Which Aerodrome Mk II

[descol]

A wild guess - Webb's airport - Maryland ?
Perhaps a further clue Mr G ?

[Mr_Grubby]

Des,

No not Webb's.

Clue :-

The Stars are big and bright in this State.

C.

[descol]

Well, if that's the case how about
Austin - Mueller ? in Texas ?

[Mr_Grubby]

Yes Des.

Correct. :ok:

Robert Mueller Municipal, October 1930. Later to become Bergstrom Airport.

Over to you.

Clint.

[descol]

Mr G . thank you - that took a while - I only managed to find a very obscure image to match your picture, so I took a guess.
Here's one to keep things going - it may be easy for some ?
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/descol/where-1.jpg

[Mr_Grubby]

Parafield, Adelaide, South Australia 1948.

C.

[descol]

No time wasted on that one - you are bang on

[Mr_Grubby]

OK chaps.

Been hogging the thread a bit so open house.

Clint.

[seacue]

Try this:

http://members.toast.net/rcarpen/Q7765.JPG

[leader3]

that runway has got to be 10,000 feet at least.
and its right on the coast so its got to narrow it down a little.
i would say that its in North America somewhere.

[seacue]

This is in the Americas but not on the North American continent. I wish there were such a place in North America. The runway is not quite 10,000 ft long from what I have read. There are scheduled flights to Europe.

[seacue]

A clue: Think PINK.

[seacue]

I'll be in and out much of the rest of the day --- not that anyone seems to care.

[descol]

seacue,
you have left us in the PINK ?
enjoy yor evening.

[evansb]

Flamingo International Airport, (TNCB), Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles ?

[seacue]

As usual, evansb has it. I'll now switch the image to color.

Note the PINK.
Bonaire International Airport (http://www.flamingoairport.com/index.asp?page=12&lang=2)

Evansb now has control.

[evansb]

Thanks seacue. Ingenious clue. In the winter of 1986, I recall defunct charter airline Worldways, flying DC-8-63s from Toronto to Bonaire.
Here is the next challenge:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD100421.jpg

[chevvron]

Nobodies biting so how about:
wide open spaces with a bit of pine forest possibly Canada?

[evansb]

Yes, it is in Canada.

[Davidsoffice]

hmmm, the other end of those Worldways flights? Toronto?

[evansb]

As there are several airports in the Toronto area, can you be more specific ?

[Mr_Grubby]

Toronto Island Airport.

C.

[evansb]

Mr_Grubby is correct.:ok: Billy Bishop Toronto City Airport (CYTV) aka Toronto Island. Connected to the mainland by the world's shortest ferry service. During the early days of World War II, a corner of the airport was known as Little Norway, due to the hundreds of RNA pilots undergoing basic flying training. Presently home base for Porter Airlines, flying scheduled Dash-8 Q-400s. You have control.
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/Toronto_Island_Airport_YTA_aka_City.jpg

[Trolltuner]

evansb, I don't know why I didn't recognize the field - I've got lots of pix of it, but not the one you posted. My Dad was trained in Little Norway and ended up flying Short Sunderland flying boats in RAF Coastal Command. I remember all his wonderful tales of Canada (and wouldn't be surprised if I might have siblings there) :rolleyes::D:O.

Here's another pix from those days with RNAF Fairchild Cornells. Recognize the hangar? :)

http://www.182stc.com/storage/flyplasser/LN_3.jpg

Cheers,

Tom

[Mr_Grubby]

Here we go,


http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport60.jpg

[twochai]

Oh, yes. The hangar is still in use to this day! Porter Airlines now has 20 Q400's in service, serving 17 destinations from the 4000' runway at CYTZ, now renamed "Toronto Billy Bishop Airport" after the WW1 ace and Victoria Cross recipient. Porter will pass the 2 million passenger mark this year!

S'cuse the thread creep - back to business.

[Krakatoa]

Any connection with the Space Shuttle?

[Mr_Grubby]

Krakatoa.

Space Shuttle.

Err... No, as far as I know but I will research.

C.

[evansb]

Is it in the state of Montana ?

