Which Aerodrome Mk II

[TheChitterneFlyer]

Might the aeroplane be a Vickers Varsity; photo taken from the cupola?

TCF

[siftydog]

Matamata, NZ?

[India Four Two]

siftydog has it. :)

Matamata, a lovely grass field in the North Island, home to the Piako Gliding Club and the aerodrome of The Shire - the Hobbiton location is a few miles to the southwest.

TCF, it's a Harvard Mk II. The wide angle lens I used has made the wing look more tapered than it really is.

[siftydog]

Better make it open house then, Sifty's computer's just blown up and he's on the neighbour's!

[asw28-866]

Try this one...

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i155/capthowie_photos/Airfield.jpg

'866'

[Double Hydco]

Lady Elliot Island?

DH

[asw28-866]

Wow, thought it might last a little longer than that! Quite correct DH it it the approach to 'runway' 17 at LEI...

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i155/capthowie_photos/Lttinternational.jpg

You have control.

'866'

[India Four Two]

Two things I remember vividly from Lady Elliot, apart from the diving of course, are the overpowering smell of guano from the Noddies which nest in nearly every tree and the runway littered with dead Terns. Birdstrikes must be a regular occurrence for the Twin Otters.

[Double Hydco]

Thanks 866. A lucky shot, as I remembered it from a family members holiday snaps!

Nothing to post at the moment, so open house.

DH

[barry lloyd]

OK, this one might keep you busy for a few minutes...

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b381/Tango15/001.jpg

[Capot]

Reminds me of Bourgas in the late 1990's.......

[barry lloyd]

I can see why, but it's not Bourgas.

[Mr_Grubby]

Well Barry, a few minutes has turned into a few days !!!!

Il-76, is it in Eastern Europe, maybe USSR, Kiev ???

Thinks we need a clue.

Clint.

[India Four Two]

Clint,

I was thinking the same thing, but the cedar trees indicate maybe further south than Kiev, so how about somewhere on or near the Black Sea?

[Mr_Grubby]

Yeah 42, you could be right about Kiev.
I do like their chicken though.

C.

[barry lloyd]

India 42:

You are, as they say, getting warm!

[chevvron]

It's blurred so it must be somewhere in Russia.

[barry lloyd]

Correct on both counts. Taken on a 35mm film and transposed to digital.

[RegDep]

Current Russian Federation area airport or elsewhere in Soviet Union?

[barry lloyd]

Within the Russian Federation.

[RegDep]

Astrakhan (ASF) URWA

[Mr_Grubby]

Mykolaiv (Nikolaev) Airport ??

C.

[RegDep]

That's in Ukraine :suspect:.

[Mr_Grubby]

RegDep.

Sorry, how remiss of me. I must have bunked off school the day we did the USSR and Russian Federation.

I'll try harder next time !!!!

Clint.:ok::ok::ok:

[RegDep]

It was Soviet Union when you (and me) went to school. So were many others Soviets, but (some vehemently) not Russians :).

[Davidsoffice]

Was this a closed city in the good old bad old days?

[barry lloyd]

Was this a closed city in the good old bad old days?

No, it's not one of the military/industrial complex cities. Quite the opposite, in fact.

[barry lloyd]

Astrakhan (ASF) URWA

Not Astrakhan.

[RegDep]

Then Sochi, a while ago....

[India Four Two]

Then Sochi, a while ago....

... and it looks like those yellow trucks haven't been moved since! :)

[RegDep]

Nor have the cypresses in front of the tower...

[barry lloyd]

Correct! Sochi/Adler. AER/URSS

A certain Irish airline would be delighted with this airport. It really is the nearest one to Sochi, even though it's just a few miles from Abkhazia!
The picture was taken in 1995 when the old terminal (under the tower) was still in use. The new building was 90% completed but in the post-Communist turmoil they ran out of money and it hadn't been completed by that time. No doubt it will be in time for the Olympics, particularly since it is now owned by Mr Deripaska.

[RegDep]

On my part, it is OPEN HOUSE, unless I42 wants to take my turn: his finding the trucks was a clever trick.

BTW, one can see the tower in a Sochi - Moscow video on Google Maps YouTube - ??????? ????-?????? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRyBsQ2l6EE&feature=player_embedded), the tower in the first seconds and later during the take-off run. The Airbus where the video is shot, stays approximately where the IL-76 in the pic.

[Mr_Grubby]

Nothing from India 42 so I'll step in with a quick one. Not too difficult !

C.




http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/Airport89.jpg

[chevvron]

Naval Air Station at San Diego (don't know its name)

[RegDep]

Would't that make it Coronado North Island and the ship USS Langley (CV-1)?

