Which Aerodrome Mk III

[Heathrow Harry]

Europe?

Could be France/Germany/etc etc

[ea200]

Could be, but it's not Europe.

[jensdad]

It's called a 'patois' not a dialect.
I demand a recount!:*


:) I actually typed the word 'patois' but I thought the French sound of that word would maybe give it away! I've been to Guernsey a few times (beautiful place, you're a lucky person kcockayne) and I have heard it said that the decline in Guernesiaise really intensified when a large number of young islanders were evacuated to the UK during WWII, and then came back speaking English as their first language. Here's another photo from Forest parish churchyard - within earshot of the airport - that you may find interesting. The deaths on the family headstone are marked in French until some point between 1917 and 1945, when English is used. I love this kind of stuff. Photo used with respect to the people whose names are carved there. https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/768x1024/2017_ci_052_768x1024__c6cc08f96674dd7a8cbca7e5f878924139e748 e0.jpg
Sorry for massive thread drift :)

[Heathrow Harry]

Could be, but it's not Europe.

USA?........................

[sycamore]

Canada..Ontario..?

[ea200]

HH is correct with USA

[Heathrow Harry]

Could be Appalachia or the Ozarks or the Rockies... but it looks pretty dry so I'll go for California........

[ea200]

Right again HH

[Heathrow Harry]

Right again HH



Quite big mountains inteh distance - Sierra Nevada or the Klamaths?

[ea200]

Neither of those HH. The Klamaths are closer.

[WIDN62]

Dunsmuir, Northern California?

[ea200]

Not Dunsmuir. There is a clue in the picture which would discount that.

[ea200]

I have to correct my earlier reply to HH. Although not known as such locally, this area is technically in the Klamaths. Sorry HH.

[sycamore]

Lonnie Pool Airfield,Weaverville...OH If correct.. ..

[Heathrow Harry]

Lonnie Pool Airfield,Weaverville...OH If correct.. ..

that's the one!!!!!

[ea200]

Sycamore has it and declared OH. One way in and one way out due terrain. Someone tried taking off the other way ages ago, with predictable results. They were going to build a new one but never did. I suspect funds were not forthcoming. Lovely area though if you like forests and lakes.

[Heathrow Harry]

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/561x390/180709mmmmmmm_d56e4cdfd8b706102ded102d710f144d92fcff88.jpg

Somewhere a long way from California

[chevvron]

Manston???

[Heathrow Harry]

I don't think so............... a long way away from Manston - opened in the mid-50's I believe and very much changed

[ImageGear]

That looks like a DC8 outside one of the old "Shack" Hangars in Capetown

IG

[G-ARZG]

Harare perhaps?

[Heathrow Harry]

Harare perhaps?

Well done that man!!! Over to you

Harare it is - circa 1979 I believe

Much changed these days

[G-ARZG]

Looks like the hangar Affretair used before their demise.
Open House.... 'ZG

[dook]

Hello again everybody. :)

[chevvron]

I don't think so............... a long way away from Manston - opened in the mid-50's I believe and very much changed
Opened in the mid '50s?
Gatwick!!:p

[Heathrow Harry]

Opened in the mid '50s?
Gatwick!!:p

I did say v much changed... I was in lgw s terminal yesterday and it was pretty much the same as 1972.....

[Heathrow Harry]

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/381x385/2018_07_22_151756_92b2f21c38cbf2e6b1e617841aa872a89290c45a.j pg

[chevvron]

Looks a bit like Redhill.

[Heathrow Harry]

well that was quick - I was passing it last week and thought it was worth a try... over to Chevron

[chevvron]

Sorry wasn't expecting a 'win' there.; taken from the eastern crash gate?
Open House.

[Heathrow Harry]

Sorry wasn't expecting a 'win' there.; taken from the eastern crash gate?
Open House.

No - far too dark clouds for this summer - old picture......................

[Heathrow Harry]

Let's try again..................

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/434x229/2018_07_23_140719_c93a33db850fd1c6f76e907915bef4a2154e2b67.j pg

[jensdad]

For some reason I'm thinking Australasia. There's no specific thing in the photo that makes me say that; just a gut feeling. Which probably means I'm completely wrong :)

[Chris Scott]

Well done that man!!! Over to you

Harare it is - circa 1979 I believe

Much changed these days

Just for the record, if it's 1979, it's Salisbury... :8

[wakefield]

Hobart. If so, open house.

