Which Aerodrome Mk III

[Asturias56]

Fog - LHR???

[dook]

Heathrow has two runways.

[India Four Two]

... and no trees! :)

[kaikohe76]

Not unlike Souda Bay in Crete as I remember it, but likely too much greenery & would be more adjacent to the high ground.

[Asturias56]

That fog looks like the Harmattan; the desert fog you get along the south side of the Sahara in "winter"

If so N Nigeria????

[dook]

Not Crete and we are not in Africa.

[Asturias56]

South Asia?? Smoggy so maybe Malaysia??

[dook]

Now we're getting close. Go north.

There is a way to find it according to Rudyard Kipling.

[Asturias56]

Too flat for Kathmandu & Mad Carrew

but it could be Janakpur......................

[dook]

You've gone too far north.

Rudyard Kipling lyrics.

[Asturias56]

Mandalay International Airport at Tada-U??

if so a remarkable lack of flying fishes....................

[dook]

Bingo. :D...……..

[Asturias56]

"It was admired by Kipling's contemporaries, though some of them objected to its muddled geography" - you can say that again......

here's another minor non-tropical airport located by the sea side and where they speak two languages one of them Spanish - tho the name comes from culture which is NOT commonly spoken locally

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/308x378/2018_12_03_124145_9d4a9e2acc06efdb0e071ee3feeb7c116b8c2c45.j pg

[dook]

Good grief - one I've actually been to.

Florida Venice I think, but I have doubts.

[Asturias56]

In one!! - 41 minutes......................

This is clearly a major league game on here.

[dook]

Let's do an easier one then.

http://i64.tinypic.com/kbxcnc.jpg

[Imagegear]

Italian Macchi C202, in the foreground I think. Castel Benito now Tripoli, Libya ??

Best guess

IG

[nvubu]

I don't think it is Castel Benito, the hangars & control tower do not look right.

[dook]

nvubu is correct - it's not Libya.

[nvubu]

How about Ciampino?

[JENKINS]

Or maybe Catania?

[dook]

Well, how about Catania !

Jenkins to bowl next.

[JENKINS]

Thanks, I think I have been there. Found a photograph with part of your detail and a couple of 'diggers.'

Now this. Never been there, interesting history reflected in one of my recent readings.https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1440x1080/earth_postcard_1543163931_c2b58e8c23e80eb4a53de1a02cee7a7388 dc083f.jpg

[dook]

Looks very military.

It appears that if you land on 05 you will have to backtrack.

[sycamore]

Aleutians....?

[JENKINS]

Not military, backtrack as envisaged is necessary, not Aleutians.

[dook]

Alaska ?...…..

[JENKINS]

Nor Alaska, but there is a tenuous link which may be established by continuing eastwards along the South coast of that state. I repeat, tenuous, and deep into history.

[sycamore]

Is that an AN-24 or ATR on the pan..?

[JENKINS]

And exploration, of course.

[JENKINS]

Neither sahib.

[JENKINS]

Bedtime, my pit awaits.

[dook]

An association with the Yukon ?

[JENKINS]

Try Canadian exploration, not that far down the coast, and you will find tendrils stretching far out. Now I quit for my scratcher, hope you make some medway.

[JENKINS]

On a different tack, the nearest town could be in Sussex, this town may not have a former Royal Navy airfield in West Africa, and the nearest capital city may, or of course may not, be in Somerset.

All cryptic, though yesterday I passed the Somerset town and my log hook shows the former Naval airfield.

[dook]

Agreed............

[dook]

I've searched every airport in British Columbia to no avail.

Is the exploration anything to do with minerals ?

[nvubu]

the nearest town could be in Sussex, this town may not have a former Royal Navy airfield in West Africa, and the nearest capital city may, or of course may not, be in Somerset.

All cryptic, though yesterday I passed the Somerset town and my log hook shows the former Naval airfield.

Leads me to Hastings …. but from there :ugh:

[JENKINS]

That makes Hastings the nearest town. Try for the capital, though you won't be booted out if unsuccessful.

And back to Canada. The Vancouver expedition spread its exploring a long way, with a ship therein finding and having its name given to this spot. No to minerals, though a current export nearly led to a Court Martial for some of my Squadron chums in the Gulf, 1973. Oops, did I say 'crayfish.'

