Which Aerodrome Mk III

[TheChitterneFlyer]

I reckon Cows getting bigger has it!

[sabredog]

Correct,CgB.
R.A.F.Usworth/Sunderland Airport,County Durham.
YHC

[Cows getting bigger]

Open House gents. Should really be doing work right now!

[jindabyne]

Try this --

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb59/malgrosse/heythere.jpg

[descol]

jindabyne - looks like Truro ?

[jindabyne]

Certainly is - over to you!

[descol]

thanks
try this one

http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/descol/pprune5.jpg

[jindabyne]

Allegheny County?

[sabredog]

Huntsville Municipal Airport,AL.

[descol]

jindabyne - correct part of the world - but not Allegheny

[descol]

SD - you are too good at this - Huntsville it is
It opened as Huntsville flying field in the early 30s with a sod runway which closed in 1941- reopened in 1942 with a paved runway- Eastern Airways services began there in 1946
YHC

[sabredog]

Thank you,descol.
Apologies for the ;
Open House

[Noyade]

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/221/img054v.jpg (http://img15.imageshack.us/i/img054v.jpg/)

[Old Photo.Fanatic]

Landivisiau ?
If correct, open house.
OPF

[Noyade]

Landivisiau

:ok:

Open House.

[nvubu]

As it's Open House ...
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z474/nvubu/PPRuNe/2012-07-06a.jpg

edit: just checked ... it has appeared before, but with a much more recent photo.

[Tacklebury]

R.A.F. Honington?

[Cows getting bigger]

Looks a bit like Manby?

[nvubu]

Not Honnington, Manby or Shawbury.

edit: CGB - you were closer with Shawbury:ok:

[G-ARZG]

Sleap ? (yawn, just to get to 10 characters)

[Kieron Kirk]

Sealand.

Ciarain.

[jindabyne]

Scampton? -- I think

[Hen Ddraig]

I think it may be Ternhill

[nvubu]

None of Sleap, Sealand or Scampton.

Closest so far is Honnington - by about 10,500 Smoots according to GE:ok:

Will check back in in the morning.

edit: Neither is it Ternhill

[chevvron]

How about Hemswell?

[nvubu]

Not Hemswell either

[Tempsford]

RAF Catterick

[nvubu]

Sorry Tempsford, it isn't Catterick either.

All suggestions to date are all far too north.

I'm just off out for a couple of hours ... I'll post an overhead on my return.

[nvubu]

Actually double checking my source - I might be talking a load of cobblers as I now think that it might be a generic photo shot relating to the subject in hand.

So here are the overheads which should be a dead giveaway

1945:
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z474/nvubu/PPRuNe/2012-07-06c.jpg

1948:
http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z474/nvubu/PPRuNe/2012-07-06b.jpg

If I am talking cobblers, I have no idea of where the original photo was of - apologies.

[zetec2]

Silverstone ? OH if correct PH.

[chevvron]

Overheads are Silverstone, but the original photo isn't 'cos as far as I'm aware, Silverstone never had 'C' type hangars, so how about Waddington?

[nvubu]

Silverstone it is.

The other photo appeared in this (http://en.espnf1.com/f1/motorsport/story/22499.html) article about Silverstone, and I rather assumed it was Silverstone. However, all the suggestions kept going north rather than south, so I guess it isn't.

I've found an original source of this image here (http://cache4.asset-cache.net/gc/3397809-18th-september-1943-t-for-tilly-a-lancaster-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=OCUJ5gVf7YdJQI2Xhkc2QP7KlJv3v3iDjJk7h9kTosMCCJnuqH6QhTd0xz uNlIcxF426%2bdDXNh48ZfVb3cN4og%3d%3d) - still doesn't say where it is, although the caption below might help?

18th September 1943: 'T For Tilly', a Lancaster bomber repaired by the RAF Repair and Maintenance Service flies once again after being shot-up on a bombing mission. Original Publication: Picture Post - 1532 - After The Big Raid - pub. 1943 (Photo by Leonard McCombe/Picture Post/Getty Images)

Apologies for what seems to be an incorrect posting, or at least my incorrect answers :ugh:

zetec2 has declared Open House.

[evansb]

Here is the next challenge:

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WHAT_BLOODY_WATERDROME_IS_THIS.jpg

[sabredog]

WW2 seaplane wharf at Jericho Beach,Vancouver.

[evansb]

Yes, you are correct. Well done:D Your control.

