Which Aerodrome Mk III

[broadreach]

Are those Stearmans? A Naval Air Station somewhere. Floyd Bennett, Pensacola?

Edit: NOT Floyd Bennett; interesting site to browse through is http://www.airfields-freeman.com/index.htm

[nvubu]

United States Army World War I Flight Training ?

[Russell Gulch]

It is USA but not Florida. They are Stearmans.

Not a NAS and not WWI but you are both along the right lines

Clue:

[dixi188]

Did our visual circuits at Dade-Collier in 1997 with a Carnival A300 out of FLL. One of our Brit. pilots asked where the fire cover was. The reply from the training captain was "about 30 miles away so don't F**k Up"

[Heathrow Harry]

Wheeler Hawaii??

[Russell Gulch]

Wheeler Hawaii??

No.

This is what it looks like today.

[creweite]

Russell, all these pics now come up for me, odd why it did not before.

[SMOKEON]

63rd. A.A.F. Contract Pilot School.
Douglas Municipal Airport, Coffee County, GA.

[Russell Gulch]

SMOKEON has it.

Incidentally where the XP-82 is being readied for flight and sale.

YHC smokeon

[Russell Gulch]

aNother incidence: there is a C54 "stuck" at Douglas for some years. Something nefarious, I believe, drug smugling or something in the background. Anyway it's all been fixed and should fly again soon.
Russ SMOKEON has control

[SMOKEON]

Thank you,Russell.
Open House.

[Heathrow Harry]

Creweite

I sometimes get the same problem which disappears when I log in - I suspect its the method the poster sues to post the image. You can link the image to a picture uploaded to your PPrune profile or to another webisite. I always use the former but maybe some external links only become active on login to PPrune

[kcockayne]

Creweite

I sometimes get the same problem which disappears when I log in - I suspect its the method the poster sues to post the image. You can link the image to a picture uploaded to your PPrune profile or to another webisite. I always use the former but maybe some external links only become active on login to PPrune

I often get a similar problem with photos that Heathrow Harry posts. On my house computer I have no problems seeing the photos. On my iPad - nothing ! Not being “computer savvy”, I have no idea why this should be so.

[Heathrow Harry]

Interesting..

the PPrune Album function allows two methods of posting a picture one is URL-based (below)
https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture816-2017-12-03-121405.jpg



and the other is BB (Bulletin Board) based (below)
https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture816-2017-12-03-121405.jpg



can people see both? or not??

[nvubu]

I can see both. I always post pics that I'm hosting eleswhere - normally on my One-Drive.


Is that the standard size of the Pprune album?

[dixi188]

How about Seeb aka Muscat?
Not been there since 1979 but it looks about right.
Actually Not. GE shows all the desert now built on.

[Heathrow Harry]

Dixi - they're illustrations from last week (Nouakchott Airport, Mauritania) to test the image posting - Currently it's Open House

Size seems to be very variable on PPrune - maybe related to the original image size and pixel density - occasionally people manage to post VAST pictures by error

[India Four Two]

Plenty of parking space here.

[Heathrow Harry]

I42 How did you post that ? I had to log in to see it.......

Tower looks like a standard model - not an Architect designed special - so N America.......

flat so Mid West Mid Canada?
.

[dixi188]

HH.

Sorry, I've not been following lately as too much work.

Both pics. look OK to me, about half the width of the page.

Dixi.

[India Four Two]

Harry,

I was going to ask you how you post yours! If you click on Post Reply and scroll down, you’ll see an option to attach files. The drawback is you only get thumbnails. How do you post your full-size pictures?

Back to the challenge. Yes, one of the relatively flat bits of Canada.

[Heathrow Harry]

The Approved Method

User Cp on top yellow menu line above - Pictures and Albums - create Album - Upload picture - gives you chance to upload 3 jpegs at a time - once uploaded you can copy either the BB or the other link

Open Which aerodrome - Reply - picture symbol and paste in the link

Only problem is that it seems to only allow 25 to 30 pictures per Album so you have to delete the oldies every so often

[Heathrow Harry]

Given that not even the Canadian taxpayer pays for a significant amount of concrete and a tower at every two-bit town it has to be somewhere big -ish

Apparent lack of aircraft (or activity) = ?military?

Those spot circles also look military

I think it may well be CAFB Edmonton Namao at Lancaster Park?

Drove by it a few times

[India Four Two]

Got it in one. Namao used to be a C130 base and one of the Shuttle landing sites. The runway is long gone and it’s now an Army base. :{

HH, what on earth were you doing, driving past Namao?

HH has the con.

[Heathrow Harry]

Wandering from Calgary ...............

Not much to do on a weekend when you're there for a couple of weeks on business..............

[Heathrow Harry]

A long time ago in a Galaxy far, far away

https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture828-2017-12-09-170221.jpg

[sycamore]

Malaysian airways F-27...?

[Heathrow Harry]

F-27 but not MAS.................. somewhere warm tho'

[eckhard]

Nigeria Airways F-27 at Jos?

[Heathrow Harry]

right airline, right aircraft wrong airport

https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture830-2017-12-09-170254.jpg

[Heathrow Harry]

https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture829-2017-12-09-170118.jpg

[nvubu]

Benin City Airport - cancel that.

I'll change to Enugu International Airport

[Heathrow Harry]

Benin City Airport - cancel that.

I'll change to Enugu International Airport

Correct!!! Spent a few month s there just after the Biafran War finished.....

over to you

[nvubu]

Thanks - your last picture made me think Nigeria/Ghana - before I read the post above it :ok:

Three for the price of one this time - click here (http://www.nvubu.co.uk/pprune/20171214_01.jpg) for a much larger version
https://r2nw6a.bl3301.livefilestore.com/y4mqPWXoeQoJgHCcTLOJ_PgCyzr9Tmi2reCnY9tcMi7xyIZ-fkYaH5Br0pvXKQp8isxN3DXVmIGc1ZHGQRgmw7kvBiQ7geGRocUYczGVW3nu avG6kRMbe4EDPI5R4pnSreZaBYXuxHSyQJrZhLHW7OI4hKEsHWopt9j0qGQ3 SvTLg4JPveIPsH5OhMt8IbXAKObrwwUz0UYzA0arRo-MG6uTg?width=1024&height=898&cropmode=none

Edit to add - there is a 4th airfield in the haze between the two flights of aircraft in the top left quarter of the photo.

