Which Aerodrome Mk II

[sabredog]

Puntacana Tower in the Dominican Republic?
Must be quite an old photograph,Mr.Grubby?

http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/punta-cana-airport-1984-1.jpg

[descol]

looks like a good call sabredog !

[Mr_Grubby]

Yes sabredog correct and it is an old photo. Not sure when !

Over to you.

C.

[Prince of Dzun]

descol and sabredog;

May I take you back to Page 267 and image 5336. That is not Ipoh!! It is Paya Lebah which was Singapores' new airport opened in August 1955. The Malayan Airways DC-3 is facing East towards the single Rw 02/20. The photograph was possible taken not long after the airport opened. Do you happen to have other photographs of airports on Malayan Airways route structure 1950-1960. Malacca, Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh, Taiping, Penang, Alor Star, Kuantan, Kota Baru, Kuching, Sibu, Brunei, Labuan, Jesselton, Sandakan. I was there for many years and those particular airports are drenched in memories for me. Regards

Prince of Dzun.

[sabredog]

Thank you,Mr.Grubby.Next challenge;
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/WA7-1-1.jpg

[sabredog]

Prince of Dzun.
Please check your P.M.s regarding your last post.
Many Thanks.

[olympus]

Looks like Saltsburg. Pennsylvania? Or Salisbury!!! (Eyes not too good!)

[Davidsoffice]

Looks like the DC3 has a VP-Y reg on the wing and the tower has a Salisbury title...........

[sabredog]

Yes, Salisbury Airport,Rhodesia.
Olympus or David's Office YHC.

[Davidsoffice]

I've got nothing to post so please go ahead.

[sabredog]

Thank you David's Office.
Olympus, YHC.

[Tacklebury]

Well it's 24 hours now since Olympus has had Open House.

Anyone object if I post ??

Tack.

[Airclues]

Anyone object if I post ?

No.

Dave

[Tacklebury]

Right.

Here's one.

T.

http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport154.jpg

[evansb]

I can see my old house from here ! I lived, worked and flew out of here in the late 1970s and early 1980. We are looking down runway 08 at Watson lake, Yukon. CYQH.
The cross-wind runway is closed. The aerodrome was part of the Northwest Staging route during WW.II, and was shared by the USAAF and RCAF. It was a cold weather test facility for the RCAF during the immediate post-war period. The aerodrome still has an ILS, VOR/DME and an NDB. The old wooden terminal building is an historical site.

[Tacklebury]

evansb.

Hey well done !!

You have the helm.

T.

[Prince of Dzun]

Sabredog and descol,

Have replied to your PMs. Regards,

Prince of Dzun.

[olympus]

Sorry about not responding to the OH, have been off-line for a couple of days. Back now.

[evansb]

Thanks Tacklebury. Excellent challenge. Here is the next mystery aerodrome:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD110610.jpg

[chevvron]

Swanton Morley?

[sidtheesexist]

Chevvron beat me to it I believe....

[Phileas Fogg]

I got snowed in at Swanton Morley for 3 days circa 1978/79, our camp Eastern Radar/Watton was all male, Swanton Morley was pretty much all female .... We had a terrible time. :)

[evansb]

chevvron is correct.:ok: Swanton-Morley. Your turn.

[evansb]

So, chevvron is dead. I guess. I'll therefore declare OPEN HOUSE in his wake.

[Mr_Grubby]

ok, as chevvron seems to have given up the oxygen habit, I'll post.

C.

http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport153.jpg

[Corsairoz]

I'll have a first stab as its quiet in here. Probably a long way off, but it gets it started.

The landscape is reminsicent of my visit to Tucson a few years ago. And the barn looks vaguely North American.

So, Davis-Monthan ?

[Mr_Grubby]

It is North America but not Davis Monthan.

C.

[evansb]

El Paso, Texas ?

[Mr_Grubby]

No, not Texas.

C.

[sycamore]

Albuquerque ?

[Mr_Grubby]

No not Albuquerque.

A clue :- building this aerodrome was always a bit of a gamble !

That should do it.

C.

