Which Aerodrome?

[l.garey]

Not Eastleigh. Maybe this picture of the same place in 1939 will help. If you can recognise the aircraft in front of the hangars it should give a clue, but they are not that easy to see!

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc39/apollo-fox/1939-1.jpg

[philbky]

Could it be Heston?

[flyingwing]

Peterborough Westwood or Walsall?

[l.garey]

Not Heston, but yes RAF Peterborough (Westwood). The factory in front is Baker Perkins who flew their "executive" Aztec from there after the RAF station closed. It was formerly the home of 7 FTS with their Harts and Audaxes, as in the 1939 photo.
Over to you.

[flyingwing]

Here's one I think has not appeared:
http://i462.photobucket.com/albums/qq346/buzzbird/runway1-1.jpg

[con-pilot]

Bimini, The Bahamas?

That's what the runway looked like when I landed there.

Hum, come to think about, that ruway looks better than the runway at Bimini.

[flyingwing]

Sorry - not the Bahamas

[con-pilot]

Okay, thanks, like I said, the runway looks too good to be Bimini. We only did about $25,000.00 in damage when we landed there in a Jet Commander back in the mid-70s. We had to replace the left flap, right main gear door and the bottom rotating beacon. The next time I told the owner no, pick a different airport, he listened to me.

(And if I ever find that Lear Jet pilot that told me the runway was just fine, I'm going to wack him up the side of the head. :p)

[John Hill]

Christmas Island, the Pacific Ocean one?

[flyingwing]

Getting warmer!

[The Real Slim Shady]

Easter Island, Midway?

[aviate1138]

Perhaps Palmyra?

[flyingwing]

I suppose a partially overgrown runway and trees aren't a lot to go on! This airfield has a particularly historic connection.

[evansb]

The old strip at Yap?

[Hyperborean]

Luganville, Espiritu Santo?

[John Hill]

Penrhyn in the Northern Cooks?

[evansb]

Change my Yap to Palmyra.

[flyingwing]

Sorry everyone - we're not there yet. To add to my last hint think WW2 and a momentous event (that should do it!).

[John Hill]

Tinian! Open house, I am going for my lunch time walkies.......!

[flyingwing]

http://s462.photobucket.com/albums/qq346/buzzbird/th_bombpit1.jpg



Yes – well done John. It is indeed one of the runways at what was Tinian North Field whence the two atomic bomb missions were launched on Japan. The two bomb pits from which the B29s Enola Gay and Bock’s Car were loaded are still evident also. Open house it is then.
(A belated word of thanks to I.garey for his interesting previous challenge. When I started work in Peterborough in 1964 Westwood airfield was still discernible – all housing now.)

[l.garey]

Thanks flyingwing for the compliment. Peterborough Westwood airfield looked like this in 1990. Now even the factory has gone and been replaced by a prison! A few of the old RAF buildings survive (eg Officers' Mess).
Photos: thanks to Dick Preston at
Baker Perkins at Westwood Works (http://www.westwoodworks.net/)

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc39/apollo-fox/1990westwood.jpg

Laurence

[The Real Slim Shady]

OK another real easy one.

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

[con-pilot]

Midway Island. I've landed there.




(Oh, watch out for the birds. :ooh:)



If correct, open house.

[The Real Slim Shady]

Easy peasy, told you so.

The joys of Midway.....and the Boston Whalers over to East Island....there's a story there.

[Warmtoast]

As its Open House - where?

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/thawes/Where2-1.jpg

[Flap40]

I think we had that exact picture about 10 months ago but I can't remember where it was!

[KeMac]

Yes we did and I can't remember where it was either:confused::confused:

[Warmtoast]

My oops!

I posted it before and didn't realise it.

Apologies for the error and OPEN HOUSE!

[John Hill]

This should be good for a few minutes!:)

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3278/3062414969_c8d142b776.jpg?v=0

[Flap40]

Wanaka, New Zealand?