[Mr_Grubby]

Yes !! Toooooo easy !!

NAS North Island at the end of the Coronado Peninsula, San Diego Bay.

You have controll T.

C.:ok:

[chevvron]

I'm at work so open house.

[India Four Two]

The last one from my current "stack". Another one that is surprisingly not on the list.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c309/india42/WAF20100830.jpg

Should be easy.

[Mr_Grubby]

A Dove, nice bikes, not Fairoaks ???

C.

[Flap40]

I did my AFI rating there back in 1989.

Compton Abbas.

[RegDep]

Shoot! Was looking for it in Western Australia. Thought the De Havilland DH 104 Dove in the picture used to fly from Perth....

[merlinxx]

Redhill with the Mayfair Dove ????????

[RegDep]

This one Aircraft G-HBBC (1948 De Havilland DH104 DOVE 8 C/N 04211) Photo by Les Rickman (Photo ID: AC34417) (http://www.airport-data.com/aircraft/photo/034417L.html)

Taken 2006-07-26, at Compton Abbas Airfield Airport, Shaftesbury, England United Kingdom.

[India Four Two]

Mr. G,

Yes, Yes, No ;)

Flap40 was first with Compton Abbas. When I was there in April, the Dove had been moved to near the hangars and I was told it was being prepared for a ferry flight to Bournemouth for an overhaul. Does anyone know if it departed?

Flap40 has control.

[oldandbald]

G-HBBC is parked on the grass today at Compton Abbas in its normal place.A little dirty but hopefully airworthy.

[Flap40]

Okay, next one.

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/jj36/jodel_bucket/whereis.jpg

[CharlieOneSix]

I'm fairly sure that's Weston Zoyland in Zummerset and on Friday I'll be driving along the A372 which goes left to right through the airfield! OPEN HOUSE if confirmed as correct.

[TheChitterneFlyer]

Pipped at the post by CharlieOneSix... it sure is Weston Zoyland.

TCF

[Flap40]

Correct.

OPEN HOUSE

[Mr_Grubby]

Sorry about the poor quality.

C.



http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport82.jpg

[India Four Two]

Clint,

What an interesting photo. Initially I thought it was from the 1930s, but then I spotted the Connie lurking in the background. The second aircraft from the left seems to me to have a French appearance, so I'll start things off by guessing the aerodrome is in France.

On second thoughts, there appear to be palm trees in the picture, so maybe North Africa or possibly closer to home for me, in Indochina.

[Mr_Grubby]

S.

No, not France, Indo China or North Africa.

C.

[twochai]

Mr. G.:

that wouldn't be the Fort Lauderdale Airport (FLL) shortly after the Navy turned it over to the county in the late 40's, would it?

TC

[Mr_Grubby]

twochai.

No, but getting warmer.

C.

[oldpax]

Jacksonville?

[Mr_Grubby]

oldpax

No, sorry.

C.

[India Four Two]

Vero Beach?

[Mr_Grubby]

Not Vero Beach !!

[RegDep]

Morrison Field (now West Palm Beach!)

http://www.historicpalmbeach.com/wp-content/themes/sliding-door/img/morrisonfield.jpg

OH, if so.

[Mr_Grubby]

RegDep.

Yes Sir !!

Palm Beach International Airport (PBIA) began operations as Morrison Field in 1936. Morrison Field was named in honor of Miss Grace K. Morrison who was a key participant in the planning and organization of the airfield. The first flight departing the field was a New York bound Eastern Air Lines DC-2 in 1936. The airport was officially dedicated on December 19, 1936.

The field was used by the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II, commencing in 1941. Following the attack on Pearl Harbor Morrison field was used as a base for the allied invasion of France; many planes took off from Morrison, en route to the United Kingdom, to take part in the D-Day invasion of Normandy.

In 1947, the Army Air Corps moved to Mobile, Alabama and commercial services by Eastern and National Airlines resumed from Morrison Field.

On August 11, 1948, the name of the airport was changed to Palm Beach International Airport. The airport was once again used by the military in 1951. Renamed Morrison Air Force Base, the facility was used to train nearly 23,000 airmen during the Korean War.

In March 1953, the county opened the airport's second passenger terminal on the south side of the field. Following the Korean War, the federal government attempted to make Morrison AFB a permanent military installation; however the County fought the move and took over airport operations in 1959. Delta Air Lines began scheduled service in 1959 and was followed by Capital Airlines in 1960. Jet-powered flights were introduced by Eastern Airlines in 1959 with the turboprop Lockheed L-188 Electra.

C.:ok:

[RegDep]

Thank you, Sir!