[Mr_Grubby]

No, not in Montana.

But in the USA.

C.

[Krakatoa]

Is this airfield used for experimental test flying

[Mr_Grubby]

Krakatoa.

No, not used for test flying as far as I know.

This picture was taken in 1946. Then it was an Army Airfield. It is now a Municipal Airport.

C.

[seacue]

Could it be Minneapolis-St Paul?

[Mr_Grubby]

seacue.

sorry, not MSP.

C.

[seacue]

I keep returning to Texas. Is that the correct state?

[aviate1138]

Melchett: "Please everybody, now where's my map? ... God it's a barren, featureless desert out there, isn't it?"
Darling: "Other side sir."
Blackadder TV Series :oh:

Is it in New Mexico, perchance?

Albuquerque, Double Eagle II airport.

[Mr_Grubby]

Not in Texas or New Mexico.

Clue :- The West Side of the States.

C.

[seacue]

Bakersfield, Calif?? Probably not.

[chevvron]

I'm sure I read in 'Hot Rod' magazine (Bakersfield being latterly a dragstrip) that it was a'square mile' of tarmac; moving up the coast, how about Vandenburgh AFB?

[seacue]

Inyokern is barren enough, but the runway pattern seems wrong.

Santa Maria seems to have the correct runway layout ... but was it ever barren enough?

[naelcam]

First posting and a very tentative guess, Salinas Municipal?

[aviate1138]

Hollister Muni maybe?

[Mr_Grubby]

None of the above suggestions but yes, CA.

C.

[naelcam]

Another guess, La Palmdale regional?

[Mr_Grubby]

naelcam.

Not La Palmdale.

Another clue :- An ICBM site was located on the north side of the airport in the early '60s.

That should do it !!!!

C.

[naelcam]

The only one I knew of was Vandenberg (don't think it's that) and the other three(?) I've found don't seem to fit. Oh dear! Someone put me out of misery, please?

[evansb]

Chico, California (KCIC) ?

[Mr_Grubby]

Bri. Yes !!

From Wiki :-

During the late 1930s the City of Chico acquired approximately 160 acres (0.6 km²) of land five miles (8 km) north of what was then the City limits and constructed an airport hangar and runway. Until 1941, this original facility was leased to a fixed-base operator. During 1941 the City acquired an additional 1,000 acres (4 km²) for the purpose of leasing the Airport to the United States Government.

During World War II, Chico Army Airfield was under the command of the 10th Army Air Force Base Unit, AAF West Coast Training Center, Fourth Air Force. Chico Army Airfield was a major training site for thousands of pilots, both as a primary training base flying BT-13s, and for advanced gunnery and multi-engine training in P-38, P-39, P-63, B-17, B-29s.

After the war, the City negotiated an agreement by which the airport property was returned to the City, together with the bulk of improvements which had been constructed by the Army.

A Titan-I ICBM was located on the north side of the airport from 1962-1965, part of the Beale AFB's 851st Strategic Missile Squadron system of several ICBMs centered around Marysville. Its formal designation was Beale 851-C. It is now dismantled.

It is now Chico Municipal Airport CA.


Over to you.

C.

[seacue]

I rejected Chico numerous times since I couldn't see any vestige of the cross strip on Google Earth. Where has it gone?

[evansb]

Thank you. Regarding Chico's crosswind runway, I can't see any remnants either, but I think the original primary runway 13/31 is now part of the central apron. The threshold is still visible northeast of runway 31R threshold.

Here is the next mystery aerodrome:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD100428A.jpg

[Tacklebury]

Well evansb,

Looking at your past record and location, I would say it has to be in Canada ?

Large open space ? Flat ground ?

Tack. :confused:

[evansb]

Sorry, not Canada.

[KeMac]

A pure guess - Albuquerque?

[evansb]

Sorry, not in New Mexico. As Bugs Bunny once said, "I shoulda made a left at Albuquerque!"

[Mr_Grubby]

Mmmm......Well I'm thinking which way was Bugs Bunny heading. North or South.

Buddy Holly country ?