[Heathrow Harry]

AAArgghhh I've seen the airfield in the front - but can't remember where.......................

[jensdad]

The lower left-hand airfield isn't Stansted, is it?

[nvubu]

No it isn't Stansted. It is still an active airfield though, unlike the other three.


Correct side of the country.

[Harry Wayfarers]

When I flew out of BHX heading towards ZRH there was a collection of airfields in close proximity to each other east of the M5, am I warm?

[Heathrow Harry]

Lakenheath?

[nvubu]

Harry W - east of Stansted
HH - east of Lakenheath as well.
Jenks - south of Norwich.


North is about 8 o'clock.
The straight line to the left of the bottom airfield is still there.

[Harry Wayfarers]

Beccles? ... blah blah blah

[nvubu]

Not Beccles, but you are getting closer.

[Background Noise]

That must be Fersfield at the bottom and Tibbenham to the left?

[nvubu]

Background noise has it. Fersfield and Tibbenham.

Thorpe Abbots middle right
Hardwick very faintly middle left

Over to you.

[Background Noise]

I'll rummage around but, in the meantime, if anybody else wants to post please do.

[Background Noise]

OK, try this - late 70s

https://s18.postimg.org/kb5i33y7t/Screen_Shot_2017-12-15_at_16.19.33.jpg

[Heathrow Harry]

Interesting..... runway in front has either no heading markings or they are very old or it's used occasionally - that might be the main runway to the right??

[Background Noise]

It should say 17L, if it was legible. The runway to the right is just one of the other runways.

[nvubu]

I'll start the ball rolling - Vance AFB?

[Background Noise]

No - but you are on the right lines

[SMOKEON]

Lubbock Army Airfield / Reese AFB, Lubbock TX ?

[Background Noise]

Yes indeed - Reese it is. It was fairly standard, as a pilot training base, to have at least 2 runways with, in my day, T-37s and T-38s doing opposite direction circuits to the outer runways and in later years an instrument runway in the middle. At Sheppard we had a fourth runway, under the T-38 circuit, with a curved running rabbit, for the civilian terminal.

[SMOKEON]

Thank you, Background Noise.
Unable to post photographs, so, Open House.

[Heathrow Harry]

https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture835-2017-12-15-164551.jpg

Haven't had one from this country in a while I believe.........................

[nvubu]

Europe? ....

[jensdad]

I could be well off the beam here, but I have a sneaking feeling it might be Gjirokaster / Gjirokastra (depending on which case of Albanian you're using)?

[Heathrow Harry]

I could be well off the beam here, but I have a sneaking feeling it might be Gjirokaster / Gjirokastra (depending on which case of Albanian you're using)?

Yurop yes, not Albania .... but heading in the right direction

[Heathrow Harry]

https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture836-2017-12-15-164529.jpg

[jensdad]

Just to keep things going, I'll have a punt at Banja Luka, Bosnia Herzegovina.

[Heathrow Harry]

Just to keep things going, I'll have a punt at Banja Luka, Bosnia Herzegovina.


too far west I'm afraid - this place used to have a limited airline service but it was cancelled earlier this year IIRC

[nvubu]

Balchik Airfield, Bulgaria?

[Heathrow Harry]

Even further East...

But in NATO

Not in yurop.... strictly..... misposted

[nvubu]

Must be in Turkey then - very seasonal :ok:

[Heathrow Harry]

Correct - that's what I thought.................................

Nice spot but gets a bit cold in winter and too hot in summer.....

https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture833-2017-12-15-164654.jpg

[nvubu]

Siirt Airport, Borajet suspended operations in April 2017.

[Heathrow Harry]

Not Siirt - too far east - tho' Borajet also pulled out here as well

[nvubu]

How about Tokat

[Heathrow Harry]

Correct!!

Over to you........

[nvubu]

Thanks - that was an interesting jaunt through Turkish airfields.

Here's a wintery image from 70+ years ago
https://0h10pg.bl3301.livefilestore.com/y4mx5olcO0Yv5AcmUE3FKwX7Q4jLZDtlDBS-H9A6SkO71FLvqooPn4utWnrKUPF9kgAgyJOkYIcC9Vw0_UjaIqi8RfsYmjvu DxGgU0LF0QpRhWGXGCQGKCJ9Jgvkk2-pkRi0FVkhidyoT1Z7S-Xb5uZhkKUAO_-GtdHbiIHljFFrnFuIDPLZxwWcvKmF4A4cuBGqIkHvciw0Yv6yGqIMQ-T6w?width=1024&height=786&cropmode=none

[Heathrow Harry]

N W Europe???

[nvubu]

NW Europe is a good start.

Snow being cleared for these
https://qpdrxg.bl3301.livefilestore.com/y4mM4KMNS5JOhQevJHgR9i62oimzbDWANogc3G-BmI0eu14QGHX2JYzYfAr6Uz7HzU6CblWjuzqWJ2U5QjSbc6sS1dJtJ4tJnAW MtoOy3uw7zoahlYvN7veUl_Zymxf27z7m_gF7IHPg8XP6CBnufIpZr0hS05V Dbb8iMZLci641egrHguABSmyF-MedMgrEf2aXb6eboenfza0vmdDPdN70Q?width=1024&height=805&cropmode=none

[SMOKEON]

Beaumont-Sur-Oise, 386th, Bomb Group.
Cletrac M-2 .

[nvubu]

Smokeon has it - Beaumont-Sur-Oise it is.


Over to you.

[SMOKEON]

Thank you,nvubu.
Open House and Merry Christmas.

[Heathrow Harry]

https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture838-2017-12-22-174225.jpg

Bloody hell - 4 hours.............. we're getting good on here

Here's one for Christmas Eve - now has concrete runways - but still active..........................