[barit1]

Gotta be. Only a hundred clicks or so from Queenstown, a more adventuresome airfield...

[John Hill]

Flaps40, the floor is yours! Wanaka at the 2008 show.

[MReyn24050]

An updated list of Which Aerodromes published to date,can be found above at the sticky "What Cockpit, Which Aerodrome and What Silhouette".
Mel

[Flap40]

Thanks,

I don't think that we have had this one yet...

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj36/jodel_bucket/where-1.jpg

[stevfire2]

crail? if correct, open house.:)

[Flap40]

Only 19 minutes on that one!

Open House

[John Hill]

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3169/3065294900_9c56c1b6e4_m.jpg

Try this one!

[evansb]

McKinnon Pass Airstrip, Southern Alps, New Zealand ?

[John Hill]

Close enough for me Evansb.:ok:

The strip is also known as Sutherland Falls and Quinton Huts strip. The photo is from the top of the McKinnon Pass.

I believe this picture is from the strip looking towards the Sutherland Falls, McKinnon pass is on the left.

http://www.travelswithsheila.com/sutherlandfalls.jpg

[evansb]

Thanks John! What a challenging strip! Here is the next mystery aerodrome:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD081128.jpg

[sidtheesexist]

Paris, Le Bourget? Is that a Martin Maryland?

[chevvron]

I think it is a Maryland so the airport might be Baltimore.

[evansb]

Sorry, not Paris, nor Baltimore.

[Tempsford]

Is it Toulouse?

[evansb]

Sorry, not Toulouse. Not in France.

[The Real Slim Shady]

Montreal???

[evansb]

Sorry, not Montreal. Not in Canada.

[Tempsford]

Amsterdam?

[seacue]

Floyd Bennett Field, New York?

[evansb]

Sorry, not Amsterdam. Not Floyd Bennett Field, New York. The airfield was closed only briefly and then reopened for a different purpose.

[pigboat]

Martin State, KMTN?

[evansb]

Sorry, not Glenn Martin State Airport in Baltimore. Not in the State of Maryland.

[chevvron]

Bakersfield California? Now a dragstrip.

[evansb]

Sorry, not California. Wrong coast.

[The Real Slim Shady]

Bolling AFB Washington DC?

[evansb]

Shady is correct.:ok: Bolling AFB, (KBOF), in Washington, DC, is restricted to rotary-wing operations only. Your turn.

[seacue]

Nit pick warning.

Are you sure there is any flying at Bolling AFB these days? My impression is that it's entirely devoted to residential quarters - look at Google Earth.

The helicopters for the US president are based at the Anacostia Naval Air Station which abuts Bolling on the north.


Edited to add that I wasn't suggesting that it was Anacostia, just filling in the present status of Bolling.

[evansb]

No! I am not sure! It is, indeed, Bolling Air Force Base. You have CONTROL!

[The Real Slim Shady]

I did wonder about Anacostia too but the buildings were on the opposite side: the lettering on the Hangar gave the clue that the photo hadn't been accidentally reversed. OK another real easy on for early Sunday morning.


http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1184/566059049_4c9577c00c.jpg?v=0

[LFT]

Without a doubt RAF Scampton.

[The Real Slim Shady]

3 minutes, told you it was easy. Scampton, formerly home to The Dambusters, latterly, 27,35 and 617Sqns and 230 OCU, then the Central Flying School and the Arrows. LFT has control.

[LFT]

Thanks Slim, here's the next one -

http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/3664/pik229yh1.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[wwoody01]

Is it Tangmere, prior to more re-devolepment? If it is - open house as still getting used to the 'posting pictures malarky'.

Steve

[LFT]

Tangmere it is :ok:

[Warmtoast]

As its Open House another one from me that hasn't been posted before. Control Tower may give it away.

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/thawes/Nottoofaraway.jpg

[Warmtoast]

Re the earlier post of Bolling Air Force Base.

The name rang a bell and sure enough my log book shows I flew into Bolling, Washington DC on 16 July 1961 from Wright-Patterson (Ohio) and flew out the same day to McGuire AFB (New Jersey).

