Which Aerodrome?

[Dan Winterland]

Got to go to bed now (GMT+8) and I'm on standby at 6.

If anyone by chance should happen to mention the one V Bomber base that was in Norfolk, it's your turn.

[MReyn24050]

The following is a list of Aerodromes presented to date. If it works and there are errors could members please advise.
Mel
http://www.geocities.com/artificer356/WhatAerodromeList.html?200715

[621andy]

V Bomber base that was in Norfolk, it's your turn

Marham?? am I right for once...please:p

[old,not bold]

Blimey, the only one I could have got for a while, and you got in first..................:{

[621andy]

Ok, here's another one to keep you entertained whilst I'm out on the town..

http://upload3.postimage.org/91083/guess.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/91083/photo_hosting.html)

[NATOPotato]

Looks like Kiel to me, Schleswig Holstein, ich kann meine Kneipe sehen!

NP

Piccy to follow.

[NATOPotato]

http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x260/NATOPotato_2007/DSCF0054.jpg

[621andy]

Moin moin!
Richtig, es ist doch Kiel-Holtenau.
Lived there for 3 years, and flew gliders from there. Great place apart from the weather in winter;)

[621andy]

..back to the pic...somewhere in Denmark??, though can't think where:(

certainly on the coast somewhere...

[MReyn24050]

Westerland Sylt perhaps?

[NATOPotato]

621 Andy, Moin, gute Idee aber falsches Land. MReyn24050, not German, but it is european.

NP

[621andy]

Couldn't get the buildings to match up with Westerland, but I did wonder about it as there's been so many changes there...hmm, interesting:suspect:

[621andy]

Scheiße:oh:
Could be Dutch then I think.

edit- changed my mind, I reckon it's swedish, but I have been somewhat wrong in the past:}

[MReyn24050]

How about Alderney Blaye and the point on the horizon being the telegraph tower? Other possibility is Haugesund [Karmoy], Norway.
Mel

[621andy]

ENFL, Floro, Norway?

[NATOPotato]

Getting closer. This little beauty is in the museum next door.

NP

http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x260/NATOPotato_2007/DSCF0074.jpg

[621andy]

Then it's got to be Bodo I reckon;)

[NATOPotato]

Yes, Bodo it is. Lovely people, friendly girls, and I've yet to see more efficient snow and ice ops, but the beer prices are enough to make you weep. Over to you.

NP

[621andy]

Never been to Norway, but have done Sweden twice...with someone else picking up the alcohol tab:ok:

Here's one that's a bit different to my usual offerings:
http://upload3.postimage.org/103087/airfield.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/103087/photo_hosting.html)

Though I guess it'll be 'got' fairly quickly:)

[Dan Winterland]

Cardington?

[old,not bold]

Cardington....if right, open house, I haven't mastewred uploading pics.

Edit: B****r, too slow again!

[621andy]

Sorry boys and girls, not Cardington.






To upload pics, I use this site:
http://www.postimage.org/

You just select a pic from your collection, click on save pic, then save the first wotsit that comes up under the photo when its uploaded itself.

[ZH875]

Cranwell North?

[MReyn24050]

Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey perhaps if not then a German Zeppelin Hangar similar to the one at Jamboli in Bulgaria during WWI.
Mel

[old,not bold]

Or Friedrichshafen?

[pigboat]

Tillamook Bay, Oregon?

[621andy]

All wrong I'm afraid. At last I've found a challenging pic:ok:

I'll give another photographic clue if no-one gets it in the next few hours...

[MReyn24050]

How about the Zeppelin Hangar situated in the Carioca quarter of Santa Cruz, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil?

[621andy]

All on the right lines, but no-one correct as yet...

[Phileas Fogg]

Tustin perhaps?

[621andy]

No, not Tustin.

[621andy]

Ok, here's another visual clue. Off out now, back in a few hours, so talk amongst yourselves:}

http://upload3.postimage.org/107899/airfield2.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/107899/photo_hosting.html)

[evansb]

Frankfurt am Main? (Rhein-Main).

