Which Aerodrome Mk III

[CharlieOneSix]

Maybe Kirkwall?

[descol]

not galway or kirkwall

[sisemen]

Macrihanish?

[Whispering Giant]

Ronaldsway - Isle of Man

[descol]

You are all obiviously in the right part of the world - with 'Liobian' very close !

[Father Dick Byrne]

Inis Mór, perhaps?

[descol]

Yes - Father Dick - you got it- are you a 'father' of the priesthood ?

[spook]

Possibly Shannon?
(I'm too late and wrong!)

[Father Dick Byrne]

Thank you Descol,

You would have to seek confirmation from my colleagues, Fathers Ted, Jack, and Dougal (should you travel to Craggy Island), or Bishop Brennan himself! (If the Bishop mentions the money, it was simply resting in my account, as I have told him so often...).

Here's the new challenge:

http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/k518/iCiCiCiCiC/AfterInisMor.jpg

[Gulfstreamaviator]

wild guess, as I am bored...


OH

Glf

[Father Dick Byrne]

Well, I really hoped that the mix of registrations, and the careful cropping of the San Miguel building, would have made it a more interesting challenge!

Gulfstreamaviator has declared OPEN HOUSE

[evansb]

Here is a mystery 'drome:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/YOU_ARE_A_LAZY_CHEATER.jpg

[chevvron]

Jersey Brow looking south west towards Laffans Plain.

[evansb]

No, not according to the caption. Here is another view taken about two decades later:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r68/convair640/WAD110930.jpg

[RegDep]

Moaskar Aerodrome, Ismailia, Egypt. c:a 1917

[evansb]

RegDep is correct.:ok: RAF Ismailia. Your turn.

[RegDep]

Thank you Brian!

Ahem, well… The caption says Aerodrome.

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Bildschirmfoto2011-09-30um192610.png

[evansb]

Are we supposed to name the ship, harbour or the aircraft type that was catapult launched?

[RegDep]

The caption calls it a ship transformed to an aerodrome, so ship name would do. I don't even know the harbour :O.…..

[Noyade]

so ship name would do.This ship....?

http://img40.imageshack.us/img40/264/img045k.jpg (http://img40.imageshack.us/i/img045k.jpg/)

Was the "catapultee" a Wal?

[Noyade]

Hi Reg.

"Depot ships"

Two stabs...

MS Schwabenland?
MS Friesenland?

[RegDep]

Graeme, it is the ship where the Wal is being catapulted in your picture, but not MS Schwabenland or MS Friesenland.

I have a film (rendered to a video) most likely from the same catapulting event and process, including picture of the ship; I will post a link once this has been sorted out.

There are some special things about this aerodrome.

[Noyade]

G'day Reg.

Miserable Saturday here mate. Wet and cold so I've been indoors trying to solve/create challenges (plus some housework :)). No luck with yours.

There are some special things about this aerodrome. Care to elaborate? :)

Just a query for players. Do we now consider aircraft carriers as aerodromes?

Opens up a world of possibilities.

[RegDep]

Care to elaborate?

She was the first of its kind and probably the only of her kind.

Do we now consider aircraft carriers as aerodromes?

I'd say no, and I'll justify my post: This is not an aircraft carrier. There was a small joke involved here, too. The caption specifically called it "aérodrome flottant", so I thought it must be legitimate, because this is "Which Aerodrome" thread.

PS. It is not French.

[Noyade]

Found a photo in a book of a Wal about to be catapulted from....SS(?) Westfalen...?

Google shows it with BV-139s...

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/6813/westfalen.jpg (http://img651.imageshack.us/i/westfalen.jpg/)

[Noyade]

She was the first of its kind and probably the only of her kind.

I'll log off and keep looking. Cheers!

[RegDep]

Yes Graeme, it is SS Westfalen.

She was originally a 1906 built freighter and became Lufthansa's first catapult ship. In the early 1930s the she was converted into a seaplane tender to serve as both weather reporting and refueling station for Dornier Wal flying boats of Lufthansa carrying mail trans-Atlantic between Europe and South America.