[Heathrow Harry]

Hobart it is

OH

[nvubu]

Bombs away.
https://wjsf6g.bl.files.1drv.com/y4m44hz8mTeIRMgBObEs_DgprS7j-JC3WP29YqkPAccb3cKW9LiwjR9XWOiD5i99-Jici6KQZOH_vrkBnjdkNHBqjDSTgdhD8goMa9aTUJsgigw4aPaHWuZFLMeqW hmsqyAdy-9-Xs5uegvD-Wnm45oNy0CvMh9pfA8PLcqR27tsfn9w2ZPBOrDVL9mQK2sB3g-3NOpRY7dsFEE9i8ux7eUVw?width=1024&height=844&cropmode=none

[Heathrow Harry]

Still in use??

[nvubu]

Yes still in use.
Runway is just off the top of the image.

[pr00ne]

Gutersloh?

[nvubu]

It isn't Gutersloh. Unlike some of my other challenges with similar field layouts, the fields are broadly similar now.

https://9orulw.bl.files.1drv.com/y4m9okzpNhZtKcHs04GQ8srjzE3H_tZipDctY_gqHxW2WiiLfxtoNMh6HTrY Gwl2L5I9GP6FKmSLtX1tF8tH-BF_AK9xfUDAXUAGFaBwfEUKqsGQaF9y6Q8sw_AJJCxBqRPJO-VOe6yo8S3TSpwvHkAUfJLSm3TocL9rlQHfxCpHJ1cx8yw-SM1lQld3KzkcEwJyd1r4gC7VOewaCTggQYcQA?width=1024&height=759&cropmode=none

[nvubu]

This is taking a bit longer than I thought it would.
The country has been named correctly.
https://jsderw.bl.files.1drv.com/y4mELsu5GDvcmFUGqHgjx25-cbcz-N8wb6i9fu5AqH8xKw6qneXpTYvG1v0GpfRmkc_P8YQSK40FLmzdbScKKdKaL 1ID5taKIvp0U3jYjX17rNtvKQkT7j41898vVOVHizcfUI6rc7gxx-0ZFUllfhMNJCoOGFx-q7-fu00ug8Iy0toB0cscGsfJ_H0Q8Kyj7rIOtyv1L1PTOw_-or_IHVU2Q?width=1024&height=624&cropmode=none

[dook]

Gliding - Oschersleben ?

[nvubu]

It isn't Oschersleben.

[nvubu]

You need to go south.
Almost the same distance from Oschersleben and Gutersloh
Most of the buildings still standing in this image look like they are still in use today.

https://huaxgg.bl.files.1drv.com/y4m9fv9RzwnaTmsNnQQj5TTjS-OSCPlSQZKnkse07r4BVzXCcVxNR4u8kE6ooRlsiYqX3hNzHk-PKBEP8PvMOCMaLO5GjxoO6HxAeuA3rijRj59DptGUUfso0xA7MFj2EiW_dc9 fIpm0LEApQ6gWomI10gPsUA_1TzhEfl8_KMxONLIwL-VsrSOBceCkvMJTFhdmU3-ckbcNM160xyUgYsxsA?width=1024&height=1016&cropmode=none

[Heathrow Harry]

Giebelstadt south of Wurzburg looks possible.......

[nvubu]

Getting closer.
Single paved runway, and just noticed single grass one as well on GE - with a glider on it.
Picture before last (runway on right, fields/town on left) is roughly correct orientation -

[Heathrow Harry]

Schweinfurt??

[dook]

Augsburg ?

[SMOKEON]

Lechfeld Airfield.

[nvubu]

Smokeon has it - Lechfeld it is..

You have control.

[SMOKEON]

Open House

[India Four Two]

No bombs dropped here!

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/1187x658/screen_shot_2018_07_27_at_01_04_18_66de086e423e9b685b02a8388 ecc6bc5a4db37af.png

[Heathrow Harry]

Alberta? look sort of foothills -like...