[nvubu]

Nottingham (1.5 hours) :ok:

[Heathrow Harry]

Aggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

I give up!!!

Nvubu is of course correct - Nottingham it is - I saw the LH Ju-53/3m there a few years back

[nvubu]

My family hails from Eastwood to the west of Nottingham. I was researching around the area last week on-line and saw that there was an airport close by and I got side-tracked by it - with the thought of this thread.

Hope this lasts more than a couple of hours.
https://z31tpg.bl3301.livefilestore.com/y4mPtdKXiXUpu1OkrTTTAv3436yL8jav7f0KeAwI_6ptFZXT8dFcWsTqllfl XvAgFwpfE_nzM8eBbLihrJZVMtPurWJczcmy6Y8zs6QGbdkGd3t75dfpweNQ L3Bv4wzOEr35-v2UaPqLbTPjI2mgYRPpm4djCogeDxwXcQ5P77ZjsOcf-YA_tReQmQ9EmWEfr1Zc_KTivEoCNN2zmHl90YN2A?width=769&height=1024&cropmode=none

[broadreach]

Nvubu, before the competition begins to identify the aerodrome being destroyed, could you please shed any light on that upper right quarter of the image. Crop Circle with Seahorse Head?

[nvubu]

It definitely isn't a mark on the film as it appears on a number of other images I have. Here is it at full resolution from the image. No idea what the cross is either.
https://dk4egq.bl3301.livefilestore.com/y4mdpwhnQgFwr48BQ3x065qKgBMBTG_UnjJCC2DVdkOizAnQ9gc5eJrCzrKU-ZAoWSsVE_mXk8LpkI5zsHdEz5acwXUaW9QxxfN0NgwecN3N550CaLKM0g6_N 55ZEvmKadeu3mSeX2Rn-QvIy5YYdl4jNH6ECuGSEKlIoOb5SvT2PTAficNjNWal33sf_OnEge7R387yh k2EIeaNN7q_saQvQ?width=1327&height=919&cropmode=none

But they don't appear today - although there is something where the X was - and this GE image has some sort of crop shadow where the seahorse is/was.
https://eqvjrg.bl3301.livefilestore.com/y4mKAT39Cq_Bp0rGznZmSVJPZJbycxRaxGmHl73gqjBF7ooGCuqz_kVeJnuZ t-L0E46Ahn7E-P3A_3m5z9W38USi4oGGomtRXgDldLkRkNdkb5dKn9whdLneK2NijIpKmbqFH Z2aHGQGyvJgaFdGZ3eg97E7OkxZnaovxrZgysQQLJJ7UfzIjB1BQxrCZFzDn SJzZm62KlR1qGcUUmJELoG8A?width=1268&height=810&cropmode=none

[jensdad]

A trench system for airfield defence, possibly? Haven't a foggiest which airfield it is btw :)

[Checklist Charlie]

Methinks the X is farmers plough or crop seeding marks. On a second look there are a series of white marks that could be the anchor points for an aerial of some sort!

The 'seahorse head' looks like soil erosion.

As to the location, NBI

CC

[nvubu]

This might help
https://eqvgrg.bl3301.livefilestore.com/y4mndzugKxm9s9nmGmYfPGAGkgNpX4V2jUhDsSw0UcD21frjWV3KEv9cLgAx MVBS-qk7naZbzOzNcPUQGXI1og0BXGUiWDCbeiGRhHrX_6dxNX4dBrw5_mKhvuIL7 lZUyRDGVD3C94sU18l-rn1Gv6j0EXOkfa76TSHjNLrhvLQ7HjNrM-7TV-iHEGKyT0nDaJamsVBmMuMq0dQFZqqllZVOw?width=833&height=1024&cropmode=none

[eckhard]

Is there a Heinkel He 111Z “Zwilling” in the first photo, at top right?

[zetec2]

eckhard, reckon so.

[nvubu]

Morning - I see this one is proving harder than the last few aerodromes.

You can see almost all the airfield in this one - well that not obscured by bomb bursts.
https://eicfow.bl3301.livefilestore.com/y4mG0vhuSobSY0PxcJtrl8jlOkc_M7Ycr7OfeeCwUh-CUVN8GrLsX5PXiiHcqv7b4rk8d_cDoGdl8gKp_HET5HnYsiFnnqic4UgTjg3 YOSeJvDFoiREbSkEvttFB6LXlJszXs7XLktdU7D9FvpaJbpH1BzKdCF7Cpkv U7TXGe1hO55S0csQm5-lVJ8drXRpcs_1QcovCcy2fq-_Z-Zd6eplkA?width=802&height=1024&cropmode=none

[Heathrow Harry]

It definitely isn't a mark on the film as it appears on a number of other images I have. Here is it at full resolution from the image. No idea what the cross is either.
https://dk4egq.bl3301.livefilestore.com/y4mdpwhnQgFwr48BQ3x065qKgBMBTG_UnjJCC2DVdkOizAnQ9gc5eJrCzrKU-ZAoWSsVE_mXk8LpkI5zsHdEz5acwXUaW9QxxfN0NgwecN3N550CaLKM0g6_N 55ZEvmKadeu3mSeX2Rn-QvIy5YYdl4jNH6ECuGSEKlIoOb5SvT2PTAficNjNWal33sf_OnEge7R387yh k2EIeaNN7q_saQvQ?width=1327&height=919&cropmode=none

But they don't appear today - although there is something where the X was - and this GE image has some sort of crop shadow where the seahorse is/was.
https://eqvjrg.bl3301.livefilestore.com/y4mKAT39Cq_Bp0rGznZmSVJPZJbycxRaxGmHl73gqjBF7ooGCuqz_kVeJnuZ t-L0E46Ahn7E-P3A_3m5z9W38USi4oGGomtRXgDldLkRkNdkb5dKn9whdLneK2NijIpKmbqFH Z2aHGQGyvJgaFdGZ3eg97E7OkxZnaovxrZgysQQLJJ7UfzIjB1BQxrCZFzDn SJzZm62KlR1qGcUUmJELoG8A?width=1268&height=810&cropmode=noney

Probably a local low that collected water and drained down the channel. After 60 years its been reduced in size but not eliminated

[eckhard]

My first thought was Volkel but it doesn’t seem to match against Google Earth........