How about Lubbok Preston Smith ?

C.

[evansb]

Sorry, not Lubbock, not Texas. The airport operates today as a major U.S. airport.

[Cubs2jets]

Are those mountains in the mid-background? I'd guess Denver Stapelton - but it's not operating anymore...

C2j

[evansb]

Not Denver Stapleton. Getting closer.

[naelcam]

Well the runway pattern sort of matches McCarran International (Las Vegas) but how far back in time would we need to go for the area to be that empty?

[chevvron]

Wild guess - Tucson?

[SeenTheLight]

Salt Lake City

[evansb]

SeenTheLight is correct :ok: Salt Lake City International, (KSLC). America's 25th busiest airport, Delta Airlines second busiest hub, and America's first for on-time performance. It is your turn.

[SeenTheLight]

Thanks. Nothing to offer at the moment, so open house

[naelcam]

If no one else has anything, may I try this?

Probably far too easy.

http://www.almclwebpages.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/headers/mystery%20airfield/new-1.jpg

[Mr_Grubby]

Swanton Morley ??

C.

[naelcam]

Not Swanton Morley.

[dixi188]

Cranwell north?

Open house if correct.

[chevvron]

Definitely Cranwell North field dammit you just beat me!

[naelcam]

Dixi188 has it!

Cranwell North on the occasion the Cranwell Air Race July 1982.

[leader3]

as it is open house
try this one.
http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/leader03/1-1.jpg

[descol]

US - Oklahoma ?

[chevvron]

Looks suspiciously similar to a vertical I once saw in an article about the atom bomb; Wendover, Utah?

[Cubs2jets]

LOL !! WAAaaaayy too green for Utah.

C2j

[seacue]

Look like "section roads" to me. That would probably mean east of the Rockies. It would also mean in the flat regions / plains starting in western Ohio. But that doesn't narrow it down very much.

Sorry,

seacue

[leader3]

NO to all but your close.
it is the US.

and dont be fooled by the green fields!!!
just a little clue.

[sidtheesexist]

NAF or NAS El Centro, southern CA?

PS Open House if correct

[leader3]

Sid your correct
it is NAS El Centro.
the green fields are a bit of a distraction as it is in
southern california.

as sid said its open house.

[Trolltuner]

http://www.182stc.com/storage/flyplasser/Pic05.jpg

[WE992]

Now we are getting Silly!

[Airclues]

?????

From page 1 of first thread;

Moderator note: In the interest of keeping this thread running smoothly please observe the following 'rules'.

- A historic picture of an aerodrome will be posted. Newer pictures are allowed but the theme here is to compare/contrast old with new as well as identifying aerodromes which no longer exist.

?????

[seacue]

As originator of Mk I of this thread, I concur that the challenge should be a photographic image of an aerodrome or part of the aerodrome (terminal building, etc.).

seacue

[Trolltuner]

My apologies folks. Just thought I'd post something a little different.

So carry on, please. OPEN HOUSE.

(PS: It's Santa Barbara, California) :)

Cheers,

Tom

[descol]

Perhaps Trolltuner was not aware of the theme ?
So, can I throw this one in in order to get back to the subject !
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/descol/tractor.jpg

[Mr_Grubby]

Wow !!! is that a Massey Ferguson, a William Bell or a John Deere tractor ??

C.

[Bigt]

Tractor is a Fordson........airfield in UK?

[Mr_Grubby]

Bigt.

Ah!! so a Fordson, so in that case the airfield must be,

Archerfield Aerodrome c. 1930s

Is it a Fordson Major ??

C.

[descol]

Mr G has it
It's a scene typical of the daily routine of the time at Archerfield. Maintaining the grass surface of the landing area. In the background can be seen the Qantas Empire Airways hangars, with one of that airline's DH86s on the tarmac outside the larger one. This dates the photo to the 1930s, sometime after 1934.
Over to you Mr G.:ok:

[Mr_Grubby]

The next one...


http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport65.jpg

[chevvron]

Somewhat topical - looks like Montserrat covered in volcanic ash (but hasn't Montserrat been done before?)
Open House if correct.