Popular Science - Google Books (http://books.google.com/books?id=8ScDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA21&dq=Popular+Science+1933+plane+%22Popular+Science%22&hl=en&ei=oyBWTdqQI8mEtgeX_7SJDQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q&f=true)

Promised the film/video: Katapultschiff Westfalen (http://www.brennpunkt-zeitgeschichte.de/index.php?Itemid=118&id=5&lang=&layout=item&option=com_k2&view=item)

Over to you :ok:

[Noyade]

Well how about that. Bit of a fluke mate. :)

Make it open house. I'll file my carrier pictures for maybe another day.

[RegDep]

Not to hog the thread but to keep things rolling

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Bildschirmfoto2011-09-30um190349-1.png

[Father Dick Byrne]

Rutbah Wells?

[RegDep]

Rutbah Wells?

Correct!

Over to Rugged/Craggy Island :ok:

[Father Dick Byrne]

Thank you!

Try this (in keeping with another recent theme)...

http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/k518/iCiCiCiCiC/AfterRutbahWells.jpg

[RegDep]

There is one Dornier Do-27 in Fundació Parc Aeronàutic de Catalunya, but its stand is different….

And that even may be a CASA 127…..

Hmm….

[RegDep]

Can I assume that the location is not an aerodrome but a fire station, and that the aeroplane has been used for forest fire monitoring and hence is located there?

[Father Dick Byrne]

...You can ;-)

[RegDep]

Did I shoot my own foot? Yes, I did :(.

[Father Dick Byrne]

Reg,

I feel a little bad about my reply to you...

It may help you to perceive it to be precisely true.

Happy days,

Father Dick

[RegDep]

That's all right Father, I was joking myself :).

[Phileas Fogg]

Has the world gone mad and does any site, yard, plinth where an aircraft may have been retired to now constitute an 'aerodrome'?

i.e. This knackers yard is now an aerodrome?

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6144/6200926600_2b63c2896f.jpg

[Spit161]

Hmm. That picture seems a bit controversial. Would it be best to declare and Open House, and be done with it?

[Father Dick Byrne]

Apologies for any disappointment.

The picture posted was taken at a real, functioning, licensed, aerodrome.

However, in the interests of harmony, and as Jake suggests, Open House.

[sabredog]

The answer to Father Bryne's challenge #post532 is ;
Cordoba (ODB / LEBA).
A perfectly reasonable challenge and quite standard fare.
Father B has declared Open House.

[Father Dick Byrne]

Sabredog, you are of course, correct.

Just to explain... RegDep asked whether he could assume something. Of course, he can assume what he likes, and so pedantically (but in a spirit of fostering potential misunderstanding to make the challenge a little more interesting) I said he could. I didn't add 'but you won't get any closer to the correct aerodrome!'. He was kind enough to drop me a PM, and I hope he enjoyed the shenanigans.

Others, it seems, took me literally and got one of those 'master caution - primary sense of humour' ECAMs, and I am sorry for mis-judging the tone, perhaps.

(In fact, once RegDep gave the aircraft type, you were all only a google image search from a very similar picture to mine, which I took when visiting there in the TB21 front of shot in my previous challenge, around the same time about 15 years ago...).

[Hen Ddraig]

Post no 539 appears to be the one and only Lun class ekranopan currently at Kaspiysk, Dagestan.

[Russell Gulch]

Ekranoplan can shirley only launch from a slipway (or "waterdrome").

One needs guidance from our illustriois thread starter :p

[Father Dick Byrne]

At risk of furthering the damage already done: CAP 168 (which is ICAO compliant to my best recollection) states in its glossary of terms:

Aerodrome

A defined area on land or water (including any buildings, installations and equipment) intended to be used either wholly or in part for the arrival, departure or surface movement of aircraft.