[RegDep]

That would then be

- Sky Corral Airport, Las Vegas, NV

- Barton Field, Las Vegas, NV

- Alamo Airport -> McCarran Field -> McCarran International Airport

- Sky Haven Airport -> North Las Vegas Airport

But my bet goes to

- Western Air Express Field -> McCarran Field -> Nellis AFB

[sabredog]

Anderson Field (Rockwell Field) ,Nevada,U.S.A.

[Mr_Grubby]

sabredog.

Yes indeed. Opened on Thanksgiving Day 1920 and was Las Vegas's first airport. It closed in 1929. The site has since been swallowed up by the city.

Over to you.

C.

[sabredog]

Thank you,Mr.Grubby.
Next challenge;
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/WA17.jpg

[Mr_Grubby]

Looking at the runway markings, America ?

[Corsairoz]

Looking at the terrain and flora I would move further North into Canada.

[sabredog]

Not Canada,Corsair.
U.S.A. is correct Mr.Grubby.

[RegDep]

Anderson Field (Rockwell Field), Nevada, U.S.A.

Should Paul Freeman be told?

[Corsairoz]

I have time today, but its foxed me thus far.

Obviously very newly constructed or rebuilt. An airpark in the Pacific NorthWest maybe?

Are there expensive houses or lodges just out of view?

Oregon?

[sabredog]

Corsairoz.
To the best of my knowledge, the airfield/airport is not a rebuild.
Having looked on Google Earth, I cannot see any buildings/lodges of any significance close by. It is a County Airport within a State.

[Mr_Grubby]

Who the heck is Paul Freeman ??

C.

[sabredog]

Mr.Grubby.
Mr.Paul Freeman has an interesting site which relates to "Abandoned and Little known Airfields" of the U.S.A. He appears not to have Andrews Field listed for Nevada.

[Mr_Grubby]

Thank you sabredog for the explanation. I will be forever in your debt.

But are we talking Anderson Field here or Anderews Field ?

C.

[sabredog]

Apologies,Mr.Grubby.
I was refering to your last challenge;
Anderson Field (Rockwell Field) ,Nevada, not Andrewsfield,U.K.

[India Four Two]

Looking at the terrain and flora I would move further North into Canada. Corsairoz, for future reference, if that runway was in Canada, it would be "02" ;)

sd, somewhere in New England?

[Corsairoz]

Thanks.

'Enthusiastic amateur' usually fits me well.

I have scoured New England...top to bottom. Still, kept me away from the real work.....

[sabredog]

Not New England,Simon, but an East Coast State with an Atlantic seaboard, with strong Civil War connections.

[Mr_Grubby]

Is it in South Carolina ?

The conection to the Civil War being Fort Sumter ?

C.

[sabredog]

Not North or South Carolina,Mr.Grubby. Go further north.

[Corsairoz]

So far I have found Lee County Airport (Robert E Lee), and Union County Airport, both in Virginia.

Both fit the clue...neither fit the picture. Onwards....


Edit: and then...... Gotcha !!! Lunenburg County Airport, Virginia......

[sabredog]

Well done,Corsairoz. Great display of perseverence.
YHC

[Corsairoz]

Phew..I was determined on that one.

OK, I have checked and this one does not seem to have been covered. Probably won't last long though.....


http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u249/corsairoz/number04.jpg

[Mr_Grubby]

Italy ?

C.

[Corsairoz]

Mr_Grubby, Italy is correct..... I'd love to know how that conclusion was reached though.....

[Mr_Grubby]

Corsairoz.

Easy, I like Italian food.

C.:ok:

[Mr_Grubby]

Do they make cars here ?

C.

[Corsairoz]

Well, its a distance from Maranello.....and car manufacture is not the first thing that springs to mind.....

Indeed cars might not be needed with TGV's thundering past on those train tracks.......

Although there is a racing historical link.

[RegDep]

LIRU Roma Urbe

racing historical link

Horse racing?

[Mr_Grubby]

racing historical link.

Does the factory make plimsolls for the Army ?

C.

[Corsairoz]

Roma Urbe it is, formerly Aeroporto del Littorio. Just a few kilometers north of Rome centre and on the main Milan - Rome TGV line. Hosted Auto racing in the late 20's early 30's. Name changed for poilical correctness after the Mussolini era.

Now operating as essentially a Flying club and for sightseeing trips. Less that a few hundred metres from Sky Italia, the TV Broadcaster, who I visit a lot.

