Which Aerodrome Mk II

[Mr_Grubby]

I'll have to go open house again.

C.

[Tacklebury]

An easy one.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/sabre86d/Quiz2/Quiz04.jpg

[SilentHandover]

Could it be Farnborough?

[sycamore]

Early morning at Schipol...?

[minuteman]

Coventry? Do I see two sets of PAPIs on the left?

[SilentHandover]

I am convinced that it is Farnborough, off to work now. If correct, I still have no idea how to post piccies so will say open house.

Minuteman, yes you do see two sets of PAPIs, the nearer set are for the longer, visual runway available during the SBAC airshows. :ok:

[Tacklebury]

SilentHandover.

Corrent.:ok:

Open House as requested.

Tack.

[Mr_Grubby]

Here's one.

C.

Vhttp://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/sabre86d/Quiz2/Quiz02.jpg

[SilentHandover]

I must say I was very surprised that Farnyburrow had not been the subject of a challenge before.

[Mr_Grubby]

So no response so far.

A clue.

Europe, originally military, still operational, but the airfield is now somewhat reduced in size.

C.

[sisemen]

I thought H blocks as well but the field system looks too low country-ish and the admin/hangar layout isn't typically British. Got a hell of a munitions layout though which could possibly make it an MU or similar

[nacluv]

It looks very German to me. That long curved hardstanding area...

Ah - I believe I have got it - the former RAF Ahlhorn?

[Mr_Grubby]

nacluv.

Well done Sir.

RAF Ahlhorn, Germany it is. Here is a more recent picture.

You have control. :ok:

C.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/sabre86d/Quiz2/Quiz000.jpg

[nacluv]

Thanks, Clint. I immediately thought of Germany, but was lucky in that I started in ascending alphabetical order!

I am intrigued by the direct rail links into the site to the NW. I wonder what purpose that was for?

Anyway, many thanks for the challenge!

Here is my offering to the esteemed panel:

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/kk252/kwilson1965/nacluv/airfield5-1.jpg

[sycamore]

Nac, I think you`ll find a lot of continental airfields had their own branch lines onto camp,for weapons,fuel,troops resupply,Much easier than roads.
Your picture looks similar,but perhaps more East Germany or Poland ?

[RegDep]

nacluv, I think the railroad is a remainder of an extensive network from the inter-war time, when this place was busy making airships, including creating hydrogen gas for them from train-fulls of coal, chalk and bog iron!

See here: Flugplatz Ahlhorn - gestern und heute (http://www.buergerverein-ahlhorn.de/fliegerhorst/) (I think you get the gist, even if you wouldn't be fluent in German.)

The numbers 1 through 6 indicate the huge assembly halls

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/skizze_1.gif


Is your challenge from Germany, too (an abandoned one)? Somehow I think I saw it when looking for the Ahlhorn (that I didn't find :suspect:).

Reg

[Tacklebury]

Dessau Airfield.
Tacklebury

[RegDep]

Junkers, not airships :ok:

[nacluv]

I bow to the considerable knowledge of the forum! Thanks for the info on the rail links, RegDep and sycamore. It makes perfect sense now I see the explanations. Thanks all for posting.

Everyone is on the right lines (no pun intended) with my challenge, and it has not lasted long. Dessau it is! I thought the fairly distinctive layout was quite interesting, and clearly it also easily betrayed its identity as a result!

Well done Tacklebury - you have control. :ok:

[Tacklebury]

Another easy one for a certain contributer to the thread;
Vhttp://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/sabre86d/Quiz2/Quiz07.jpg
Tacklebury.

[Mr_Grubby]

Are we in Germany again ??

C.

[Tacklebury]

No, Mr.Grubby.
I think we have had enough German airfields for the moment!
Tacklebury.

[Tacklebury]

Twentyfour hours+,and still no response!
Clue;
Ernest K. Gann knew this airport, it is now a Regional Airport.

[RegDep]

With that clue it would be Northern Maine Regional Airport at Presque Isle

Reg

[Tacklebury]

Yes. All yours.

[RegDep]

Thanks, Tack! Next

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/06.jpg

[India Four Two]

Denmark or SW Sweden?