[my bold]

[RegDep]

As we patiently wait for our Founding Father Mr. seacue to do his Deus Ex Machina routine, I'll hereby post the opening rules, with some bylaws promulgated by the members only moments his junior:

http://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/283572-aerodrome.html#post3406234

[seacue]

Mr seacue knows when to keep his distance and dignity - what little is left.

Resume play. But play nice.

Edited to add:
It does seem a stretch to consider a boat to be either
A piece of land where aircraft can take off and land, or
An established area of water where aircraft can take off and land.

A boat / ship is pretty mobile by definition, so its "established area" is established only fleetingly. An aircraft carrier provides facilities for both take-off and landing, but would fit much better in a What Ship? thread.

Use of a catapult may accomplish the take-off process, but I've never heard of an aircraft managing to alight on a catapult.

Let's stick to fixed location aerodromes, either on land or fixed areas of water with passenger or cargo facilities. Pan AM at Dinner Key, Coral Gables, Miami would be an example. Lakes in northern Canada might be border-line cases unless used very regularly.

Seacue has spoken in his most-pompous manner. He'll now go and sulk

Let's get the thread moving again..

[olympus]

Well, I don't know what that was all about but whilst I'm cooling off for a moment (it's very hot in the garden this afternoon) here's a nice easy one to get things going again; surprisingly it's not on the list and it shouldn't last long.

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg150/gwpcrescue/Airfield19.jpg

[RegDep]

Olympus, yours is Denham Airfield, sometimes in the 60s, I believe.

And Mr. seacue, I fully agree. My posting SS Westfalen was considered at the time by me a piece of Aviation History, being the first civil aviation service "aerodrome" in the Atlantic for South America - Germany flights of Lufthansa. And even if not aviation authorities, both my French source and Popular Mechanics called it aerodrome, as I jokingly noted. Did not mean to be, and will pledge not to be unruly.

Reg

[olympus]

It is Denham.

[Spit161]

It is Denham.

Are you switching control, or declaring an "Open House"?

[Airclues]

Spit

I believe that olympus is confirming that it is Denham, and therefore RegDep has control.

Dave

[RegDep]

Airclues, I agree.

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Bildschirmfoto2011-10-02um214501-1.png

Sorry for the delay, had my dinner.

[sabredog]

Horsham Aerodrome,Victoria,Australia.

[RegDep]

My never disappointing friend sabredog.

Horsham Aerodrome, Victoria, Australia.

Over to you :ok:

[sabredog]

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

[Corsairoz]

As declared OH, how about this one? :

Not on the list or in this thread to date.

I have blurred Airport name only.

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u249/corsairoz/number14d.jpg

[sycamore]

Looks somewhat `tropical`.?

[Corsairoz]

Indeed it is, geographically, 'tropical'.

[sycamore]

Where they drive on the left,possibly Malaysia..?

[RichieD]

Chiang Mai International Airport, Thailand ?

[Corsairoz]

Not Malaysia, and not Chiang Mai.

I flew into here for a holiday en route to 'somewhere distant' in the 1980's.

Today I wouldn't need to do it, as 'somewhere distant' has an airport itself now.

C

[RegDep]

Surat Thani, Thailand

[Corsairoz]

RegDep has it.

Surat Thani Airport, Thailand.

I was travelling from Bangkok to Samui Island. A rattly 30 minute bus ride from Surat Thani Airport then a 2 1/2 hour, cockroach infested, ferry crossing has now been replaced by direct flights from Bangkok into the new Samui Island Airport.

Slower, but much more fun back in those days :)

Here is the unadulterated picture.

Cheers, Corsairoz

http://images.travelpod.com/users/kathryn77/8.1246698709.surat-thani-airportx-thailand.jpg

[RegDep]

Thank you Corsairoz!

Next mystery

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

[Spit161]

Looks like it could be the South of England?

[RegDep]

It is not, however.

[StressFree]

Woodhall Spa, Lincolnshire?

[RegDep]

Not in the UK, StressFree.

[Spit161]

Somewhere like Holland or Belgium?

[RegDep]

Correct "ballpark".

[spook]

vliegveld St.Niklaas, Belgium?