The River Tiber can just be seen in the bottom right corner of the picture above.

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u249/corsairoz/Number05.jpg

RegDep, YHC.

[RegDep]

Thanks Corsairoz! I thought the reference of races was the horse-racing track just over the Tiber (below your aircraft).

A bit unorthodox selection of challenge (rolled GiggleEarth a dozen times randomly and selected the one closest to where it stopped):

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Bildschirmfoto2011-06-15um152728.png

[RegDep]

Clue for the night shift: The GiggleEarth stopped pretty arctic.

[sabredog]

Greenlandair S-61,so could be any one of the eight or nine Heliports in Greenland.
Nuuk,perhaps?

[RegDep]

Not Nuuk and not just heliport, sabredog.

[Cows getting bigger]

Sisimiut? :cool:

[RegDep]

Not Sisimiut, either, CCB. Don't head north.

[TheChitterneFlyer]

Frederikshab perhaps?

[RegDep]

Not Frederikshab, TCF, but you are heading the correct way.

[Mr_Grubby]

Kangerlussuaq (Sondestrom,Bluie west 1)

C.

[RegDep]

Hey-hey! Nobody likes my challenge :{.

TCF headed correctly to Fredrikshab from Sisimiut. Where are you heading to Mr Grubby?

BTW the Saab 96 in the picture is of the same make and colour as my car in early 70s (not in Greenland and not a clue).

[chevvron]

Sorry chaps, ref #5541 I was away from my netbook for a few days and couldn't turn it on; would have 'Open Housed' anyway.

[RegDep]

Good morning Mr. Grubby. Would you please put this challenge out of it's misery…..

[Mr_Grubby]

Good morning Reg.

Sorry, no can do on this one. You have us all beat !!!

Clint.:D

[RegDep]

Cannot be Mr. Grubby. How about the bearing and distance, and not just the general direction?

Narsarsuaq Airport
IATA: UAK – ICAO: BGBW

Picture from Panoramio.

Open House

(And I not German am, Mr Grubby)

Edit: Realizing now that this aerodrome has been posted already once, in 2009 :O. In fact, twice: as Bluie West One in 2008.

[olympus]

RegDep's last post has left me confused. Is his last challenge over? Did Mr Grubby get it? Can RegDep call Open House on his own challenge?

I would like to offer this one to keep the thread alive (if not appropriate, no doubt someone will inform me and I will remove it).

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg150/gwpcrescue/mini-airfield16.jpg

The airport's current name is not the one it had at the time the photo was taken.

[Mr_Grubby]

olympus.

Yes I am a little confused after Reg's last challenge. Some times I wonder what planet he's on and what colour his sky is.

Your challenge, is it a Greek Island ?

Clint.

[olympus]

Not a Greek island and quite a long way from Greece.

[merlinxx]

Embakasi old

[RegDep]

Olympus and Mr Grubby

I am on the Planet Earth, currently in a region where the sun shines 24 hours per day :)

I called the challence of as unresolved and consequently decared Open House, as I was not able to monitor it within a reasonable time frame.

See you gentlemen later :ok:

[olympus]

RegDep - No offence intended. Just wanted to know whether your challenge had been satisfactorily concluded or not as it wasn't clear from your last post.

Merlinxx - not Embakasi. Right continent though!

[RegDep]

None taken Olympus :)

Thanks and take care.

[olympus]

Oh dear, this one seems to be dying a death. Time for a clue to resuscitate it.

When the photo was taken (1968) the city which this airport serves was capital of a territory which has subsequently (re-)gained its independence.

[merlinxx]

FIMP/MRU have not been there since mid 70s

[olympus]

Not Mauritius. It's mainland Africa.

[chevvron]

Entebbe perhaps?

[olympus]

Not Entebbe but getting warmer!

[spook]

Asmara (Yohannes IV) International Airport, Eritrea?

[Tempsford]

Salisbury perhaps?

[Phileas Fogg]

Kinshasa? .....

[olympus]

Spook has it! Asmara International Airport formerly Yohannes IV Airport.

When the photo was taken (in 1968) Eritrea was part of Ethiopia to whom it had been ceded in 1951 by UN mandate (and against the wishes of its inhabitants). It regained its independence in 1993 after a long and bloody war with Ethiopia.