OPEN HOUSE

[evansb]

Here is the next mystery field: (..and yes, it is still an active airport)
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD100915.jpg

[Mr_Grubby]

Wold-Chamberlain Field, circa 1931. I believe it became the Twin Cities airport of Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

C.

[evansb]

Mr_Grubby is correct:ok: Well done:D Your control.

[Mr_Grubby]

OK Gentlemen.

I have nothing to offer right now so Open House.

Clint.

[India Four Two]

As Clint might say, "Nice cars, nice terminal."

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c309/india42/WAF20100915.jpg

[Davidsoffice]

Just to keep the thread active....Is this USA?

[India Four Two]

No, not the USA. The car license plates are a clue.

[chevvron]

Can't read the registrations on my 9.5 in screen, but the architecture looks oriental.

[RegDep]

B for Berlin?

[Double Hydco]

Looks oriental to me too. Peking?

[sidtheesexist]

African Colonial - Leopoldville/kinshassa in Belgian Congo as it was then?

[Mr_Grubby]

Singapore ?

In the '30's ?

[RegDep]

OK, then I'll throw in Varna, Bulgaria just for the kicks of it, assuming that the car left has license plate

в-б-37 (V-B-37 in latin alphabet)

[India Four Two]

OK. Now we're getting somewhere.

chevvron, you need a bigger screen :-) Oriental, yes.

RegDep, not Europe, but you've probably figured that out now.

Double Hydco, not Peking.

sid, Africa no, colonial yes.

Mr. G, not Singapore but 30s, yes

[RegDep]

India, would you call ex-Soviet-no-Russian also "colonial". Question about fact, not politics :) and only in the context at hand.

[twochai]

The licence plates might be Dutch, no? The architecture looks to be Indonesian, perhaps.

An un-scientific WAG - say, Batavia in the thirties??

[India Four Two]

twochai,

Sometimes WAGs are spot on.

Tjililitan Airport in Batavia/Djakarta in the 1930s. Subsequently renamed Halim Perdanakusuma (HLP), it continued as Jakarta's International Airport until 1985 when Soekarno-Hatta (CGK) opened. Still operational but I think the wonderful terminal building is long gone.

I presume the B on the license plate is for Batavia and it is still used today.

You have control.

Edited to add that Halim was where BA9, the Galunggung Glider landed, after its ash encounter.

[twochai]

Last time I drove by Halim it was the usual Indonesian graveyard for old British airplanes: an ex-Air Canada Vanguard in Merpati colours and an abandoned Viscount, amongst others. The crew of BA9 would have felt quite at home.

Sorry, have to go back to my day job, so...

OPEN HOUSE

[DIBO]

Ok, I'll give it try here
http://i858.photobucket.com/albums/ab142/DIBOYOU/PPRune/olddays.jpg
The building was (and still is) of some architectural importance. In those days, the building was almost larger than the airfield itself. And the airfield never got much bigger.... (picture is taken from the landside)

[DIBO]

and this one from the airside. Terminal building still in use, only moderately upgraded since this picture was taken almost 80 years ago
http://i858.photobucket.com/albums/ab142/DIBOYOU/PPRune/PPR0002.jpg

[DIBO]

Ok, enough buildings...
that's the rwy (I know, a bit blurred to keep the numbers hidden)
Looks a bit like an aircraft carrier, especially to the drivers that had to put their 737-200's down on a daily basis, long time ago...
http://i858.photobucket.com/albums/ab142/DIBOYOU/PPRune/PPR_rwy.jpg

[DIBO]

and that's the whole airfield (with a clear view on the road blocking the soon to be required overrun safety aera) :*http://i858.photobucket.com/albums/ab142/DIBOYOU/PPRune/PPR_airfield.jpg

[Max Tow]

Antwerp Deurne. As you say, the Sabena 737 departures were entertaining!
Open house if correct.

[DIBO]

Spot on, Max Tow:D
And here's the proof, the same buiding with the 1930's tower becoming the Met Office with a new tower on top, about half a century ago. And a decade ago, again a new tower was put on the old one
http://i858.photobucket.com/albums/ab142/DIBOYOU/PPRune/PPR0003.jpg

Open house, it is !!

[evansb]

Great photos DIBO. Here is the next mystery aerodrome:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD100919.jpg

[Airclues]

Is it Atlantis?

Dave

Edit;

Photo doesn't show on my PC (hence my wild guess). However, when I use my MacBook I can see the photo. Is anyone else having this problem or should I just ditch the PC?

[evansb]

Before the flood? Sorry, not Atlantis. Not Greece, ancient or otherwise. The site still has aviation activity. The photo was taken in 1957.

[con-pilot]

WAG- Detroit City airport?

[seacue]

The lack of a paved runway hints to me that it is not in the USA.