[sabredog]

Many thanks,Bri.
Open House.

[Noyade]

Mid sixties and no terminal built yet...

http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/4986/img059ra.jpg (http://img838.imageshack.us/i/img059ra.jpg/)

[siftydog]

Mt Cook, NZ?

I think there's a lily on the tail of the Daks.......

[Noyade]

Mt Cook, NZ

Mount Cook it is mate. Your control Sifty. :ok:

[siftydog]

better OH it....sorry for the delay btw, was called on a trip straight after posting.

Sifty

[chevvron]

Anyone got an answer to the challenge at #2268? I think we've established it's not Silverstone as the overheads show 5 Bellman/T2 hangars with max 2 together, whereas the photo shows 3 'C' types grouped together plus a Bellman/T2, or possibly a T1, plus a distinctive non standard 'watch office/control tower, the 'C' types being mostly built pre-war. As far as I can make out on my 10'' screen there appear to be several Hurris parked near the hangars.

[Cows getting bigger]

I think the design of the tower is 5740/36 which was only allocated to 5 FTS airfields, RAF Shawbury being one of them. I'm also still intrigued by this one.

[Hen Ddraig]

The original picture of 2268 is in the Hulton archieve of Getty images, it shows the entire frontage of the hangars plus some more buildings and a tall tower backed by rising woodland on the left end. Difficult to make out detail on my small screen.

Hd

[Flap40]

If it is a 5740/36 tower the the options are Ternhill, Shawbury, Little Rissington, Hullavington & South Cerney.
All except Ternhill have the tower built in front of the hangar. Ternhill is the only one with the tower between two hangars and the difference in angle between the two hangars also seems to fit.

[Cows getting bigger]

Flap40, I think you may be right. Certainly the hangar layout fits and I'm pretty sure the Tower is a 5740/36.

[Flap40]

So that puts Hen Ddraig in the chair.

[nvubu]

Thanks for solving that puzzle.

I've looked at it on Google Maps and it looks spot on for Ternhill when zoomed in positioned behind the windsock at the end of Warrant Road.

[Hen Ddraig]

Away from home at the moment so its OH again

HD

[nvubu]

Here's one to keep the thread going

http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z474/nvubu/PPRuNe/2012-07-11a.jpg

I know where this one is :ok:

[aerobelly]

Dounreay possibly? Aka HMS Tern II.


'b

[nvubu]

Dounreay possibly? Aka HMS Tern II.

Not Dounray - that isn't a coastline.

[nacluv]

It's not the usual UK layout either. Looks more like continental Europe - France, Germany or perhaps even Soviet.

Wherever it is, someone is having a grim time of it down there...

[nvubu]

France, Germany or perhaps even Soviet

nacluv - yes, it is one of those :D

[nvubu]

Here's an photo from after the bombing:

http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z474/nvubu/PPRuNe/2012-07-11b.jpg

I've replaced the first image as i have just noticed it had a "hand" cursor in the middle of it!

[nacluv]

OK then, those earth banked revetments make me think 'Soviet'.

[nvubu]

Too far east

[nvubu]

After some further research, it seems that the current runway at this airfield was rebuilt on a different alignment than that during and after WWII.

Here is an intermediate image, taken while a shortened version of the original runway was present, with the new, and current runway in the process of being built.

http://i1191.photobucket.com/albums/z474/nvubu/PPRuNe/2012-07-11c.jpg

And I have just discovered that there are two airfields in this image. Bonus points if you can name them both.

[sabredog]

Schwabisch Flugplatz/Schwabisch Hall ,later Camp Dolan / Dolan Barracks, US Army Airfield.
Second airfield,possibly Weckrieden.

[merlinxx]

Chaps, where the heck do you garner your data from, I for one am most impressed, you're pretty PFM on this :ok:

[nvubu]

Sorry about the delay in responding - SD has them both in one.

Here's where I discovered the 2nd airfield - which is on the left hand side of the photo.

http://www.mil-airfields.de/de/maps/camp-dolan-schwaebisch-hall-aaf.gif

You have control SD.

[sabredog]

Open House

[Lordflasheart]

Marvellous. Adolf Wurth Flugplatz. There's even a li'l flivver sitting on the ramp at grass strip Weckrieden, in the GE Year 2000 imagery. I had a cheap shot to offer but photobucket won't let me in this evening. After the weekend maybe, LFH

[jindabyne]

OH, so have a go at this ---

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb59/malgrosse/rrrrr.jpg

[descol]

abandoned in the USA ?