[RegDep]

Neither I42.

[Mr_Grubby]

Kitzebur/Medernach

C.

[RegDep]

Exactly, Mr. Grubby. In Luxembourg.

Over to you, Sir.

[Mr_Grubby]

Thanks Reg. Here's an oldie.

http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport143.jpg

[Airclues]

Bata, Borovo, Yugoslavia?

Open House if correct.

Dave

[RegDep]

OK, where would two DH.80A Puss Moths, one from Serbia and one from Czechoslovakia meet in an air show that was held after August 1931 and before October 1936 (when the Serbian one was sold to UK)?

Ach, was I too slow?

Ach ^2: The photo claims c:a 1938 but the YU-PAX was sold 1936. Go figure….

[Mr_Grubby]

Airclues.

Yes Dave. Correct.

Open house as declared.

C.

[Background Noise]

If it's open house, try this:

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a297/stickshaker/DSC_0463.jpg

[minuteman]

KMCO, Orlando

[Background Noise]

Correct - well, half an Orlando I suppose. It was taken in 1983 but I wasn't sure where it was - I was going to post it as a 'help - where is this' but figured it out.

[minuteman]

Thanks BN, how things have changed since then!!

Try this one:

http://i324.photobucket.com/albums/k322/minuteman_bucket/wa110408.jpg

[minuteman]

24hrs, time for a clue:

We are in the USA...

[TheChitterneFlyer]

I think it's Wurtsmith AFB (Oscoda)

[minuteman]

Correct! A very cold looking Oscoda....you have control!

[TheChitterneFlyer]

I've nothing to post right now so OPEN HOUSE

[Mr_Grubby]

Try this.

C.


http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport144.jpg

[Mr_Grubby]

Well H24 & no bites.

A clue. Northern Hemisphere. 1930's.

C.

[Davidsoffice]

It looks wild and windswept, up ont'moors. Never been, but the name fits, Holme on Spalding Moor.

[RegDep]

To get a grip on the photo, Mr Gruppy, what would you recommend we focus on: The motorbike, the valley-ball net (?) the buildings, the sandy (dune-like ?) landscape, the barrels, or the guys sitting idle in the middle of the "apron"? This could be any place then and between then and now…. :8

[Mr_Grubby]

Davidsoffice.

Not Holme on Spalding Moor, but the right continent ie Europe.



Deg.

I sugest you focus on the whole picture. The sandy dunes are not sandy. This place is inland and the dune is actually a ridge. A significant ridge.

Mr Gruppy.

[RegDep]

Poked 'Lüneburger Heide' into GiggleEarth and it went directly to Flugplatz/Fliegerhorst Faßberg. Just per a wild guess: Fassberg?

Alternate: Wenzendorf

[Tacklebury]

Elsenborn aerodrome,Belgium,1920s.
I believe the ridge in the background figured prominently in the Battle of the Bulge.
Tacklebury.

[Mr_Grubby]

Tacklebury.

Yes, Elsenborn aerodrome in the early 30's.

During the 2nd WW, it was the scene of fierce fighting in the Battle of the Bulge. The Elsenborn Ridge was the only sector of the American front line during the Battle of the Bulge where the Germans failed to advance.

You have the helm.

C.

[Tacklebury]

Great challenge,Mr. Grubby.
Open House

[evansb]

Here is the next mystery aerodrome:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD110411.jpg

[Tacklebury]

Vickers Valiant, RAF Molesworth, Huntingdon. England.
Tacklebury

[evansb]

Tacklebury is spot on:ok: Your turn.

[Tacklebury]

Thank you,Bri. Halcyon days!!
Apologies for the delay.
"OPEN HOUSE".
Tacklebury.

[Sam Asama]

According to the records this one hasn't been seen here yet.
The photo was taken in early 2005


http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt110/grizzled/PhotoBKT_12a-1.jpg?t=1302590483

[Sam Asama]

If we don't get close quickly I'll post a photo of the terminal building, which sits immediately off camera to the right.

[descol]

Papua New Guinea or Solomon Islands ?