[621andy]

evansb does it again:ok:

Here are a few more of FRA before it got turned into a 'proper' airport-

http://upload3.postimage.org/112649/Zeppelin_autobahn.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/112649/photo_hosting.html)

http://upload3.postimage.org/112672/ZeppelinLZ129landed.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/112672/photo_hosting.html)

http://upload3.postimage.org/112687/209.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/112687/photo_hosting.html)

[evansb]

Thanks Andy. Who would have thought combining architecture with aviation history could be fun? Here is the next challenge:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/3587525.jpg

[621andy]

Croydon? trying to read wots written on the grass in background, but it looks like Ringway?, but probably says 'runway':rolleyes:

[evansb]

Not old Croydon, nor old Ringway, but it is old, and now, sadly, closed.

[621andy]

Ratcliffe, Leicester.

[evansb]

Andy is correct.:ok: Well done:D Ratcliffe was an important ATA ferry base during W.W.II. The aerodrome was closed in 1950.
Here is a war photo showing some diverse aircraft types:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/RatcliffeAerodrome.jpg

[621andy]

Thank you, evansb:)
Soo, another challenging one, again airship based:
http://upload3.postimage.org/122262/airship.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/122262/photo_hosting.html)

http://upload3.postimage.org/122277/airship2.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/122277/photo_hosting.html)

2 pics to make it a bit easier;)

[MReyn24050]

How about the Airship mast and hangar at Karachi in what is now Pakistan?
Mel

[Phileas Fogg]

Yep, definately Karachi.

[621andy]

bu99er me that was quick! CORRECT! Thought this one would run and run:}

FYI- it was built for the R101,for the London-Karachi route, but obviously it didn't make it:(
The mast was unusual in having a gas storage facility built into it so that the airship could be topped up whilst on the mast.
The Shed was 850' long, 180' wide and 170' high, and cost 93,000 quid to build in 1928. It's actually bigger than the cardington sheds, but of a simpler design.
It was all eventually dismantled and the steel/building materials used to build bridges and buildings for Pakistan railways.

It's now the site of Karachi International airport...

Over to MReyn24050 for the next thrilling episode:}

[MReyn24050]

Thanks 621andy, it was a little too close after your Zeppelin Hangar challenge as I noticed the Airship mast during the search for the location of the hangar.
This one will not last long either.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c67/sabamel/Airport/Airportquiz014.jpg
Mel

[621andy]

Deffo aircraft production. Engine test rigs visible, so maybe RR.

I'm pretty sure its Filton. If I'm wrong, feel free to kick my arse up the runway and back, as I'm a Bristle boy meself, my luvver;)

[MReyn24050]

He be right, it is Filton and the black sheds were Bristol Engines in those days but as you rightly say they be Rolls Royce now. I worked for many years in Whittle House on the opposite side of Gypsy Patch Lane for many years.
Here is a more upto date photo of Filton.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c67/sabamel/Airport/Filton.jpg
You regain control

[621andy]

Had my first flight in a Chippy from Filton:)
Hmm, getting more difficult to find 'interesting' shots! Got a few at home, but not going to be back there for a bit:rolleyes:

Well, here goes with the next quick-fire round, fingers on buzzers:

http://upload3.postimage.org/125132/airfieldquiz.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/125132/photo_hosting.html)

[paddyboy]

Aston Down

[621andy]

AD it is. Home of the friendliest gliding club in the UK- Cotswold!

You have control...

[paddyboy]

Totally agree.

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n92/Chilly_010/S4010020.jpg

[621andy]

Not much of an overshoot there- the runway's blocked halfway down! I assume you were going for the grass;)

Thought it might be South Marston before Honda got their hands on it, but looking at Googly it doesn't match up....hmmm...

[Background Noise]

Ex USAF? - Alconbury?

[621andy]

BN- reckon you're right.

[paddyboy]

BN :D
Thought that'd last more than a few hours!

[Background Noise]

Ok - here's a fairly (very?) obscure one. I think this satisfies the old photo rule!
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a297/stickshaker/img002.jpg

[paddyboy]

Brough perhaps?

[621andy]

Wattisham?

[Background Noise]

Paddyboy's there already - what clues?