[India Four Two]

Not Alberta and not foothills. Here's another view:

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/1192x665/screen_shot_2018_07_27_at_07_20_08_f3e848734eea9b48a7c4e9b48 16d6f5570556700.png

[Heathrow Harry]

About 2 hours ago I posted a fairly thoughtful post about the shadows, the rocks, geology and the general retain and someone seems to have taken it out.....

This happens too damn often TB H

[dook]

I assume it was on this thread.

The only people who could take it out are the administrators and moderators.

Very odd, but over the years posts have mysteriously disappeared.

[India Four Two]

It is not obvious in my second photo, but there is a very prominent mountain sticking up above the clouds in the centre of the image. Here's a closer view:

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/1177x649/screen_shot_2018_07_27_at_22_35_42_c4bb11b949cf63640af745f48 08019d1cc8db673.png

Harry,
I'm sorry to hear that your "fairly thoughtful" post disappeared. I would have liked to have read your observations, particularly about "the general retain"! :)

For your benefit, here are some geological clues. The prominent peak has rocks of Lower Cambrian age.The ridge in the middle distance has Late Proterozoic rocks which contain Ediacaran fossil assemblages.

[Heathrow Harry]

My post was on the lines the rocks looked sedimentary no t volcanic so not NZ N island or Japan, more like Alps, Rockies, Himalayas

Shadows indicate between 40 N & 40 S

parkland suggests not India or Nepal.........

[Heathrow Harry]

That looks like Mt Robson.,, British Columbia - highest of the Canadian Rockies? Looks remarkably like Mt Everest in some ways.............

Which makes the airfield Valemount?

[India Four Two]

Correct. I spent a week at Valemount, towing at a gliding camp. A spectacular location in the Rocky Mountain Trench.

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/1170x641/screen_shot_2018_07_28_at_12_08_49_8ebd00e6deea291a55903f707 b9a24abc883c081.png

Mt Robson is the highest and most spectacular peak in the Canadian Rockies - 12,972'. It rises over 10,000' above the valley floor. There is no non-technical way to get to the summit. It is known to climbers as the Great White Fright!

Harry has the con.

[Heathrow Harry]

Lucky swine!! - Tho I'll bet you had some interesting updrafts & downdrafts that close to the mountains???


try this - near sea-level................


https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/305x245/2018_07_29_093208_aaa0b0bb44a5b78a999ac52602863137537af941.j pg
..

[India Four Two]

Harry,

Yes, often moderate turbulence, occasionally severe. A tow pilot friend of mine, when talking about towing gliders to connect with wave, used to say: "The rotor's not rough unless you get rolled inverted!"

Besides spectacular flying in mountain scenery, we made another nice discovery, which you'll appreciate - the Three Ranges Brewing Co - "Putting the ALE in vALEmount" https://www.threeranges.com

[Heathrow Harry]

Harry,

Yes, often moderate turbulence, occasionally severe. A tow pilot friend of mine, when talking about towing gliders to connect with wave, used to say: "The rotor's not rough unless you get rolled inverted!"

Besides spectacular flying in mountain scenery, we made another nice discovery, which you'll appreciate - the Three Ranges Brewing Co - "Putting the ALE in vALEmount" https://www.threeranges.com

Thats a deal - you do the hairy flying, I'll sit in the brewery and stack them up waiting for you to return and regale us all with tales of derring do......:ok:

[sycamore]

Sporting approach,or,`screwed it`,HH,? Italy ,or France...?

[Heathrow Harry]

Sporting approach,or,`screwed it`,HH,? Italy ,or France...?

yes......................................... to all four questions....... in a way.......................

[SMOKEON]

Calvi Airport (Sainte-Catherine), Corsica.

[Heathrow Harry]

Yes indeed!!!!


https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/389x311/2018_07_29_093107_d2d2a029550d328be31352df696b73db23f02059.j pg

[SMOKEON]

Thank you,
Open House.

[Heathrow Harry]

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/408x334/2018_08_06_183114_b6fef350cbc325cf2ba8c86e4a1cb238d9f22fc4.j pg

[Heathrow Harry]

Not in the FSU

[Flap40]

I think that that is not a TSR2 but a Harrier (possibly sea) and a Wessex. I'll leave the airfield to someone else as I don't have one to post at the moment.