So, 'up and at em,' getting closer.

[dook]

I suggested British Columbia. Am I correct ?

[Davidsoffice]

Are the Medway and Vancouver Expedition clues directing us to Chatham?

[kenparry]

Chatham Island, Tuuta airport.

[Davidsoffice]

Even though I thought it was a Convair in the image, I was fixated on Canada....

[JENKINS]

Chatham it is. I had tried to pull away from Canada, 'tendrils,' had aimed for Wellington as well as Hastings, let slip a typo, Medway, and even earlier tried 'pit' since Pitt Island is nearby. I had assumed the aircraft were Chatam 'sahibs' rather than their elderly Convairs. 'Up and at em' is the motto of the HMS Chatham line of frigates.

So, over to Ken Parry.

[kenparry]

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1023x754/gavrm_18a64679f0e0a0fdb3614f36e02012fc49a19681.jpg
The idler in the Gulf - my nearest to Khormaksar was about 30 nm SW of Masirah.

This one will, I think, not last very long:

[Shackman]

Newcastle - in its Woolsington days?

[dook]

Good old 'Airliners.net.'

Manchester

[kenparry]

dook has it. Dated on airliners.net as 1969, when MAN parking was still self-manoeuvring. In the distance, behind the fin, the Airwork hangars, where in my distant teenage years USAF F-86s and B-26s from Germany were serviced. They were demolished to make way for the second runway.

[dook]

Many thanks.
http://i68.tinypic.com/126d4zo.jpg

[India Four Two]

That's a very esoteric collection of aeroplanes. The Harvard and the building styles make me think of Australia.

[dook]

Me too, but it's not Australia.

[India Four Two]

I can see a Dragon, four Stearmans, a Harvard, a Tiger Moth, a Hornet Moth, two Leopard Moths and a Gemini.

With such a mixture of US and UK types, I'm tempted to say Canada, but the buildings don't look right, so I'll guess South Africa.

[dook]

It's not there either.

[dook]

Hold it chaps- COCKUP.

Australia. :ugh:

[India Four Two]

WIWOL COCKUP? Surely not? :)

[dook]

I'm very sorry and embarrassed. Apologies especially to you. Switch pigs in my image portfolio.

I'll withdraw it if people wish.

[JENKINS]

Keep it going, I also thought Australia.

[India Four Two]

No problem, dook. We all make mistakes. After 50 years of flying, I recently tried taxiing with the chocks in place!

My first guess would be Melbourne.

[dook]

Yes - it took me seven years to do something I said I would never do. Release the brakes for taxi in a Jaguar before selecting the inertial system from align to nav.

Next state up from Victoria.

[Sam Asama]

The old Broadmeadow aerodrome, Newcastle?

[dook]

Gentlemen, we have a winner.

Take it away Sam.

[evansb]

So that "Harvard" would be a CAC Wirraway then?

[dook]

I tend to agree with you.

[Sam Asama]

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/639x358/pprune_dec_4_c20b13f4f976ab7e78d7b93167daec46b514aff8.jpg

It's a challenging place for ATC

[dook]

Is that because it's civil and military ?

[Sam Asama]

Is that because it's civil and military ?

That's one of the reasons

(I've flown into this place -- as pax -- on a sked commercial flight, a military aircraft, and a private helicopter)

[India Four Two]

So that "Harvard" would be a CAC Wirraway then?

And I've also just discovered that those "Stearmans" are Avro Tutors!
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1156x678/newcastle_aero_club_1b6f132362e17edbb902b438650e9b1532fd2fa3 .jpg
That makes much more sense.

[dook]

Is/was the challenge in a conflict zone ?

Good spot I42.

[Sam Asama]

[QUOTE=dook;10327950]Is/was the challenge in a conflict zone ?

Yup

[dook]

Kuwait ?............

[Sam Asama]

Nope.
I'll even give you more: We're not in the Middle East

[India Four Two]

Afghanistan?

[dook]

Australia ?....

[Sam Asama]

India For Two is on target...

[dook]

Shindand ?......

[Sam Asama]

I have to go offline soon so I'll try to hasten this: A Canadian would feel right at home whilst enjoying the boardwalk...

Sorry dook I missed your last post, Nope, not Herat.

[dook]

When did I suggest Herat ?