I don't recall that rather massive Bolling Hanger though.

[minuteman]

Boscombe Down?

[Warmtoast]

Not Boscombe Down

[sidtheesexist]

Celle? NW Germany

[Warmtoast]

Sorry it's not Celle

[twochai]

Is this actually a photograph?

[grizzled]

I was about to ask the same question as Twochai. It look very much like a screen shot from a flight sim game.

[Captain Airclues]

RAF Geilenkirchen?

Edit;

If not Geilenkirchen then how about Percival Pembroke XF799 departing RAF Gutersloh on it's way back to Geilenkirchen?

[Warmtoast]

twochai & grizzled


Is this actually a photograph?


Yes, although a rather old, now well over fifty-years old photo taken in the 1950s which pre-date flight sim games by forty-years or so.

Captain Airclues

Its not Geilenkirchen and it's not RAF Gutersloh.

Furrther clue.
The location is NOT in Europe and here is another view of ATC.

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/thawes/NottooFarAwayAirfeld.jpg

[The Real Slim Shady]

I'll have a stab at El Adem then......a.k.a. Marham but no grass;)

[aviate1138]

What about RAF Muharraq? :)

[sidtheesexist]

RAF Khormaksar?

[Warmtoast]

Not RAF Muharraq, or RAF Khormaksar or El Adem.

However, if you tanked up an aircraft at El Adem with enough fuel for a 3,500-mile journey you'd reach the location just as the tanks ran dry.

[The Real Slim Shady]

RAF Negombo in Sri Lanka, now Colombo International.

[Warmtoast]

Not RAF Negombo in Sri Lanka, now Colombo International.

[sidtheesexist]

Long shot - RAF Changi as was........

[Warmtoast]

RAF Changi as was

Not Changi - too far east

[nacluv]

Wild stab in the dark - Yelahanka?

[Warmtoast]

Yelahanka?

Not Yelahanka (wherever that is)

A Further Clue

Try going south from El Adem and you'll be warmer.

[The Real Slim Shady]

Is it Gwelo in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) ?

[Warmtoast]

Is it Gwelo in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) ?


Not Gwelo (Gweru) but you are exceedingly warm.

[Duckbutt]

Harare then?

[Warmtoast]

Duckbutt

Harare then?

Harare it is, but when the photos were taken in 1953 it was called New Sarum Air Force Station (formerly Kentucky AFS) and occupied by the Southern Rhodesian Air Force.

The Pembroke shown was the first of four purchased by the SRAF in 1953 to replace DH Rapides like the rather smart one shown in my photo below that flew Sir Geoffrey Huggins, the prime minister of Southern Rhodesia to RAF Thornhill near Gwelo (Gweru) for talks about the closure of RAF Thornhill when the Rhodesian Air Training Group closed down in late 1953.


SRAF Pembrokes were phased out of service in 1963

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/thawes/SRAFDHRapide.jpg

The 1950's New Sarum ATC tower still shows up on Google Earth as below.

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/thawes/NewSarumfromGoogle2007.jpg

Duckbutt has control

[Duckbutt]

Lets face it, Slim Shady crossed the ball for me to knock it into an empty net.

Where is this then:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/Twyler/Puzz25.jpg

[aviate1138]

How about Ouarzazate?

[Tiger_mate]

Aquaba, Jordan?

[Duckbutt]

Neither of those although aviate is a bit closer than Tiger_Mate.

[twochai]

Neither of those although aviate is a bit closer than Tiger_Mate

In which case, I would suggest Tamanrasset? If true, its been polished up a little since I last transited through there twenty five years ago, not surprisingly.

[Duckbutt]

Sorry twochai, not Tamanrasset. Aviate was a BIT closer but still a long way away.

[Duckbutt]

If you flew to here from aviate1138's suggestion in Warmtoast's hypothetical aircraft a few posts above, this complete nonprofessional calculates that having refuelled to the brim once on the way, you would land with your tanks around 30% full.

