View Full Version : What airfield is that?
Here's a new competition. You find an airfield (European, non-military) on google earth, and post it up. Then see if anyone can identify it, or at least say where it is. Hours of excitement and fun! On the other hand, it may be a complete dud. We shall see.
If this one's too obscure, I'll post an easier one, or add an exciting, fun clue. If still no-one responds, we'll know that identifying airfields is not exciting or fun after all.
Here it is. North is up, by the way.
http://i52.tinypic.com/2pobqrp.jpg
Load Toad
26th Dec 2010, 05:21
Something similar has been goin' on in AH&N forum:
http://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/372961-aerodrome-mk-ii-218.html
- You may just want to contribute to that.
acbus1
26th Dec 2010, 06:11
That's 2dguwwk airfield, RJM. :ok:
sisemen
26th Dec 2010, 06:20
But who put the smiley at the end of 24?
Hmm. The AH&N one's a bit pictorial. Maybe this is worth one more go, perhaps limited to UK airfields. I think I may suffering a post-Christmas physiological condition, but 2dguwwk has me stumped acbus, as does the smiley...
Here's another one, with a quaint little hill or rock just to the east:
http://i56.tinypic.com/28m1bfl.jpg
sisemen
26th Dec 2010, 06:52
The 2dguwwk refers to the pic title that you posted. Right click over the posted pic and at the bottom of the box you will see "properties"; left click on that and "bingo!"
As to the smiley if you follow runway 24 over the field at the end across the Y shaped road and small brown field next to it there lies a smiley with a brownish face!
Now - tell us the location as you've removed the pic!!
It's on the island of Sylt on the German North Sea coast.
I didn't call the pick 2dguwwk, btw, the computer did that. I called it the imaginative name of '1'. Still can't find the smiley, but you may have better resolution screen/eyeballs than I. :cool:
The pic's back again.
acbus1
26th Dec 2010, 07:24
Challenge no. 2:
...a quaint little hill or rock just to the east
Looking at the shadows from the buildings and the shadow due to the feature to the East, could it be that the feature is a quarry?
Some reasonably large aircraft parked up, but no light aircraft.
sisemen
26th Dec 2010, 07:33
In close up it's actually a group of houses
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c92/allan907/SyltSmiley.jpg
treadigraph
26th Dec 2010, 08:04
Thought the second one looked very familiar! It's Ronaldsway on the Isle of Man - looks a little different now; my colleagues were part of the team who finished extending the 26 end out into the sea earlier this year.
Bingo, treads! Your turn (should you wish to continue...)
You're right - the 'rock' probably is a quarry. More of a hazard to taxying :uhoh: than takeoff or landing.