[621andy]

Off to beddy byes now. can't wait for tomorrows pics:ok:

[paddyboy]

what clues?
Lord knows. Just a hunch.

Lack of horizon perhaps.

Here's a nice easy one albeit obscured by a little well placed cumulous.

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n92/Chilly_010/DSCF0470.jpg

[Background Noise]

St Mawgan?

Last one was Brough - taken by my father who fortunately wrote on the backs of his pics...'our 4 aeroplanes at Brough, Nov '59. Under the massive wing of a Beverley. Part of Blackburn's Factory at right rear, sea wall in rear at left'

[paddyboy]

You've done it again BN.
Mawgan it is.:ok:

[Background Noise]

This is all I can manage after my tricky one lasted 5 minutes.
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a297/stickshaker/Runway.jpg

[Dan Winterland]

Looks familiar - but I'm very intrigued by that big curved tyre mark. Not the only skid mark that happened that day I guess! :eek:

And a touch low on the glide slope!

[paddyboy]

Hmm...

South America?

Venezuela?

[PaperTiger]

Malta 14 ?

[Background Noise]

PaperTiger you are correct - over to you

[PaperTiger]

Easy one:
http://www3.telus.net/public/bkm600/fotog.jpg

[paddyboy]

Polk City?

[PaperTiger]

Wrong hemisphere (E-W).

[old,not bold]

Cambridge? (Not sure about the hangar, though....)

[PaperTiger]

Yes, Cambridge it is.

onb has control.

[old,not bold]

Oh dear, that puts me on the spot...no very good pics and a huge learning curve to get them from the ancient album to here...here goes with one...

I can't get the photo onto the page, even though I'm following the instructions at the top of the forum...

The link is

http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff141/picshooter/Ident4.jpg

The hills (to the SW) are a clue...it was taken around 1988..
http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff141/picshooter/Ident4.jpg

All I get on the edit screen is a little box with the picture symbol, and nothing when saved.

[ZH875]

Wroughton?

[old,not bold]

Right country, wrong airport.....

[paddyboy]

Compton Abbas?

[MReyn24050]

Just astab in the dark Dunsfold perhaps?

[Mr_Grubby]

old, not bold.
You don't make it easy !!!
Should we rename this thread What car park ? !!!!!!!!!
Could it be Popham ?
Clint.
:):):)

[old,not bold]

Sorry!

It's the only photo, bar an even more difficult one, that I've got..

You're looking SW and there's an estuary between you and the hills...and a fruity NDB down there somewhere over the Spit's nose

BTW, not Compton Abbas or Dunsfold

[old,not bold]

If I can get this pic on, it's the same aerodrome, different bird, and fairly easy...

Nope, still won't do it, here's the URL

http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff141/picshooter/Ident5.jpg

BOAC is on the case of my incompetence, you'll be glad to hear..


http://i243.photobucket.com/albums/ff141/picshooter/Ident5.jpg

[MReyn24050]

St Athans perhaps and the estuary is the Bristol Channel

[KMG 365]

Perhaps Exeter???

[old,not bold]

Yes indeed...it's Exeter

All yours.

[KMG 365]

Many thanks, onb.

Try this one:

http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/4033/arprt1ui8.jpg

[MReyn24050]

Forgive for the digression but I found a photograph of a number of C-47 belonging to the USAAF 440th Troop Carrier Group ranged on Exeter Airfield on the 5th June 1944 on the same part of the airfield that old,not bold's photograph was taken.
Mel
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c67/sabamel/Aircraft/C-47s-exeter-dday.jpg
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c67/sabamel/Aircraft/Ident4.jpg

[evansb]

St. Petersburg-Clearwater International, Florida. (KPIE) It is located WSW of Tampa, across the bay. The USCG base is depicted on the right of your photo.

[KMG 365]

That's it. Well done, evansb!

Over to you.

[evansb]

Thank you. Here is the next challenge:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/3610567.jpg

[KMG 365]

Mount Batten, Plymouth???

[evansb]

Sorry, not RAF Mount Batten, Plymouth.

[JW411]

Well, it's 10 Sqn RAAF and if it's not Mountbatten then it has to be Pembroke Dock?