Looking at my original photo, just out of shot to the right is a terminal which looks like this from the land side:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/Twyler/Terminal.jpg

[The Real Slim Shady]

Tangiers? Only ever been in the dark so it really is a stab :O:O

[Duckbutt]

Its not in Africa. The airport serves a city which is, according to different sources, the second or third oldest in the country. The local population doubles in their summer with visitors attracted by the natural facilities - I wouldn't mind being there now to give my chillblains a chance to heal up!

The national airline has four scheduled flights each day to the capital city in its Local Area Network.

[AfgAirOps]

La Florida, Chile?

Rgds
AAO

[Duckbutt]

That's the one AAO, over to you!

[AfgAirOps]

It was the LAN clue that did it..... :}

The next one;

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

Rgds
AAO

[twochai]

Llamas in abundance, Ford Trimotor, arid semi-desert terrain, volcano in the background.

Looks like it could be Arequipa, Peru?

[AfgAirOps]

Next time I must look a bit harder..... try & find something that'll last longer than 43 minutes! :}

twochai, well done & over to you :ok:

Rgds
AAO

[twochai]

Next time I must look a bit harder..... try & find something that'll last longer than 43 minutes!

You must admit, AAO, you left a long trail of clues for those with a dull memory, and Arequipa is indeed a memorable airport site.:ok:

A little remembered feature of the Ford Trimotor was its 'Johnson bar' hydraulic braking control system - a long pole sprouting out of the floor which one pulled aft through a two or three foot arc for symmetric braking, while continuing to use the rudder pedals for directional brake control! Like the contemporary British pneumatic brake control (with the press-to-brake lever between the 'spectacles') but not as intuitive. That was probably a Faucett Airlines Trimotor; a great little airline in its day, at least while still in operation in the early seventies with BAC 1-11-475's and B727-100's.

Sorry, nothing worth contributing comes immediately to hand, so:

OPEN HOUSE

[evansb]

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD081208.jpg

[AfgAirOps]

Very wild guess..... Livingstone?

Rgds
AAO

[evansb]

Sorry, not Livingstone. Not a bad guess.

[AfgAirOps]

Another wild guess at Vic Falls then?

Rgds
AAO

[evansb]

Sorry, not Victoria Falls. Not in Africa.

[John Hill]

How about South America? Chile maybe?

[evansb]

Sorry, John. not in South America.

[AfgAirOps]

Somewhere in India?

Rgds
AAO

[evansb]

Yes. Somewhere in India.

[AfgAirOps]

The people / aircraft ratio seems a bit too high.

Some sort of state / official visit going on?

Would 1956 be about the correct year?

Rgds
AAO

[evansb]

Photo circa 1958. Civilian airliner. Don't know if it is a special flight.

[AfgAirOps]

Goa Dabolim

Rgds
AAO

PS, 17th March 1958? :}

[mr ripley]

And if that's not right and I am sure it is, how about:

Trivandrum International Airport

[evansb]

AAO is spot on:ok:. aka. Vasco da Gama Airport, Goa, located on the lovely southwest coast of India. A joint military-civilian airport originally built by the Potuguese, and now run by the Indian Airports Authority. You have control.

[AfgAirOps]

Thanks.

Must pass any credit onto Google though :D

The next one;

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/RJPotts/where-1.jpg

Rgds
AAO

[John Hill]

Hmmm... looks like a Dines Pressure Tube anemometer on top of the tower, likely to be somewhere in the extended 'Raj' then?

[AfgAirOps]

Hmmm... looks like a Dines Pressure Tube anemometer on top of the tower, likely to be somewhere in the extended 'Raj' then?

Not really..... you are on the right track though...

Rgds
AAO

[mr ripley]

How about Rangoon?

[AfgAirOps]

Sorry, not Rangoon.

Rgds
AAO

[The Real Slim Shady]

WAY too smart to be Yangon!!!

[John Hill]

Kallang, Singapore?