Might I try Khost.

[Sam Asama]

Was trying to help by saying it's not anywhere in Herat Province...

[Sam Asama]

You'll kick yourself...

Sorry, Not Khost

[Sam Asama]

When I was first there the "Commander" of the airfield was a former Commandant of RAF College Cranwell...

[Sam Asama]

As John Denver wrote, "I'm leaving on a jet plane" soon, so one more clue then I suppose I'll have to give it up -- or you have to wait a day or so...

In 2009 it became the world's busiest single runway airport...

[India Four Two]

A Canadian would feel right at home whilst enjoying the boardwalk...

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1334x750/7da943e2_1453_439f_82b0_f582c4d7c909_d1b0097b71f20d4fe8514df 1f7771ca191040fb6.png
https://timhortons.com/ca/en/corporate/news-release.php?id=7542

Kandahar?

[Sam Asama]

Yes Indeed!
That location of Tim Horton's holds the record for the most "IceCapps" sold in a day (great trivia question if you want to stump a Canadian...).
And if you don't know what a Tim's IceCapp is, you must go to Canada and find out -- rather than the boardwalk at Kandahar...

Take it away, India!

[India Four Two]

Terima kasih Sam,

Like all good Canadians, it’s important to know where your nearest Timmy’s is. There is an app for that, called appropriately enough, Timmy Me.

When I lived in Vietnam, I tried it out, expecting to see Kandahar, but that was not included in the database, presumably since I wouldn’t be able to walk in there. It turned out that my nearest “double-double” was 5600 nm away in Whitehorse, YT!

Standby until I get home and access my laptop.

[India Four Two]

No Tim Hortons here and no conflict, as far as I know:

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1000x665/wad_2018_12_04_0b73dec3ecf5d312f18ad5042ca997496617204a.jpg

[Dora-9]

Gents:

At the risk of totally disrupting the sequence, may I return to Dook's posting (#10287) of Gould?

While there were several wartime constructions in Australia where widely separated runways were joined by taxiway, Gould is unique in that it was joined by taxiway to another airfield (Batchelor). Note Gould appearing at the bottom of the diagram of Batchelor

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/848x1098/batchelor_13e53b554b0d538518946a9e292381a043650dcf.gif

[kaikohe76]

India Four Two`s airfield could be Saba.

[India Four Two]

Not Montserrat. Similarities to Saba, but not there.

Back online at ~1700Z

[chevvron]

Gents:

At the risk of totally disrupting the sequence, may I return to Dook's posting (#10287) of Gould?

While there were several wartime constructions in Australia where widely separated runways were joined by taxiway, Gould is unique in that it was joined by taxiway to another airfield (Batchelor). Note Gould appearing at the bottom of the diagram of Batchelor

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/848x1098/batchelor_13e53b554b0d538518946a9e292381a043650dcf.gif
Unusual maybe but not unique; in Wales, St Athan was joined to Llandow by a taxiway and on Malta, Luqa, Safi and Hal Far had a taxiway connecting all three.

[chevvron]

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/639x358/pprune_dec_4_c20b13f4f976ab7e78d7b93167daec46b514aff8.jpg

It's a challenging place for ATC
Don't see why; that's a 'normal' sight at Farnborough round about air show time.

[Dora-9]

Chevvron - point taken, although I meant unique to this country. Cheers.

[dook]

For the challenge, it looks like we're on an island and the field doesn't look like it's used very much, if at all.

[dook]

Brava, Cape Verde.

[India Four Two]

Correct. Over to you.

[dook]

Thank you. Do you work nights ?

http://i64.tinypic.com/117ssci.jpg

[chevvron]

Paris CDG whilst still under construction?

[dook]

The opposite. Decommissioned.

Not France.

[JENKINS]

Greenman Condom? Just a guess, since I feel I might need to look under the Maple Leaf.

[dook]

Ahhh - Greenham. Guess who won the Embassy International aerobatic trophy there in 1976.

Unfortunately it isn't there and don't look under the maple leaf, although that is much closer.

[Self loading bear]

Yet again a brownie from dook.
Is that four of the quartet?
Is this brown from the old photo
so decommissioned long time ago?
or is this genuine brown earth?

[dook]

There's very little colour in the original. Decommissioned in 1995 and the new one is nearby.

edit: the soil is mostly clay.