If I'm right, then let someone else have a go. I still can't figure out how to post a photograph on to the forum.

[evansb]

Sorry, not Pembroke Dock. Here is another view of the water 'drome:



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

[Caudillo]

So it's got to be back in Oz? Townsville?

in fact forget that, unless the sea has moved back...

[Caudillo]

Oban perhaps?

[evansb]

Sorry, not RAF Oban. The water aerodrome is not located in Great Britain.

[ImageGear]

Having lived there for many years, and watched a concrete yacht being built around the corner, I was still not sure until I checked.
I think it's the old base that was near to the sugar terminal in Durban Bay harbour.
If it is, someone else can take it away till I get more time in the attic
Imagegear.

Edited to add:

http://ports.co.za/admin/large/image-195.jpg

Sunderland reconnaissance flying boats of No.35 Squadron, South African Air Force at the Marine Air Force Base at Bayhead, Durban in 1948. This area now forms part of the ship repair yards of Dormac Marine.

[evansb]

ImageGear is correct. It is SAAF Congella, Maydon Wharf, Durban, Natal. In April 1945, 35 Squadron received the 1st of 16 Short Sunderland GR5s, and operated the type until September 1957, when it was replaced by the Avro Shackleton.

[Caudillo]

Here we go then! I'd rate this.. medium.

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd250/elcaudillo/000photo.jpg

[evansb]

Scandinavian?

[Arfur Feck-Sake]

Possibly Stord?

[Caudillo]

Evansb and AFS I had to look up where Stord is - had never heard of it! But no, not a scandi airfield.

[Russell Gulch]

Homer, AK?

[Caudillo]

Never heard of that one either! Not Alaskan..

[pigboat]

Prince Rupert BC?

[Caudillo]

That neither. Although the area does have a notable British connection.

[Arfur Feck-Sake]

Somewhere in New Zealand?

[Caudillo]

No, though the same connection does extend to NZ.

[ThreadBaron]

Alpine???????????????

[Caudillo]

Not Alpine, but round there it is cold, despite the name.

[MReyn24050]

Warmington-on-sea perhaps?

[Flap40]

Well I guess that the opposite of cold is hot or even "fire" or "Fuego" which after a brief search on google earth leads me to Puerto Williams which seems to match the picture above.

[Flap40]

Next one

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jodel/photos/myst1.jpg

It is in the UK.

It is disused (!)

The buildings are not original although they are in roughly the same place. The peri track is still visible around the righthand edge of that ploughed field

[MReyn24050]

I must admit I agree with you,presumedly the British Connection being the Beagle Channel, which is named after the ship HMS Beagle which was involved in two hydrographic surveys of the coasts of the southern part of South America in the early 19th century.

[paddyboy]

Donna Nook?

[Flap40]

Sorry not Donna Nook.

[Arfur Feck-Sake]

Tain perhaps?

[Flap40]

Not Tain either.

It has had four different names. It has been a base for the RFC, RAF, RN and briefly the americans.

[Flap40]

Additional clue:

The picture was taken looking west towards the Capital some 14nm to the WSW.

[Arfur Feck-Sake]

Drem/West Fenton?

[Flap40]

Yes, Drem it is.

[Arfur Feck-Sake]

Unfortunately I don't have the technology (yet) to offer the next teaser. Over to someone else..................

[paddyboy]

http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n92/Chilly_010/DSCF0436.jpg

[Flap40]

Gaydon from the SW?

[paddyboy]

Indeed it is.

All yours.

[Flap40]

Taken in 1934

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jodel/photos/Image0004.jpg

[evansb]

Weston-Super-Mare?

[merlinxx]

Somewhere with a narrow gage rail/ramway, Jersey perhaps, with DH84 Dragons Mks I & II? The tramway ran from St Helier past St Abin's Bay beach landing ground.

[Flap40]

Well it was a railway rathr than a tramway and I trhought that it was standard gauge but now you've got me thinking!

It is West Park Beach in Jersey which was used until the current airport was built at St Peter in 1937. The beach has been used since on rare occaisions, the latest being a couple of weeks ago during the annual air display.