[Sam Asama]

descol

Correct latitude
Incorrect country(ies)

[RegDep]

FMCI Bandaressalam

[Sam Asama]

Sorry regdep

descol is much closer

[descol]

Would it be Luganville - Espiritu Santo ?

[Sam Asama]

Descol: Go west young man!

When I took this photo we had arrived in a B-212, but I landed there a few weeks later in a Dash7. Here's the terminal building...

http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt110/grizzled/TerminalBldg_1e.jpg?t=1302619831

[RegDep]

Indonesia, but not an IATA airport?

[Sultan Ismail]

The notices "Airport" "Arrivals" indicate Philippines

[Sam Asama]

RegDep

Now you're close!
Not Indonesia, but you couldn't get much closer...
(And, despite the appearance of the terminal building, the airport does have both IATA and ICAO codes.)

[RegDep]

The notices "Airport" "Arrivals" indicate Philippines

…and the airport name ends with N ….

[Sam Asama]

Nope. Not Philippines

Regdep: I can't let you be lead astray by a piece of metal overhang that makes an "I" look like an "N"...

http://i602.photobucket.com/albums/tt110/grizzled/TermBldg_f.jpg?t=1302624807

[Sam Asama]

It's late at night where I am (and where the airport is) so I'm heading to bed. Keep cruising SE Asia and I'll check back in 8 or 9 hours.

[descol]

Haute Bagae -New Caledonia ?

[Sam Asama]

It's a long way west of New Caledonia, Descol

Time for another hint perhaps...

It's the southernmost airport in the country.

[TheChitterneFlyer]

This a bit of a wild guess, but could it be the old airport of Hasanuddin?

TCF

[RegDep]

Suai Airport (WPDP), the southern-most airport in East Timor.

[Sam Asama]

RegDep

Well done!!

After I mentioned landing in a Dash7 I thought I had given it away (as hardly anybody but the UN uses Dash7s anymore). As you can see by the runway photo, FOD wasn't / isn't the worst problem in such places. It's the people, horses, buffaloes, and motorcyles that randomly wander about.

To mitigate that we would establish a cordon of UN troops around the perimeter when we were going to fly in with the Dash. Worked well until the day we had to abort on very short final -- because one of the UN soldiers ran out onto the runway to take a photo of the aircraft!

Take it away RegDep...

[RegDep]

Sam, looked at this airport almost as the very first (how much closer can you get to Indonesia without being in Indonesia? And in fact, some sources refer to this as Indonesian airport :8). And your clue for a helicopter first and then Dash cried UN loud and clear. But somehow didn't get the terminal building right, because could't figure out that there must have been other buildings, too :O

From my UN trips (not own pic, not fancy chopping, either)

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Bildschirmfoto2011-04-13um115517.png

[Tacklebury]

José Martí International Airport: Havana, Cuba.
Tacklebury

[RegDep]

Exactly Tacklebury!

The thread is yours :ok:

[Tacklebury]

Thank you,Regdep.
The next challenge;
http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh236/sabre86d/Quiz2/Quiz09.jpg
Tacklebury.

[RegDep]

North-Eastern UK, Tacklebury?

[Cows getting bigger]

Huddersfield Crossland Moor

[Tacklebury]

Correct,Cgb. You have control.
Tacklebury.

[Cows getting bigger]

Open house chaps.

[sisemen]

A slight change....beginning and end of a journey

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c92/allan907/firstdisc1.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c92/allan907/PA250012.jpg

Bonus points if both correct :}

[Double Hydco]

Cairns (I guess via Singapore, where the aircraft gains two engines?) & LAX?

DH

[sisemen]

LAX :ok: Cairns :(

[Davidsoffice]

Lets keep this going, or move on...
Is the shadow a 767 and the airfield in SE Asia?

[Double Hydco]

I'll go for a Triple 7 at Brisbane?

DH

[Mr_Grubby]

Come on sisemen. I've had more fun watching paint dry and grass grow.

A clue maybe ???

C.

[TheChitterneFlyer]

I've just cut my grass... hoping it won't grow... but it will.

Indeed, the departure airfield could be anywhere in the world with tarmac!