[KMG 365]

Karachi, Pakistan?

[AfgAirOps]

Not Yangon, Karachi or Kallang.

The first 2 are withinv the max range of Warmtoast's hypothethical aircraft, from the subject airfield.

Rgds
AAO

[evansb]

Haifa, Israel ?

[AfgAirOps]

Not Haifa, sorry.

Geographically speaking, the closest so far though.

Rgds
AAO

[The Real Slim Shady]

Amman,Jordan?

[AfgAirOps]

Not Amman.

Getting closer though....

Rgds
AAO

[evansb]

I'll guess Tehran, Iran ?

[AfgAirOps]

Tehran.... nope but getting closer. About 60 miles closer than AMM.....

Rgds
Richard

[Code 100]

Baghdad looks slightly closer, albeit nearly equidistant between Tehran and Amman

[AfgAirOps]

Baghdad it is, Code 100 over to you.

With thanks to *©*´¯`·-· IraqWho.com ·-·´¯`*©* - Your gateway to IRAQ (http://www.iraqwho.com/photo/detail.asp?iType=37&iPic=1331)

Rgds
AAO

[Code 100]

Thanks, AAO.

I declare Open House. I am useless at posting images.

Cheers.

[The Real Slim Shady]

OK, I'll sneak another easy one in.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b197/av8tor100/IMGP00362.jpg

[minuteman]

Brussels National EBBR?

[Davidsoffice]

My immediate thought was Manchester but it's been a while since I was there.

[The Real Slim Shady]

Minuteman has it. The 25R holding position looking north east.

[minuteman]

Initally I thought Manchester too but the big white painted runway shoulders gave it away...sad I know!

In the office with no photos so OPEN HOUSE!

[Warmtoast]

As it's Open House again. Where's this?

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r231/thawes/Somewhereoutthere.jpg

[sycamore]

Butterworth perhaps?

[MReyn24050]

Labuan perhaps?

[AfgAirOps]

Wild guess..... RAF Gan?

Rgds
AAO

[Warmtoast]

Sorry, it's not Butterworth, Labuan or Gan.

[AfgAirOps]

Car Nicobar?

Rgds
AAO

[Warmtoast]

AAO has it. It's Car Nicobar.

Photo was taken sometime in 1956/8. Car Nic was a regular refuelling stop for the Changi-based 'Pigs' (Valettas) and RNZAF Bristol Freighters employed on the regular Changi – Negombo (Katunayake, Sri Lanka) run. They routed Changi – RAAF Butterworth – Car Nicobar – Negombo, and later when the crushed coral runway had been constructed at Gan, continued down there as part of the Negombo – Gan airbridge, when the frequency was upped to three a week.

I went through Car Nic a few times in 1956 – 1958, refuelling was done by the locally-based Indian Air Force personnel. There was no terminal as such and on arrival pax disembarked and just hung around the aircraft to stretch their legs whilst it was being refuelled, as in the photo. Once refuelled we were off again ASAP.

Over to you AAO.

[AfgAirOps]

Thanks for the info Warmtoast.

The next one;

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/RJPotts/somewhere-1.jpg

Rgds
AAO

[mr ripley]

Looks US

How about Midway

[AfgAirOps]

Not Midway, sorry.

US? yes-ish, i.e. used by. Not in the US though.....

Rgds
AAO

[saman]

Mr Ripley,

It may look a bit old and tired but not US, it's certainly functioning.

Sorry, it's lack of sleep....

[AfgAirOps]

Not Panama sorry.

In fact, Panama is rather a long way from this airfield.....

Rgds
AAO

[con-pilot]

Wake Island?

As it does look a lot like Midway.

[Flap40]

It looks a bit like Carlisle aka Eddie Stobart international to me.

[AfgAirOps]

Not Wake Island & not Carlisle.

Wake Island is the closest so far.

Rgds
AAO

[mr ripley]

Next wild guess is Guam

[AfgAirOps]

Sorry, not Guam.