[MReyn24050]

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c67/sabamel/Airport/Airportquiz015.jpg

[Flap40]

Is it Swansea?

[MReyn24050]

It is indeed Swansea.:D:ok:
You have control Flap40.

[Flap40]

Okay, try this one.

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jodel/photos/myst9.jpg

[Phileas Fogg]

Tempelhof.

Open House

[evansb]

Here is the next 'Which Aerodrome?'

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/3641656.jpg

[seacue]

Churchill MB CYYQ ??

[evansb]

seacue is correct.:ok: Originally built by the U.S. in 1942. Churchill airport was eventually operated by the R.C.A.F., and was an important staging base for the construction of radar bases in Canada's north during the Cold War.
The photo was taken in 1955, and shows the R.C.A.F complex.
Churchill is now one of the few remaining Canadian civilian airports operated by the federal government (Transport Canada).

You have control.

[seacue]

This is a very easy one
http://users.erols.com/rcarpen/HAFB011.jpg

[evansb]

Very easy? Are you a member of 'Mel's Club for Mensa'? Mostly sailing ships in the harbour. Looks like a volcanic island. Hmm..when was this post-card taken?

[seacue]

Yes, volcanic island. Photo taken around 1960 +/-, I should think. The site is so unique that I thought it easy. One learns. Sailing ships = yachts. Maybe there were some larger sailing vessels carrying multiple vacationers.

Another hint at 13:10 - Commonwealth country.

[sidtheesexist]

Somewhere in the Carribean?

PS a very enjoyable thread/game :ok:

[seacue]

Yes, Caribbean.

[MReyn24050]

Well it has got to be St Lucia Airport.
mel

[seacue]

Yes, George F L Charles Airport, better known as Vigie Airport SLU at Castries, St Lucia St Lucia has the larger UVF Vieux Fort airport near its south end. I'll give Mel credit for this one.

My only visit was on a LIAT flight that made an intermediate stop at SLU on a dark and stormy night. I was going from St Vincent to Martinique, IIRC.

Mel has control

[MReyn24050]

Thanks for that, those hills at the inland end of the runway look a little dosconcerting.
Now this one is easy and is certainly not a Mensa test as Bri would imagine.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c67/sabamel/Airport/Airportquiz16.jpg

[KMG 365]

I'll guess Prague, LKPR.

[MReyn24050]

I said it would be easy. KMG 365 has it, it is a photograph of Prague Airport circa 1957. :D:ok:
KMG 365 you have control.

[KMG 365]

Thanks, Mel.

Here's the next one:

http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/923/arprt2di7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[Duckbutt]

Male International?

Open house if correct.

[AN2 Driver]

Great thread, had a good time looking up all of these.

As the above is Male, here's something completely different :)
http://www.danur.com/frontpage/sval8a.jpg

[KMG 365]

Duckbutt is correct. Male it is.

AN2 Driver, I'll make a wild stab in the dark and say Attu, Alaska.

[BAMRA wake up]

Longyearbyen, Spitsbergen, Svalbard, Norway.

(sorry don't have the postcode!)

[mcdhu]

Sorry to go back one, but Male has changed a bit since I was last there in 1972 - the runway was PSP!!

Cheers,
mcdhu

[evansb]

As BAMRA posted a correct answer 24 hours ago, would any PPRuNers like to post an aerodrome photo?

[AN2 Driver]

Yea, sorry, was kinda out of town unexpectedly.

nice approach that one.

As nobody else comes in...

http://www.danur.com/files/mystery1.jpg


Should be very easy.

[Arfur Feck-Sake]

Is it Southend?

[AN2 Driver]

No, not Southend.

[mcdhu]

Is it in Germany?
mcdhu

[AN2 Driver]

No, not in Germany.

[Phileas Fogg]

It looks 'Eastern Block' with those apartment blocks in the background.

[Golf Charlie Charlie]

Is it Sofia ?

[AN2 Driver]

Sofia it is!

Looks very different now with the new terminal and runway.

GCC, all yours!

Best regards
AN2 Driver (who learnt to do just that not too far away from there...)