[Heathrow Harry]

Bang on - a lonely corner of Cornwall - I drove past it last week..... Jwnkins has it

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/1024x538/2018_08_08_073537_8c94c269aa203661941cae45b5d7d53fa12e3517.j pg

[Heathrow Harry]

Thanks, perhaps you can divine my initial mistake. I have material to post, please could you give me until 1630 GMT to see if I can manage to complete a posting, it now being ici 1422 GMT?
nice of youtoaskfor time but unecessary

custom and practice has always to give a winner a few days to post something new or declare OH

[Heathrow Harry]

England I guess from the fields??

[Heathrow Harry]

Bottom centre there is a white blob - is this an artefact of the image or (as it could be) a cartoon figure on the ground?

[dook]

Bolt Head Salcombe ?

[dook]

Well, there's a surprise !

Knowing you lot this probably won't last long.

http://i67.tinypic.com/jt2vie.jpg

[Heathrow Harry]

looks a bit cold to me..................

[dook]

The very opposite.

[Heathrow Harry]

desert?????

[dook]

Certainly is.

[Russell Gulch]

Nevada I'm sure. Part of the atom bomb test scene?. Quite where I'm not sure!

Russ

edit may be California (where was area 51?)

[dook]

A very long way from the USA.

[Russell Gulch]

Woomera? Woomera?

(message rules, so it sais)

[dook]

Yes to :

British, Arabian, buildings RAF, undefended, sea in the background. I wonder about early, perhaps mid-50's, Salalah?

Getting close now.

[dook]

Nicely done JENKS.

Masirah 1962.

Please take the stage.:D

[dook]

Oi JENKS,

Your post with the correct answer has evaporated.

[dook]

And the last type of aeroplane which I flew operated from there - schhh Jaguar.

[dook]

Good grief !

UK again ?

[dook]

I'm beginning to think it's a tank training area such as Salisbury Plain.

[dook]

I would think British ones. Near Tilshead possibly.

[dook]

But am I in the right ballpark with Salisbury Plain ?

[Cows getting bigger]

Netheravon. OH if correct.

[Jn14:6]

Larkhill??

[dook]

I was almost there. :rolleyes:

[dook]

I'll get something up in about an hour if nobody else does.

[dook]

This will be easy for some.

http://i65.tinypic.com/2l8b6m0.jpg

[sidtheesexist]

RAF Gan per chance? Sorry, OH IF correct....

[dook]

I thought it would go quickly.

OH

[dook]

It's probably unethical for me to put another one up.

[Heathrow Harry]

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/235x239/2018_08_10_180444_3633cd1e36853e2a5cecca5e7e030f03dfd6ae2a.j pg

[chevvron]

Swinderby?

[Heathrow Harry]

Right country wrong location

This place is still open - but only just....................

[dook]

Henstridge

[Heathrow Harry]

Yes indeed!

[dook]

That took some finding HH.

http://i66.tinypic.com/260tzld.jpg

[Heathrow Harry]

One of the relatives is moving near there next week and mentioned there was an old airfield nearby.....................

[dook]

Where are they going...……….?

[Heathrow Harry]

That would be telling - but not far away.......................... giving up the joys of Exurban SE England for the bucolic delights of Wessex

I think they're mad TBH

[dook]

I don't think they are mad - I live in Wessex.

[chevvron]

The challenge looks like a 'bootiful' airfield with possibly the remnants of ICBM lanch pads. I can't find which one though!

[Heathrow Harry]

Henstridge Airfield (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henstridge_Airfield) (ICAO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICAO) code – EGHS). It was built during World War II (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II) as a training base for the Fleet Air Arm (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fleet_Air_Arm), who commissioned it as HMS Dipper (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RNAS_Henstridge_(HMS_Dipper)). Visitors can still see the concrete outline of an aircraft carrier deck embedded into its one surviving runway. The MOD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Defence_(United_Kingdom)) sold the airfield in 1957 and today it is mainly used as a base for general aviation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_aviation) and is an active training centre for autogyros (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autogyro) (gyrocopters). The airfield is the base for the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorset_and_Somerset_Air_Ambulance)

[dook]

Good morning gentlemen.

You need to look in the land of the Viet Jock.

[SMOKEON]

Balado Bridge,Tayside

[dook]

Bingo...…….. :D

[Heathrow Harry]

can't see the picture........................

[dook]

There isn't a new post or pic.

The last was mine yesterday and it's still there.