[jindabyne]

Correct - so that should take around 30 seconds!

[sabredog]

Inyo County Airrport / Manzanar Airport, Manzanar, CA

[jindabyne]

A giveaway! YHC

[sabredog]

The next challenge;

http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/Quiz141-1.jpg

[Noyade]

Central Australia?

[sabredog]

Not Central ,Graeme, but certainly located in Australia.

[jindabyne]

Mungo Lodge, Vic, Oz

[sabredog]

Mungo Lodge Airport,NSW,Australia is correct.
YHC

[jindabyne]

Thanks sabredog (especially as I got the wrong State!)

OH

[Duckbutt]

Here's another then:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/Twyler/Puzz72-1.jpg

[sabredog]

Mumbai Juhu Airport, Republic of India.

[Duckbutt]

Sigh, over to you SD.

[sabredog]

Apologies,Duckbutt. Just local knowledge on that one I am afraid.
An easy challenge to keep the ball rolling;
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/Quiz143.jpg

[Noyade]

An easy challenge

Unlikely. :)
I was thinking in the USA, but are these US Serviceman returning to the USA?
From Europe?

[seacue]

There is a little house on stilts for weather instruments in a left foreground. Is this international or strictly a USA design?

The building doesn't look to me like it's in the USA. Is it a US base in Europe?

[India Four Two]

a little house on stilts

That's a Stevenson Screen - a standard international design and according to the specs that I have just read, it is too close to the terminal building.:=
Stevenson screen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stevenson_screen)

I just learned something new while looking this up. The designer, Thomas Stevenson was the father of Robert Louis Stevenson, the author.

MATS stairs in the background. I agree with Noyade and seacue - Europe in the 1950s.

[sabredog]

An excellent analysis of the photograph,Gentlemen,but not in the U.S.A. or Europe.

[Duckbutt]

Sailors in white, not a jacket in sight so somewhere warm. Pacific US base? Maybe Clark or Guam, somewhere like that?

[descol]

I agree with Duckbut about the sailors - more like the Pacific - but the building is not likely to be Guam or small Islands - must be mainland ?

[chevvron]

Phew I thought Farnborough was the only airport with massively displaced thresholds at both ends, but looking at Mumbai/Juhu I see I was wrong! The thresholds are even closer together than Farnborough.

[descol]

Is it Haneda 1952 ?

http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/descol/Haneda_Airport_in_1952.jpg

[sabredog]

It is indeed Haneda Airport,Japan,1950s.
Well done,descol.
YHC

[descol]

thanks SD - and to Duckbutt who put me in the right direction

here's one to keep things moving

http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/descol/pprune16.jpg

[merlinxx]

Looks more like an early FBO than an air carrier terminal:confused: Somewhere in Latin America, Cuba, Mexico ? O heck I'm off :ugh:

[descol]

merlinn - It was a terminal - you are close

[sabredog]

La Sabana Airport,Costa Rica,now the Museum of Costa Rican Art.

[descol]

you are so spot on SD yhc

[sabredog]

Many thanks,descol.
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/Quiz144-1.jpg

[India Four Two]

Hi Terrence,

Local knowledge, I've stayed at the hotel. :)

Stovepipe Wells, Death Valley

[sabredog]

Local knowledge strikes again,Simon. Well done, and you have control.

[India Four Two]

Thanks, Terrence.

Death Valley is an amazing place but do not visit in the summer!

I'm at work so Open House.

[descol]

It's been OH for a while ?
try this- the airport tarmac/strip was posted a long time back but not the tower ?
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/descol/pprune20.jpg

[Cows getting bigger]

RAF Akrotiri?

[descol]

CGB - not cyprus - much further south

[sabredog]

R.A.F.Gan,Maldives.

[descol]

As I have said befor SB -you are a wonder at this - well done - it is Addu Atoll - Gan Island- Tower:ok::ok:

There you go its all yours

[sabredog]

Many thanks,descol.
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/Quiz146.jpg

[Cows getting bigger]

RNAS Yeovilton. OH if correct, I'm afraid.

[sabredog]

Correct,CgB.
R.N.A.S.Yeovilton,Yeovil,Somerset.
CgB has declared Open House.

[Noyade]

http://img406.imageshack.us/img406/5928/img095r.jpg (http://img406.imageshack.us/i/img095r.jpg/)

[chevvron]

Er let me guess, somewhere in Switzerland?