[Golf Charlie Charlie]

As I did earlier in the thread when I "won" one, I'll pass, thanks.....

[evansb]

To keep things flowing on a Friday evening, here is the next aerodrome challenge:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/3659393.jpg

[MReyn24050]

RAF Geilenkirchen perhaps?

[BEagle]

RAF Laarbruch 1961.

[evansb]

BEagle is spot on.:ok: RAFG Laarbruch-Weeze, ETUL, opened in November 1954. The base hosted as many as 5 squadrons, and operated until May, 1999.
The airport re-opened in 2003 as Niederrhein Airport, EDLV, and has been called Airport Weeze. Ryanair was the first scheduled carrier to operate from the aerodrome.

You have control.

[BEagle]

A sad fate for good old Laarbruch.....:(

How about this:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/nw969/Aerodrome.jpg

[ICT_SLB]

Just a guess - Boscombe Down? Looks like whereever it was, it was taken from the "dustbin" turret below a Haybag (maybe Fairford-based?).

In the unlikely event I'm right, it's open house as I don't have any suitable pix.

[BEagle]

Neither Boscombe Down, nor taken from a Heyford...

But it was a British military aerodrome.

[Speedpig]

Little Rissington? Being a Gloucestershire lad, it looks like God's county.

[airborne_artist]

Since I know where BEagle's childhood was spent, I'll guess Merryfield.

[BEagle]

Neither Little Rissington nor Merryfield......

The aircraft type from which the photo was taken finally went out of RAF service in 1959 - and some were based not far from the site of the photo until March 1957.

[JW411]

Well, I reckon the photograph is taken from a Sunderland?

[MReyn24050]

I agree a Sunderland from Pembroke that would make this airfield possibly RNAS St Davids.

[BEagle]

Taken from a Sunderland, possibly based at RAF Pembroke Dock......









But it's neither Brawdy nor St. David's!

Although you're getting warmer.....;)

[JW411]

Carew Cheriton perhaps? If I'm right, give it to someone else.

[Caudillo]

I'd say you're spot on JW

http://www.controltowers.co.uk/C/images/Carew_Cheriton_45.jpg
http://www.controltowers.co.uk/C/images/Carew_Cheriton_45a.jpg
http://www.controltowers.co.uk/C/images/Carew_Cheriton_45b.jpg

[Caudillo]

Shouldn't be too difficult..

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/dd250/elcaudillo/mystery01.jpg

[BEagle]

Carew Cheriton it is indeed - well done!

[seacue]

It looks a bit like Saba, Netherlands Antilles.

[Caudillo]

Sorry Seacue, not Saba

[aviate1138]

Caudillo's pic........


Off the Californian coast perhaps?

[Flap40]

How about Vestmannaeyjar Iceland.

[Caudillo]

Neither Iceland nor California.

This place once had a very famous scottish resident.

[Union Jack]

Samoa?

Jack

[BAMRA wake up]

Isla Robinson Crusoe, Juan Fernandez Islands, Chile?

[old,not bold]

Isla Juan Fernandez, aka Robinson Crusoe Island?

BTW, I can see that you would want to avoid undershooting, but isn't the approach a little high?

[old,not bold]

Bugha me, once again too slow on the button....................

[BAMRA wake up]

o,nb

We don't know if we're right yet!

You post a new picture if you're right, I'll post one later.

[Union Jack]

BAMRA and ONB

Your answer sounds lots "Samoa" accurate than mine, but I can't immediately find an IATA code for it - funny that!:)

Jack

PS Right ocean though ....

[BAMRA wake up]

Hmm... whilst we're waiting for Claudillo to confirm, here's a bonus pic,
Politically it's in Europe but geologically its 'North America' also has a unique claim to fame in Europe as its most -----? airport, hopefully no clues in the url!

http://www.viaoceanica.com/imagens/post_vir/1041691540e.jpg

[PPRuNe Radar]

Claudillo's mystery airfield might be Upolu, Samoa.

[BAMRA wake up]

PPrune radar - would the famous Scottish resident fit with Upolu though?