[Spit161]

Correct "ballpark".

:rolleyes:

[RegDep]

Vliegveld St.Niklaas, Belgium

Well, maybe not ball park, but nowadays a recreational park.

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/Bildschirmfoto2011-10-03um221722-1.png (GoogleEarth)

Over to you spook :ok:

[spook]

Thank you RegDep, although Jake had got me in right area!

Here's the next one

http://i387.photobucket.com/albums/oo311/spook228/WA3quiz.jpg

[sidtheesexist]

Filton, Bristol.............? OH in the unlikely event of being correct!














IF2, indeed I do, it's long been on my list along with EKG's Fate is the Hunter!

[spook]

No, Not Filton.

[India Four Two]

sid, you need to read Sigh for a Merlin :)

Castle Bromwich. Camouflaged Vickers factory on the left.

[spook]

India Four Two has it! :ok: You have control.

[India Four Two]

Thanks Spook.

Here's one that has been done before, but the picture is too spectacular not to post. Also the previous picture is AWOL so I don't know if it was the same one.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c309/india42/WAD20111004.jpg

[sycamore]

Laos or Cambodia..?

[India Four Two]

Yes :) (plus some more characters to add up to more than 10.)

[sycamore]

Luang Prabang..?

[India Four Two]

Not Luang Prabang but right country.

[sycamore]

Long Cheng,or LS20A, HQ of Gen Vang Pao..

[India Four Two]

Yes, LS20A, Long Cheng or Long Tieng. One of the secret "non-existent" Air America airstrips.

Land on 32, takeoff 14 only - the 14 approach had a significant obstruction! :

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c309/india42/LongTieng2.jpg

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

I had never heard of Long Tieng until I recently read Flying Through Midnight: by John T. Halliday, in which this airstrip figures prominently. An excellent book, thoroughly recommended.

Some very good photos of Long Tieng, NKP and operations in Laos here:
NKP's Air Operations in Laos Photo Gallery by Thailand Dog Handlers at pbase.com (http://www.pbase.com/635thk9/conklin_nkp_air_ops)

sycamore has control

[sycamore]

Thanks,but it`s Open House..

[Moondance]

Can't see this one on the list......

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/Moondance1/1-18.jpg
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/Moondance1/2-19.jpg

[sabredog]

Crissy Field,San Francisco,C.A.

[Moondance]

Correct! Photo number 3 would have been a bit of a giveaway!

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h78/Moondance1/3-15.jpg

[sabredog]

Thank you,Moondance.
The next challenge;
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/Quiz39.jpg

[Spit161]

I can't remember the exact name, but is it Great Island or something, in NZ?
Open House if correct.

cheers,
Jake.

[sabredog]

Nearly there,but name of airfield required for full marks.

[olympus]

Claris Airfield, Great Barrier Island, New Zealand.

[sabredog]

Correct,
YHC

[olympus]

Open house

[Spit161]

Heres one:

http://i1116.photobucket.com/albums/k571/Spit161/Airfield01.jpg

cheers,
Jake.

[olympus]

Headcorn International

[Spit161]

Headcorn is correct!
Over to you, olympus.

[StressFree]

Headcorn,

Thats a name from the past, anyone remember Chris Freeman who used to run it? He sat there doing the R/T and taking landing fees, always with two Jack Russels on his lap?

I haven't been there for well over 20 years................

[Astra SPx]

Chris Freeman...

Free landing if you bought some eggs! What a guy.

[olympus]

OH again I'm afraid.

[jindabyne]

OK, have a bash at this ---

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb59/malgrosse/82385_1269004455.jpg

[StressFree]

Bangor, Maine, USA?

[jindabyne]

Not the US

[SeenTheLight]

Goose Bay?

[jindabyne]

Sorry, not Goose --- go way East

[RegDep]

Do we see smoke or fog on the left?

Is this relatively North and on the seaside?

Scrap that.

Runway 09 at Bengaluru International Airport

[jindabyne]

Now I know you're hacking my Photobucket!