[Mr_Grubby]

chevvron.

Can't find Montserrat on the list. This airfield is on Montserrat but which one is it ?

C.

[chevvron]

The one you fly over when you take the helicopter trip from Jolly Harbour Marina Heliport on Antigua !! (we flew along the runway at about 50ft)
Have they built another runway somewhere? I thought it was helicopters only but then I'm going back to 2003.

[seacue]

The new strip is at Gerald's, easily visible on Google Earth.

[descol]

Chevvron - you got there before me.
It is Montserrat -Blackburne Airport - destroyed in June 1997 - I took this photo about the same time.
I am sure Mr G. will give control to chevvron
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/descol/mon2.jpg

[Mr_Grubby]

yes, all corect.

W.H. Bramble Airport, also known as Blackburne Airport, was a small international airport on the east coast of the island of Montserrat. Named after Montserrat Chief Minister William Henry Bramble, the airport was located near the now-abandoned capital of Plymouth. The facility was destroyed in 1997 by an eruption of the nearby Soufriere Hills volcano. For several years afterwards, Montserrat had been only accessible by helicopters or boats until July 2005 when the new Gerald's Airport was completed on the north end of the island.

chevvron has declared open house.
C.

[evansb]

Here is the next mystery aerodrome:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD100503.jpg

[con-pilot]

I'll take a stab at this, Clintion Sherman AFB in Oklahoma. Now called Burns Flat.

If correct, open house.

[evansb]

Sorry, not Clinton-Sherman, Oklahoma.

[con-pilot]

Okay, thanks.

[Mr_Grubby]

Sidi Slimane Air Base, French Morocco,1954 ish.

C.

[evansb]

Mr_Grubby is correct.:ok: Formerly French Morocco, Sidi Slimane is now known as The Fifth Air Force Base of the Royal Morocco Air Force. Your turn.

[Mr_Grubby]

Open house.

C.

[seacue]

This aerodrome has been used before but at a much-different era.

http://members.toast.net/rcarpen/apt777.jpg

[descol]

Looks similar to Amon Cater in Texas ? could it be ?

[seacue]

Not in Texas. Sorry.

Pardon the delay in answering, I didn't get much sleep last night so dozed off.

[barry lloyd]

Long Beach?

[seacue]

Not in California.

Google Earth shows that this terminal building still exists, but it is quite a distance from the aerodrome's present terminal.

Edited to add:

Not in North America

[seacue]

Almost 12 hours of quiet. Time for a hint. I fear it will be too easy after this.

This aerodrome is in the southern hemisphere.

[naelcam]

Not that I can find the building, but is it what is now Rodríguez Ballón International Airport, Arequipa, Peru?

[seacue]

No, it is not in Peru.

Correct continent.

[evansb]

Santos Dumont Airport, Rio De Janerio, Brasil
http://i1047.photobucket.com/albums/b477/gumpjr_bucket/112669746_0f3dde34291.jpg

[seacue]

Not surprising that evansb got the correct answer.

You have control

[evansb]

Thanks seacue. Good challenge. I'm just a bit impatient when I know the location. Here is the next mystery aerodrome. The photo doesn't offer much, but I'm sure it won't last long.
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD100505.jpg

[one11]

Acapulco - with Aeronaves de Mexico Convair.

[evansb]

one11 is spot on:ok: I thought a Mexican airport would be appropriate for Cinco de Mayo. Your turn.

[one11]

I'll have to declare Open House this time, due to being offline travelling .....although the latest wave of Icelandic Ash could change all that.
Cheers Doug

[Mr_Grubby]

Ok Doug,

Hope you don't get too 'choked ' with my next offering !!!!

Clint.

http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport64.jpg

[barry lloyd]

I'm sure there's a clue in there somewhere, but I'm going for Villavicencio Colombia.

[Mr_Grubby]

barry,

I hope my flipant remark to Doug doesn't miss lead us.

I was refering to his travel plans and Iceland.

This place is many miles from Iceland and Columbia.

C.

[Cubs2jets]

LS32A otherwise known as Long Tieng, Laos.