[the incivil beast]

Bamra's pic looks like Flores airport (Santa Cruz das Flores, LPFL, in the Azores archipelago, but on the westen side of the atlantic divide)

[BAMRA wake up]

icb

It's not Flores! The runway there is inland of the bulk of the town of Sta Cruz + high cliff at both ends. Roughest pub I ever entered was a tap room there called 'The Flyer'.

[PPRuNe Radar]

would the famous Scottish resident fit with Upolu though?

Depends if it's Robert Louis Stevenson or not ;)

[Caudillo]

Is the bonus pic Corvo by any chance? Looks a touch too metropolitan to be Flores..!

Old not Bold & Bamra, congratulations - it's the former four year home of the Scotsman Alexander Selkirk - Now Chilean (the island, rather than the scotsman, who returned home after living on goats to while his days away down the boozer) and known by the name Isla Robinson Crusoe, for whom Selkirk is to have provided the inspiration

Good job!

[BAMRA wake up]

Claudillo, yup it's Villa Nova do Corvo, which I believe is Europe's most westerly airport. Beautiful island and friendly people.

http://www.azores.dk/Ecorvo.htm

[seacue]

I should think that St Martin qualifies as the most westerly place that is politically an integral part of "Europe". They officially use the Euro and vote in French and EU elections. It is part of the "Region" and "Department" called Guadeloupe. Admittedly a DOM, not within the hexagon.

This would make the Grand Case Airport TFFG the most-westerly "European" airport. Second would be Baillif Airport at Basse Terre on Guadeloupe itself. Google Earth grossly mislocates Baillif. It is in the northern suburbs of the town of Basse Terre.

Pardon this niggling response.

[old,not bold]

If BAMRA really has passed it to me, it's open house, as I'm having a problem finding a good pic..sorry about that.

I'll do better next time, if there is one.

[Dan Winterland]

Stepping in again as it's open house.

Removed.

Thinking about it, perhaps not a good idea to post the image.

[The SSK]

Gan?
plus more characters..

[Dan Winterland]

Oops. Sorry about that SSK. It's not Gan, please pretend you didn't see the picure!

Over to you as I made a boo boo!

[The SSK]

Don't think it was a boo boo. This is a grown-up thread (so far)
This is probably too easy for words
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d43/TheSSK/AeroPic5.jpg

[SmileAirlines]

Berlin Tempelhof

[The SSK]

Indeed it is, over to you..

[SmileAirlines]

I don't have anything at the moment.. so it's OPEN HOUSE...

[seacue]

This photo will be immediately recognized by those who know, but may be difficult for anyone else.
http://users.erols.com/rcarpen/airp33x.jpg

[seacue]

The picture was taken at Christmas time and the red and green things at the right are the glass-block elevator/lift towers for the parking garage to the right of them. White lights are used the rest of the year.

The terminal is on the left.

seacue

[old,not bold]

Dusseldorf? A very long shot.....

[seacue]

Very long shot. Wrong side of the Atlantic.

[seacue]

It has been more than 24 hours and only one guess. Too hard I fear.
Here is a similar view in the daytime. The elevator/lift towers are at the right edge of the photo.
http://users.erols.com/rcarpen/airp33n.jpg

[Golf Charlie Charlie]

I think it's Reagan National, Washington (DCA).

[seacue]

Right GCC, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport new terminal. Even though the first challenge in this thread was also KDCA, I thought the new terminal was essentially a different test.

GCC, you have control.

[BAMRA wake up]

Another quickie before GCC posts!

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc256/bamra_photo/puzzle.jpg

[Tiger_mate]

Dounreay Scotland
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/alan-turnbull/dounreay-aerial1.jpg
Open House

[BEagle]

OK, try this:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/nw969/Airfield_1947.jpg

[BAMRA wake up]

Well done TM, knew I should have edited out the golf ball!

BEagle's pic - looks as if there's a Roman road across that airfield?

[Tiger_mate]

Beagles is almost certainly a Coastal Command airfield, but I am not sure which one. The 'line' could have been a railway, but to the best of my recollection, the only such UK base like this was Ballykelly, which whilst a Coastal Command airfield also, this is not Ballykelly. It could however be another of the Northern Ireland airfields.