TCF

[Tacklebury]

Perth Airport. Turn off L1 leading to Taxiways A3 and A2.
Tacklebury

[sisemen]

Tacklebury:ok:

Sorry folks - I've had the internet down for the past 36 hours :hmm:

[Tacklebury]

Thank you,siseman.
"Open House ", Gentlemen.

[Noyade]

http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/8912/18525304625798.jpg (http://img811.imageshack.us/i/18525304625798.jpg/)

[Tacklebury]

Facet Sapphire.
Holbrook,NSW.
Tacklebury

[Mr_Grubby]

Off - Airport Holbrock NSW, Australia.

Drat !! Tack beat me to it. Not a wise move to post the photographers name from Airliners. Net !!!!

Clint.

[Noyade]

Not a wise move to post the photographers name from Airliners. Net !!!!

True Mr Grubby, but I'm outta my league here and didn't want to stay long! :)

Back to Mr Tacklebury! :ok:

[Tacklebury]

Thank you Noyade.
I think you should take this one,Mr.G. You have earned it!
Tacklebury

[Mr_Grubby]

Thanks Tack.

And Noyade, you are not out of your league here. Far from it. It's just a bit of fun.

Here's the next picture.

C.

http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport150.jpg

[Davidsoffice]

Trying to narrow it down.... Clean and tidy, desolate, clear blue water, American? Alaska?

[Mr_Grubby]

David.

Well done, correct on both counts.

C.

[Davidsoffice]

Or completely opposite, Unalaska!
Open house if correct.

[Mr_Grubby]

It's actually Dutch Harbour, the airport that serves Unalaska.

Open house then, as declared.

C. :ok:

[descol]

try this one - I don't see it on the list ?


http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/descol/prune21-3.jpg

[Mr_Grubby]

Windhoek ( Hosea Kutako Intl. Airport)

C.

[descol]

G'day Mr G - yes - of course it is - all yours
Des - in sunny Dublin

[Mr_Grubby]

Thanks Des.

The next one.

Clint. - in sunny Surrey.

http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport151.jpg

[chevvron]

Temperature at Fairoaks at this moment is +22.8 and climbing.

[Mr_Grubby]

chevvron.

Temp must be due to all the hot air coming from the tower.

Clint.

[chevvron]

It's now +24'6 and still climbing!

[Mr_Grubby]

Maybe we should start a new thread.

How hot will it get at Fairoaks ?

S*d the pictures of aerodromes.

C. :bored::bored:

[chevvron]

It peaked at +27.4 deg at about 2 pm. Well my companion FISO for the day is an attractive young lady so not surprising.
Anyway that airport looks like Montserrat again but I've probably got that on the brain.

[Mr_Grubby]

Chevrron,

You are in the right part of the world, but not Montserrat.

C.

[chevvron]

I've been to the larger islands but not smaller ones; Turks and Caicos group maybe, or St Vincent?

[seacue]

Not Saba,. Where else has hills next to the airfield?

I've been to (or seen) airports on Aruba, Curacao, Bonaire, Tobago, Barbados, Grenada, St Vincent, Carriacou, Union, St Lucia (night transit), Martinique, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Marie Galante, Terre-de-Haut, Antigua, St Bart's, St Martin/Maarten, St Kitts (day transit), St Croix, Puerto Rico (San Juan only), Punta Cana (DR), PAP (Haiti), Governors Harbour (Eluthera)....

I don't think it's one of those.

Edited to say that maybe it's Bequia after all. I've only seen that airport on Google Earth.

Is it Bequia???

[Mr_Grubby]

Wow !! guys.

You are all so close. I have had to get my school boys atlas out to check the places.

But no to all the places.

C.

[seacue]

Wild guess: La Desirade adjacent to Guadeloupe.

OPEN HOUSE in the very unlikely event that I am correct.

[Mr_Grubby]

seacue.

No I'm afraid.

C.

[sisemen]

Spanish Town, Virgin Gorda

[Mr_Grubby]

siseman.

Yes indeed. Also known as Taddy Bay.

You sir, have control.

Clint.