[SMOKEON]

Thank you,dook.
Open House.

[India Four Two]

SMOKEON,

You are clearly very good at identifying mystery aerodromes. How about posting one occasionally?

[Heathrow Harry]

Interesting - those cars are driving on the LEFT I think - so ................. one of the ones in red - it's actually one of 78 places see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_with_left-hand_traffic so not a lot of help..................

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/1022x505/2018_08_12_165405_9c366ef132d367e418be4d4c542cdb2c3289fae4.j pg

[dook]

The doppler VOR beacon doesn't help either.

[Heathrow Harry]

Yes - but somewhere they haven't got a decent taxi way to the end of the runway......................... = possible lack of space or just cheap...................

Since it's not "on the Map" I suspect an island in the Caribbean or the S Pacific.......................

[Heathrow Harry]

Nadi 09 is close but hasn't go the road round the end of the runway.... I thought Nauru but wrong heading

[Heathrow Harry]

Raratonga in the Cook Islands? not a place I've been but it's on the list

[Heathrow Harry]

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/446x421/2018_08_12_174348_ac41beb49caf7268c985e41486d8d66b5c64c56e.j pg
Done a bit of the S Pacific - would really like to to get round Tahiti and the outer islands there... but try this

[India Four Two]

Harry just beat me to it!

Slight thread drift about driving on the left. I used to live in Jakarta, as did Harry, so he will remember this story. In order to establish the prestige of the British Government, the Foreign Office had sent a giant Daimler limousine for the use of the British Ambassador. Not only was its size completely unsuitable for Jakarta's mostly narrow streets, but one of Sir Humphrey's colleagues had obviously decided that since Indonesia had not been a part of the British Empire (at least not since Raffles' time), traffic must drive on the right, and therefore the Daimler was LHD!

[Heathrow Harry]

Harry just beat me to it!

Slight thread drift about driving on the left. I used to live in Jakarta, as did Harry, so he will remember this story. In order to establish the prestige of the British Government, the Foreign Office had sent a giant Daimler limousine for the use of the British Ambassador. Not only was its size completely unsuitable for Jakarta's mostly narrow streets, but one of Sir Humphrey's colleagues had obviously decided that since Indonesia had not been a part of the British Empire (at least not since Raffles' time), traffic must drive on the right, and therefore the Daimler was LHD!

In Indonesia the law says LHD but everyone is free to make their own mind up - I can remember 8 lanes of traffic outside the National Stadium one night - they were (from the left) - ahead, towards, towards, ahead, ahead, towards, ahead ahead.... hardly any accidents at all............................

[dook]

Not much to go on in the challenge. Far East ?

[Heathrow Harry]

Not much to go on in the challenge. Far East ?

Yes - and they drive on the left!!!

[Heathrow Harry]

It has a very very limited scheduled service - but the area is famous (to some of us) for a scientific proof........................

[dook]

Oh dear - off we go island hunting again I suspect.

[Heathrow Harry]

Oh dear - off we go island hunting again I suspect.

Welllll - yesssssssssssssssssssss it's an island but not a teensy weensy one that you can see from one side to t the other (like Funafuti say....)

[dook]

Thanks HH.

Still hunting...….

[Cows getting bigger]

Mr Wallace and the Malay Archipelago?

[Heathrow Harry]

Mr Wallace and the Malay Archipelago?

Good shot!!! A very significant Line indeed!!! But no - not Ternate - tho' I have visited his house there........ and posted a challenge on here a years or so back from there......

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/1600x1200/img_0492_0922ab9d02c5b52188bcfe933f4b02f2b2231348.jpg

[dook]

Are we in Sarawak by any chance ?

[Heathrow Harry]

The house is in Ternate on the other side of Borneo

The airfield is a lot further from the equator...................

[Heathrow Harry]

Another picture..................

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/208x178/2018_08_12_174320_8abaece0e315e5680b3a43d0b21f77d2e633070a.j pg

[dook]

I didn't mean the house.

Forgive me if I appear dumb, but we are in Malaysia are we not ?

[Heathrow Harry]

I didn't mean the house.

Forgive me if I appear dumb, but we are in Malaysia are we not ?

No you're certainly not dumb but it isn't Malaysia - I have to admit the terrain looks like it but................ further away from the Equator..................