An interesting one Llanbedr?

[BEagle]

Ignore the 'Roman Road' - it's a damaged print, sorry.

Neither Coastal nor in Nor'n Ir'n.

[BAMRA wake up]

BEagle's pic:

No Roman road, hmm... there was I thinking WW2 Lincolnshire.

Going on the tree shadows it's probably 'North up' orientated, possibly a railway in a cutting across the top left. Google earthed over Lincs but nothing similar.

However, guessing: Binbrook?

[621andy]

Topcliffe?

[BEagle]

Neither Binbrook nor Topcliffe.

Although a type of aircraft once based at Binbrook was also operated from here......

[621andy]

Could also be Pershore?

[Tiger_mate]

RAF Middleton St. George

[BEagle]

Neither P'shaw nor Middleton St George.......................

[621andy]

Coningsby?

Woodhall Spa looks like it might fit...

[BEagle]

Neither Coningsby nor Woodhall Spa......

[621andy]

Bassingbourn?

[Fly380]

Leconfield?

[BEagle]

Neither Bassingbourn nor Leconfield...

[nacluv]

Church Broughton?

[621andy]

Should've got this one MUCH earlier! Westonzoyland -my part of the wurrrld.
99% certain anyway;)

[BEagle]

ee'm be roight! Weston Zoyland 'tis indeed!

Canberras were once operated here - in support of Operation Grapple (UK H-bomb tests). And, of course, Canberras were at Binbrook for many years!

You have control.

[621andy]

:}

http://upload3.postimage.org/431542/airfield.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/431542/photo_hosting.html)

This one is very well known in certain circles.

[the incivil beast]

Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban LFMX

French National Gliding Centre, I trained as a glider instructor there,
and that was a long time ago, nostalgia, nostalgia ...
certain circlesthe place being also famous for its wave lift, spiraling is not always required ;)

No pics available, so the house is open

[621andy]

Oui, C'est ca;) St. Auban Home of the CNVV

I was down that way flying balloons last week, and just had time for a drive-by but no time to fly:{

next time...:ok:
http://upload3.postimage.org/434108/StAubanCNVV001_2_.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/434108/photo_hosting.html)
The 'cloud' of dots in the middle of the pic, are midge like flies which get absolutely everywhere as soon as you climb out of the car- little baarstards:eek:

http://upload3.postimage.org/434166/mysterypic.jpg (http://upload3.postimage.org/434166/photo_hosting.html)

[621andy]

If someone else has got a pic, feel free, otherwise I've got a couple more...

[BAMRA wake up]

Ok Andy, this might be considered rather obscure, obtained this from a friend in the north. I'll remove if it's just too parochial.

Just to make things a little easier/fairer:
View is looking west towards the Atlantic.
It's had scheduled services for 40 years, wasn't a military 'drome.
It's not Islay, or indeed anywhere in the west of Scotland.

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc256/bamra_photo/28approach.jpg

[621andy]

No more obscure than some we've had on here! No idea where it is though...time for research...:8

[Stretchwell]

Is it Islay?

[621andy]

I'd guess at Yorkshire somewhere. ex military I'd say...

[BAMRA wake up]

Not Islay, not Yorks. I've added some info to the photo post. I'd guess there's probably a few pprooners who earned their wings flying into here before moving on to greater things.

[Tiger_mate]

West coast of Eire?

[BAMRA wake up]

It's Scotland, it's an island, the North Sea is behind the aircaft. Couple more islands on the western horizon with airstrips a mile apart. (Tiger mate heads out to the car for the road atlas!).

[621andy]

Caenarfon(sp?) or, just had a brainwave- Lundy?

[Tiger_mate]

(Tiger mate heads out to the car for the road atlas!).

I have a quater mil and half mil aviation maps on my PC!!

Kirkwall / Orkney

[621andy]

Lerwick, Shetland?

[BAMRA wake up]

None of the above! Not in Shetland, not in mainland Scotland.
It's CAA Licenced, owned and run by a local authority, not BAA.

Tiger mate is 'warming'

[621andy]

Papa westray, Orkney. Home of the shortest scheduled flights.