I used to go there regularly in the early 70s and for a time was involved in trying to broker a deal with the IEAF to repatriate one of their abandoned Fairey Fireflies of which a fair number littered the military ramp at Yohannes IV. I don't think it ever happened.

Spook has control!

[spook]

Thanks Olympus!

Here is the next one...

http://i387.photobucket.com/albums/oo311/spook228/38447366quz.jpg

[Background Noise]

I'm pretty sure that's Marka, Amman.

[spook]

Well that was quick! Yes Marka it is.

[Background Noise]

Ok - here's another quick one:

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

[Cows getting bigger]

Linton on Ouse.......... on a sunny day :)

[KeMac]

I'll take a bit of a flyer (pls pardon pun) at Benson

[Background Noise]

Linton it is - somewhat soggy, 10-ish years ago.

Over to Cows.

[Cows getting bigger]

Open house chaps.

[ZH875]

Just found some old photos.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v604/ZH875/IMG_0991.jpg

[asw28-866]

Obviously ex-military now civil using part of the original structure. AEF/UAS chipmunk from Cambridge perhaps looking at the towering terrain thereabouts. My guess is Bourn!

OH in the unlikely...866

[ZH875]

866, the only correct part of your guess is that it was a Chipmunk.



The chances are that it was based at RAF Finningley.

ZH

[Background Noise]

Is it Metheringham?

[ZH875]

Is it Metheringham?

Indeed it is, around 1983/1984.

Over to you.

[Background Noise]

Back to you if you've found more than one old photo. Much more interesting. Otherwise open house.

[ZH875]

Thanks, but fair is fair, Open House.

ZH

[Background Noise]

It's open to you too :)

[scotbill]

This one has been on before but the picture seems to have been deleted.



http://i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa453/scotbill/aerodrome.jpg

[Cows getting bigger]

Benbecula. OH?

[scotbill]

Correct - as it was in 1981.
The Dakota on the tarmac was the last one in the RAF, I believe.

[scotbill]

This one is slightly trickier


http://i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa453/scotbill/Viscountb62.jpg

[Bigt]

North Africa?

[Mr_Grubby]

Tangiers ?

[scotbill]

Yes, the British European Airways Viscount is out of its normal comfort zone - but it's not Tangiers.

[Mr_Grubby]

King Idris Airport Tripoli ?????

BEA operating for Air Malta ???

C.

[scotbill]

No it is not Tripoli - but you are getting warm!

[Background Noise]

...Benghazi?

[scotbill]

Yes (topical or what!). Mr Grubby's surmise is correct. BEA V806 G-AOYH operating a Malta Airlines service in November '62. This little whiff of nostalgia would have been a hint if required.

http://i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa453/scotbill/CunEagleBritBenghazi62.jpg


In those pre-Gaddafi days the local Libyan wine was cheaper than the bottled water in the hotels.

[Background Noise]

So which is it - Benghazi?

I vaguely remember flying out in a RAF Britannia to Nairobi in 1964 as a small boy and stopping - few times I suppose (how far could a Britannia hop?) but think we must have stopped in Benghazi. Interesting pictures.

PS: Open house (if appropriate)

[scotbill]

Sorry if there was any confusion - but I thought I had said yes to Benghazi!
A current photo might be even more interesting.

[Mr_Grubby]

Don't think this has been done before. It's not on the list but it looks familiar.

C.



http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport145.jpg

[India Four Two]

Clint,

Somewhere in Western Europe? Possibly Holland or Germany?

S.

[Mr_Grubby]

S.

No, not Holland or Germany but Germany would be a good place to start.

C.

[Davidsoffice]

If Germany is to be a good place to start I would be tempted to go to Austria or Poland next but it does look flat so.... Denmark?

[Mr_Grubby]

Davidsoffice,

Not Denmark. But yes, Austria or Poland. But which one ????

C.

[Davidsoffice]

I'll make a stab to keep the thread going.... Austria and Wels.

[Mr_Grubby]

Davidsoffice.

Doh !! 50 /50 chance and you went for the wrong one !!
Not Austria.

C.

[Corsairoz]

OK, I'll have a wild stab to keep it going, Northern Poland and Gdansk.