[evansb]

Not Detroit. Not U.S.A.

Here is a slightly different view, which may help.
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD100921.jpg

[RegDep]

Aerodrome Issy-de-Moulineaux.

Would it today be called Heliport de Paris?

I mean the North Eastern corner. The mid field would the be for rugby.

Edit: You have cut it neatly just to take the Eiffel tower from the middle of the full picture :ok:

Edit 2: Open House if correct.

[evansb]

RegDep is spot on:ok: Well done:D Oui! Helicopter tours of Paris are based from this historic aerodrome.

[RegDep]

Open House, as declared.

Reg

[con-pilot]

The lack of a paved runway hints to me that it is not in the USA.

This response is not to argue or an attempt to correct you, but just information.

In the early days, about the date of this picture, there were quite a few airports in the US that did not have marked runways, at first. Also, just prior to World War Two, the US Navy built a lot of training fields that were huge grass fields*, with no marked runways. The theory behind the no marked runway was that the pilots were being trained to operate off aircraft carriers, as so they would always be landing in the wind.

The fallacy of this idea became apparent when it was realized that most like there would not be any aircraft carriers in the middle of places like Nebraska and sooner or later these new Navy pilots would have to land with a crosswind.

So don't let the lack of marked runway surprise you. However, most generally you are correct.

Cheers. :ok:


* There were some that were paved, such as the Norman, Oklahoma, KNOU airport. This airport is basically one square mile of concrete, made as a primary training base for the Navy in 1942. Today, of course, it has marked runways, but you can still see all that concrete.

[descol]

Reg - open house - here's one - it's on M's list but not this view --

http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/descol/prune21.jpg

[Dora-9]

Perth, WA?

If correct, I don't have any photos so open house.

[RegDep]

If you say Jandakot, I'm with you. Open house on both counts.

[chimbu]

Jandakot!.
I think not.

Perth Intl. more like.

[Dora-9]

I'll stick with Perth (originally known as Dunreath, then Guildford).

When, as a pimply faced youth, I learned to fly with the Royal Aero Club of WA they were based in the saw-tooth roofed hangar on the right (built by the Dept of Aircraft Production in 1944) and in the buildings beyond (originally RAAF, converted to the Australian National airlines terminal).

Chimbu is correct - emphatically not Jandakot.

[descol]

Yes- Dora 9, it is Perth - I didn't think it would take long with yiz Dunnunda - So, its open house again - Des

[chimbu]

Morning Des:
"in Dublins fair city-
where the girls are so pretty..."

Interesting date for the pic of Perth. The 727 on the tarmac would indicate mid 80s at latest with the new terminal not started.

It was much nicer before though. Passengers boarded aircraft passing through a landscaped garden, ornamental ponds with black swans.

Ah- another era.


http://i681.photobucket.com/albums/vv173/milcor/Perth.jpg

Maybe Dora should post as he correctly identified it.

[descol]

Good morning Chimbu - pissing rain here - the girls are soaking wet - but not like a rainy day in the Chimbu Highlands - yes - Perth - I saw the BOAC 747 post on M's list. Dora declared open house - by the way , I think I mentioned this before - are you related to 'pruner' Chimbu Warrior ?

[Dora-9]

Chimbu - I enhanced this photo as much as I could - it's a DC-10 on the tarmac. The MMA F28 provides a clue. It's in the then standard Ansett scheme; all of MMA's F28's sported the "Kangaroo Paw" scheme by early 1983. It's a pity I couldn't read the fuselage titles as this would further narrow it down from the present 1970-1983 time frame.

Do you remember the black swans that lived in the pool (RHS of your photo)? They didn't have their wings clipped; they were "trapped" in that area as they didn't have sufficient climb performance (4th segment?) to fly out!

[chimbu]

Sorry Des, no relation of Chimbu Warrior. I am the original Chimbu with no added flavourings or colours. I have discarded 'ar$e grass' however for 'budgie smugglers'. The better to disport my aging limbs on Queenslands sunny beaches.

Dora, I remember Perths black swans. Imagine forty years ago, new immigrants from cold, wet and windy UK stepping out into brilliant sunshine and black swans. Welcome to your new life!

This picture was taken 45 years ago from the aerodrome control tower. As a clue, the DHC-4A Caribou is part of an airline fleet. The only civilian 'boo-boo' extant. Also, the DC-3's (OK, Dakota) was a front line aircraft.
I have airbrushed any airline identifiers off hanger roofs, fuses etc.
http://i681.photobucket.com/albums/vv173/milcor/shot0014.jpg

[evansb]

Coolangatta, (Gold Coast) Queensland ?

[chimbu]

Sorry, not Cooly.

