Which Aerodrome Mk III

[TheiC]

...and open house if correct.

[Auxtank]

Yes, there are many, many hydrants dotted around. They were once used in panick-stricken earnest, pumping over a million gallons of water for nearly 16 hours in 1958. But we don't talk about that!

[Haven't a clue]

BSD completely agree

Latest challenge: haven't a clue!


Nor I

[Auxtank]

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/640x511/aerial_shot_4c58d1c3af9304a41ab24be62049cdae85f3cd91.jpg
TheiC does it again.



OH is called.

[dook]

Ah - Greenham.

I did a couple of air displays there back in 1976.

The Embassy cigarette company event hostesses...……...better not. :E

[Auxtank]

Ah - Greenham.

I did a couple of air displays there back in 1976.

The Embassy cigarette company event hostesses...……...better not. :E

I was at the 1983 one - with the Blackbird. Never mind the hostesses that thing gave me a full erec.....

Next Challenge Please!

[dook]

You rang ?

http://i65.tinypic.com/258uekx.jpg

[Auxtank]

Lightnings?

[dook]

There's only one Lightning as far as I am concerned, but yes - P38s.

[Auxtank]

Now that is the truth.
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/800x450/english_electric_lightning_53f2d5cc9add2b397dd835bec77ea17b4 9c9e8aa.jpg

Are we in Europe ?

[dook]

We are indeed in Europe.

[sycamore]

At a guess ..Italy..?

[dook]

Sadly not - go north.

Another clue is available....

[chevvron]

Coltishall?

[Auxtank]

370th Fighter Group at Cardonville ?

[dook]

Not Colt but Auxtank is close.

[Auxtank]

370th or near Cardonville?

[dook]

370th it is but you need to go east from France.

[Auxtank]

Belgium. Florennes then?

[ExAscoteer]

Florennes? Damn Auxtank got there first.

[dook]

Auxtank gets the banana - Florennes it is.

Just beaten to it ExAscoteer.

[Auxtank]

Happy for ExAscoteer to have the victory as going out for a bit now. (how do I make that not sound sleezy)

Or OH if he doesn't want it.

[kenparry]

Florennes?

Bah, too late...………. slow update on my display

[dook]

Blimey - are you not fibre ?

[kenparry]

Fibre, yes - but for some obscure reason, the posts from around 1500 did not show until after my submission. Hence I added line 2.

[dook]

How weird.

[ExAscoteer]

I have nothing to hand so OH.

[dook]

Need big sleeve.

[JENKINS]

From my sleeve, quiet little place where I once slept in my cockpit while adverse weather prevailed.https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1440x1080/earth_postcard_1547664913_7a0ce63384b326207a15e65646037fbd91 885443.jpg

[Auxtank]

Looks distinctly and deliberately out of the way.

Are we in the US of A?

Helipad markings look american.

[JENKINS]

Deliberately out of the way behind the wire. Not in USA, and indeed thereabouts not very united at all.

[dook]

Not very united at all could mean Spain.

[chevvron]

Cyprus then?

[broadreach]

United Arab Emirates? Terrain would seem to fit.

[Auxtank]

Looks like they're only interested in helos these days as no rubber on either end.

And looking at the tilt on GE suggests a bl**dy short runway anyway.

Mediterranean ?

[dook]

I'm wondering if it's a drone operating site.

[Auxtank]

London Gatwick ?

Doesn't look like it.

(takes a bow)

Further in to the East maybe -

[JENKINS]

I gave away too much, and one of you picked up the clue. A lot of negative answers which I will cover in 45 minutes.

[Auxtank]

Breath suitably bated.

I'm sure we are east Med or in to sandpit territory.

As usual - I could be almost completely wrong.

[JENKINS]

Not Spain, UAE, or Sandpit. Drones? Not in my day back in 1993, only Drones then were in P J Wodehouse. Yes it was tight, wire at Northern end, but I operated empty to the main field. That much for the negatives.

[dook]

Turkey maybe.

[JENKINS]

Delighted to state not Turkey. My first visit, to family home nearby, 1963 by DH106, final departure 767 in 1993. In the interim, in the local area, HP67, B101, Type 175, HS780, VC10, C130, BN2T. I think that is it. Please note that so far I am dealing solely with the negatives. Five airfields involved.

[dook]

Does it get cold in the winter there ?

[JENKINS]

Current temperature locally 4 to 7. I have seen snow.

[JENKINS]

Now for positives. Yes to Eastern Med., I am sure that my next positive answer may not be necessary.

[JENKINS]

Of course, yes to Cyprus sorry you were last Chev.

[dook]

Are we close to the Cyprus buffer zone ?

[JENKINS]

Looking at map, response soon.

[Auxtank]

Kingsfield?

[jensdad]

Doesn't look like Larnaca, Pafos, Nicosia or Akrotiri. So it must be Dhekelia?