Reg Dep you have it ---

[RegDep]

Jindabyne, I am not.

I just Googled the string 'Runway 09' and there it was, return image No 43 after many gorgeous models on a catwalk. Without smoke, cloud or fog.

Hadn't I found it there, I had Googled 19 and 29.

Here is the next

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/af-1.jpg

[sabredog]

Uetersen airfield,EDHE,Germany.

[RegDep]

Uetersen airfield, EDHE, Germany.

Who is hacking whose…..

Over to you :ok:

[sabredog]

Thank you,Regdep,although not guilty of "Hacking".
Open House.

[evansb]

I've long suspected RegDep of hacking...;)

[RegDep]

There is only one PPRuNer whose Photobucket I know how to hack, but don't use that piece of knowledge to play :8. Or not how to hack. It is open to all :E.

[Russell Gulch]

I think sabredog has declared, so I'll offer the following. Surprisingly not yet on the list, but it won't take long to be added.

(no additional points for the aircraft type or marque :))

Russell

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff206/868mick/wa/1aaac.jpg

[sabredog]

R.A.F.Marham,Norfolk.

[StressFree]

Canberra, from 100 Squadron at RAF Wyton.

[Russell Gulch]

Correct, Sabredog, Marham it is.

You have control.

[sabredog]

Thank you Russell. 39 Sqdn. PR7?
Open House

[scotbill]

Don't think this one has appeared yet

http://www.pprune.org/[IMG]http://i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa453/scotbill/oct68.jpg
http://i1198.photobucket.com/albums/aa453/scotbill/oct68.jpg

[mustbeaboeing]

The 'Old' Rhodos airport. Cannot remember it's name.
Just inland, south, of the present one LGRP.

OH if correct.

[TheChitterneFlyer]

mustbeaboeing, I belive it's called Maritsa.

[scotbill]

Rhodos (ex-international) Maritsa it is.
In the 60s approached through a saddle in the hills via NDB. Still recall my feeling of unease approaching in the dark with red lights visible in the hills above us.

[Duckbutt]

Open house so how about this:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/Twyler/Puzz51.jpg

[sabredog]

RNAS Mullion ( airship station), Bonython on the Lizard Peninsula. 1916.

[Duckbutt]

Thought it was 1920! All yours Terrence.

[sabredog]

Many thanks,Duckbutt.
The next easy challenge is;
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/Quiz41.jpg

[Ridge Runner]

East coast, USA?

[RegDep]

Abandoned and little-known . . . .

[sabredog]

Not East Coast,Ridge Runner.
And it is yes to Regdep's query.

[RegDep]

Sabredog, I think yours is Benbrook Field, Benbrook, TX, nowadays a housing development, like so many are……

The Royal Canadian Flying Corps (Sic!) established this airfield in 1917, as one of three fields in the Fort Worth area where it trained pilots for WW1 (the other 2 fields were Hicks Field & Barron Field).

This airfield was initially known as Taliaferro #2, and was also known as Carruthers Field.

[sabredog]

Correct,Regdep.
YHC.

[RegDep]

Thanks sabredog!

Next

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/g472/RegDep/09_1.jpg

[Russell Gulch]

Old Acton mine, ME?

[RegDep]

Correct country, wrong corner, Russell.

[sabredog]

Thompson Field/Bear Creek Airport, CA., U.S.A.

[RegDep]

Correct Sabredog,

Thompson Field/Bear Creek Airport, CA., U.S.A.

SE from Anaheim, N from San Diego. Operational 1970s thru 1990s.

Over to you :ok:

[sabredog]

Thank you,Regdep. The next challenge;
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/Quiz42.jpg

[jindabyne]

Gilgit, Pakistan

[sabredog]

Correct,Jindabyne.Well done.
YHC

[jindabyne]

Thanks sabredog; have a go at this:


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

[evansb]

Is this an Indian Airforce base ?

[jindabyne]

Sorry, no. Go West

[jindabyne]

Fairly typical layout of airfields in this country --

[dash7fan]

Former eastern bloc airfield?