Wake Island was the closest, but not close.

Guam is closer.

Rgds
AAO

[con-pilot]

Saipan Island?

[AfgAirOps]

Not Saipan sorry.

Guam is still the closest so far.

Rgds
AAO

[The Real Slim Shady]

Kon-Ichi-Wa Anjin San------ Okinawa?

[mr ripley]

After consulting my map of the Pacific my finger says Port Moresby

[northbynorthwest]

Anderson AFB on Guam??????

[seacue]

As a wild guess, Palau....

[AfgAirOps]

Not Okinawa, Port Moresby or Palau & still not Guam :}

This airfield was originally built by the French & 'improved' by the Japanese.

Rgds
AAO

[mr ripley]

Gia Lam near Hanoi?

[AfgAirOps]

Not Gia Lam.

This airfield is now in the same state though.

Rgds
AAO

[KeMac]

How about Hai Phong Cat Bi Airport

[evansb]

I have it on good authority that the challenge aerodrome might be Can Tho AAF, South Vietnam. Photo taken in 1965. ?

[AfgAirOps]

It is indeed Can Tho.

evansb, over to you.....

Rgds
AAO

[evansb]

Thanks AAO. All credit should go to sabredog for that one:ok:
Here is the next challenge:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD081222.jpg

[flybywire2]

looks like elmdon to me

[mr ripley]

Or maybe Rothera

[evansb]

Sorry, not the West Midlands, nor Antarctica.

[flyingwing]

Williams Field, McMurdo? (er ---- No, not a clever guess, Antarctica already ruled out!)

[flyingwing]

Somewhere in remote Canada?!

[Phileas Fogg]

Is it Alert?

[evansb]

Alert? Do you mean Alert, Nunavut, Canada? The most northerly inhabited settlement in the world?



Ahem..yes, indeed, spot on:ok: Phileas Fogg is correct. Well done. CFS (Canadian Forces Station) Alert, CYLT, Ellesmere Island, located at 82.28N 62.30W.

You have control.

P.S. I've found a thread on JET BLAST for my RANT:}

[twochai]

Do not let it be said about Evansb that he is not a sensitive person...

All this time, I thought he was just living the good life out in the badlands enjoying the wildlife!

[Phileas Fogg]

Open House

[flyingwing]

Here's one that I don't see on the list:

http://s462.photobucket.com/albums/qq346/buzzbird/th_air1.jpg

Happy Christmas

[nacluv]

That's got to be Finningley - AKA 'Robin Hood Airport'.

[flyingwing]

Quite right Nacluv! Taken from the club 172 on departure. That was when you could still land there for a few bob - including ground services to/from terminal!

You have control.

[nacluv]

Ah - Finningley. Fond memories of the great airshows when I was a kid; the 3-hour Nav trip in a Dominie in the jump seat as a cadet with no (or very little) cabin pressurisation; and my second XJS bought from a 2nd-hand car dealer who set up shop in one of the old MT pool garages after it all closed down.

I bet the 172 felt a bit small/lonely in the middle of all that tarmac - you could have taken off between the piano keys and the peritrack!

Going to have a quick look for something to post...

[nacluv]

...And here we go:
http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk252/kwilson1965/nacluv/Guesswhere.jpg

Merry Christmas!

[flyingwing]

A not very confident bid for Holmsley South (New Forest).

[nacluv]

Not Holmsley South I'm afraid, flyingwing, but I can certainly see where you're coming from with that one.

[merlinxx]

Nope, you are correct, there are plenty of aLERTS and not enough aLoofs:ok:

[Phileas Fogg]

It's not Warton is it?

[nacluv]

No, not Warton. There is no water in the immediate vicinity.

[Krakatoa]

Could it be Blackbush

[nacluv]

Sorry Krakatoa - not Blackbushe.

All entrants thus far are on the correct lines in that it is in the UK.

[Schiller]

Bournemouth Hurn?