C2j

[Mr_Grubby]

C2j.

Spot on sir.

Over to you.

C.

[Cubs2jets]

Thank you Clint. Here's the next challalenge.

C2j

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/jj200/Cubs2jets/Airportchallange.jpg?t=1273147431

[chevvron]

Irvine Airport California.(ex USMC?)

Just found its name - El Toro

[Cubs2jets]

chevron,

Sorry to make you wait over 12 hours...you are CORRECT :ok:

Over to you.

C2j

[chevvron]

Open house

[albatross]

Always wanted to post this one.
Mid 70's.
Not in the tropics.
Should be well known to some DC-3 and Herc drivers.

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e68/midcanada/Canada-Baie-James-Fontanges-3-piste.jpg

[Mr_Grubby]

albatross.

Hi !

Your picture is Baie-James Fontanges Canada.

Don't think you have posted much before on this forum. Wecome aboard.

Just a hint though, try not to include the airfield name in the properties of your posting !!!!!! makes it all too easy !!!!!

:ok::ok::ok:

Open house.

C.

[descol]

Well spoted Mr. G - and good advice on the properties.!
Welcome albatros - why not have another go ?
Des

[albatross]

Jeez - thought I had erased that by renaming the photo.
OPEN House.
Great thread I have been lurking for a couple of years.

[albatross]

On Second thought.
Try this one on for size
http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e68/midcanada/USAFBeavers.jpg

[descol]

albatros - your picture - says - usafbeavers- !
so, perhaps Selfridge AFB, Michigan ?

[Mr_Grubby]

Goose Bay ?

The 4082nd Strategic Wing were based there and they had u-6s.

C.

[evansb]

Argentia NAS, Newfoundland ?

[albatross]

Evansb is correct.

Cheers
Albatross

[evansb]

Lovely photo, albatross! Here is the next mystery aerodrome:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD100508.jpg

[clunckdriver]

St Andrews, Winnipeg Manitoba, Canada. The only place that our First Nations dont have a land claim on, minus forty in the winter, floods every spring, and a DC6 has to bomb it every summer with pesticide to kill the bugs!

[evansb]

clunckdriver is correct:ok:. Winnipeg/St. Andrews, CYAV. Your turn.

[clunckdriver]

Dont have image posting set up as of this time, when I do get set up will post a few interesting ones, till then I gues its "open house", {only just got rid of dial up at the farm} as I made the rule at the hangar"this computer to be used for flight planing and related tasks only", I had better stick to it myself!

[one11]

There is an aerodrome there somewhere....

http://i637.photobucket.com/albums/uu98/viscount700/prune0905.jpg

[one11]

Not Sligo but .........

[leader3]

looks like shannon airport.

[one11]

Bit small for Shannon but both replies so far are in the right country

[descol]

Inish Mor - Aran Islands ?

[one11]

Nearly there....about 10 minutes away

[descol]

in a rush right now - is it Achill ?

[one11]

Not Achill. I m going to be offline until about 5 p.m so to speed closing this one down, although not Inish Mor, it is the destination for scheduled services from the Aran islands.

[descol]

Ok - then it's Inishmaan

[one11]

Yes Connemara = Inveran = EICA. Speechless Two has control although all the other shots were geographically close. Cheers, Doug

[Mr_Grubby]

Spain ?

C.

[Bigt]

Im strangley drawn to Southern France

[Duckbutt]

How about Rimini?

[one11]

Possibly Corfu ?

[chevvron]

Corfu or is that too far SE?
EDit: Bu@@er pipped at the post again!!

[englishkev]

Not Corsica by any chance ?

[one11]

Nothing set up for posting currently so Open House to anyone who has

[descol]

Something to keep it moving
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/descol/pprune.jpg

[chevvron]

Well I would say Rio/Santos Dumont if that hadn't been done recently, so how about Chicago/Meigs Field (RIP).

[descol]

Not Rio or Chicago-
But N hemisphere

[StbdD]

The former NAS Honolulu?