[jindabyne]

Yes - training

[sycamore]

Poland or E Germany.?

[jindabyne]

No, neither of those. Last clue: think Cranwell equivalent-ish in the 80's.

[sabredog]

Bobocu Airfield,Romania.

[jindabyne]

Very well done sir, YHC.

I visited the place in 1975 when, as an instructor at RAF Valley, I took a group of students on an exchange visit to the RoAF. A very illuminating experience in those days of Chauchesku!!

[sabredog]

Thank you,Jindabyne. An excellent challenge.
Open House.

[jindabyne]

This should be no problem ----

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

[Russell Gulch]

Burton Constable?

[jindabyne]

Nope, not Burton. Go West - a long way.

[spook]

Osborn Airfield, Florida.....and it's for Sale if you have a spare $2.1M lying around!

[jindabyne]

Correct spook - YHC

[spook]

So sorry - OH please

[sisemen]

An easy one

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c92/allan907/P1010091cropped.jpg

[Dora-9]

You're right - very easy.

Rottnest Island, Western Australia.

If correct, Open House.

[sisemen]

You have control Dora..... or OH as you prefer.:ok:

[Dora-9]

OH please....

[Duckbutt]

OH declared, so where's this?

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/Twyler/Puzz52.jpg

[jindabyne]

Mestia, Georgia - with that strange-looking new terminal buliding

[Duckbutt]

Exactly so Jindabyne, the terminal building in question:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/Twyler/Mestia-Airport.jpg

You have it.

[jindabyne]

Here goes - should be done quickly

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

[sycamore]

A Colombian drug-barons strip,with wingless DC-3..?

[jindabyne]

No sir - wrong continent

[sabredog]

Bang Phra airstrip

[jindabyne]

Clever chap! YHC

[sabredog]

Thank you,Jindabyne.
The next challenge;
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/Quiz35-1.jpg

[jindabyne]

KTEX Airport, Colorado

[sabredog]

Correct,Jindabyne.
YHC

[jindabyne]

Next challenge ---

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

slightly clearer

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

[Lightning Mate]

Gentlemen,

I have the saddest of all news. I have received the following personal e-mail.

It is possible that I am the only one who knew RegDep by his real name Heikki. He loved to call himself "your wingman"

Dear friend of my beloved partner who has unexpectedly passed away today. I was the one who had forwarded you the airplane picture some months ago. So I happened to have your email. I knew that he has enjoyed so much being connected with you, he had such a lot of respect for you and really saw you as his good friend. Wishing you all the best and please keep him in good memory. If you would like to know more, please just contact me. Anja-Christina Albert



Von meinem iPhone gesendet

Anfang der weitergeleiteten E‑Mail:
Von: Anja-Christina Albert <[email protected] ([email protected])>
Datum: 17. Juli 2011 19:25:59 MESZ
An: [email protected] ([email protected])
Betreff: Fwd: Greetings from Gatow from your Wingman
RIP Heikki..................wingman.....................

[Cows getting bigger]

How sad. I always enjoy coming to this part of the forum where gentlemen like RegDep have always enlightened.

[descol]

RIP - I suggest a thread somewhere for this - we live and acknowledge each other in an internet age - thank you Regdep

[jindabyne]

I knew of RegDep for only a short while. How extremely sad. RIP Heikki.

As a mark of respect, I'm sure that all here would know that RegDep would have soon identified my last as Nanaimo Airport on Vancouver Island.

Perhaps one of his longer term friends would care to carry on the challenge.

[Phileas Fogg]

R.I.P......

[descol]

jindebyne - perhaps a clue on your post ?

[jindabyne]

des

please see my 679 post -----

[descol]

apologies jindabyne - I missed that - OH - I suppose - so, I will throw this one in - for those who know the area it should be esay

http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/descol/prune27.jpg

[jindabyne]

Solomon Islands - Gizo?