:ok:

[sisemen]

Try this one.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c92/allan907/P7220256cropped.jpg

[sisemen]

Hmm....perhaps the effect of this http://www.pprune.org/jet-blast/449283-thread-killers.html might be casting its malign influence beyond the realms of Jet Blast. :uhoh:

[Mr_Grubby]

sisemen.

Not a lot of interest is there !!!

Is it in the Carrabean ?

How about a clue ?

C.

[Tacklebury]

Or even the Caribbean!
Tacklebury

[sisemen]

Indian Ocean - but that makes it very easy.

Tacklebury - should be no probs for you :ok:

[Mr_Grubby]

Ok Caribbean !!

I never could spel.

C.

[Tacklebury]

Not too sure about that,siseman. Plenty of space in the Indian Ocean to hide a small airport/airfield. I think I prefered your Perth challenge, that was excellent.

Mr.G.,only joshing.
Tacklebury

[sisemen]

C'mon Tacks - let Googoil be your friend :E

[sisemen]

Jeez. Everybody died or what??

OK - eastern Indian Ocean.

Different perspective

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c92/allan907/P5290036cropped.jpg

[Tacklebury]

Geraldton Airport, Pelsart Island, Western Australia?

[sisemen]

Got the country correct Tacks but not the location. Geraldton is inland and there is no strip on Pelsart in the Abrolhos Islands, there is one on one of the other islands but the pic is not it.

[Tacklebury]

Garden Island Airport (YGAD)/HMS. Stirling.
Open House, if correct.

[sisemen]

Knew you'd get there in the end :ok:

As there seems to be only you and I on this thread and you've declared OH then have a go at this one. Should be easy.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c92/allan907/P7220179cropped.jpg

[Tacklebury]

Thank you,Siseman.
No idea on this one,and have to go off air shortly.
Tacklebury

[Double Hydco]

Jandakot, WA?

DH

[sisemen]

DH - You have control :ok:

[Double Hydco]

Thanks sisemen. Here's one to keep things rolling along;

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_yYJ_r1Fv8Go/TbWfoTm_p_I/AAAAAAAAA9E/_eqngm5hkak/s640/DSC00516.JPG

[Cows getting bigger]

I'm thinking Thessalonika.

[Double Hydco]

Not Thessalonika CGB.

[Phileas Fogg]

Split, Croatia?

[minuteman]

Nice LFMN from the threshold 04R?

Edit to say: Open House if correct, won't be around later...

[Double Hydco]

Correct minuteman. OH......

DH

[Mr_Grubby]

Thanks gents.
Another one from me.
C.

http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport152.jpg

[Duckbutt]

Yawn...........

[descol]

C. - maybe a clue is due -
better to keep duckbutt awake !

[Mr_Grubby]

OK chaps,

Yes, this does seem to have ground to a halt.

The picture was taken in 1930 at an airshow attended by 25,000 people.
Ford Tri-Motors were just starting to fly some of the first Transcontinental flights from this place.

There, that's given it away !!!!! Time to move on.:ok:

Clint.

[chevvron]

Wouldn't be somewhere not a million miles from Dearborn (Mich) would it?

[TheChitterneFlyer]

Roosevelt Field?

[Mr_Grubby]

chev.

No, but you are in the right part of the country.

Flyer, no.

I think from research this place is now a dairy farm.

C.

[chevvron]

Cleveland or Windsor?

[Mr_Grubby]

chevvron.

Terry.

Think Bee Gees. A song.

C.

[chevvron]

Boston Massachusetts* then.
*Probably not spelt correctly.

[Mr_Grubby]

chevvron.

Yes !! You are getting there. Right State.

C.

[Old Bald Pilot]

Toughie!!
Ford had an assembly plant at Sommerville Mass. Long since gone, but I can find no aviation connection.
OBP

[evansb]

Springfield, Mass. ?

[sisemen]

I suppose it would be regarded as taking the piss if I suggested Ford in Hampshire :ooh:

Oooh look - 300 up out of the 26,000 total :eek: (don't mention the post word :=)

[RegDep]

Springfield Airport, Springfield, MA

Perhaps the greatest 'claim to fame' for the Springfield Airport came when it was home to the Granville Brothers,
the creators of the famous & outrageous "Gee Bee" series of racing planes in the 1920s & 30s.