[AfgAirOps]

Farnborough? (nacluv has already said UK:})

(Could've sworn I'd seen an entry for Farnborough yesterday..... am I going blind, stupid, both or was it deleted?)

Rgds
AAO

[Tempsford]

AfgAir may have it with Farnborough

[Phileas Fogg]

Cottesmore?

[twochai]

(Could've sworn I'd seen an entry for Farnborough yesterday..... am I going blind, stupid, both or was it deleted?)

I deleted my Farnborough posting last night in a dither, after looking at the mystery photo once more. However you may be right AAO, taken perhaps immediately post WWII?

[Phileas Fogg]

But in this photo there is an unusually small triangle of grass between the 3 runways and whilst between Farnboro's 4 runways there are a couple of small triangles the runway directions do not seem to match this photo.

[Phileas Fogg]

Carlisle is another possibility.

[evansb]

It is time to declare this thread as officially missing. We will send out the hounds at day-break.

[Captain Airclues]

If the hounds don't find nacluv, perhaps we should declare Speechless Two the winner and get on with the next challenge?

Dave

[Phileas Fogg]

Try this one:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3286/3131102956_290f30d615.jpg?v=0

[Soddit]

Harrowbeer,between Plymouth and Yelverton,Devon,UK

[Phileas Fogg]

Well that lasted all of 17 minutes, the pub in the foreground brings back fond memories from the 1980's :)

Soddit has it.

[Soddit]

If memory serves the route was Skylark ( Clearbrook) - Royal Oak ( Meavy) - Leg O'Mutton ( in your picture) then Milton Combe.There's a similar route in Timisoara. Here is the next offering - I do not expect it to be unduly taxing.

http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg307/Soddit_photos/File0005.jpg

Hopefully that will work...

[Phileas Fogg]

That was it, the Leg O'Mutton, there was also the George on the traffic lights by PLH airport, got snowed in at the airport one night so had to half hinch a crash wagon to drive across the airfield and jump over the fence to the George, the locals just laughed, they had seen the blue lights coming across the airfield and wondered what was happening :)

[nacluv]

Just a quick post to apologise for going AWOL over the last few days. I thought I would have t'interweb access but things didn't go quite to plan. evansb et al were quite right to press on! For the record, my previous challenge was indeed Greenham Common, 1942-style.

[Phileas Fogg]

I would hazard a guess that it is Fornebu.

[Soddit]

Sorry Phileas - not Fornebu

[BAMRA wake up]

I'm guessing here as much as Phileas, but trying to apply some narrowing down,

There's nothing up close enough for vegetation or cultural clues.

The serrated ridge looks volcanic, and menacing! One wonders if this airport has perhaps since been relocated. The photo looks to be taken from an old transparency, so maybe 1960's vintage.

Constrained airfield site, so perhaps an island or a small coastal state ringed by mountains? Carribean?

[merlinxx]

What are those fag ends doing on the threshold ? Very strange place to stick an ashtray!


Sorry 'bout that couldn't resist:E

[Soddit]

I must confess to an element of surprise - I thought it would have gone by now.

Mainland Europe

A currently active airport which has not been relocated since the photo was taken on 31st January 1998. It's not a transparency,rather a scan of the original print which is in my possession - I was the photographer.

And for the avoidance of doubt the photo was taken from the flight deck observers' seat. There were no 'security' implications.And yes, I was authorised to be there.

Over to you,Ladies and Gentlemen.

[Flap40]

Google Earth has it as Tito Menniti at the toe of Italy although another source gives it as Reggio Calabria.

[Soddit]

Flap40 has it. Reggio di Calabria Airport,Calabria,Italy ( REG). If memory serves Tito Menniti was an Italian aviator of some distinction hence the airport being named for him.And the site is indeed constrained - the time the photo was taken it was a Cat C airport.

All yours Flap 40.

[Flap40]

Thanks. I've lost the photo that I was going to use so OPEN HOUSE.

[Phileas Fogg]

This one should prove more difficult than my previous attempt:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3210/3131188920_ba595cf21e.jpg?v=0

[S'land]

Blackbush?