A wartime view
http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss215/AHN_Pprune/AHN1.jpg

[descol]

yes, it is - 1940s honolulu
over to you

[StbdD]

Cheers descol.

Next challenge

http://i577.photobucket.com/albums/ss215/AHN_Pprune/AHN2.jpg

[evansb]

NAAS Ellyson Field, Florida, U.S.A. ?

[seacue]

Saufley Field NOLF, Florida ?

[StbdD]

NAAS Ellyson Field it is. Bravo Brian!

Unfortunately it is an industrial park now.

[evansb]

Thank you. I enjoyed the challenge. Here is the next mystery aerodrome:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD100514.jpg

[Double Hydco]

Hahn?

DH

[evansb]

DH is spot on:ok: Frankfurt-Hahn, Germany it is. You have control.

[Double Hydco]

Thanks evansb. Got to go to work today, so I've no time to find something suitable.

OPEN HOUSE, and have good weekend!

DH

[Agaricus bisporus]

Something about that says Aberdeen?

[Capot]

I'll take a stab at Sumburgh, although it's in the "done" list but only as a spelling mistake, I think.

[one11]

Bournemouth - Hurn ?

[frontlefthamster]

I'll have a stab at Cardiff...

[Capot]

OK, SWEB's helicopter, where can you cross water and stay in SWEB territory...

St Mary's? Not sure the radar fits, though....

[dixi188]

Rollingthunder,

I think it's frontlefthamster's turn, as no one said open house.

[frontlefthamster]

Many thanks, something about the buildings caught a memory. Very different now, as was said.

I haven't anything to hand, I'm afraid, so open house it is!

[Mr_Grubby]

frontlefthamster.

Well done.

Here's one from me.

C.

http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport62.jpg

[John Hill]

Prague, Ruyzne?

[Background Noise]

Templehof?

[Mr_Grubby]

Background.

Correct sir. Well done. You have control.

Clint.:ok:

[Background Noise]

Does this qualify? It's old - about 1984 - the airfield is not actually visible(!) but there are plenty of clues. The location is about halfway up the right hand side of the picture - above the trees and below the distant hills.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a297/stickshaker/oldfly6.jpg

[Old Bald Pilot]

Leuchars ? Wild Guess I only ever saw it at night.

[Airclues]

Somewhere in Germany?

Dave

[chevvron]

Could be Valley or Chivenor.

[Background Noise]

Chivenor it is. Saunton sands in the top left hand corner of he sight. Over to Chevvron.

[chevvron]

Open house!!!!!!!!!!!

[Background Noise]

OK - here's another one, slightly less ambiguous.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a297/stickshaker/IMG_0093.jpg

[Old Bald Pilot]

North Luffenham ?
OBP

[Background Noise]

Wrong continent.

[India Four Two]

Indeed wrong continent - you don't find that many square fields in the UK. However, around CFB Namao in Alberta, you can find lots of them :-)

[Background Noise]

I42 has it. I think to be exact, CAFB Namao or CFB Edmonton(?) Now army however.

[India Four Two]

Thanks BN. As you say, no longer an airforce base. I suppose I should have said CFB Edmonton, but when I was in Alberta, it was always referred to as CFB Namao, and before 1968, it was definitely RCAF Namao. When it was an operational airfield, the 14,000 ft runway was designated as an emergency Shuttle strip.

Now how about this?

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c309/india42/WA20100518.png

[Mr_Grubby]

War Eagle Field / Lancaster Airpark, Lancaster, CA.

C.

[India Four Two]

That's the one Clint.

Used as a prison today, but some of the old buildings and hangars still visible.
West of Lancaster at 34°42'10.40"N 118°14'6.89"W

Mr G has control.

[Mr_Grubby]

This place has not been done before but we have talked about it.

http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport63.jpg

C.

[descol]

Somewhere in the Caribbean ?

[Mr_Grubby]

des,

yes !

C

[descol]

C.
A bit puzzled on this one - could it be the old control tower on the old strip on St. Lucia ? - if not, could you give us a clue - eg.does this tower still exist ?

[Mr_Grubby]

des.