C

[Mr_Grubby]

C.

Yes, but southern Poland.

The scene of a particularly dastardly trick by the dreaded Hun.

C.

[evansb]

Krakow, Poland ?

[Mr_Grubby]

Krakow, no.

But close.

Nazi forces posing as Poles on 31 August 1939.

C.

[olympus]

Gleiwitz..

[Mr_Grubby]

olympus.

Correct ! Well done sir.

The Gleiwitz incident was a staged attack by Nazi forces posing as Poles on 31 August 1939, against the German radio station Sender Gleiwitz in Gleiwitz, Upper Silesia, on the eve of World War II in Europe.

On the night of 31 August 1939, a small group of German operatives, dressed in Polish uniforms and led by Naujocks seized the Gleiwitz station and broadcast a short anti-German message in Polish (sources vary on the content of the message).

The Germans' goal was to make the attack and the broadcast look like the work of anti-German Polish saboteurs.

The rest is history..........

You have control.

Clint.

[olympus]

Try this one:-

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg150/gwpcrescue/mini-Airfield17.jpg

[evansb]

East Anglia ?

[chevvron]

Bovingdon? Yeah I know we've had it before but it's a new aspect.

[olympus]

East Anglia, yes, just about. Bovingdon - no.

Other than the existence of a memorial and the complete absence of trees, hedges etc, on the ground you would be hard pushed to tell that there had ever been an airfield here. From the air the faint outline of the runways is visible together with vestiges of concrete peri tracks still used for agricultural purposes.

[The Member]

Polebrook?

[clunckdriver]

Interesting, looks like back then the USAAC had more snowplows at one airfield than all of last winters British airports put together!

[Hen Ddraig]

Could it be Ridgewell with 2 memorials one to 381st Bombardment Group and one to 90 Squadron RAF

[olympus]

Not Polebrook nor Ridgewell.

[ZH875]

Steeple Morden OH if correct

[olympus]

Steeple Morden it is.

Here is another view of the tower on a nicer day:-

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg150/gwpcrescue/mini-RAFSteepleMordenAirfield.jpg

Can anyone identify the aircraft in the circuit?

This is the rather splendid memorial at Steeple Morden:-

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg150/gwpcrescue/mini-SteepleMordenAirfieldMemorial.jpg

ZH875 has declared Open House.

[fustall]

Aircraft in the picture is a Mosquito.;)

Looks like a 'thimble nose' one(radar)?

[India Four Two]

Sorry for the small size:

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c309/india42/WAD20110630.jpg

[olympus]

...Africa?

[India Four Two]

Not Africa.

[spook]

Early Larnaca?

[scotbill]

or Nicosia?

[India Four Two]

Larnaca it is. The picture is from a BBC web page about a botched hostage rescue attempt by Egyptian special forces in 1978, that ended up in a gun battle with Cypriot security forces:

BBC ON THIS DAY | 19 | 1978: Egyptian forces die in Cyprus gunfight (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/19/newsid_2565000/2565701.stm)

spook has control.

[Duckbutt]

Hope you won't feel offended Spook but as it's been nearly 48 hours now, just to keep things moving:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/Twyler/Puzz42.jpg

[India Four Two]

Good move, Duckbutt. I was beginning to think I had killed the thread!

I'll start the ball rolling. Two Caudron GIIIs and a Spad (S VII?), so somewhere in France?

Correction: perhaps an S VIII?

[Duckbutt]

Not France Mr India.

[Mr_Grubby]

Ruffy-Bauman School, Acton Aerodrome.

C.

[Duckbutt]

That's the one Mr Grubby, over to you.

[Mr_Grubby]

Here we go !!

C.

http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport157.jpg

[Corsairoz]

Stoney Cross?


C

[Mr_Grubby]

Corsairoz.

No sorry.

C.

[ZH875]

That be RAF Hixon home of 30 OTU.

OH - (if correct) as nothing suitable handy.

[Duckbutt]

How about Hixon?

[Mr_Grubby]

ZH875, Duckbutt.

Wow !! A photo finish. Just 3 minutes apart.

As ZH875 declared OH, might I suggest Duckbutt has the helm.

C.:ok:

[Duckbutt]

What about this one:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/Twyler/Puzz44.jpg

[Mr_Grubby]

Montpellier - Frejorgues Airport.