[descol]

Sure - that didn't last long - Gizo it is - great flying in good weather over the lagoons - the place of JFK PT 109 , diving wrecks etc
All your jindabyne


http://i665.photobucket.com/albums/vv14/descol/Gizo_Airport_1.jpg

[jindabyne]

Thanks des - OH

[Duckbutt]

Try this to keep it moving along:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/Twyler/Puzz53.jpg

[India Four Two]

Hi DB,

Trying to narrow it down, SE Asia?

[Ridge Runner]

Clark AFB???? If correct, OH

[Duckbutt]

And good evening to you Mr India and to you RR. Sorry, neither SE Asia, or Clark.

[Duckbutt]

With the proximity of Fiddlers Ferry and Runcorn Jenks, did they ever have sunny days at Burtonwood!

[jindabyne]

Ogden-Hill AFB?

[Duckbutt]

Not Ogden-Hill, Jindabyne

[Duckbutt]

Although this airfield is in current use it seems probable that it hasn't been used by the USAF for some years.

[WE992]

Palm Beach Air Force Base, FL.

[Duckbutt]

Not Palm Beach I'm afraid.

[Duckbutt]

Another pic taken at this airfield:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/Twyler/Puzz53c.jpg

[sabredog]

Wheelus AFB,Lybia, 1961.

[Duckbutt]

You got it Sabredog, and have control.

[sabredog]

Thank you,DB.
Open House.

[Aero Mad]

Have a crack at this airfield:

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3944/34525104.jpg

[sabredog]

Alderney Airport

[Aero Mad]

Quick off the mark! It is indeed... over to you again.

[sabredog]

Thank you,Aero Mad.
The next challenge;
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/i352/mosquito633/Quiz36-1.jpg

[flyingwing]

Early days at Croydon?

[sabredog]

Yes,indeed. But not too far.

[flyingwing]

Hendon perhaps?

[sabredog]

Not Hendon,Flyingwing. Further East still.

[flyingwing]

Hm. Rochester?

[sabredog]

Not Rochester Airport. Try across the Channel,Flyingwing

[jindabyne]

Slightly confusing clues sabre? :confused:

[sabredog]

Why so,Jindabyne?

[jindabyne]

Yes,indeed. But not too far Yes to what? And 'not too far' implies that it is reasonably near. Now we're across the Channel. But I suppose that could be described as 'near' in global terms though. It's just me - forget it!

[sabredog]

I now see what you are alluding to,Jindabyne, and I agree that my post#706 is confusing. It was in reply to another post (not #705) that has now been either deleted or amended. All very mysterious!
The airfield is in France.

[jindabyne]

Aah! Thank you for that sabre :ok:

[Lordflasheart]

Wild guess - Le Bourget ? OH if correct. LFH

[sabredog]

Sorry,LordFlasheart. Not Le Bourget.

[Lordflasheart]

Don't be sorry SD. Next wild guess - Villeneuve-Orly from 1932 - those might be Eugene Freyssinets concrete airship hangars from 1923-26 ? Apparently he was a professional concrete freak. LFH

[sabredog]

Good try, Lordflasheart,but not Villeneuve-Orly, and no connection with Airships,Blimps etc.

[jindabyne]

Possibly Lille?

[Lordflasheart]

Last wild guess - Lyon-Bron. Its the only other French destination shown on the Croydon timetable of 1931. Otherwise completely flummoxed. OH if correct. LFH

[sabredog]

Not Lyon-Bron,LordFlashheart. This was a military (Training) airfield with a small a civilian aeroclub.Opened in 1911 and still extant in 1962. No connection with Croydon. Exact photograph is on the web.

[SilentHandover]

Airfield Saran (Aérodrome de Saran, also known as Aérodrome de Orleans-Saran or Saran Army Air Field)

OH if correct as off to work for the night.

[sabredog]

Well done,SilentHandover.
It is indeed Orleans-Sagan airfield.

"Silent Handovers" were always the best sort! Have a good night duty.
Open House is declared by SH.