[dook]

Mr Wallace and the Malay Archipelago?

I clearly mis-read that and have wasted a couple of hours.

Ah well - off again.

Thailand or even Sri Lanka ?

[Heathrow Harry]

even further from the Equator

remember " Welllll - yesssssssssssssssssssss it's an island but not a teensy weensy one "

Its over 10 miles from the coast in the nearest direction...................

[dook]

I can only think that it must be about 35 north.

More than 10 miles from the coast could be anything such as 500 !

[Heathrow Harry]

Now we're talking.......

a bit further N than 35 but not a lot (to quote the Midget Magician)... and I should have said around 10 -20 miles from the coast............ apologies....

Big for local holidays but v little international tourism

[dook]

Surely it must be a Japanese island.

[Heathrow Harry]

Ah so! But Japan is all islands..................... you get here via Osaka

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/569x369/2018_08_12_174248_a1888c9ccc9902f59f91b66b3d7c3a28719847ed.j pg

[dook]

Been looking around Hokkaido to no avail.

Went south but could only find Oitakenou airport, which is the wrong latitude.

The only island which I can find which is a little more than 35N and 20 miles from the coast is Sado.

Getting tired now so giving up soon.

[Heathrow Harry]

Its in the Kansai region - locally famous for storks and hot springs.................. flights to Osaka with ?JAL? - airport built late 80's? early 90's... an economic mistake.................

[Heathrow Harry]

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/630x210/aairport_01_19551a688853f078a9a5baa04bbe6f323cd78c1a.jpg

[dook]

Quote:famous for storks and hot springsMany thanks HH.

Tricky to find on Google Earth (focus) but I think it's Tajima.

[Heathrow Harry]

:ok:

it is indeed -- a long trek successfully achieved ! More later - the day job calls.....................

[dook]

Many thanks HH.

Yes, it took a while and I'm surprised that no other players pitched up.

http://i67.tinypic.com/34q60hv.jpg

[Heathrow Harry]

The Japanese Airport is a rather bijoux place - I haven't been but some friends went there and said it's a really nice part of the world - quite quiet

Also the place where a Japanese Prof proved the earth's magnetic field reverses every few thousand years sampling rocks in an outcrop near there... back in the '20's I think

Teh current challenge seems to have some letters on the extreme right E? NG maybe?? But it doesn't look like Warton........

[dook]

But it's not in the UK.

[dook]

Clews wanted ?

It is in Europe - a large island...…….

[Cows getting bigger]

That's Newcastle..... and not the Geordie one. :)

[dook]

Now there's a good shot. :D

New balls please.

[Cows getting bigger]

A mid-afternoon Christmas photo from 2017.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1834/43124680545_0ed06b6170_c.jpg

[dook]

I would think little-used and not equipped for night ops.

I'm tempted by the USA.

[Heathrow Harry]

Bits of Argentina look like that as well..................

[dook]

Yes, but did Cgb take the photograph I wonder.

Are you out there Cows ?

[Cows getting bigger]

Oh yes, all my pictures are personal photos. Not USA, or indeed S. America. It has a couple of daily scheduled flights but isn't exactly busy. Navaids are a VOR and NDB. Another picture from a slightly different angle; there's an ocean on the horizon.

https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1771/30162368548_71046554f4_c.jpg

[dook]

Well, many aerodromes have VOR/NDB.

Is the ocean the Pacific ?

[Cows getting bigger]

Nope, not the Pacific.

[dook]

Cheers.

My first thoughts were the Mediterranean, but that isn't an ocean.

Now it's an ocean hunting game.

eeny meeny minee…..Indian.

[Cows getting bigger]

Nope. Not many oceans left. :)

[dook]

Well there are two high latitude ones so I deduce Atlantic.

So we could be somewhere on the African coast.

[Cows getting bigger]

We're getting there. I'm off to bed now - happy hunting.

[kcockayne]

We're getting there. I'm off to bed now - happy hunting.
Sal, maybe ?

[India Four Two]

Somewhere in Morocco?

[jensdad]

Could it be Windhoek? It's a bit sandy around there apparently...

[Cows getting bigger]

Morning everyone. India Four Two is doing well here.

[dook]

Runway 03 Tan Tan perhaps.