C.

[Duckbutt]

Yer did it again Clint, all yours

[Mr_Grubby]

I don't want to hog the thread so OH. Let somebody else have a go.

C.

[Noyade]

Couldn't find this on the list...

http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/2327/0873903.jpg (http://img13.imageshack.us/i/0873903.jpg/)

[chevvron]

Hull /Paull

[Davidsoffice]

Its the 'cafe' du pont at Fonteney/Tresigny.

[Noyade]

Its the 'cafe' du pont at Fonteney/Tresigny. :ok: Your control David...

Photo Search Results | Airliners.net (http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.search?placesearch=Fontenay-Tresigny%20%28-%20Chaubuisson%29%20%28LFPQ%29&distinct_entry=true)

[Davidsoffice]

Thanks. I dropped in a couple of years back just to see the du pont. or Sahara...

Open house until I pull my slide scanner out of storage.

[Davidsoffice]

Two quick scans... One is already on the list but the image has been removed and from the text I imagine it was a different view. The second doesn't comply with the rules as I don't know what the airfield is/was but I do know the area where it is so you'd be helping me identify it!

http://www.pprune.org/[IMG]http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu285/ds247_photos/afield.jpghttp://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu285/ds247_photos/afield.jpg


http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu285/ds247_photos/airfield.jpg
[IMG]http://www.pprune.org/http://i656.photobucket.com/albums/uu285/ds247_photos/airfield.jpg

[The Member]

Panshanger is the first photo no idea on second.

[Flap40]

It looks like you might have posted 4 pictures but I can only see the middle two and two broken image place holders.

The second image that I can see (taken out of the stbd side of an ATR) is Goxhill. Agree on Panshanger for the other.

[Davidsoffice]

Thanks for that chaps. Goxhill looks right. It was an ATR on approach to Humberside.
As that wasn't within the rules though, The member gets control with Panshanger. (From a 146, probably, on approach to Hatfield)

[The Member]

Thanks Davidsoffice - Open House please

[Corsairoz]

How about this one:

Yes, I have been sneaky and photoshopped out the runway alignment for now. But nothing else is doctored. Too many other clues around. Looks like a quiet day though......

I had one of my most memorable flights from here about 15 years ago in a little 172. But its not my pic.

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u249/corsairoz/Number7.jpg

[Davidsoffice]

A day without a bite.... It reminded me of an Airpark near Phoenix though I don't think the road was so close. Given the buildings and roadway I'm still tempted to go for the USA and Arizona though there may be too much green grass.

[Corsairoz]

Indeed it is USA, but not Arizona.

Its a very seasonally busy airport with a Hollywood link.

And a photo with a view in the opposite direction will be the next clue......it will give most of the game away though.

I'll put the opposite view pic up this pm if no one gets close.

[Corsairoz]

OK since its so quiet, here is the view from the opposite direction....

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u249/corsairoz/Number8.jpg

[flyingwing]

Van Nuys? (not a good match to web site pictures, I must admit).

[Corsairoz]

No sorry, not Van Nuys. Not California.

You need to get much more elevated than California.

[Russell Gulch]

Well my first thought after the second photo was the Tetons, but Jackson Hole is nothing like this airfield.

Stab-in-the-dark: Idaho?

Russell

[Corsairoz]

Not Idaho.

Elevation 5,000 ft +

C

[CathayBrat]

Utah? Thought it may have something to do with the sun-dance film festival, but no airport there!

[Corsairoz]

Utah is correct and Sundance is indeed the Hollywood link.

Not quite there....but close.......

[RegDep]

Heber City Municipal, Russ McDonald Field

19 miles / 30 km from Sundance, UT

[Corsairoz]

Correct RegDep

Heber City, a short drive from Park City where I was enjoying a ski holiday some years ago (OK many years ago....). Got bored with skiing and drove to Heber City on a clear day and rented a C172 within 60 minutes of just turning up. (but I did at that time have an FAA licence too.)

Fantastic 90 minutes flying along one valley towards Salt Lake City over the ski resorts then back in through another valley over Alta and Arapahoe ski resorts. One of the most spectacular flights I ever did.