[nvubu]

It isn't in Holland. Images posted match up with the current GE.

Here are a couple more, not so obscured by bombing. Both show the sea horse feature, and if you click the link underneath the image you will get a much larger version.
https://dk4bgq.bl3301.livefilestore.com/y4mUcX5CCiTWAtzn_aUadlSBRPNV5UJpxoMUXCj1djHDaH5xazuCUV_wCuYA nDqpT7wwfeGFfbjixsG6ho1-gIZ11kQQg5YP_f2Oo5dArn8y8Abcu5c60mjFWxJm3ALjG1aaLcfiToBytRhF qFrxJFHyQZWZeEGDB4f9aBoFcKYhsaCDh8So2yEjJRXys2eVLwUwrEd6uaAL r430uSkHz5dBg?width=1024&height=870&cropmode=none
clicky (http://www.nvubu.co.uk/pprune/20171223_06.jpg)


https://rmnu6a.bl3301.livefilestore.com/y4myoEcLPjSsJtz7x8zux0XRg_hUefZ8h_oTEquSidheOq7njuoWb-wV0ePPYuDDeapoWsQUpMfcY7LQ9gDRF4g7-HFP41Z5Y6GwGsqemO-LWliNyUzuWMJiyYuEsIjwDXiHsYcxmi5KQDGSOwx5tGXm-S5LP6LcOh9itZGHKMuiTi3DZQ9_yY7HMtYqTONXN4F6C-ssfOAvxLQM3-Vu7Yomg?width=1024&height=688&cropmode=none
clicky (http://www.nvubu.co.uk/pprune/20171223_08.jpg)

[nvubu]

eckhard & zetec2

I've blown up the section of the image with the HE111Z in it
https://eqvjrg.bl3301.livefilestore.com/y4mGSy3RpSARIwtz3fYd7XJDCDS_2gC35Dx5Vit109XqxeVA1T4pytl6N-F48Urvw_5GBCK8_I-IicLSCXe7WAAoIUIZPmLuCiMpUs_Ckmv7DdFv50KZ3l2FkTkfIIaod_37bz3 an99cyFZF7MDyEQkHz_JvzDX9H3BPl9cJv0DJm4v5xsKOUwBRE_5RMWp-Xzxvm4TNv-zaPsEo-8x5mHP3w?width=1152&height=810&cropmode=none


The full sized original image is here (http://www.nvubu.co.uk/pprune/20171223_11.jpg)

[Cows getting bigger]

I'll take a stab at Dijon. GS-Kommando 1 was based there with HE111Z's in late 1943.

[nvubu]

Well done, Dijon it is - CGB has it - you have the Christmas honours

Couple more images - without any bombs bursting - interesting in the number of aircraft present and the changes in the aircraft stands.
https://z31upg.bl3301.livefilestore.com/y4mki1xNk06bP8Y5g6CqST-VhREYAFWQ9ThlLIR9qCTFlSsxgmYQbWX-K_R8e5eSvYLsnsQzb46U8fYd6qMkLGrticwRg-GXALn0l9b0OuvPfFD_ivVIUp-Wa0pX_iCjEdopvykTqtvtdE_cVe7HOLdUThqwEdZwyKHJYDwMtTEPciKDOb1 4gf8-gVXtmpERdCo31HbRe4gtZtY6mvIksx6CA?width=1024&height=843&cropmode=none


https://ctladg.bl3301.livefilestore.com/y4mWQa5FGDpDkFB4HkW1x6bFmhlufeVl72DNWLcFJw7X6psIWE1xH00QS0x_ gpEAx126FAz65uJfUqj8iBLRtKQRndrfWKvgXpS1N7dpI1T51LjL9ZHy8NKN BFxOkLiF2OfuydkbIjHkzhJvjbO_6wLy9W8bVep4hQeypgvgqzKsRX2waYHN T0i2GLeGHasTqUBbf5sKCXcHzm31ACGi0DkKw?width=875&height=1024&cropmode=none


One of the aircraft pens in this image is still present.
https://aviusq.bl3301.livefilestore.com/y4mvDOic1zyDKdpWLdVzHOpHckymS3C8Hub7ROuD5triz_JtNWFfpqHAQIbW P8qz535zQtkpq7AExCD5uik4Xv3RSp7l6tkQ2LVv14-7Xp45veVl_9lz_Vfk90YECotks3NCmAC0NOxlVh3vzkNndeETZJRYYZWIiGR EXlY0IkYHfX1ONvaFqHxSmwP5_1dE-eb0V_puq8UFpnCXnhdBJOnbQ?width=1024&height=790&cropmode=none


Happy Christmas to everyone.

[Cows getting bigger]

It's going to have to be Open House.

[Terry Dactil]

Since aircraft pens have been mentioned .....
https://www.dropbox.com/s/nhbrltp92qynadm/rsz_11capture_2.jpg?dl=1

[mgahan]

Tindal, NT, during the war?

[Terry Dactil]

No, not in Australia.
It is in a different hemisphere.

[Heathrow Harry]

Got that crushed coral look... Guam??

[Terry Dactil]

Yes, it is one of many airfields that are (were) on Guam, but which one?
Construction was started by the Japanese and finished by the Americans.
It had only one runway, but it looks there was no problem finding somewhere to park!
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ldhqolt0inz3vn4/PPRuNe%20-3.JPG?dl=1
Only a short length of the runway remains visible today as it has all been built over. However the layout of the roads is still the same.

[nvubu]

Can't see any images :(

[nvubu]

From your description and checking my Guam airfield images - Harmon seems to fit the bill

[Terry Dactil]

Harmon it is. Well done nvubu, you have control.
Harmon AFB was closed in 1949 and was merged with the neighboring Naval Air Station Agana, which is now the civil airport.
Then
https://www.dropbox.com/s/k7jdu5bzu0xxva6/rsz_pprune_10.jpg?dl=1

Now
https://www.dropbox.com/s/629yqp0vilj3pdc/rsz_pprune_11.jpg?dl=1

[Heathrow Harry]

Damn.. i've been there as well......

