ?
I do note the introduction of fuzzy logic into airline names on aircraft ! mmm, and the large black blobs, that luckily never caught on !
Also a DC-3 with "air stairs" !
And lots of guys wearing big hats !
Well thats my input so far !

Keith.

[PaperTiger]

Not BOI. Not a bad guess though :ok:

[PaperTiger]

large black blobsI think those are to differentiate the doors from the plate glass windows.

I didn't put them there :O

[minuteman]

Wild guess, Las Vegas Municipal KLVS?

[aviate1138]

How about Twin Falls? Idaho........ Just a wild stab......

[grizzled]

Maybe SLC?

[PaperTiger]

You're all in the right area but not Idaho, not Nevada, not Utah.

The State does have a very strong aviation connexion though.

[LFT]

Tucson, the first US municipally owned airport?

[evansb]

Yakima, WA ?
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/yakima-wa-washington-airport-aviati.jpg

[PaperTiger]

DING, DING. Yakima Washington (McAllister Field) it is.
Over to you...

[evansb]

Thanks! Here is the next "Which aerodrome?"
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD081121.jpg

[KMG 365]

Is it in Canada?

[evansb]

Yes, it is in Canada.

[India Four Two]

Was it in Canada when the picture was taken?

[evansb]

Oh yes, Simon, very much an established member of the Confederation when the photo was taken.

[India Four Two]

bri, I felt sure that was a Union Flag flying from the gargoyle tower.

Assuming your answer rules out The Rock, that narrows the flag down to Ontario or BC. I suspect maybe the former.

[evansb]

Sorry, not Newfoundland; Ontario; nor British Columbia. Yes, it is the Union Jack flying over a hangar that reeks of history.
Here is a shot of the same, (exact registration and type), aircraft on floats.
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/sr9dm-2b.jpg

[larssnowpharter]

Malton?
another couple of words here

[twochai]

That wouldn't be the old Edmonton Municipal Airport, would it??

[evansb]

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/bcatp04.jpg
Yes, it is Blatchford Field, Edmonton Municipal/Industrial/City Centre Airport, Alberta, (CYXD). The hangar was home to many aviation greats, such as Grant McConachie and Wop May, to name a few. The hangar is visible in the upper left corner on the photo below. A replica of the hangar presently stands in Fort Edmonton Park. You have control.
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/YXD.jpg

[twochai]

Yes, I should have recognised it much earlier!

Unfortunately, I'm just leaving the house to catch a flight. Nothing to hand, so:

OPEN HOUSE

[l.garey]

I see this is open house so can I try this thread for the first time?
The aerodrome in question is behind the factory buildings in the foreground, but they may provide a clue.
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc39/apollo-fox/1953.jpg

[The Real Slim Shady]

The British Aerospace airfield at Brough near Hull

[l.garey]

No, not Brough

[nacluv]

I'm going to take a punt at Castle Bromwich.

[l.garey]

Sorry punter, not quite right.

[NATOPotato]

How about Eastleigh/Southampton?

[flyingwing]

Castle Bromwich?

[flyingwing]

Oops - if I'd bothered to check it's already been suggested!