[Mr_Grubby]

Chums,

You are all so close !

It "Sound " Like you are on the "Airway"

Clint.

Is something happening today that I've missed ? Streets in Surrey clear. Must be an event going on.

[RegDep]

Bowles Agawam Airport (7B0), Agawam, MA

Must be an event going on.

A fox hunt?

[chevvron]

Funny you should say that Clint, Fairoaks was a bit slow and Woking was almost empty at lunchtime.

[Mr_Grubby]

I'm losing interest now.

Fedup with this wedding thing that Mrs Grubby is watching on TV.

Please spare me.

Please, somebody Google Sound Airways.

C.:ugh:

[sabredog]

Fairhaven Airport,M.A
Open House.

[sycamore]

Fairhaven,Mass......OH if correct

[RegDep]

Baylies Field

Was this really on the West Island? - Scrap that.

Found it North of Route 6 and Mills Road, apparently the appr. South-North long field with farm-looking buildings in the mid-way. North of the current soccer fields (or whatever).

Is it possible that Freeman does not know about it?

[Mr_Grubby]

Yes !! Baylies Field, West Island, MA. USA.
Aka Fairhaven.

Henry T Olden owner and pilot of his 'Sounds Airways' started Transcontinental flights in 1930.

His was one of the first Airlines to have a hostess and offer passengers a hot inflight meal.

Wonder how they would match up with todays in flight meal ??

Clint.

Not sure who has the helm ? But off you go.!!!!!

:ok::ok:

[RegDep]

I think I can take the Open House, as the real drivers both have so declared o :8

Mine is a bit far-fetched and post-festum, but lets have it. I will expedite it if it is not popular.

The drill: After this coronation, there was a major event arranged for the common people on a parade and exercise field, which later became and aerodrome. Which aerodrome?

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/marsalkka_2.gif

There is a certain connection to the today's event (my apologies, Clint :sad:)

[sabredog]

Coronation of Tsar Nicholas 11 in 1896.
Khodynka Airfield.

[RegDep]

Sabredog has it!

Khodynka Aerodrome (officially Frunze Central Aerodrome) was an airport in Moscow, Russia located 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) northwest of the centre of the city. It was the only airport in the city until the opening of Vnukovo in 1941. It is no longer active and today the whole site has been redeveloped for other uses.

One connection to the Royal Event (yesterday) is that the spouse of Nicholas, Imperial Consort of All Russias, Alexandra Fjodorowna (originally Alix von Hessen-Darmstad) was a grand-daughter of Queen Victoria, and had been raised in her court since she was six years old, as her mother Princess Alice had died.

(This was, BTW, one of the reasons why Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany corresponded in English in part of the Dear Willy - Dear Nick correspondence (Giggle this!). The mother of Wilhelm II was the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria.)

Over to you, Sir!

[sabredog]

Thank you,Regdep.
Open House.

[Duckbutt]

Thank you Mr Sabredog. Have a look at this one (current view):

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/Twyler/Puzz-39.jpg

NB I shall be brave and try to make it through this challange but you should be aware that it is no means certain as I have a bad case of man flu.

[RegDep]

Looks Mediterranean…..

[Duckbutt]

The location is indeed in the general area of the body of water that you mention, Reg.

[RegDep]

How about Northern Morocco?

[Duckbutt]

Not Northern Morroco.

[RegDep]

OK, was following wrong troops. Square one, here we come again!

[sycamore]

Could it be in Greece..?

[Duckbutt]

Not Greece

[seacue]

small fields = Italy ???

[Duckbutt]

Keep going Seacue

[sabredog]

Castelvetrano Airfield?

[RegDep]

Castelvetrano Airfield?

Oh shoot, should have followed the troops, just a bit longer :(. Gave up in Algeria…. :ugh:.

[Duckbutt]

Castelvetrano in Sicily it is. Nearly Reg, you've worked for it but Sabredog was there first.

(Hope you won't be offended if I say its nice to see you around again Terrance)

[sabredog]

Thank you,Duckbutt,that is very kind of you.
I really think seacue should take the helm as he was the Pathfinder for this challenge,failing that,perhaps Regdep should take over.