[chimbu]

This one's been done already. My mistake.
It's getting harder to find new aerodromes.
Maybe the rules should be altered to allow different and interesting pictures of old material.

[Feather #3]

I'll back Madang in the mid-60's?

G'day ;)

[descol]

maybe Jackons - again !

[chimbu]

Feather #3 has it. Madang, Papua New Guinea 1967.
You have control.

[con-pilot]

chimbu, is that a Hansa Jet behind the first DC-3 in your picture?

[evansb]

Piaggio P.166B. ASA and Ansett operated the type in the 1960s.
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/Piaggio20side1.jpg

[Dora-9]

..and MMA had one too! VH-MMP, known to all as "the pig".

[evansb]

Here is the next mystery aerodrome:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD100926.jpg

[TheChitterneFlyer]

It has to be Chichester (Goodwood).

Open house if correct.

TCF

[evansb]

Yes, TCF:ok: You are correct.

[Mr_Grubby]

Try this one as TCF has said OH.

C.

http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport92.jpg

[TheChitterneFlyer]

I'd like to think that this place is somewhere within the UK... but I could be wrong.

TCF

[Mr_Grubby]

TCF.

You are indeed wrong !!!

C.

[chevvron]

Looks like Holland or maybe Belgium to me; wild guess Lelystade?

[Mr_Grubby]

chevvron.

No 'fraid not.

C.

[siftydog]

possibly Antipodean - Dargaville NZ?

[Mr_Grubby]

siftydog.

Spot on but not Dargaville.

C.:ok:

[siftydog]

Ruawai? (I think it's spelt that way) Somewhere near Helensville, NI. It's got that waterlogged look about it.......

[Mr_Grubby]

siftydog.

No but you are getting close.

C.

[Max Tow]

Parakai. O/H if correct - Siftydog did the hard work anyway!

[Mr_Grubby]

Max Tow.

Correct !!

O/H as requested.

C.

[leader3]

as its open house
here is one from me and i think its not on the list
so good luck.

http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/leader03/1-2.jpg

nice big picture for you to look at.

[chevvron]

Old Rheinbeck, USA?

[India Four Two]

chevvron,

I think you have the right country, but Old Rheinbeck is grass only.

I'm guessing East Coast, but further south than New York.

[leader3]

not old rheinbeck

but india four two is correct in that it is the USA and in the east.

[Cubs2jets]

Most definitely southeast US with all that kudzu growing off the near end of the strip. My guess Tennassee, northern Georgia or northern Alabama.

John Scott

[leader3]

not a bad guess cubs2jets
but your location is more accurate!!!

[Old Bald Pilot]

Looks like Elkin or Jackson County NC, both surrounded by dense forest.
More likely to be a private Fly-in Community.

OBP

[leader3]

OBP
not Elkin or Jackson co.
but it is in North Carolina.

it is not a private site, it has a entry in the AFD for the south east US.

one other clue
the runway is 09/27

more clues in a couple of days.

[RegDep]

Air Harbor Airport W88, sometimes in June - July 2010

If correct, OPEN HOUSE

.

[leader3]

:D correct RegDep

Air harbour W88.
which is just inside the class C airspace of Piedmont Triad Intl (KGSO)

i took the photo this septrember when i was out with a good friend of mine who was doing my flight review.
a interesting strip with a significant slope so you need to land 09 and take off 27.
Great fun :)

so open house it is.

[flyingwing]

Not on the list

http://i462.photobucket.com/albums/qq346/buzzbird/th_field-2.jpg?t=1286231189

[chevvron]

Too small for my screen.

[CharlieOneSix]

Too small for anything but a wild guess - Harrowbeer, Devon?

[flyingwing]

Neither of these. Apologies for image size.

[flyingwing]

That's better!
http://i462.photobucket.com/albums/qq346/buzzbird/field-2.jpg?t=1286313456

[RegDep]

Flyingwing is this on British Isles?

[flyingwing]

Just about!

[Russell Gulch]

Skeabrae?.

[RegDep]

Flyingwing, do you know what the large building by the water is? Not asking for a clue, the challenge seems solved.

[chevvron]

The large building is a ship??!!
Edit for expanation: my remark was in reply to one by Mr Grubby but the s@d deleted his!!

[flyingwing]

Russell Gulch has it. Skeabrae - close by its former RNAS neighbour at Twatt. You have control.

[Russell Gulch]

Thanks flyingwing. I think the "large building" is just the way a field is aligned in the photo.

Here's the next challenge; not a difficult one.

Russ

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff206/868mick/32.jpg

[RegDep]

Akron Fulton, Ohio

Funny that you challenge contains an airship hangar (airdock), as the "building" in the previous challenge made me think it was one.