[Kieron Kirk]

Not the cheese or clock making areas of Switzerland ?

I reckon a possible Sign ! The pun is deliberate.

Ciarain.

[Noyade]

Sign ! The pun is deliberate.

Sion.

Your control KK.

[seacue]

Nearly two days have elapsed since there was any activity in this thread. Lacking any response from KK, let me propose this mystery airport terminal.

http://members.toast.net/rcarpen/whichapt1207.jpg

It was taken as the sun was setting beyond the terminal.

[seacue]

I figured that sabredog would have identified this image by now ... but he seems to be on holiday this weekend.

First clue: This photograph was taken in 1970.

[India Four Two]

seacue,

Based on the seats in the terminal, I'm guessing somewhere in the US.

[sabredog]

Asheville (AVL) Airport Terminal,Ashville,North Carolina,U.S.A?

[seacue]

Yes, it is in the USA, but very roughly half a continent west of North Carolina. I can't pick out this old terminal in the present Gxxgle Earth image of this aerodrome.

Edited at 14:50 to add:
This picture was taken from the window of the United Airlines 737 which I rode from KDCA with intermediate stops at KMDW and Kxxx. Through-plane service is no longer available between this airport and KDCA/KIAD/KBWI.

[seacue]

Big Hint:

This airport serves the capital of the state.

[Hen Ddraig]

Could this be PIR Pierre Municipal, South Dakota. Sometimes known as Pierre Regional and due to have its new terminal open on 1 September.

HD

[seacue]

No, it isn't Pierre. You are too far north.

In the early 70s Northwest had a flight which started in Seattle and stopped at Spokane, Bozeman, Billings, Helena, Pierre, Milwaukee and finally on to KDCA ... all in a 727. Took all day (west to east). There were three stops in Montana, but I may have the Montana cities and their order wrong. I was a pax from Montana to KDCA. The Pierre terminal looked pre-WW2 in the 70s.

[evansb]

Lincoln, Nebraska ?

I'll change that to Des Moines, Iowa.

[seacue]

Mr evansb ... you ought to leave it as Lincoln KLNK.

My flight was KDCA. KMDW. KOMA, KLNK. Omaha to Lincoln isn't very far and it seemed that we flew at about the height of the tall TV towers.

I'll credit evansb with the win.

I'll be away from my computer for a number of hours starting now. I was about to declare Open House, but evansb came just in time.

[evansb]

Okay, thanks. Sorry, I have to declare OPEN HOUSE

I'll be back around 2130Z.

[evansb]

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

[sabredog]

Kenricia Hotel in Kenora, Ontario, Canada.
Kenora Air Beech-18

[evansb]

Spot on Terrence:ok: Kenora Water Aerodrome, location identifier CJM9, is an airport of entry, as it is served by Canada Customs Officers. Your turn.

[sabredog]

Many thanks,Brian. Excellent photograph.
The next challenge;
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/Quiz150.jpg

[sycamore]

At a guess, CFE West Raynham;Anson,Hurricane,poss.Chipmunk,Meteor T7 and F8..

[sabredog]

Not R.A.F. West Raynham.

[chevvron]

Early style 'C' type hangars like that are at Abingdon.

[jindabyne]

RAF Binbrook?

[sabredog]

Neither R.A.F. Abingdon nor R.A.F.Binbrook.
I believe the hangar to be a Type A, which should provide a good clue.

[Kieron Kirk]

Martlesham Heath.

Ciarain.

[sabredog]

Correct.
YHC

[Kieron Kirk]

sabredog.

Thanks for the nice photograph.

OH anyone ?

Ciarain.

[sabredog]

Thank you,Ciarain. The Hawker Hurricane was part of the original BoB Flight which was based at Martlesham Heath. I believe the Anson was a V.I.P. hack, as the nose carried the two star insignia of an A.V.M. But, on the other hand, I could be completely wrong!

[Duckbutt]

If it's OH then here's another:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/Twyler/Puzz73.jpg

[sabredog]

El-Aouina,Tunis.

[Duckbutt]

This is becoming pointless. Carry on.

[sabredog]

Thank you,Duckbutt,
P.M.for you shortly.
Challenge withdrawn, due to link and copyright.
Open House.

[Tacklebury]

SD, I think the airport in your withdrawn challenge is Gustavo Rizo ,Baracoa,Cuba.
It was,then Open House.