This is not St Lucia.

It is a heliport however but I am not sure if the tower still exists in this present state.
I would think that it has been modernised.

C.

[descol]

I seem to be the only one having a go at this -so,
is it the post volcanic 'temporary' airport at Gerald's/Brades in Northern Montserrat ?

[Mr_Grubby]

Hi des, yep !!!

It looks like just you and I playing at the moment !

It is indeed the 'temp' place that goes by the rather unflatering name of Geralds Bottom. Don't know who Gerald was but hope he's proud to have the place named after him !!

The place came about after the closure of WH Bramble Airport in Montserrat when the volcano erupted in July '95.

Over to you.

Clint.:ok:

[descol]

Thank you Clint - I should have spotted that one earlier.
Here's something to keep things going - I may be wrong but i don't think it has been here before - if so, apologies
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/descol/prune.jpg

[KeMac]

I don't have a clue where this is, but what a fine atmospheric picture.

[Mr_Grubby]

Great photo.

USA, Kansas ?

C.

[seacue]

A very wild guess: Dayton Cox?

[StbdD]

Has a Southwest US feel to it. West of the Mississippi at least.

Pretty nice/fancy building for the time (depression or immediate post-depresion era) so the town served must have been making good money. Or it was paid for by the WPA and I'm all wet.

[descol]

Yes, an atmospheric scene - from the 1920s - not Kansas or Mississippi - Not SW - more to the East USA ?

[seacue]

I guessed Dayton, Ohio. East or west of there?

[descol]

East of Ohio is getting there- think Charlie Lindbergh !

[seacue]

Couldn't be Floyd Bennett Field, could it?

[descol]

seacue - not FBF - Lindbergh just called into this place in 1927
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/descol/SpiritStLou.jpg

[seacue]

I'd suppose that it might be Anacostia Naval Air Station. "Everyone" flew there for big events.

Well, Wiki says that Lindberg returned to Bolling Field in 1927. Bolling and Anacostia are almost one airport, now closed to fixed-wing.

Earlier maps/charts show Bolling being north of Anacostia NAS. They are in the other order today.

[Mr_Grubby]

I think it's Paris !!

C.

[seacue]

Those Poh-Leese men in the background don't look French to me. I'd guess that the fellow in the foreground with the white hat is a US naval officer.

[Mr_Grubby]

seacue.

You could be right. But the second picture is Paris, 1927.

So I will now go for,

Bettis Field, P.A.

C.

[descol]

Clint - you got it ?
It is Bettis - 1922 - what a fine terminal building - of its time.
My info says Lindbergh landed there in 1927 in the course of his goodwill tour and that picture suggested of the Spirit of St Louis was at Bettis.
I don't think it is Paris.
In the 30's,with the depression etc the glamour faded.
Bettis was sold to Westinghouse in 1940 and developed into Laboratories - naval nuclear propulsion technology for Subs and aircarft carriers.
Over to you
Des - from a humid Dublin - almost time for a pint of the black stuff.

[Mr_Grubby]

Ok des,

Just goes to show you can’t always rely on Google !! A site there clearly labels the second picture as being in Paris.

Ahh... the black stuff. Marvellous. Bit prone to it myself. Trouble is my waist line doesn’t like it.

The next one from me is a little more modern.

http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport72.jpg


C.

[Double Hydco]

Is it Milan Malpensa?

DH

[Mr_Grubby]

D H.

Mavis, give the man a cigar !!!!

Well done sir,
You have control.

C.:ok:

[Double Hydco]

Thanks, open house...

DH

[evansb]

Here is the next mystery aerodrome:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD100520.jpg

[twochai]

Hmmm....

Looks suspiciously like Abu Dhabi, around 1966/67?

[Capot]

Dammit! My thoughts as soon as I saw it; but I suppressed them thinking that I remember the terminal building as longer on its frontage. The roundabout on the road behind, if it is AUH, was one I drove onto at 90mph before it was lit.

But, if it's AUH, it's later than 1966/67; IIRC the new airport was opened 2-3 years after that.