May I help further ?

[evansb]

Denver/Stapleton, Denver, Colorado?

[dook]

Give that man a cigar and a bat for the next ball.

[evansb]

Thank you. Last I flew in to Denver/Stapleton was in late summer of 1969 on a high-time Braniff 707-120 from San Antonio TX with a stop at DFW. Departed Denver/Stapleton the same day on a near new Western Airlines 727 to Seattle.


Here is the next mystery aerodrome:


https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/700x467/hvldyif_c452c4c7b2680f6a75a87a148e6bcd6fc7ac74ff.jpg

[grizzled]

Don't see why; that's a 'normal' sight at Farnborough round about air show time.

I hope that was intended as humour – if not it's a surprisingly uninformed comment from someone with an ATC background…

[grizzled]

Are we in Canada, evansb?

[dook]

Can't see the runway direction unfortunately.

Is the photo orientated to north ?

[evansb]

Not Canada. Photo orientation looking south, so runway orientation is NW-SE.

[dook]

I have identified the airline of the turboprop - quite distinctive. That should narrow it down.

France ?

[dook]

Not France, but it's Air Austral.

Tried their hub which is Reunion.

[evansb]

ATR-72? Oui. France? Non.

[dook]

Pierrefonds.

edit: your post asking for the airport name has disappeared.

[evansb]

Yes indeed. Saint-Pierre/Pierrefonds, Reunion Island. IATA: ZSE, ICAO: FMEP. Give that man a GITANES. Your turn.

[dook]

Don't want a Gitanes but I'll accept a Cuban job.

Standby please....

'ere we go:

http://i64.tinypic.com/t5gb5c.jpg

[dook]

I see four of the usual suspects on line - might go quickly.

[grizzled]

Looks like a (cleverly disguised) Fred Olsen C-46?

[nvubu]

Speke Airport

[dook]

Great spot by grizzled.

nvubu gets a missile of the rails which scores a hit though.

[nvubu]

grizzled's spod led me to it.

Only found this image for this location so far. Found a couple more :)

https://qyvcmw.db.files.1drv.com/y4mmN_SVnZtehr5uLTnQK0V7tz0oKosWhqNaHoi16VeVVbxUBfnAl1ed1jDQ OBxwhEzVPTAZboyFU0I4LEuWQrHVR2CVJMW1mzJ8N4rxI51Q8uqesUljO22_ tsrCkN5n1R-Z6NDXOV3dhEnnoxUHNTnoAXAqxUqOPDAgqxzcMDNghGrH6nXojZvk5xG23vN pSZ4kPRCL53j4LNC5s1Rc1yjFQ?width=820&height=1024&cropmode=none

[dook]

Inter-war years France maybe.

[nvubu]

Not France, suppose this photo may have been taken between the wars.

[dook]

Perhaps we're not in Europe at all.

[nvubu]

Correct, these two dromes are not in Europe.

[dook]

Two !!…………..

[nvubu]

Thought that would get a response..
One land airfield - which is obvious.
The other, a water drome at the top of the photo - the rectangular piece of land has the hangars for this.

Bit of proof :ok:
https://aqjcvq.db.files.1drv.com/y4mhbNeEl1VKgXeTNo9B9b6lx2yHDvQvAgdq9D1bVDKENoPyY53haOiovzla TVIsB74FvI4kA_BVVNDQb5GqK1EJX5NMuVKodzn4E9zUupeCukRzbzzhV8Gz h86EJl4POjujg4Zi5mmRegsuzHqwiiRizC81MteA_43wBbxUJvbdOTr857Ik t23EPe1isZjsqVnVEXzw80oZUxpfVf9K6O7vg?width=1024&height=800&cropmode=none

[grizzled]

Are we somewhere on the Pacific ocean?

[nvubu]

No we are not on the Pacific Ocean.

Here's the land-drome, water-drome on the left.
https://bm2eya.db.files.1drv.com/y4m6bdyxqcOoRv_MR7s67IOhbVLb3L8sWz8DZPLn5unMlqJFrcf5jKURNp7a qYF3QwjHzKOxIeH9X4k_eYZbgIpDakXZtaPqBvMfXiBLAgW6CTU8hym3TSiC eJ97eCaPx-cldr6_d3B4l1Hf8BOtfkzLqJI3C3opmXvOWbot2QyMWm_30ouh1OEKRQUJz2 Th6vxc4plustc-xMgMKeYclhKuw?width=966&height=1024&cropmode=none

[dook]

That layout was typical of the USA and the Martin Mariner certainly is.