[LFT]

Try this one -

http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/4816/100xt.jpg (http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/38/100xt.jpg/)

[Blanket Stacker]

Wig Bay, ex flying boat MU.

OH if correct.

[LFT]

Wig Bay it is :ok:

[flyingwing]

Not on the list.http://i462.photobucket.com/albums/qq346/buzzbird/field1-2.jpg?t=1320079177

[chevvron]

Thorpe Abbots?

[flyingwing]

Sorry - not Thorpe Abbots.

[sycamore]

Upottery,3nm NE Dunkeswell..; OH if correct..

[flyingwing]

Sycamore has it. Upottery - departure point for large numbers of airborne troops on D Day. OH it is.

[Duckbutt]

And here?

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/Twyler/Puzz54.jpg

[MReyn24050]

List of challenges updated.
Mel

[Duckbutt]

Appreciate your efforts, Mel

[Duckbutt]

This airfield has been rendered obsolete by another one built to the south west.

[Soddit]

How about Pearls,Grenada W.I.?

[Duckbutt]

Pearls, Grenada it is Soddit. Over to you.

[finncapt]

Duckbutt

We used in the early 90's on the, Caledonian (not Bcal) DC10, to have a week standover in Grenada.

I remember visiting a small airfield, much like the one in your challenge, on which was "parked" an AN2 which had arrived some years (possibly more than 10) earlier with some Cuban? troops.

I believe Castro was attempting to support a revolution in Grenada but that it fizzled out with the arrival of the Americans shortly after.

Your challenge reminded me of that day and crawling around the AN2 which was in surprisingly good condition.

I wonder if it is the same airfield?

[Soddit]

Many thanks.So long since I got one I've forgotten how to post the next challenge. This may need more than one edit. Finncapt - indeed there WAS a "revolution" by the marxist government of Maurice Bishop.

Surprisingly I cannot find this on the list. It should not tax the assembled experts.
http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/gg307/Soddit_photos/File0006.jpg

[Duckbutt]

Yes that would almost certainly be the place, Finncapt. The AN2 together with an AN24 were left stranded there in 1983 when the USMC used Pearl's as a staging post during the 1983 invasion. Pics of both these aircraft in a servicable condition at the time of the invasion can be found at:

TogetherWeServed - Cpl William Thompson IV (http://marines.togetherweserved.com/usmc/servlet/tws.webapp.WebApp?cmd=ShadowBoxPersonPhoto&type=PersonExt&ID=588&maxphoto=64&filter=All&order=Sequence_desc&page=2)

They remain to this day but to say the least, they are somewhat more 'shop soiled' now, 2007 pics at:

Panoramio - Photo of pearls airport,grenada. (http://www.panoramio.com/photo/663328)

[finncapt]

Duckbutt

Thanks for those links.

[India Four Two]

Interesting that the "Cuban" AN-2 is in Aeroflot markings.

http://marinephotos.togetherweserved.com/9460.jpg

[finncapt]

Yes, I thought that, but I seem to remember it was definitely the Cubans who invaded.

I expect google has the answers somewhere.

I wonder what the markings on the AN24 are/were.

If it was an Aeroflot crew, I hope they got a long range premium payment and a decent layover!!!!

[Duckbutt]

Finncapt, the only pic I could find of the AN26 (other sources call it an AN24) in decent condition is this one. Not a good angle but will give you an indication of the livery:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/Twyler/Puzz54c.jpg

A better shot of the tail (behind the AN2) can be seen in India Four Two's pic above.

[Father Dick Byrne]

Lest we forget the present challenge, might I ask Soddit whether the airport in question is in fact within 30 degrees of longitude west of Suez..?

[Soddit]

Not wishing to interrupt the Pearls discussion .....the airport in question is east of Suez by a fair step. The picture is from 1994 when the runway was being resurfaced.

[India Four Two]

Australia?

[Soddit]

Much too far east....I had rather expected that you would get this very quickly. This airport serves a place which has undergone a change of identity since the picture was taken..

[Soddit]

Time for another clue...there is a close local connection with early Christianity.