[Mr_Grubby]

I'll go for Muharraq, Bahrain, circa '67 - '68.

C.

[KeMac]

It does look like Abu Dhabi at that time and the roundabouts look right but I don't recall the road continuing straight over at the second roundabout which was on the main road from the city out to the bridge. I could be wrong of course - it was all a long time ago.

[evansb]

Sorry, not Bahrain, nor Abu Dhabi, although the letters do add up.

[KeMac]

How about Baghdad although Baghdad has been done before?

[Double Hydco]

How about Dubai?

DH

[evansb]

DH is correct:ok: Dubai UAE it is. Your turn.

[Double Hydco]

Thanks evansb. Nothing to hand at the moment, so OPEN HOUSE.

DH

[nacluv]

Thanks, DH. May I nip in with this slightly unusual request?

This photo appeared in a book I recently read, and was captioned as RAF Folkingham, which I am 100% certain is incorrect. Question is - where is it really? I have no idea at present (other than somewhere in the UK?)...

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk252/kwilson1965/nacluv/sdf.jpg

[Airclues]

nacluv

I don't know where it is, but I agree that it doesn't tie up with the remains of RAF Folkingham that are visible on Google Earth.

Dave

[nacluv]

Thanks, Dave. Folkingham has a much smaller triangle in the middle of the runways, and also does not have that huge bomb dump area (?) to the NW corner of the photo (I have no idea of the true orientation of the airfield). The photo dates, according to the caption again, to around 1943, so it's clearly not a Bloodhound site at that end - yet at least!

The book's subject is the wartime airfields of the East Midlands, which incorporates Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire(!). I have checked the other 'F's but can't find a match, but in any case, the mis-ident could mean that it is anywhere!

[naelcam]

Agree that it doesn't look like Folkingham.

The only match I can find is Boreham in Essex. Some of the dipsersals are still visible on Google Earth, but it takes quite a strong imagination to match the field pattern...

If it is, then the photo is looking almost due south.

[nacluv]

By George I think you've got it. The runway and dispersal pattern match up, as does the bomb dump, and as you say, looking almost exactly due south.

Photo from GE:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/88/Boreham-20apr1944.jpg

Hardly the East Midlands!!

I think if someone else can corroborate the result, then we can declare naelcam as the winner Ladies and Gentlemen.

Was this airfield not used as a post-war motor racing circuit?

[Old Bald Pilot]

Back in the 70s and early 80s I remember it as the test track for the Ford Motor Company. I would think they still own it.
OBP

[nacluv]

OK - I'm happy that we have the answer. Boreham it is. Well done to naelcam, and thanks - you have control.

[naelcam]

Thanks and sorry to be a bit slow off the mark.

Not entirely sure that this is appropriate, given earlier comments about 'which hangar doors' but see what you think?

If it's impossible, I'll withdraw it or provide enough clues.



http://www.almclwebpages.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/headers/mystery%20airfield/new-4%20850.jpg

[oldandbald]

How about South Cerney in Gloucestershire ?

[Mr_Grubby]

naelcam.

Don't worry.

Valid picture, but no idea where it is at the moment !!

C.

[naelcam]

Not South Cerney, nor Gloucestershire.

[chevvron]

RAF Newton Nottingham.

[spook]

RAF Lindholme

[leader3]

RAF Linton on ouse

[TheChitterneFlyer]

Church Fenton?

[naelcam]

Sorry, bit slow off the mark there, Spook has it!

RAF Lindholme on the occasion of its last military use.

The tower is still extant but I can't even see the runway pattern now that it's HM Prison Lindholme.

[spook]

Thank you naelcam.
I don't have anything at the moment - so OPEN HOUSE!

[descol]

Here's a sunny day - but where?
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/descol/pprune10.jpg

[Mr_Grubby]

Mmm.....

Pacific, or Caribbean ????.

Pacific. But usualy wrong !

C.

[descol]

It's the Pacific - this time

[evansb]

Pohnpei International, (PTPN) on Dekehtik Island, Micronesia.

[descol]

easy,
for you evansb
that's it.
Over to you, so let us have a challenge