[Russell Gulch]

Correct, RegDep. As expected, it didn't take long.

As you say, the hangar is the blimp airdock built I think in 1929. It was back then the world’s largest structure without interior supports. Originally built by Goodyear, it is now owned by Lockheed Martin.

You have the con.

Russell

[RegDep]

Thanks RG. It will be

OPEN HOUSE

[Mr_Grubby]

Ref the earlier picture of Skeabrae.

chevvron I did post RNAS Twatt (HMS Tern) as a guess. Realised it was wrong so deleted the post. Sorry for any confusion.

Clint.

[Tacklebury]

I've not posted for a while so as it's open house, I'd like to submit this.

Tack.

http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport91.jpg

[TheChitterneFlyer]

Davis Monthan AFB?

[evansb]

Moorabbin Airport, Australia ?

[Tacklebury]

evansb.

Correct !!

Moorabbin, Harry Hawker Airport, Melbourne Australia was opened in December 1949.

It was named after Harry George Hawker MBE, AFC, (22 January 1889 – 12 July 1921) who was an Australian aviation pioneer and co-founder of Hawker Aircraft, the firm that would later be responsible for a long series of successful military aircraft, including the Fury, Sea Fury, Hurricane, Hunter and Harrier.

Hawker was born in Moorabbin, Victoria, Australia

He was killed on 12 July 1921 when the Nieuport Goshawk crashed while he was climbing out from Hendon Aerodrome while practicing for an airshow.

Moorabbin is now the 3rd busiest airport, by aircraft movements, in Australia.

Over to you.

Tack.:ok:

[evansb]

Thanks Tack! Here is a nostalgic shot taken in 1962. Identify the aerodrome.
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD101007-1.jpg

[Mr_Grubby]

Long Shot;

Prince George Airport, BC.

C.

[RegDep]

Ice Pilots: NWT - The Diecast Aviation Web Site and Forum (http://forums.diecast-aviation.eu/showthread.php?t=12199)

Edit: Just hitchhiking. Mr Grubby is driving.

[evansb]

Mr Grubby is correct. The Britannia was on a promo visit to Prince George. You have control.

[twochai]

The Britannia was on a promo visit to Prince George.


Why all the water around the place?? Don't tell me they did fire engine welcome washes for new aircraft aircraft arrivals in those days??

The Proteus's would probably have choked up with ice, even in that nice spring weather!

[Mr_Grubby]

Thanks Bri.

Now I'm going to be busy with family issues for the next few days so Open House.

Clint.

[leader3]

as its OH
here is another one from me.

i dont think this has been here before.



http://i264.photobucket.com/albums/ii186/leader03/1-3.jpg

[descol]

Dunnunda - NZ ?

[sycamore]

Or perhaps Norway ?

[RegDep]

Looks Northern European to me.....

Telepathy, Sycamore :ok:

Difficult to see if the rwy markings are yellow or white, could be either on my screen...

[leader3]

not dunnunda NZ, descol.

its not Norway either sycamore.

and its not northern Europe RegDep

good guesses though

[sycamore]

Somewhere in Canada,or Alaska ?

[SMOKEON]

Asheboro Regional Airport, North Carolina,U.S.A.
Open House, if correct

[RegDep]

Should have known where to look. That's where Leader flies with his friends...:O.

[TheChitterneFlyer]

Asheboro looks pretty convincing to me!

[leader3]

correct Ashboro regional (KHBI)

home base for my recent trip.
Ashboro runway is 5,500 ft long and 100ft wide and the people there are just so friendly. Also home of the North Carolina Air Museum.
The americans certainly have the right attitude to GA.
Just wish the UK would take a leaf out of their book.

sorry i will get of the soap box,
well done SMOKON and as he says its
Open House.

[Mr_Grubby]

Well three days of Open House and no takers !

As I'm now back on line, I'll offer this.

C.


http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport93.jpg

[leader3]

things have been a bit slow over the last few days Mr G

ok i will have a guess that its somewhere on the North American continent?

[Mr_Grubby]

leader 3.

Spot on !

C.

[leader3]

well strating the balll roling with that guess has not motivated people.

lets have another guess how about Canada just to narrow things down.

[Mr_Grubby]

Yes, Canada.

C.

[Airclues]

Canada!!....................so where is evansb when we need him?

Dave

[SMOKEON]

White Horse Airport,Yukon,Canada.
Open House,if correct.
Smokeon

[Mr_Grubby]

SMOKEON.

Yes !

C.:ok:

[Duckbutt]

As SMOKEON has declared open house, try this:


http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/Twyler/Puzz32a.jpg

[spook]

St.Johns, New Brunswick?