[India Four Two]

Like nvubu, I can't see any go Terry's images. Just a question mark.

[nvubu]

First one I've have a success without seeing any of the images :ok:. Here's the photo I have that let me to Harmon and Agana - image taken while in Japanese hands.

https://2av2ca.bl3301.livefilestore.com/y4mF1vj6uYrN20z5X-fDPavhBYLmqNIxnNLPPnDzaAM0reCfmBuZ335Dqv9TAYM1Jf0GSNUKkpKy0M N3fixVhQ-RbGI25AJkgYzd8UHvcLOlhnfh7WMRrHSQeKOWZ4AkQUNDOe0DwM8cIkm5Sfu UA6vmi2OFORFoYLA1oYuHvwN0xIOfnExo9aHd4rBwJTlMdVtAMsyTv4BOFgw zQKcU7HXcQ?width=1024&height=790&cropmode=none




And the next mystery aerodrome is
https://oikkww.bl3301.livefilestore.com/y4mpe2E8HsWkIXFhX5D-1or1qzpuWbgcO75lAoCIWHYmQMiXRtA4js257OVhfy5aHpuSJWz2VYcWt1Iq-2smxy3sd5dKMkGJ29oriQpRublMdwtoTrMWGWDqy3DcO2Wu2UnJoSR2HQdKs Fdurk25HB5AnJuJd6NVyA3ejpWBfyhKplWNpLQdTUSioFbw3dFUtzkmTDzDP xHYGh5eN5ugU_YDw?width=1024&height=782&cropmode=none

[Airclues]

Like nvubu, I can't see any go Terry's images. Just a question mark.

When I access PPRuNe via Safari I also only see question marks. However when I access via Firefox I can see the full images.

[nvubu]

I've always been able to see Terry's images previously - just checked some previous ones, they are OK. I use IE normally.

In Edge Firefox, Opera & Chrome the images are OK

I had wondered if it is one of Microsoft's "upgrades" where they are trying to force you to use Edge by removing capability in IE - YouTube videos no longer work for me in IE either.

[Terry Dactil]

Damn.. i've been there as well......
Yes. Me too. I used to have crew layovers at a nice beach resort in that area, and never realised that there used to be an airfield so close to the civil airport.
I knew about the large military airfields at the North end of the island, with their multiple runways, so mentioning a single runway must have been a clue that nvubu pounced on. :{

The lack of images is wierd. I did exactly as I had done before and linked to images in my dropbox, so it appears to be a browser issue.
Next time I will try uploding to a PPRuNe album and linking there.

[Terry Dactil]

and the next mystery aerodrome is
Somewhere in the Pacific theatre?

[India Four Two]

When I access PPRuNe via Safari I also only see question marks. However when I access via Firefox I can see the full images.

Just tried Firefox on my Mac - I can see the images unlike Safari, where I only see "?". Very odd.

[chevvron]

I've always been able to see Terry's images previously - just checked some previous ones, they are OK. I use IE normally.

In Edge Firefox, Opera & Chrome the images are OK

I had wondered if it is one of Microsoft's "upgrades" where they are trying to force you to use Edge by removing capability in IE - YouTube videos no longer work for me in IE either.

The device I'm using is an ASUS Netbook. It came with Win 10 installed but I've never used that as I downloaded Chrome as soon as I got it home. Doesn't stop it 'freezing' for 15 minutes every week or so for Microsoft updates and a caption occasionally appears pleading with me to use Microsoft Edge when I'm opening Chrome.
I only get a question mark instead of a photo when someone tries to post the photo using Photobucket.

[nvubu]

Somewhere in the Pacific theatre?

Yes - Pacific theatre.

This flight to the mystery aerodrome originated in Guam.
https://qwnq8a.bl3301.livefilestore.com/y4mEKj5oCFHJJ9bbWml5DUkdw5ewSZlWIuQgTtJmKRDYeLb1FvJuWisyzhQS hScMVreUu51rLZvhAYCbxjgF8t_LCSxfHvEA4XFBB-AKSnCPuLo4_tJxgNubU-ixM_j7fMyKWnTm_vrw2StwApS9lU92h4aNw4Hv8ohezRAYuK6nU29z2pkojN bMw2lG-_gEUlPhdsbKbuVixND1g3EAkftkQ?width=1024&height=750&cropmode=none

[By George]

Jacksons Field Port Moresby PNG?

[nvubu]

Not PNG.

The C54 was carrying high priority personnel, medical equipment and supplies. On the return trip to Guam they carried wounded patients.

[eckhard]

Tinian?
Saipan?

[nvubu]

Neither Tinian or Saipan.

It was a 6 hour flight from Guam.

[Heathrow Harry]

S Korea? Somewhere like Ulsan???

[nvubu]

Not S Korea - further south.

[broadreach]

Six hours in a C54 would be around 1,200/1,300 miles. About right for either Okinawa or Manila. Yontan on Okinawa was the first airfield captured by the Allies. It's no longer in use but the broad avenue in its place has a hill behind it that closely resembles the one in nvubu's photo.

[nvubu]

Well done Broadreach - Yontan, Okinawa it is. Photos taken 10 July 1945.

You have the floor.

[broadreach]

Thanks nvubu and I have to declare Open House. You provided a few super clues, without which I'd never have been able to get near a solution. Six hours from Guam and the usual cargo back and forth could have applied equally to Yokinawa or Manila. I wasn't too sure abut my dates - Okinawa v Philippines - but suspected that extraction of the wounded to Guam would more likely have been from Japan's islands than from SE Asia.

After posting Yontan I went back to Gurgle and had a great disappointment: searched for "C54 Yontan" and came up with a derivative of your image challenge. Which of course knocked all the air out of awaiting your confirmation or not of my earlier guess.

Again< Open House

[India Four Two]

Another four-engined transport, nowhere near Okinawa.

[Terry Dactil]

Hmmm...
RAF Hastings in some distant outpost of the British Empire.
Malaysian peninsula perhaps?