[sabredog]

As neither Regdep or Seacue have taken up my offer, herewith the next challenge to keep this venerable thread moving;
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/afq2-1.jpg

[Whispering Giant]

RAF Upottery - otherwise known as Smetharpe. located 6miles to thee north of Honiton in Devon.

[sabredog]

Very well done,Whispering (Britannia) Giant. Local knowledge strikes again!
You have control.

[Whispering Giant]

Not got any photo's to hand - so need to declare open house.

[descol]

try this one

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

[SeenTheLight]

Salzburg ?

[descol]

STL - not Salzburg

[sisemen]

ex RAF by the looks of it.

[minuteman]

I see a JetBlue and a Continental-liveried turboprop (?) so are we in the USA?

[descol]

Yes - it is Jet Blue and it is USA

[seacue]

Burlington, Vermont, per chance?

Edited to add: In the very unlikely event that I am correct, I declare Open House. I'll be away from my computer for a while.

[descol]

seacue - you are correct :ok:- looks like its open house again

[seacue]

It has been quiet for quite a while. Here's another one.......
http://members.toast.net/rcarpen/airp33x.jpg
The list says that this image has not been posted before.

[Mr_Grubby]

seacue.

What are you on ?

C.

[seacue]

Picture from an apartment building. Terminal building at left of picture, parking structure at right. It's too easy with a daytime photo.

[sidtheesexist]

Complete shot in the dark :E, Dubai Intl??? Green and Red on carpark are Emirates clours no? In v v v unlikely event of me being correct, open house.

[seacue]

Those are Christmas colors in the elevator/lift glass-brick towers, thus not Dubai.

[seacue]

A clue to completely give away the answer: There is a rail transit station in the
photo.

[RegDep]

Ronald Reagan Washington National

[seacue]

Yes, RegDep is correct. You are in control.

Daytime pic of about the same view:
http://members.toast.net/rcarpen/airp110504.jpg

[RegDep]

Here's your next:

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/AN.jpg

[dixi188]

Pump station in Saudi?

[RegDep]

No dixi, not a pump station in Saudi.

[sabredog]

"Altenburg" airfield,Nevada.

[RegDep]

Correct sabredog,

One of the practicing copy target airfields in Nevada, USA, this one to match Altenburg Soviet AFB (currently EDAC Altenburg Nobitz) in Saxony Germany, (former DDR area).

One might remember me posting a similar pair a while ago with practicing copy in Brandenburg (then DDR) and the real one in West Germany.

Kind of tit-for-tat.

Your control sabredog :ok:

[sabredog]

Thank you,Regdep.
Next;
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/quiz8-2-1.jpg

[sycamore]

Somewhere in Scandinavia..?

[sabredog]

No, not Scandinavian.

[twochai]

Eastern Canada, by chance, perhaps in Quebec?

A really big place, by the way, with lots of airports in the middle of nowhere!

[sabredog]

Not Canada,Twochai.

[RegDep]

OK, where would you have this combination of glacio-fluvial ridges, forestry patterns and type of aerodrome? Scandinavia and Canada have been ruled out. Finland, too, assuming that one counts it into Scandinavia, but the aerodrome does not fit either. North-Eastern Russia? I doubt? Eastern Poland? Naw…

Maybe the stab on Canada was a bit unfortunately phrased. USA?

[sabredog]

Not the U.S.A.,and not North Eastern Russia.
Being pedantic,it is not eastern Poland!

[RegDep]

Borsk (Wdzydze) cold war reserve airfield, currently closed.

Pretty much Central Poland :cool:

[sabredog]

Correct,Regdep. So glad you picked up on geographical pedantry.
Your control.

[RegDep]

So glad you picked up on geographical pedantry

Well, in fact went down a list of cold war airfields. Luckily yours was pretty early on alphabets….

Next:

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/he.jpg

[chevvron]

Looks like Greece to me so I'll kick off with Chania (Souda Bay)

[RegDep]

Not Greece, chevvron.

[sabredog]

Haapsalu Airbase,Estonia. Have seen it named as Tokhaapsalu.