[Duckbutt]

Sorry, not New Brunswick

[SMOKEON]

Transocean DC-4 (Lufthansa Cargo Charter)
Bradley Field, Windsor Locks, CT,U.S.A
If correct, Open House.
Smokeon.

[Duckbutt]

That's the one SMOKEON. Open house declared.

[PaperTiger]

Something a bit different, because I don't know the answer :8 .

Posted in a Warbirds forum, the URL indicates the unit as VU-7 of the USN. But it isn't North Island where they were based. Anyone ?

http://www.vpnavy.com/jd1/vu7jd1_01_16feb2002.jpg

[evansb]

My guess is China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station, California.

[SMOKEON]

Possibly;
NAAS Brown Field,CA.
VU-7 operated from there in the fifties and also flew the Fury FJ-4 , two of which can be seen in the background. The mountains in the photograph could be the West Otay range.
Smokeon

[PaperTiger]

Brown Field it is:
http://homepage.mac.com/oldtownman/local/images3/CAN05311a.JPEG

Back to your regulalry scheduled programme. O/H.

[Russell Gulch]

Is that the same tower as this one (well-reported Thunderbird incident)?

http://www.ac-eagles.net/gallery/albums/Generally-Neat-Aviation-Pictures/tbirdchutewide_001.sized.jpg

[PaperTiger]

No, that's Mountain Home Idaho.

[Tacklebury]

To keep things rolling, try this.

Tack.

http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/Airport90.jpg

[Little cloud]

Larnaca 1970's? Bit of a guess based on the background hills, surrounding district and approach road.

[Tacklebury]

Little Cloud.

No sorry, not Larnaca.

Tack.

[KeMac]

That looks a bit like an AVIOGENEX TU-134 but the location stumps me - possibly Middle East somewhere?

[PaperTiger]

AVIOGENEX TU-134 New Aeroflot colours I think ?

[gunbus]

Damascus Syria ?

[one11]

New Aeroflot colours I think ?

Or could be the Balkan Holidays scheme so somewhere Bulgarian ?

[Tacklebury]

Well guys,

You are all correct in so far as it's not in the 'Modern' West.

You all need to go further east.

T.

[TheChitterneFlyer]

Ulan Bator; Mongolia.

Open house if correct.

TCF

[Tacklebury]

TCF.

You have it, open house.

Tack.:ok:

[descol]

open house
try this one

http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/descol/PRUNE-1.jpg

[Duckbutt]

Layang Layang Malaysia?

[descol]

well - that was esay
Yes its Layang - South China Sea - off Kota Kinaabul - major dive resort - I believe
over to Mr D

[Duckbutt]

Not that easy, took a bit of searching out! Where's this?

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/Twyler/Puzz33a.jpg

[con-pilot]

I don't know where it is, but it rather looks like they didn't want you to land there.

[Bigt]

Far East.....Malaysia?

[evansb]

Toncontin, Honduras ?

[Duckbutt]

Evansb has it, Toncontin Honduras. Over to you.

Con, it was taken in July 2009 when troops blocked the runway to prevent the overthrown President from landing. See Ousted Honduras president defiant after airport blockade | News (http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23715768-ousted-honduras-president-defiant-after-airport-blockade.do)

[evansb]

Thanks Db. Here is the next mystery aerodrome:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD101019.jpg

[Mr_Grubby]

RAF Honington ??

C.

[chevvron]

Lack of guns in the nose turrets might indicate an OCU so how about Harwell?

[SMOKEON]

R.A.F. Stradishall. August, 1939. No.75 (New Zealand) Squadron.
Smokeon.
Open House, if correct.

[zetec2]

Waddington at a guess, OH if correct, PH.

[Old Bald Pilot]

I'll add Hemswell to the list.

[evansb]

No correct sites so far, but yes, it was taken in 1939, and the aircraft were operated by New Zealanders. Also note that the hangars still stand to this day.

[evansb]

SMOKEON may be correct as one source says RAF Stradishall, and another source says RAF Feltwell. Feltwell's hangars still stand, and have trees in similar locations as the photo. As I cannot confirm it, I also declare an OPEN HOUSE.

[Mr_Grubby]

So open house.

Not much to offer I'm afraid. This might be a bit obscure. Lots of mud. Airframe should be easy to identify. Well documented airfield.

C.




http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport29.jpg

[sidtheesexist]

Re previous photo: as soon as I saw it I thought Feltell in Norfolk which I've visited (as with Stradishall). The Wellingtons are early Mk 1s without the Fraser Nash(?) rotating, hydraulically powered, twin browning turrets which were later standard. The early mk 1s had a single, hand held vickers I think....