Mind you, it could be Australia.

[nvubu]

As if on cue

https://0im1gw.db.files.1drv.com/y4mBinH3XYn3avlNVMZqHPijUtDZspQwRdH3adUTLEqnS5XADwDC3FHJvadA xzX7OJFllOcR6-AxtdCvap2Qk-DmI1kx7cJqMb0Q_PFBDLkRyAOKMw7pCD1gALOTcm3fwl-djcWTvLaVpsTKbc5VL3EZJov2_cxc-DbYlwuYMFE3-9IFQI19W3YvyEy9V3XIq6WrlGvPR5FWeRsExtLuU_NWg?width=839&height=1024&cropmode=none

Edit to add: It is not in Australis

[dook]

Cheers nv - I must now hit the hay.

[India Four Two]

An airfield in Okinawa?

[nvubu]

It isn't on Okinawa.

[dook]

Michigan somewhere ?

[nvubu]

It's not located on a lake.

[dook]

Florida ? …….

[nvubu]

Not in a Southern state or on the Atlantic either.

[dook]

Oregon ?....

[nvubu]

Not in Oregon or the US of A.
Would you like to see:

the aircraft dump?
what is in one of the hangars?
or the fuel dump?

[grizzled]

Are we on the Indian ocean?

[dook]

…..or the US of A.

Wish you had told me that earlier.

[nvubu]

Nope, not in the Indian Ocean.

Sorry, just thought I'd let the US run for a while. :ok:

[dook]

Aleutians ?...

Or maybe the Philippines

[nvubu]

Nor the Aleutians or the Philippines.

https://mprm1q.db.files.1drv.com/y4mjHBUc8La-ASwyw3gxrgszKqGa_Ze4C7xuq6J4zIbNutzPaCvpIelyPfGZAnb9Q-GmgRnNFEeIFyHPxGq1vlZieAGlbLs69AEhRrc-Z7KsNn9cL8QBNZm_by5HYTUTLHXL-p81CXgBu8aqvVhrykkWcIDF2BCHcJQ99jTSrcgtDJ0_xJ0i3iN_VRr1tur09 YtpebSwPG0bm4s9dUDNzu8bg?width=1024&height=576&cropmode=none

[dook]

Running short on ideas.

what is in one of the hangars

Yes please.

[nvubu]

It isn't in the Pacific. Not on an Ocean.

[dook]

As above, may we see what is in one of the hangars.

[chevvron]

Caribbean; St Lucia?

[nvubu]

Not in the Caribbean:

OK, this should send you looking in the right area.

https://qyuqmw.db.files.1drv.com/y4mJK_IcIP8nUvbwoAKMGbIjcJ4Be5TIsoxiNfllXHvW8KmC7fklyk4M4a6x NpDFC-QTvDEWq0IKheguUSlV28oYvYsOGSnHOIiKx-RIqaV0iE0IBMD1e6SUVWbsBRRWf1Tcnh75Gag6tQnKevudFa69btOsy4d2yr AZHmPDjNo0CQ0INN5Js5CYOehZAaKGA5e099zCyaPv_xxiNuoxhUbpg?widt h=1024&height=877&cropmode=none

[dook]

Ah so Glasshopper.

[nvubu]

Yes indeed. Here are the other two shots I have:

Aircraft dump:
https://oeeraw.db.files.1drv.com/y4mKGsAi1OKQoXEu-g6FshVKJ5a0wy2mVjZmOL5rC1k8Boq-PkdN-U4p36Lf_nCOh8KrEFo1uCXcSgJLRg1ucBD-b6_bdaMNJAGDwE32SHrdTxJAEbCf69xOfYsyEavn5Pb51mDj2hPmUVmau8J6 Xc4EZskMAUpC-XieffUWW-1G0pclHn02ekU_23vc5qy1mSNpfKCN45hJbNXgK_5VYJ8Aw?width=1024&height=685&cropmode=none