[Heathrow Harry]

Doubt it - looks like snow on the ground......

[Heathrow Harry]

I think it 's British Columbia - maybe Peace River/Fort St John????

[TheChitterneFlyer]

Described as being the best three-engined aeroplane ever built!

[Heathrow Harry]

I have a feeling it was used for testing heavy aircraft at one point - might be wrong.......

[India Four Two]

Fort St. John, BC.

The photo is dated 1948, which is the year the Hastings went into service, so maybe this one was in Canada for cold weather trials.

Harry has the con.

[Heathrow Harry]

I came across it when I was checking out your Edmonton Namao challenge so it looked awfully familiar....

Somewhere warmer this time

https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture863-271228123456.jpg

[nvubu]

Alicante ?

[Heathrow Harry]

No - but near the Med

[nvubu]

Hmmmm... what do you classify as the Med :)

Looking on both Google & Bing Maps - I can see that the "Med" how I thought of it is actually made up of a number of seas - of which the Mediterranean Sea is but one part - the biggest part.

Alboran Sea
Balearic Sea
Sea of Sardinia
Ligurian Sea
Tyrrhenian Sea
Ionian Sea
Adriatic Sea
Aegean Sea
Thracian Sea
Sea of Crete
Mediterranean Sea
So do you mean the "Med" as a whole?
Or just the "Med" part of the "Med"?

[jensdad]

The large stand number (if that's what's on the notice) and the lack of nose-in parking makes me think it's a low-cost terminal at a large airport. Could it be Marseilles? I seem to remember that they built a terminal for Ryanair and maybe other loco carriers a few years ago and there was a load of controversy when Ryanair pulled out shortly afterwards.

[Heathrow Harry]

Nvubu - the "Med" so you don't get it in 10 minutes!! :cool::cool:

Jensdad is on the right lines - large airport but really only a LOCO destination - not Marseille

Also military use

[chevvron]

How about Pisa?

[Heathrow Harry]

Right country - but I think we've had Pisa twice al;ready in 2017...... as you can see - definitely LOCO


https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture864-2017-12-28-093533.jpg

[chevvron]

Cagliari then?

[Heathrow Harry]

Still in the correct country but not Sardinia................

I must admit if I hadn't been there it would have passed me by but it's a lot bigger than I expected

[golfbananajam]

Vincenzo Florio Airport Trapani–Birgi (IATA: TPS, ICAO: LICT) on Sicily

[Heathrow Harry]

Correct!! Over to golfbj

Big place at the extreme west end of Sicily - lots of military activity - Typhoons and AW 139's based there and regular NATO AWACS visitors

https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture862-2017-12-28-094101.jpg[

[nvubu]

HH - That doesn't look like Trapani :(

[TheChitterneFlyer]

HH - That doesn't look like Trapani :(


I agree. that particular image is of Comiso Airport.

[Heathrow Harry]

Whoops.....................

[Russell Gulch]

Happy Newy Year folks.

Are we open house? HH seems to be the last poster. Russ.

[Heathrow Harry]

Golfbanajam got the correct answer so it's his/her call

[golfbananajam]

Happy for someone else to take the lead

Happy New Year to everyone

[Heathrow Harry]

No longer an active airfield but still visible

http://https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture865-2017-12-28-170107.jpghttps://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture865-2017-12-28-170107.jpg

[chevvron]

Hatfield???

[India Four Two]

Since there are three Bothas in the picture, I’ll go for Thornaby, home to 608 Squadron, who drew the short-straw as the only squadron to operate this dreadful aircraft.

[Hen Ddraig]

Could that be a 502 Squadron aircraft at Hooton Park?

[Heathrow Harry]

Well so much for a better run in 2018!

Jenkins has it - Silloth it is - you can see it in the backdrop of the aerial shot below

https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture866-2017-12-28-170238.jpg



https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture867-2017-12-28-170753.jpg

[Russell Gulch]

Hopefully this has not been posted before apologies if it has. Russ.

[Heathrow Harry]

New York???

[Russell Gulch]

Right country, wrong state

[SMOKEON]

Cleveland Municipal Airport, Ohio?

[Russell Gulch]

SMOKEON has it.

[SMOKEON]

Thank you,RG.
Open House.

[Heathrow Harry]

https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture868-2018-01-03-134831.jpg

[chevvron]

Heavily wooded countryside could be either Canada or northern Europe.

[Harry Wayfarers]

Is that yellow paint pre-threshold? ... Norway?

[Heathrow Harry]

Not Norway but Scandinavia.................................

[Heathrow Harry]

https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture870-2018-01-03-134851.jpg

[broadreach]

From the tail markings, somewhere in Denmark.

[kcockayne]

Don’t you mean Switzerland ? And, I would guess “lowland Switzerland”.

[TheChitterneFlyer]

Don’t you mean Switzerland ? And, I would guess “lowland Switzerland”.



kcockayne, the posted clue from Heathrow Harry was Scandinavia!

[Heathrow Harry]

Certainly NOT Switzerland

Denmark it is.........................

[Flap40]

kcockayne, the posted clue from Heathrow Harry was Scandinavia!
But the tail markings of the two aircraft in the centre are Switzerland not Denmark as stated above.

[Heathrow Harry]

It's defo Denmark...................................

[kcockayne]

I hold my hands up ! I was led astray by the Swiss tails on some of the a/c. Or, are they Swiss ? In any event, I was wrong.

[Heathrow Harry]

I think they are Swiss - I think it was some sort of fly-in... it's not a busy airport TBH

[broadreach]

They could well be Swiss; I’d googled Danish GA tail markings and found some with the Danish white cross on a red background, summed that to the flat environment and shot from the hip! Had no luck whatsoever finding the airfield, though. A few observations:
A) the loooong taxiway perpendicular to the runway.
B) Denmark isn’t particularly noted for dense forest and, if I’m not mistaken, most of the forested land is in the north.

[Heathrow Harry]

That was the attraction of the challenge.........

it doesn't look like the Denmark most people know.............................

I was very surprised when I visited........

[R2G2]

Is it Læsø? If so OH. If not there is a thread from 2010 in Private Flying about Danish airfields.