[Phileas Fogg]

Not Blackbushe

[dixi188]

Big building in the distance!
Is it the VAB at Kennedy Space Centre?
Can't find any strip around that part of Florida that matches though.

[Phileas Fogg]

It is not in USA

I'm not sure there is some sort of structure in the background, might be a blemish on the photo, so don't think for sure that there is that structure in the vicinity.

[mr ripley]

How about Worksop

[Soddit]

Long shot - is it that strip near Yealmpton that Peter Cadbury had for his King Air circa 1981?

[Phileas Fogg]

Neither Worksop nor Yealmpton

[TheChitterneFlyer]

Could it be Otterburn in Northumberland?

[TheChitterneFlyer]

Or Keevil in Wiltshire?

[Flap40]

Lec refrigeration airfield at Bognor Regis?

[Phileas Fogg]

Flap40,

Yes, Bognor Regis 'Airport' :) is correct.

[Flap40]

Thanks. Try this one.

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj36/jodel_bucket/somewhere-1.jpg

[Moondance]

How about Broadford on the Isle of Skye?

[Flap40]

Got it in one!

The floor is yours.

[Moondance]

Sunshine and tents confused at first, a more typical view of Skye..

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/Moondance1/2-18.jpg

Next challenge...low pass for purpose of sheep clearing...

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/Moondance1/1-17.jpg

[BAMRA wake up]

Coll, Ballard - EGEL. Before redevelopment, looking towards Mull?

[Moondance]

Correct, over to you....years since I've been to Coll, what's changed?

[BAMRA wake up]

Moondance, some recent photos here:

Coll/Ballard Airfield (http://ukga.com/airfield/coll)

New runway, terminal building, and a scheduled air service from Oban operated by Highland Airways using the BN-2B Islander.

Open house.

[l.garey]

If it's open house, let's try this one. I know at the start of this thread that someone warned about yet another grass field, but maybe the background terrain will help. No prizes for the country though.
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc39/apollo-fox/bucker.jpg

[AfgAirOps]

Geneva, Switzerland?

Rgds
AAO

[l.garey]

Sorry AAO. Geneva looks more like Heathrow than a grass field (but in smaller size)!
Laurence

[AfgAirOps]

I think Heathrow does actually have some (admittedly small) grass areas & of course its a bit difficult to tell whats behind the camera.... thats my excuse anyway... :}

Another guess, for La Cote, Switzerland (LSGP)?

HB-UUL, picture taken May 07?

Rgds
AAO

[l.garey]

Brilliant. Yes, La Côte, also known as Prangins or Gland. The aerials at the back mark the site of NDB GLA.
How did you get the details of the photo? Did I leave an identity on it?
Open house as I have to fly off to LTN tomorrow via EZY.
Laurence

[AfgAirOps]

How did you get the details of the photo? Did I leave an identity on it?

Nope, no identity to that picture.... :cool:

An easy one next;

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

Rgds
AAO

[AfgAirOps]

Thought someone would have had a go by now.....

A clue: The land at the other side of the river is in a different country to the airfield.

Rgds
AAO

[mr ripley]

Kinshasa N'Djili International then?

[sidtheesexist]

V long shot....Bratislava?

[AfgAirOps]

Neither Kinshasa nor Bratislava, sorry.

Rgds
AAO

[mr ripley]

OK then Brazzaville

[AfgAirOps]

Not Brazzaville either, sorry.

Subject airfield is not in Africa.

Rgds
AAO

[AfgAirOps]

The country this airfield is in was a protectorate of a European country & gained independance in the period from the late 1940s to mid 1950s.

Rgds
AAO

[dash7fan]

Viang chan (Vientiane) Laos

[mr ripley]

Vientiane Wattay Intl Airport, Laos

maybe

[Krakatoa]

Islay from Prince Charles end of the runway

[AfgAirOps]

It is indeed Vientiane.

Over to you dash7fan....

Rds
AAO