An added bonus was spotting a P51 being polished in a hanger and not only helping but chewing the cud with its enthusiastic owner. Happy times.

Heber City Airport is the closest to Sundance and once a year when the film festival is on it is host to many expensive private and corporate jets. Elevation 5300ft or therabouts.

A stunning part of the world....

http://m1.ikiwq.com/img/xl/5vwAUWS3wSQRYizH5Stouc.jpg

RegDep, you have control.

corsairoz

[RegDep]

Thanks Corsairoz!

Here's mine, not taken by me, though :O

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/WA-6.jpg

[RegDep]

Clue No 1: It is not what it would appear to be.

[evansb]

Neutralized aircraft somewhere in Switzerland ?

[RegDep]

Neutralized, yes; Switzerland, no.

[sycamore]

What`s that `Demoiselle` ? doing in the middle ? Irish ,perhaps ?
Forget that; Sweden ?

[RegDep]

No idea what the Demoiselle-looking creature is. The caption says 'Impounded RAF Lancasters and a Mosquito behind them'. And it is in Sweden.

Edit: Found the picture in another site and it says "Monoplane M1". Go figure.

The text says that there should be an FFV Ö 1 Tummelisa between the second Lancaster and the Mosquito. Cannot see that clearly.

[sycamore]

A little `googling ; M 1 and M2 were the 2 Swedish Army monoplanes in 1913,so that may be it between the Lancs; no idea if it was Swedish made,or a copy of possibly a Morane.Tummeliten/lisa were biplanes produced later,designed/built in Sweden,as trainers.The last one last flew in `62 and now in a Museum,but a replica was built by Mikkal Carlson ,he who had the landing accident in his Fokker Triplane at Duxford on Sunday.. ed; it may be `head-on` just by the far Lanc`s stbd wheel..

ed2,no idea where though...

[Mr_Grubby]

Malmslätt, Östergötland,Sweden.

C.

[RegDep]

Correct, Mr Grubby.

There is a website that attributes this picture to Rinkaby in Skåne, Sweden, and another that attributes it to Malmslätt /Malmen in Östergötland.

I believe the latter. One of the Lancasters had originally landed in Rinkaby on 13 Jan 1945, the other in Kalmar on 30 Aug 1944.

Ndlandare frn Storbritannien - RAF (http://www.forcedlandingcollection.se/RAF/indexRAF.html)

Closest to camera Lancaster Mk.I PB842, then Monoplanet M 1, Lancaster Mk.III PB379/G, Ö 1 Tummelisa and Mosquito PR Mk.IX LR435/G.

These aeroplanes appear to have been displayed in an air-show in summer 1945, hence the exotic combination of types.

Over to you!

[Mr_Grubby]

This place is not on the list.

http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport158.jpg

[Mr_Grubby]

Well, nearly 24 hours and not a bite so a clue.

This picture was taken in 1942 but flying started in 1914. Now the place is a major airport.

C.

[RegDep]

RAAF Ballarat

I din't know if there is a connection with Black Jack of Ballarat and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

[Mr_Grubby]

Spot on Reg.

You have control.

Clint.

[RegDep]

Thank you Sir!

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/110714.jpg

[sabredog]

Augsburg-Haunstetten Airfield.

[RegDep]

Augsburg-Haunstetten Airfield.

Correct sabredog!

Over to you.

[sabredog]

Once again;
Open House.

[Noyade]

http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/6495/airportxi.jpg (http://img832.imageshack.us/i/airportxi.jpg/)

[Mr_Grubby]

Not sure where this is but I think it is a HS 125 on a sales tour of North America in 1964.

C.

[Mr_Grubby]

How about Wilmington, Del.

C.

[Noyade]

Well done Mr Grubby! :ok:

All yours.

[Mr_Grubby]

Thanks Noyade.

Clint.

http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport156.jpg

[CharlieOneSix]

Longside, near Peterhead? (Open House if correct)

[Mr_Grubby]

CharlieOneSix,

Yes indeed. Well done.:D:D

As declared, Open House.

C.

[Noyade]

As declared, Open House. http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/9739/airportp.jpg (http://img197.imageshack.us/i/airportp.jpg/)

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/1101/airport2o.jpg (http://img94.imageshack.us/i/airport2o.jpg/)

[chevvron]

Tinian (where Enola Gay launched from)?