Fuel store
https://zlgxka.db.files.1drv.com/y4may4Z3xdbRq42JZcPB1EU93SmM-Xeu6-eC4UwuNZxYfQH7lp-6XKlR0odUge6HeQrNnr_ZpxT2Q_OZiuwhQSRtK8BVFV6ilEiZJGlqTv7C8XF _gPJApejYJ-iEXLaOKmBxHS86OQVP3PXeNrYrdegecg6CVKp-Spw5OMXYPR3B0GtMsqzeQve1zuJZEReCZbg91NZLJwF9E1205CApNme2w?wi dth=1024&height=512&cropmode=none

[dook]

Are they all called "Jakee"

[nvubu]

All photos bar the first one were taken in September 1945.

[nvubu]

Google Earth doesn't show a little aeroplane thingy for this - still an active military base.

[sycamore]

Japan....?
and a Sunderland in #10444

[dook]

No, that's a Martin Mariner.

Are we near Nagasaki ?

[nvubu]

Definitely Japan.

Nowhere near Nagasaki - almost at the opposite end.

Am not going to be near a computer for a few hours.

[JENKINS]

Ominato? Must do some more looking.

[nvubu]

At last, Jenkins is correct, it is Ominato - on the Mutsu Bay.
You now have control.

[JENKINS]

Thanks. I had been looking at Dutch East Indies immediately post WW2; that is, until the Japan outline hovehttps://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1440x1080/earth_postcard_1543595993_c5c49f39687421cd600fc0a7b7c1a50c1e 713c29.jpg
into view. Even then I was looking at Air Sea Rescue close to Okinawa. This spot turned up quite by chance, apologies for 'sandbagging' the work of others. Quite an impressive history.

Now this. A documented strip, I landed there when one of the two roads was extant and the other but a Transport Ministers dream. Great Britain, and an AA Roadbook would be a help.

[nvubu]

Marples & M1 ?

[kenparry]

Banbury (Shotteswell)

[JENKINS]

Not Marples, Norman Fowler I think. M40, nice surface.

Yes to Shotteswell, useful in days past but for my own part I am now unconvinced of the perscipacity of those who paid me, a touch smelly I fear. Often seen in military low level flying.

All yours, 84 to 208(?).

[kenparry]

Thanks, Jenkins. Not 208 - just 200 too high.

Off to bed; new challenge in the morning.

[kenparry]

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/827x594/001_853dceefba82499e2abbbb10a7a4c6caf3c05780.jpg
With apologies for the overnight wait, here is the next:

[JENKINS]

Apologies, I hope that the (?) Indicated my uncertainty.

[kenparry]

Jenkins: no problem! I was there 1969-70, when 84 were at Sharjah with Andovers. Was that your era?

[Asturias56]

England I'd guess???

[kenparry]

Yes, England

[dook]

Trying to narrow it down.

East Anglia ?

[kenparry]

Not East Anglia - further North

A slow day today; everybody out Christmas shopping?

[dook]

My wife is - I've taken her to the airport to go shopping in Krakow!

Are we in bomber country ?

[kenparry]

If you mean Lincolnshire, no.

[dook]

Keep trudging north - Yorkshire lad ?

[JENKINS]

A Thor site, Catfoss?

[dook]

Ah well...….

[kenparry]

Jenkins has it. A slightly odd field, opened 1932 as a base for gunnery on the nearby Cowden range. Closed just after WW2, then a Thor base 1959-63.

[JENKINS]

Thank you. Thor Site dispersals still evident, Project Emily I gather. Some I know, so didn't take long.

Let's go travelling again. Pretty cold here, I suppose work in the salt mines would keep one warm. For dook, not the Krackow salt mines. Snowing, but the airport was open 30 minutes ago.https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1440x1080/earth_postcard_1544133616_cbba55f0186d216aacc88a9f7ff56a583a 7affa6.jpg

[dook]

She landed at 1402Z.

Off to Auschwitz–Birkenau with offspring tomorrow.

[dook]

Just wondering if your weather comment means we're in eastern Europe.

[JENKINS]

Not Eastern Europe.

[dook]

USA or Canada maybe.

[JENKINS]

Correct so far.

[Asturias56]

The linear features in the top right look like old river banks - the main Russian rivers in Siberia have a zillion square miles of them (check GEarth) but this is USA/Canada

Can't see many trees so further north I guess? N Canada or Alaska......