[broadreach]

Reckon R2G2's got it. Lovely challenge HH, confirmed or not!

[Heathrow Harry]

Laeso it is - a very quiet island between Denmark and Gothenburg. Lieke many of the smaller Danish Islands not much ever happens there but it's part of the charm.......

Well done R2G2 - looks like OH.........


https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture869-2018-01-03-135146.jpg

[Heathrow Harry]

This weather is getting me down..... somewhere a bit (well... a lot) warmer and brighter

https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture880-2018-01-07-072947.jpg

[Flap40]

Well with that picture it must be Lampedusa!

[rog747]

This weather is getting me down..... somewhere a bit (well... a lot) warmer and brighter

https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture880-2018-01-07-072947.jpg


abu simbel?

[Heathrow Harry]

Not Egypt - more ..first world-ish.............

[Heathrow Harry]

https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture873-2018-01-07-073212.jpg

[dook]

I'm new here.

South America ?

[broadreach]

Can’t imagine it being anywhere in South America. Mexico perhaps?

Edit... but, having said that, Peru? Chiclayo in the north or Ica, south?

[Heathrow Harry]

Dook & Broadreach are correct - S America it is.................... but not Peru.

https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture874-2018-01-07-072834.jpg

[dook]

Chile ?.....

[chevvron]

Yeah I'm freezing.

[broadreach]

Florianopolis?

[Heathrow Harry]

Dook has the correct country

[TheChitterneFlyer]

Aeropuerto Internacional Chacalluta ... I think!

[Heathrow Harry]

Flyer is correct - where the Atacama Desert meets the sea just south of the Peruvian border - dry doesn't really cover the description - maybe an inch of rain in January and that's about it

Over to you!!!

[TheChitterneFlyer]

Flyer is correct - where the Atacama Desert meets the sea just south of the Peruvian border - dry doesn't really cover the description - maybe an inch of rain in January and that's about it

Over to you!!!


Good challenge; I spent hours looking for it!


Regrettably, since Photobucket stopped hosting image posting, I don't have a method of uploading a new challenge. Hence, OPEN HOUSE.

[India Four Two]

TCF,

On the Post Reply page, scroll down and click on Manage Attachments.

[Mike Flynn]

OK you super sleuths...

Where is this UK airfield.

I have flown in here many times in the past but sadly never again.

https://www.imageupload.co.uk/images/2018/01/19/IMG_3606.jpg (https://www.imageupload.co.uk/image/E1bE)

[Heathrow Harry]

Flyer

You can use the direct upload to Pprune option by setting an album up under USER CP on the top line of the page

[TheChitterneFlyer]

It surely must be Turnberry.... maybe not

[Heathrow Harry]

Don't think so - the golf course is in the middle of Turnberry as well as on one side

[JRFD]

Wrexham, N Wales

[Heathrow Harry]

looks like it to me...................

[creweite]

Many years since I was last in Wrexham. so Googled the area. Found a photo titled RAF Wrexham, showing three hard surfaced runways. Looks to be an ancient pic!

[Heathrow Harry]

even less left on the latest GE imagery

[Mike Flynn]

It is Wrexham:ok:

I used it a lot in the 1980's but now sadly just a sand quarry.

[Mike Flynn]

None of you will get this one.

https://www.imageupload.co.uk/images/2018/01/20/IMG_0791.jpg (https://www.imageupload.co.uk/image/EHJk)

[SMOKEON]

Mae Hong Son Airport, Thailand?

[TheChitterneFlyer]

None of you will get this one.

https://www.imageupload.co.uk/images/2018/01/20/IMG_0791.jpg (https://www.imageupload.co.uk/image/EHJk)


Except 'SMOKE ON' grabs it in short time... I concur.

[Terry Dactil]

It looks like only a better class of pilot is allowed there. :E
All the tyre marks are in the touchdown area and right on centerline.
Probably like the one-way strips in New Guinea - Darwinian selection of the survivors.

[TheChitterneFlyer]

I wonder how many wrecks can be found within the following terrain?

[Cubs2jets]

Wamena, Papua, Indonesia

[Heathrow Harry]

Long time since I was in Wamena but it doesn't look quite right

Never been to Mae Hong Son but it looks right on Google earth......................

[broadreach]

Mae Hong Son has my vote as well, from studying Google Earth. Terry Dactil, had the same thought, sphincter tightening precision. Traffic appears to be mostly twin turboprops a la ATR.

[BSD]

Malaysia? Seems familiar but not sure where.

[dook]

BSD,

TheChitternFlyer has already confirmed the winner.

[Heathrow Harry]

BSD,

TheChitternFlyer has already confirmed the winner.


But the poster, jay Sata, hasn't

Custom & practice is we wait for him to say it's correctly ID'd and who has the parcel.........................

[TheChitterneFlyer]

But the poster, jay Sata, hasn't

Custom & practice is we wait for him to say it's correctly ID'd and who has the parcel.........................


If one looks at Google Earth it doesn't take a modicum of Rocket Science to confirm that the image posted by Jay Sata isn't anything other than Mae Hong Son.


Can anyone else please concur and therefore reach the right conclusion? we could otherwise be waiting for weeks on end whilst we wait for the OP to reply.

[Heathrow Harry]

I've PM'd him - give it 24 hours as he's in S E Asia....................

[broadreach]

Chitts and Heathrow Harry, we went through periods like this on WOE ages ago and I think we reached a more-or-less consensus that, in the event of the challenger not confirming what appeared to be a correct answer, things would move on with Open House being declared. Even if there was some doubt, the lack of response from a challenger shouldn't be grounds for holding up the fun.

Wrt Mae Hong Son, SMOKEON nailed it within 23 minutes and we're now three days on....

[nvubu]

Jay Sata - The person who correctly names the aerodrome gets to be in control of the thread and has the option of posting their own image or passing control with an Open House. But that person can't post until acknowledged by the challenger - as broadreach says.

In this case you need to cede control to SMOKEON and wait until you correctly name a challenge or there is an open house declared.