[Noyade]

Sorry, not Tinian, but it is an island. South West Pacific. Listed on this map...

http://img600.imageshack.us/img600/1425/mapvz.jpg (http://img600.imageshack.us/i/mapvz.jpg/)

[RegDep]

Pitu, Morotai

What is a Gibson Girl?

[Noyade]

Pitoe and Wama "Airdromes" on Morotai Island.

Well done Reg! :ok:

Your control.

[nacluv]

What is a Gibson Girl?Google is your friend... (http://wftw.nl/gibsongirl/gibsongirl.html)

:ok:

[RegDep]

Thanks Graeme and thanks nacluv :ok:

Next

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/2011-07-16um132540.jpg

[aerobelly]

Are those numberplates on some of the cars obscured? That suggests a US airbase not in the USA, but Yurp somewhere.


'b

[RegDep]

'b, yes they are obscured (by me), but it is not a US base. In Europe, though.

[aerobelly]

Well, the Ford Mustang in the foreground isn't sold in many countries, so I'd go for Belgium...

'b

[RegDep]

Sorry 'b, PPRuNe server crashed on me and I crashed to bed.

Well, the posh cars are a bit of a red herring. The event is the National Car Tuning Show in 2010.

[Bigt]

Netherlands

[RegDep]

Go East my son, go East!

[Noyade]

Is Geneva east? Getting some hits there with motor shows.

[RegDep]

Not east enough, Graeme. Where is the big market for posh cars?

Not far away from the country's capital, BTW, the aerodrome.

Try tuning your search.

[Noyade]

Not east enough

Sorry mate, hard to read a map while pouring wine. I guess it comes down to which is more important...finding your aerodrome or keeping my glass topped up?

:)

[RegDep]

Well, this country produces even some decent red wines. Used to be one of main suppliers of said nectar for the rest of the block.

[spook]

Bulgaria - Lesnovo

[RegDep]

Bulgaria - Lesnovo

Well spooked, Mr. Spook :ok:

Over to you!

PS: Nice pool you have there.

[spook]

Thank you RegDep!

Here is the next one...

http://i387.photobucket.com/albums/oo311/spook228/MD5.jpg

[Mr_Grubby]

France ??

C.

[sabredog]

Montaudran airfield and the Latécoère aircraft factory.

[spook]

Sabredog has it!

[sabredog]

Thank you,Spook.
"Open House"

[Tacklebury]

Thanks sabredog.

An easy one to keep things going.

T.

http://www.btinternet.com/~simon.gurry/Dadsphotos/airport155.jpg

[englishkev]

Old Sarum ?
Open house if correct

[Tacklebury]

englishkev.

Toooooo ........ easy. well done. Open house as declared.

Tack.

[Noyade]

Life is an open house.

Next...

http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/6430/64053856.jpg (http://img94.imageshack.us/i/64053856.jpg/)

[RegDep]

Somewhere along the "British Empire Routes"…...

[Noyade]

"British Empire Routes"…...
In 1936, Imperial Airways (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Airways) built an air station on --------. This operated as a staging point on scheduled trans-Atlantic flights by Imperial Airways and Pan American (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_American_World_Airways).
...................:)

[RegDep]

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/FrenchaircraftatBermuda1936.jpg

[Noyade]

I'll accept that. :)

Darrell's Island, Bermuda.

Your control Mr Depp. Can I call ya Johnny?

[RegDep]

Your control Mr Depp. Can I call ya Johnny?
Fine with me. But not Willy.

Here's the next

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Bildschirmfoto2011-07-18um124948.png

[HappyPass]

Evening Reg!
I think I know this one, it is Plaisance Sir Seewoosagur Ramgoolam Int'l Airport (FIMP) in Mauritius.
OH if correct, as I'm not much of an expert on the subject of airports...

[RegDep]

Hallo, HP.

Yes, you have got it right :D.

Open House requested.

[HappyPass]

You know what?
I'll try my luck... :)

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/5727/challengeor.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/27/challengeor.jpg/)

[sabredog]

Faleolo Airport

[HappyPass]

Got it in one try. :D
Your thread, sabredog.

[sabredog]

Thank you,Happy Pass.
Open House, once again.