[sabredog]

Correct,Tacklebury.
Apologies for the withdrawal of the photograph. As someone once said; "Should have gone to SpecSavers!".
Taks has declared;
Open House.

[Noyade]

http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/5682/img115d.jpg (http://img843.imageshack.us/i/img115d.jpg/)

[Lordflasheart]

Cuba - but blowed if I can find it, because there aren't that many possibles. LFH

[Noyade]

Soviet Union mate.

According to the article, the photos were taken by participants at an international balloon meeting in nearby Leningrad in May 1990. Must be a large place. Here's a shot of the eastern side of the airfield...

http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/8582/img113pb.jpg (http://img835.imageshack.us/i/img113pb.jpg/)

[Noyade]

If the Olympics kill interest in these ID threads, I'm happy to reveal and declare open house - just say the word. :)

(Where is the beach volleyball being held? Women's beach volleyball has got to be the best Olympic event ever. :ok:)

[chevvron]

Horse Guards Parade (not the airfield, the beach volleyball (yawn) been to Rio and seen the real thing)

[Airclues]

Gorelovo?

OH if correct.

Dave

[Noyade]

Won't be around much this weekend, so I'll reveal and declare Open House.

A place called Pushkin....

http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/452/img117sc.jpg (http://img69.imageshack.us/i/img117sc.jpg/)

[chevvron]

Where is everybody?

[jindabyne]

Where is everybody?

Sun :) or Olympics :* ??

A reviver then -----

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb59/malgrosse/ppoi-1.jpg

[sycamore]

Canada,or Alaska..?

[sabredog]

Hawkesbury East Airfield,Ontario,Canada.

[jindabyne]

Correct sabre - over to you.

(I should've known - Google grass airfield images, and there it is, third in line. Note to self - must be more devious!)

[sabredog]

Thank you,Jindabyne.
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/Quiz153.jpg

[jindabyne]

Silence is golden.
A clue please sabre. It could be remote, disused, abandoned or just plain third world (am I still allowed to say that?). Google isn't helpful thus far on those counts. Given what looks to be a serviceable flag, I think it may still be 'in use'.
J

[chevvron]

The 'old' airport on Montserrat? (probably not as I can't see any volcanic ash, and in any case it's been done before)

[sabredog]

Neither Montserrat or Nicosia I am afraid.
The terminal building has it's origins in the "Golden Age"of civil aviation,and the airfield (military) is still operational.
It is said that a certain country's day begins here!

[SilentHandover]

Wake Island Airfield?

[sabredog]

Correct,SilentHandover. Wake Island Airfield, Wake Atoll.
YHC
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/Quizclue-1.jpg

[SilentHandover]

Thank you sabredog,

http://i1140.photobucket.com/albums/n568/SilentHandover/sho.jpg

[MReyn24050]

Which Aerodrome list updated today up to and including 31/July/2012.
Mel

[sabredog]

Laon Athies Airfield,France.

Thank you for the Aerodrome List update,Mel.

[SilentHandover]

That is quite correct sabredog, YHC.:ok:

[sabredog]

Many thanks,SilentHandover.
The next.
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/Quiz153-1.jpg

[nacluv]

I really don't think this is going to be correct, but that photo makes me think of Castle Bromwich.

[sabredog]

Thinking along the correct lines,nacluv,but not Castle Bromwich.

[spook]

Well they look like bi-planes - the hanger gives scale so my guess is Handley Page before they moved - so Cricklewood?

[sabredog]

It is indeed,Spook. Well done.
The Handley Page Aircraft Factory at Claremont Road, Cricklewood. (1921).

[spook]

Thank you SD. Here's the next one.
http://i387.photobucket.com/albums/oo311/spook228/PPWA5.jpg

[Duckbutt]

I think that's Decimomannu on Sardinia (ANOTHER I had lined up for a future potential challenge!).

[spook]

Well done DB! YHC :ok:

[jindabyne]

Mmmm? Spurious use of 'scrambling'?

[Duckbutt]

Thanks. Let's see if I can make a current airfield challenge last longer then the customary 12 minutes:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/Twyler/Puzz74.jpg

[India Four Two]

DB,

More than 12 mins. :)

Is it in the former USSR?

[Duckbutt]

Not in the former USSR I'm afraid.

[Gulfstreamaviator]

Location..... No idea.......glf

[chevvron]

Somewhere on Malta?

[Duckbutt]

Some way away from Malta, chevvron.