[dook]

I've been looking around Ontario but nothing yet.

[Asturias56]

Hay River Great Slave Lake???

[JENKINS]

Not Ontario, nor is it at The Great Slave. Certainly not Russia, which is a shame since I had sought to distract the searchers.

[dook]

Michigan ?....

[JENKINS]

Not Michigan. The Province is strange, since there are two closer to which, perhaps, this spot should belong. It may help by referring to its Oxonian rather than Cantabridgian spelling.

[dook]

Since you say province and not state I assume Canada.

[JENKINS]

Assumption correct.

[dook]

Saskatchewan ?

[JENKINS]

Not there.

[JENKINS]

II neige encore.

[dook]

Yes, she's just texted me. They're all out to dinner.

Their apartment overlooks the square with loads of restaurants.

Meanwhile back in Canada...……….

Is salt mining a spoof ?

[JENKINS]

Il neige encore a cet aerodrome.

[JENKINS]

Salt is not a spoof.

[dook]

Comme dans la plupart des parties !

[dook]

Still trying.

Hudson Bay area ?

[JENKINS]

No, sorry, keep trying. I never spoof, I admit to obfuscation, but my last couple of posts should be good pointers.

[dook]

Not for me they are not. :uhoh:

[JENKINS]

Still to go the whole hog perhaps?

[dook]

Well, I've tried every Canadian province and nothing ties up with salt mines except the one you have rejected, which is Ontario.

None of the usual players seem to be having a shot.

[JENKINS]

It is certainly on that list, and 9 miilion-ish folk are pleased to be included.

[Terry Dactil]

Quebec has a salt mine
Mines Seleine, Québec?s only salt mine - MinesQC (http://minesqc.com/en/informations-sheets/mines-seleine-quebecs-only-salt-mine/)
And a population almost 9 million.
Looking....looking...

[Terry Dactil]

Bingo!
Iles de la Madeleine (YGR)

[dook]

That must go to Terry Dactil.

Theft if not.

[JENKINS]

Yes, that's it. Apparently the islands are a favoured holiday destination. The beaches seem pretty good from Google, but with weather possibly similar to that of a now-defunct secret military airfield in Pembrokeshie I must wonder. There is always the salt of course.

To Terry.

[Terry Dactil]

I feel a bit guilty using the time zone difference to sneak in when all the hard work had been done.
That one was far too cold, so let's go somewhere much warmer.
You won't find much of this one on GE as it has been built over, but it was very busy when I flew DC-3s there back in the 60s.

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/850x999/airfield_81dc1a180125a6f1dc3c5e7a39c33f7c3f6fdeb5.jpg

[Checklist Charlie]

Lae, TPNG.
OH as I don't have any available piccies.

CC
PS No sign of the Tenya Maru

[Terry Dactil]

Yes. It gradually slid back and is now all underwater
It was a rather unique VFR inner marker for RWY32 courtesy of the Japanese and WW2.
(Or maybe that should be courtesy of the US navy and a SBD Dauntless dive bomber).
OH declared.
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/599x439/tenyo_maru_90eeeafeb7b63bfe2da1551fd835bd8e978fb20a.jpg

[India Four Two]

Terry,

Where is the Lae airport now?

[Terry Dactil]

Moved 35Km NW up the Markham valley to Nadzab

[India Four Two]

Thanks Terry. I looked up Nadzab on Wikipedia and found this comment interesting:

The airport in Lae was operating at the same time as Nadzab but business was significantly lost when the new airport complex became fully operational in 1977. Fierce political squabbling over the pros and cons of Lae and Nadzab continued until 1982, when, in an unsolved mystery, the Lae airport terminal was burned down.

[Sam Asama]

All of PNG is an unsolved mystery. And I hope it stays that way...

[Asturias56]

Since it's OH ...................

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/158x173/2018_12_07_160146_ae2bc476f21417b2c9e4501ee4969e979bef1bfe.j pg


I'm out until 16:00 ish Zulu so let your imagination run riot for a few hours - .........................

[dook]

Interesting. Looks earth/sand but with green landscape beyond. Perhaps it's fairly newly constructed.

Europe maybe.

[kenparry]

I will make a stab at:

Knock, EIKN

[Self loading bear]

I do not believe Knock is the Knock-out.
side of turning point extension and position of taxiway do not match.
i think we can search further.