[barry lloyd]

Looks like an IL-14 that's force-landed in a farmer's field!
Since they didn't come to the west very often, and when they did they used conventional airfields, I'm assuming the field is in Eastern Europe? Poland?

[RegDep]

Allow me to call it Il-12 and place it somewhere in China or Korea. That would, at least, allow even more mud, both in the temporal and spatial sense. Well, that id could place it to Vladivostok, too.

[Mr_Grubby]

Gentlemen.

No, not Poland or Vladivostok. But I'm led to believe it is a Il-14

Here is another picture of the mud.

http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/Airport94.jpg

Clint.

[SMOKEON]

Tolmachevo Airport. Could be an IL-12 or IL14.
Open House if correct.
smokeon.

[Jn14:6]

That's an IL-12 in the second photo - different fin from the IL-14.
No idea where though!

[Mr_Grubby]

Yes Smokeon, Tolmachevo, Well done. :ok:

A couple of more pics in the mud. Then a photo of the place when they discovered concreat in the '50's.

You have control.

Clint.


http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport95.jpg

http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport96.jpg

http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport97.jpg

[RegDep]

Any objections if I maintain it is an Il-12 (see the exhausts). Or would that go to another thread :oh:
:)

[SMOKEON]

OPEN HOUSE
Smokeon.

[descol]

great pics,Mr. G

[Phileas Fogg]

Don't think this place has been done yet:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1427/5106095706_76ff4540e8.jpg

[descol]

Might it be Johnston Atoll ?

[SMOKEON]

Hao Airport,Tatakoto Atoll, French Polynesia.
DIversion airfield for the Space Shuttle.
Smokeon.

[Phileas Fogg]

SMOKEON has it, Atoll Hao!

I first came across Hao when I was trying to schedule/route fish carrying DC8's from Easter Island to Japan, needed to fuel stop a couple of times and needed circa 10,000' runways to do so, couldn't believe my luck when I came across an 11,000' runway on a 'coral reef' :)

[SMOKEON]

Thank you,PF.
Open House.
Smokeon

[Phileas Fogg]

OK,

Try this one, this is to become my local airport when I move soon ..... and the building with the green roof is the terminal:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1163/5107665798_bb41fd461d.jpg

[seacue]

Warm country?

[descol]

west indies

[Phileas Fogg]

Seacue, it is a warm country however Descol's guess is as cold as ice.

[RegDep]

Must be east of East Indies, then..... :8

Taken from your previous challenge, which one is closer Hao Airport or Kansai (for Japan)?

[Phileas Fogg]

Japan is closer.

[SMOKEON]

Sayak Airport,Surigao Del Norte,Phillipines.
A tropical paradise.
Open House,if correct.
Smokeon

[Phileas Fogg]

SMOKON,

How the hell did you get that? :)

Yes, Siargao Island is a tropical paradise, I was most recently there during July, alas the 5 ATR-42 flights were full that week thus I had to travel from/to Surigao City by outriggers. I'm moving there for good as soon as I sell my house!

[leader3]

typical filipino though,
they have to right airport on the ground just in case know one was to guess!!!

your a brave man Phileas traveling by boat in the philippines as they have a habit of sinking.
i know as i have had that experiance!!

[SMOKEON]

Thank you,Phileas.The location was very much given away by the general architecture of the Terminal building,Palm trees and lush vegetation. The Philippines have three grades of airports, so it was relatively easy to identify as a Principle-Class2.
You are very fortunate to be able to relocate to such an idylic island.
Smokeon.
Open House.

[Phileas Fogg]

leader3,

It is the RoRo's (rollon, roll off's) that have a habit of sinking, one RoRo does sail to/from that island but6 you won't get me on one!

The outriggers are circa 80 seats, waters are warm, life jackets immediately above pax heads, good fun though, the Captain toots number(s) of hoots on ship horn and a young guy down below, holding a piece of string, controls the throttles with the string.

Smokeon,

Thanks, the town of General Luna, on the island, is nice, the locals are friendly and on the island there is no TV, no radio, no landline telephones and not even an ATM machine ..... and I love it :)

A much better view of the island rather than the airport:

http://pinoydeal.ph/adpics/4a804fd89d3cf3aa0d601a598.jpg

[Russell Gulch]

Since SMOKEON has kindly declared OH, I propose this submission:

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff206/868mick/wa/33.jpg

[larssnowpharter]

Phileas Fogg

Small World!

I was in/on Siargao in July, also but drove up from Davao where I live.

Might be a case for a Bash in 'da Pilipeens''?

[Davidsoffice]

To keep the ball rolling...
No runways... so is it a helicopter base / factory?
Geographically in the USA?