[Gulfstreamaviator]

Wild guess, based on FSU influence, and basic design.

Glf

[sabredog]

Tirupati Airport,Andhra Pradesh,Republic of India.

[Duckbutt]

Exactly so Sabredog, all yours. (at least you gave me 8 hours this time before crushing me once more).

[sabredog]

Thank you,DB.
Open House.

[Noyade]

http://img171.imageshack.us/img171/6795/img145eg.jpg (http://img171.imageshack.us/i/img145eg.jpg/)

[BEagle]

Fokker D-21s and T-5s at Vliegpark Schiphol?

[Noyade]

Schiphol

Well done mate, your control. :ok:

[BEagle]

Thanks - I have control:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/nw969/aerodrome-1.jpg

[BEagle]

Not Stratford.


.

[Whispering Giant]

RAF Culmhead, Devon used by No2 Polish Wing of the Polish airforce during WWII. After WWII used by the Composite Signals Organisation Station which is what the buildings are in the centre of the runways.

brgds

W.G

[BEagle]

10/10! You have control!! Except that 'er be in Zumzett, rather than the land of Devon dumplings. But only just... It's more interesting history includes the fact that it was one of the first aerodromes from which Meteors flew.

I tweaked the photo to give it an appearance of age, but by the time it was taken, Culmhead Radio Station had closed.

Having lived in the south-west, I knew that it was a secret monitoring station, euphemistically termed a 'government radio station'.... So, when I flew Vulcans I used to use that big white building as an IP for low-level bombing runs, knowing that the spies couldn't really complain.....:E

I knew the place as 'Trickey Warren', but it was also known either as RAF Churchstanton or RAF Culmhead.

[Whispering Giant]

Yep reconised it straight away, fly over it every day when coming in from the north to land on 26 at EXT.

must declare Open House as I´m currently away on holiday and dont have access to the pic´s on my PC at home.

OPEN HOUSE !

[BEagle]

OK - here's another for you all:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/nw969/aerodrome-2.jpg

[Duckbutt]

Chipping Ongar?

[BEagle]

Correct! All yours!

[Duckbutt]

Thanks.

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/Twyler/Puzz75.jpg

[Cows getting bigger]

Congo crisis 1960s? If so, Kamina.

[Duckbutt]

Exactly correct CGB. You have the ball.

[Cows getting bigger]

Open house, I'm afraid.

[BEagle]

OK - if it's Open House, here's another for you all:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/nw969/aerodrome-3.jpg

[evansb]

Camouflaged aerodrome ?

[BEagle]

Could be - I don't know.....

[evansb]

RAF Feltwell, Norfolk, England ?

[BEagle]

Neither Feltwell:

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/nw969/Feltwell.jpg

nor England.

[chevvron]

Shape of the hangars and their layout would indicate not UK, but possibly Ireland? Baldonnel maybe?

[BEagle]

Neither Baldonnel, nor Ireland, to be sure, to be sure......

Nor west of Feltwell.....

[MReyn24050]

I think it is somewhere in Germany.

[BEagle]

Do you? That's interesting.......:oh:

[MReyn24050]

Flughafen Oldenburg perhaps which was later to become RAF Oldenburg.

[BEagle]

Sie haben recht! Well done!

Sadly no longer active, but the hangars are still there (as is the runway):

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/nw969/aerodrome-4.jpg

One of the few aerodromes, once theirs, then ours, then theirs again, from which former enemies ended up flying the same aeroplane type - the excellent F-86 Sabre.

You have control!

[MReyn24050]

Vielen Dank BEagle. Sehr interessiert.

Here is the next one. It has been done before but not from this angle.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c67/sabamel/Airportquiz061.jpg

[sabredog]

R.A.F. Chilbolton,Hampshire.

[MReyn24050]

That is the one Sabredog. I did have a photograph of some Supermarine Attackers parked on the dispersal at Chilbolton in the colours of the Pakistan Air Force and was going to post that but unfortunately mislaid it.

You have control.

[sabredog]

Thank you,Mel.
The next;
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/Quiz157.jpg

[descol]

SD - that may be As lito - Saipan - ?

[sabredog]

It is indeed Aslito, Southern Saipan, The Marianas.
Well done.
YHC.

[descol]

thks SD
I spent many years out in the Pacific - never got to Saipan -
but always interested in things Pacific
here's so more recent I spotted
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/descol/AsLitoSaipan.jpg
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/descol/SAIPAN.jpg
- I will follow with a quiz pic

[descol]

try this one
http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/descol/quiz.jpg

[sabredog]

Marpi Point,Saipan.