[RegDep]

sabredog, yes: Haapsalu (Kiltsi, Хаапсалу), ex Soviet Airfield in Estonia, ICAO code EEHU. Indeed in some context called Tokhaapsalu.

Your serve :ok:

[sabredog]

Thank you,Regdep.
I am afraid it is;
Open House.

[descol]

Here's another one

http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/descol/prune5may.jpg

[descol]

24 hours - time for a clue - think islands and saints

[sabredog]

Three names for this airport,depending when the photograph was taken;
Harry S. Truman Airport,1963/St.Thomas Airport or Cyril E. King Airport,circa 1984.

[descol]

sabredog
you got it - I am not sure when the photo was taken - but it is at St Thomas - over to you

[sabredog]

Thank you,Descol.
Next challenge;
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/quiz13-1-1.jpg

[sycamore]

In Saudi..?

[sabredog]

Not Saudi,Sycamore.

[sycamore]

Around Saudi then ...?

[sabredog]

Not around Saudi,Sycamore.

[RegDep]

What does it leave for us? Not around Saudi, would probably leave Syria, maybe Iran. Israel does not use this king of hard shelters - Syria does. Syria and Iran have no land border with Saudi.

The North-African countries. And maybe China and US (West). You have smudged an aircraft, which means that it could be easily identifiable. Let me say South-West USA.

[sycamore]

Could the a/c ,centre bottom be Mirage F1s?

[Bengal Lancer]

Thumrait Oman?

BL

[sabredog]

Regdep. No, to all countries you refered to.
Sycamore. Not too sure, but could be possible.
Bengal Lancer. No not Thrumrait.

[RegDep]

but could be possible leaves

France, Ecuador, Greece, Irak, Iran, Jordania, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Qatar, Spain, South Africa.

I believe we have eliminated Iraq, Jordania, Kuwait, and Qatar as "Not around Saudi". Iran has been eliminated, too.

Leaves Libya, Morocco Equador, Greece, France (Sic!), Spain, and South Africa.

Terrain leaves Morocco and Libya. Which?

[sabredog]

None of the above.

[Old-Duffer]

Aden or Australia?

Old Duffer

[sycamore]

Algeria, Niger, India ? looked at Chad and Sudan,but nothing there..!

[sabredog]

One of the first three countries you name is correct,Sycamore.
Old Duffer,not Australia.

[RegDep]

Sabredog,


sycamore: Could the a/c, centre bottom be Mirage F1s?

sabredog: Not too sure, but could be possible.

RegDep: leaves France, Ecuador, Greece, Irak, Iran, Jordania, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Qatar, Spain, South Africa.

sabredog: None of the above.

Could you please confirm that my understanding is correct: It could be possible that they are Mirage F1s, which have been sold to the listed countries. However, the challenge is not in the countries where Mirage F1 has been sold to.

Edit to say that this question is now moot.

[RegDep]

Leh Kushok Bakula Rinpoche Airport / Leh AFS, IXL - VILH, in Jammu & Kashmir, India

34°08′08″N 77°32′44″E

[sabredog]

Correct.
YHC.

[RegDep]

TNX

NXT:

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/7.jpg

[sycamore]

Sabredog, I think the Mirage F1s were Su30s,and the `blob` covers an Il-76 Phalcon/AWACs..Don`t think Jaguars were there at that altitude..!

[Old-Duffer]

The white buildings on the right remind me of one of those Nazi 'master race' holiday camps up on the Baltic Coast, so I'm going for East Germany (as was)/Prussia.

It looks, however, as if it's seen better days as an airfield!!

Old Duffer

[RegDep]

Not Eastern Germany, Old-Duffer, nor the rest of your ID :).

Regarding the currency of the airfield I concur ;).

Reg

[RegDep]

Good-night clues:

Used to be exercise field for military and was used as an "airfield" during 1913 - 1914. Started as normal aerodrome in 1924,there was from 1925 to 1936 scheduled passenger traffic, in 1932 to 39 European destinations. After post WW2 military use, was gradually phased out, and is now an important sand and dune biotope in its geographical area.

Night
Reg

[Old-Duffer]

Netherlands?

[RegDep]

Not The Netherlands Old-Duffer