[Mike Flynn]

Sorry about that.Just deleted so over to you SmokeOn.

[SMOKEON]

Thank you, Jay Sata.
Not wishing to muddy the waters further, but JRFD answered challenge #7691 Wrexham
correctly, but was not given the opportunity to offer a new challenge.
I feel JRFD should take the helm, failing that, it's Open House.

[Mike Flynn]

Whatever is fair.

Sorry to have messed up the sequence.

[SMOKEON]

Jay Sata,
Please check your P.M.s.

[SMOKEON]

As there has not been a response from JRFD, I believe it is now " Open House".

[Cows getting bigger]

This is a two-parter. The dirt strip is roughly east/west and was used predominately by the UN over the past two decades. The tarmac is quite new and about 20nm north. Both airfields share the same name.

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4642/38530132204_375a2eed3b_c.jpg

https://farm5.staticflickr.com/4593/38530122094_20959338c2_c.jpg

[SMOKEON]

Garowe (Conoca airstrip), Somalia ?

[Cows getting bigger]

Right continent.

[nvubu]

I spent my lunch time looking at airstrips in Angola :)

[Heathrow Harry]

I think it might be Mahbes in W Sahara/Morocco........... - the tarmac new one

V approx location

Latitude:
27-24-34.902N (27.409695) Longitude:
009-04-22.8576W (-9.073016)

[Cows getting bigger]

Close enough for government work, HH. The Lat/Long you have given is for a long defunct strip with my first picture actually being the UN strip some 3km West of that location. It was used extensively after Morocco annexed this bit of Western Sahara in the early 90s although required(s) mine clearance activity before every flight. The new runway is about 20nm North and doesn't appear on any charts/imagery.

[Heathrow Harry]

Thank you - - I have to say it's rather an odd story - I was thinking Australia but as far as I was aware the UN haven't been active there. The Sahara is a very large place but I suddenly remembered a picture we received about 5 years ago.

We have Spanish friends - he worked for Medicin sans Frontiers after leaving the day job as a surgeon and she did voluntary work for refugees. They made a number of trips to the refugee camps in Algeria and Spanish Sahara and the pictures they sent looked very like your oblique tho no picture of the airstrip. Luckily there aren't many around - looks liek a hell of a spot TBH

Great challenge!!!

[Heathrow Harry]

https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture888-2018-01-26-084147.jpg

Somewhere... pleasanrer

[broadreach]

HH, what a wealth of clues! You make it so easy. Rolling hills in the distance, an ATR in distinctive livery consisting of a blue line, traffic cones and a crew member crooking a knee. I’m going to guess Mediterranean Spain or Greece. Or Romenia... or...

[jensdad]

I'll take a punt at Milos, the Greek island of Venus de Milo fame. Only because I've been there and it looks vaguely possible... (and Olympic had a blue cheat line and operated ATRs)

[Heathrow Harry]

Can't make it too easy with the first pic - I've had really obscure airports nailed in 38 minutes by the brains on here.... and I have the con because friends of ours had been to the ghastly W Sahara region and sent us a picture 5 years ago........ there are some seriously good people contributing to this thread

And yes Mediterranean ( and a very carefully cropped ATR) and Jensdad is even closer........

https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture887-2018-01-26-084233.jpg

[Harry Wayfarers]

Kalamata? ...

[Heathrow Harry]

No - it's in the Aegean

[Harry Wayfarers]

Limnos? ........

[Heathrow Harry]

No - and there is an old strip right next to the current one................

[TheChitterneFlyer]

Gokceada Canakkale Airport... needed the clue to find it!

[Heathrow Harry]

https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture889-2018-01-26-084101.jpg

Correct - used to be called Imbros - a place with a rather unpleasant history of low level ethnic cleansing after 1960.............

Flyer in charge!!!!

[TheChitterneFlyer]

Thanks Heathrow Harry.


Open House.

[India Four Two]

http://i.imgur.com/CoTXV61.png (https://imgur.com/CoTXV61)

[Heathrow Harry]

Lot of motorbikes......... SE Asia?? Cambodia???

[dook]

That symbol appears on canoes/fishing boats in Taiwan.

[Heathrow Harry]

Lanyu, Orchid Island Taiwan? (KYD)

[India Four Two]

A precision strike, Harry.

Lanyu Island, just off the SE coast of Taiwan, home to a large population of indigenous people, who are not very happy about their island being used as a dumping ground for waste from nuclear power stations.

http://i.imgur.com/OV3kxxU.jpg (https://imgur.com/OV3kxxU)

Here are some of the canoes that inspired the terminal building's architecture, with the symbol that dook mentioned:

http://i.imgur.com/M0KWJZ5.jpg (https://imgur.com/M0KWJZ5)

An unconventional disembarkation from a Twin Otter:

http://i.imgur.com/VXBQmAN.jpg (https://imgur.com/VXBQmAN)



HH has control.

[Heathrow Harry]

Actually I'll hand it to Dook - his/her Taiwan suggestion led me to Google Taiwan Airports ................... which was a bit too easy..................

That airport looks like an interesting landing????

Amazed someone went off the runway on the UPHILL side

[India Four Two]

HH,

I thought about that too, but looking at the runway orientation, I suspect they get healthy onshore crosswinds.

As HH graciously said, dook has control.

PS I recently completed the Melbourne to Hong Kong leg of the Round-the-World virtual race on sailonline.org. Quite a few PPRuNers participate - my vessel is Miss Saigon. When transiting the chain of islands in the Luzon Strait, I wondered where the boundary between the Philippines and Taiwan was. That's how I discovered Lanyu/Orchid island.

[dook]

Actually I'll hand it to Dook -

Thank you HH - very honourable of you. I have nothing ready so please take it yourself.

[Heathrow Harry]

OK....... still in use but not for landings.....

https://www.pprune.org/members/326184-heathrow-harry-albums-what-airfield-picture896-2018-01-29-134119.jpg

[dook]

UK military ?

[Heathrow Harry]

UK military ?
Sometimes....

[Shackman]

Looks more like a film set - Bovingdon?

[dook]

Sometimes....

Might it therefore be also American ?