[Cows getting bigger]

Correct - GMAT. Not exactly the sort of place you would go for a holiday but interesting enough. About the only notable fact is that the Moroccans crashed a C130 near here with 60+ fatalities some years back.

Over to dook.

[dook]

Many thank - it wasn't that clear on Google Earth.

http://i67.tinypic.com/24lo7lw.jpg

[chevvron]

Ashley Walk?

[dook]

Not in the UK.

[India Four Two]

Morning everyone. India Four Two is doing well here.

It was the geology that inspired my guess, but I didn't find it in a scan of GE. Well done, dook. :)

[dook]

It took me an hour and a half scanning GE. Good job I'm retired with time on my hands.

Is it time for a clue about my challenge ?

[India Four Two]

In the tropics?

[dook]

Not at all.

It getsquite cold here in winter and some parts have a lot of snow.

[dook]

Try the USA.

[Heathrow Harry]

USA? looks like higher Great Plains to me.............

[dook]

Too far south.

[Heathrow Harry]

Too far south.

Canada or Alaska?

I'd better get weaving before India 42 wakes up...................

[dook]

Canada is not in the USA.

Alaska is the deal.

edit: more help ?

[Heathrow Harry]

not yet!!!!! the snow forecast helps - I hope......

[Heathrow Harry]

possibly SE of Anchorage - the Kenai sort of area - or further west toewards King Salmon & Port Heiden..... looks a god awful place TBH

[Heathrow Harry]

Iliamna???

[dook]

You are quite a way too far south.

[dook]

Gentlemen,

I don't like held up threads, so I feel another clue is in order.

The runway surfaces here are gravel.

[sycamore]

Ambler...63N158W...OH if correct

[dook]

Great shot sycamore.

OH has been declared.

[mgahan]

An interesting trip. https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/799x533/tower_view_1_a5341cd16ff0aedc09c2855109de954dd790b625.jpg

[dook]

Is the airfield at top right ?

Germany ?

[Airclues]

Is the airfield at top right ?


It looks like a runway/taxiway running left to right on the whole photo. No idea where it is though.

[dook]

That struck me as a river at first.

edit: I've just NB'd what I think is a windsock on the right.

Could be USA.

[mgahan]

View from the tower with runway and taxiway in full pic. WDI sighting is correct.

Additional graphic clue tomorrow AM, my time, if needed.

MJG

[jensdad]

Some pretty forbidding-looking mountains in the background. Looks like a nice long runway with a parallel, but everything else looks a bit underdeveloped. Looks a bit nippy as well! Somewhere in ex-Soviet Central Asia?

[dook]

I think that without some clues this is going to be next to impossible to find.

The lack of buildings indicates it is possibly not a commercial airport.

[Heathrow Harry]

But big enough or enough money around to build a parallel taxiway....... I'd expect more buildings/signs etc around either a full-on military strip or one used by main line airlines.................

[Russell Gulch]

High desert. USA possibly. somewhere like Nevada, California Oregon etc? It is not unknown for snow in high desert areas.
Ill make a gues at Mountain Home AFB
Russ

[evansb]

Ulaanbaatar?

[mgahan]

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/799x384/antonov_parking_739411a911e2b85b7d49ae54e431b03c55386f73.jpg
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/738x605/russian_radars_9501b3f6d26fbf68f5a97ce1a29d9f69daf5eab3.jpg
Well done, evansb. UB it is. Plenty of infrastructure as it was helped in development by the early ETOPS needs. The ATC center had ADS/c and CPDLC capability not too long after the South Pacific leaders. I was going to post the following graphics , which, on reflection, may have added confusion.

Spent a week there doing site surveys for a proposed WAM install - -24 was a warm day!!!

[dook]

RAF Chattis Hill methinks.

[chevvron]

RAF Chattis Hill methinks.
Present day private airstrip along the north edge?

[dook]

Thank you JENKS.

Next up:

http://i68.tinypic.com/2ur5gky.jpg

[evansb]

Is it the old WW II airfield at Sheik Othman (about 4 nms north west of Khormaksar) near Aden, Yemen?

[dook]

Wrong country but close.

[dook]

Sorry - I wish I knew.

However, I suspect it was an RAF aircraft judging from the origin of the photograph.