[descol]

Yep SD its Marpi - found the image while searcning out your earlier post - - all yours

[sabredog]

Thank you,descol.
The next;
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/Quiz160.jpg

[BSD]

Beirut?

BSD.

[sabredog]

Sorry,BSD,not Beirut.

[aerobelly]

Yesilkoy, Istanbul.


Aerobelly

[sabredog]

You are correct,Aerobelly.
Yesilkoy Airport, Istanbul,Turkey,during the 1950s.
You have Control.

[aerobelly]

Thank you.

I suspect this is too easy:
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8308/7794005342_6f3a55226e_z.jpg


'b

[chevvron]

Could we have the actual photo please?

[aviate1138]

It might be Wormwood Scrubs?

[MReyn24050]

Aerobelly's photograph.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c67/sabamel/7794005342_6f3a55226e_z.jpg

[aerobelly]

Sometimes flickr works with a deep-link, sometimes it doesn't.

Try this higher level version:

0052 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! (http://www.flickr.com/photos/54731504@N04/7794005342)


'b

[chevvron]

It might be Wanstead Flats.

[aerobelly]

Not Wormwood Scrubs or Wanstead Flats. Different country.

'b

[aviate1138]

How about Issy-les-Moulineaux as a possibility?

[aerobelly]

Aviate1138 has it.

The photo's caption in "Men, women and 10,000 kites" reads:

"Issy-les-Moulineaux 7 September 1908, Delagrange beat all world records and his own of the previous day in the Voisin, covering the course seventeen times in 31 minutes at an altitude of 4 to 5 metres (13 to 16 feet)."

YHC



'b

[aviate1138]

Thanks aerob.

This should be quick......


http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn77/aviate1138/ScreenShot2012-08-16at132702.jpg

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn77/aviate1138/ScreenShot2012-08-16at133054.jpg

[Airclues]

From my many flights into Stansted in the back of a Ryanair 737, I believe that this is Great Sampford

OH if correct.

Dave

[aviate1138]

Spot on Airclues. Open House it is then.

[evansb]

Here is the next mystery aerodrome:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD120817.jpg

[Russell Gulch]

I'd be tempted to say those were PBY's with a sluice ramp at the left of the photo.

Canada?

[evansb]

Sorry, not Canada.

[aviate1138]

Flew nearby in 1984, I think it's Eagle Mountain Lake in Texas?

[evansb]

Yes, aviate1138 is correct.:ok: A former USN and USMC base deep in the heart of Texas. Your turn.

[aviate1138]

evansb - thanks :)

Shouldn't be too hard. The guy is pointing at a three ton truck falling out of the sky.....

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn77/aviate1138/ScreenShot2012-08-18at094105.jpg

[chevvron]

Massive explosion at an ammo dump 'somewhere in England'. After the Battle have covered it using this picture but I can't remember where , somewhere like Wratting Common?

[sabredog]

Metfield Airfield bomb dump explosion.

[aviate1138]

sabre dog you are the Main Man. A pal of mine lived at Metfield Hall during the war. He grew up with P-47s, P51s and B-24s just outside his bedroom window! Lucky sod.

You have control.

[sabredog]

Many thanks,Aviate1138.
The next challenge;
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/Quiz1632.jpg

[seacue]

This challenge has been idle for more than two days. Perhaps a hint is in order.

[chevvron]

How 'bout I start the ball rolling with Worthy Down?
(I was tempted to say Lympne but the reservoir and dwellings are wrong)
(Definitely not Rearsby)

[India Four Two]

Not in the UK? Somewhere in Germany?

[sabredog]

Apologies for not providing some hints/clues earlier than this.
The airfield is no longer extant, but was well known in the 1930s. It is now part of a housing estate and Country Park ,and still retains a link to it's aviation past.
Not Lympne, Rearsby or Worthy Down,Chevvron.
U.K. is correct,Simon.

[aviate1138]

Could it be Woodley by any slim chance?

[sabredog]

It is indeed the old Woodley Airfield, Aviate1138.
YHC

[aviate1138]

thanks sabredog


Don't hurry over this one.........

http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn77/aviate1138/ScreenShot2012-08-22at173703.jpg

[Tempsford]

Rush Green?

[aviate1138]

Tempsford! Spot on!

You have control.