SLB

[dook]

I'll stab at New Murcia Corvera.

[dook]

Anyone interested in Huesca-Pirineos ?

[Asturias56]

Dios mio!!!! :eek: you go out for an evening with friends & come back to find Dook spends the whole days searching every airport in Europe!!!

Huesca it is - I had a couple of other pictures that I thought might be necessary

yhttps://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/246x212/2018_12_07_160202_7d536981aa56dabbe51094716de44125529ad020.j pg
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/313x430/2018_12_07_160419_7d8a87a44bc913dd102d138d981c518129113dd7.j pg

[dook]

….come back to find Dook spends the whole days searching every airport in Europe!!! come back to find Dook spends the whole days searching every airport in Europe!!!

I am retired and unable to walk very far at all and my wife is away in Poland, so I have lots of time on my hands. I also had a bit of luck finding it although from the terrain I convinced myself it was Spain.

http://i67.tinypic.com/2n7449c.jpg

[kaikohe76]

For some reason I thought Manchester, but the rising ground in the distance does not quite fit. Still somewhere in the UK though?

[dook]

We are not in the UK.

[JENKINS]

Luqa as first guess, and I think I have found a photograph. Shackleton helped of course. I visited once in a Vanguard, 1971.

[dook]

Jenkins gets a direct hit.

[JENKINS]

Or is it a Hastings? Thanks. My Vanguard trip was second leg of journey from Gulf to sick mother in Malta. First leg of return was, by choice, with a squadron which numbered K76 in its ranks, and was to a secret sailing club with an airfield on the South coast of England.

Now this. One from this parish lives close by, and the road was a stretch of highway between two cities in which strong vested interests fought to avoid any improvement. I confirm it as in the United Kingdom.https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1440x1080/earth_postcard_1544219650_7984abc215f43c2ea23ab233b1ac099ed9 1e6e92.jpg

[dook]

These are the flavour of the month at the moment and I never get them :uhoh:

[JENKINS]

Two cities, antipathy, 85 miles, 2 hours-ish.

[kenparry]

Looks to me to be Bourne, Cambridgeshire - about 2 miles from my home. The road is now 4-lane.

[JENKINS]

The only Bourne, in my knowledge, is in Lincolnshire with Folkingham as the nearest airfield. I hate pendants! Yes, it is Bourn, just over the ridge from Oakington. For many years the dons of Oxford and Cambridge managed to keep improvements to the road at bay. My only visit was in an Aztec, destination Heathrow.

Over to you.

[kenparry]

Jenkins, thank you. You are rightly pendantic; in my defence I should explain that my few remaining brain cells took an extra letter from the nearby new settlement of Cambourne - the naming of which cause significant upset to the inhabitants of a similarly named town in the far SW.

I shall give dook a break from derelict WW2 fields. Stand by.

[kenparry]

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/594x530/002_ef3d76a612570ba3264b8517a039fb66e87380cc.jpg
This is neither derelict nor in the UK

[nvubu]

In the USA ?

[kenparry]

Yes, it is in the USA

[JENKINS]

I acknowledge Cambourne, which will keep Culdrose out of the scene for some time.

[kenparry]

No more from me tonight; will be on again about 09Z tomorrow.

[Terry Dactil]

Short runways and skinny hangars.
General/private aviation only, no airline service there?

[kenparry]

Terry: correct

[Imagegear]

Northeast, possibly upstate New York?

IG

[kenparry]

Imagegear: no

[Asturias56]

Texas? Looks somewhere in the south.........

[kenparry]

Not Texas, but you are closer than the NY suggestion.

A clue:

it is in what Alaskans refer to as "the lower 48"

Not much of a clue - but it does eliminate Alaska and Hawaii

[Asturias56]

The State - did they fight for Lincoln or Davis or neither in the Civil War?

[dook]

Watsonville California ?

[kenparry]

dook: DH with your first shot.

You have control.

[dook]

I looked for hours for it.

DH with your first shot.

On the Jaguar force we used to call it 'a bomb in a bucket'.

http://i65.tinypic.com/33w2x50.jpg

[kenparry]

That looks odd. Europe?

[dook]

It is in Europe.

[JENKINS]

Chokey therein?