[sycamore]

Think it may be from a Piston Provost T52,with the dust cover on the 7.62mg..

[dook]

From the date of the photograph you may well be correct.

[Bill Macgillivray]

Bait - al Falaj, Oman? (Sorry, Muscat & Trucial State).

[dook]

Now that we're in the right country it won't take long...…...

[dook]

Salalah it is - 1966.

Your service.

[dook]

Looks like Templeton.

[dook]

Thanks JENKS.

Don't you just love overheads.

http://i65.tinypic.com/9jfzgn.jpg

[India Four Two]

Somewhere in "Chalk Country"? The light green on this map:

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/600x1000/1200px_geology_map_uk_svg_0b19a0d3ad459fd899cbec0ed8072920dd f94739.png

[dook]

Yes - the NE part close to the light orange.

[ExAscoteer]

Crowfield, Suffolk.

OH if correct.

[dook]

Excellent shooting EA. :ok:

Open House

[ExAscoteer]

Try this:

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/627x325/pad_13250810360001490691594_1316b09cee3b80a75bb578b93ce1701c 61c04967.jpg

[sidtheesexist]

Crowland? OH if correct, cheers

[evansb]

Do you mean Fenland Airfield?

[dook]

I think sidtheesexist is correct with Crowland.

[ExAscoteer]

Wow that lasted well, not!

Crowland it is (Peterborough and Spalding Gliding Club). Fenland airfield is further to the NE by about 4 Nm.

Open House

[dook]

A little different - should not be difficult.

http://i63.tinypic.com/257ir9k.jpg

[Flap40]

Is that East Fortune?

[dook]

It most certainly is.

[Flap40]

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.gmforum.com-vbulletin/2000x1504/img_0532_50bfb9e7422c296a0cf1b1f0d7cbc1c4f92e0789.jpg

Try this.

[dook]

Do I see M-18 Dromader aircraft ?

Could be Elefsis Air base, Greece or Kerkyra Corfu.

[G-ARZG]

All Greek to me....

[Flap40]

Not Elefsis or Corfu but Greece is correct.

[dook]

Maybe Tanagra or Kephalonia.

[ExAscoteer]

Kalamata perhaps?

[Flap40]

Maybe Tanagra or Kephalonia.

Pick one of those!

[dook]

Eeny meenee minee mo - Kephalonia

[Flap40]

Kefalonia is correct.

[dook]

Thank you 40.

http://i63.tinypic.com/2r4lzic.jpg

[sycamore]

Central European ,or further East...?

[dook]

South of central Europe.

[dook]

And you will need a boat...……….

edit: and when you make landfall you will be able to walk there. ;)

[sidtheesexist]

Bou Sfer, Algerie, OH

[dook]

Nicely done.

OH it is.

[nvubu]

Good to see loads of posts while I've been on holiday :ok:

This should be a quick one.

https://wls0za.db.files.1drv.com/y4mnUw6oP025VKagsvWIsRjQcXPrEAaUAsRbYhzUwccu9rLY8GV77FSBgAG4 RnixiV_MIobcm0Xijx9Sl5SOuWxDvmy1p6HTbP-EChNNm9YmCJ6bPYthWp9IM9Et3v-CvR1JW2CV7dUBXAZ6raCESWd_Oj2OVpW29-_qeXzzhd1XiqBrvZiUNbwovlUlLbkCFqojzDEXL7Yx-pkklO2qDL7Ng?width=1024&height=513&cropmode=none

[ExAscoteer]

30's Expansion Period architecture, but an odd hangar layout. Topcliffe?

[nvubu]

It isn't Topcliffe.

[nvubu]

Not Leaming either - here's a slightly different view
https://jgtlhw.db.files.1drv.com/y4mnT2_O1A6HopNIFaP8zNFwqwrmQAbyeWqojw8KdGVn3S2ksLxm6CqucXZ-j6QFkKAfWOdDCQszs_4zI_pJt4HCjgTwCV0gqf9Pdt8OJq5WxOdQJX5RnuqK Ceiig9mWV1BTv3wX9KmiGj75_ohEuem0Lx9_qiYblVsK7_lmdsdmQTB_SBxu wZt7rLBRrh5tOB7btGkT0YFjmTczAi-dYTqIA?width=1017&height=958&cropmode=none

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RAF Marham?