[JENKINS]

I fear that the only buffer zone with which I am familiar was in the 1963 dust--up when the Ledra Palace Hotel in Nicosia became unavailable due to the division of hat city. Will it help if I state that village names close to this strip represent both sides of the division? The operator of the strip appears to express impartiality.

[JENKINS]

Jensdad wins with Dhekelia, where I kept my machine while operating at Kingsfueld. Sorry if a bit disjointed ce soir, water supply problems. House, not mine, and now fixed.

[jensdad]

Thank you Jenkins, and to others who did all the hard work narrowing it down to Cyprus :)
Open House!

[Auxtank]

Nice one Jenkins. Sorry about water shortage...well played in any case.

[Auxtank]

Auxtank arrived home after his afternoon outing to find the Postman had delivered new ring-bound updated info.

So for a change a new angle on things...

I've Blurred the pertinent info but left the essentials.

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/600x450/img_5367s_ad8231babc7ed5a19b774d55a0e68e8d06adecd4.jpg

[Auxtank]

And this is what a thoroughly unstabalised final looks like in to 27

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/233x356/e5545454_c03bfd76ebe91f8867fe47f1b57ce1d25b2f78be.jpg

Back zulu UK in the morning. Good night all.

[TheiC]

La Rochelle Il-de-Ré. Open house if correct.

[Auxtank]

La Rochelle Il-de-Ré. Open house if correct.

Alarmingly good TheiC

OH is called

[TheiC]

...and the approach doesn't look too bad. A touch of right cyclic to regain the centreline, of course.

[dook]

thoroughly unstabalised final looks like

That's an understatement! :eek:

Obviously not a fast-jet man.

[dook]

Morning campers.

Since we're at OH,

http://i68.tinypic.com/307m7ww.jpg

Back around 1315Z.

[Octane]

Airfield in England around June 1945..

[dixi188]

Tarrant Rushton?

[nvubu]

Exeter Airport

[dook]

nvubu gets a missile off the rails.

Exeter it is.

[nvubu]

Thank you very much.

And for the next mystery aerodrome

https://byzgaw.db.files.1drv.com/y4m5S8QdbgsLzJc8zbs0MNQIe4YhiVIF7c6faRYHbDrNc4JjG1Vk7yg2gZ7l _em6c33ZtMfdgVt-c5STsPDWCSrJTNLOzC5AvRHXRE-zVQbRjAdbPmNWZuNjAVCo_VQdnHsUVdw0XqhM9Q0mvcJJQIPfaHDA-d82izlB07dPi4oxErdFZSpcesu4Q_4IYq_42JbYnE9zWYX92fTpRibZQGu0A ?width=1024&height=728&cropmode=none

[dook]

Hagaru-riv ?

[nvubu]

It isn't Hagaru-ri. (had to look that location up)

[dook]

A very long-range shot - Aldermaston ?

[nvubu]

Very long range, not Aldermaston either, but your second shot landed closer than your first one.

[dook]

Is the Pacific any closer ?

err - no it isn't closer.

How about India.

[nvubu]

Aldermaston is still your closest shot.

[dook]

I thought it might be an "over the hump" jobber.

Selecting lap-top water cooling on.

Europe then ?

[nvubu]

Europe is correct.

[dook]

Suspoes it might even be in the UK.

[nvubu]

Nope not the UK

[Asturias56]

I may be biased but that looks like S Italy to me.....................

[nvubu]

Well that's closer than Aldermaston/UK, but still not correct.

[dook]

And I'm wondering if it concerns the Berlin airlift.

However, it's not clear if it's being unloaded or loaded and it wouldn't be the former because that is not Templehof.

[nvubu]

The image is from World War II

[kenparry]

North Africa?

[nvubu]

It's somewhere in Europe

[dook]

The low countries or Germany ?

[nvubu]

Neither of those.

https://rfbxdq.db.files.1drv.com/y4mlh91iRMKiYDnBYCdrNbPzRW2HFKB2fNw8WZmUcBuyBftUhgxuvCf_iL8x RfAFAjAJBj1D-vZrBA80LfDg2MVUWBuL-d6pBAYgjNxvG11WoyMg-rSCEstxF0NZ3pxNPsa3eUDvrx7gOzYB6WxG3T4aoizgd4UjgSe5PzZ58TOwE EbGS9m2vvfBAgEmf_HniKr6Iv_PtGoKxiHmTO9WwhRdg?width=1024&height=784&cropmode=none

[dook]

In you first photograph I'm intrigued by the head gear of some of the men on the truck.

Might they be Hungarian ?

[nvubu]

Not Hungarian
I noticed the head gear as well, but I think that they are just baseball caps with the brim turned upwards - rather than on back to front as is favoured nowadays.

Off home from work shortly. Will post more images later on (I've got 6 more)

[dook]

I'm looking at maps of Europe from various years during the war.

Could it possibly be what was Yugoslavia ?

[JENKINS]

So perhaps the island of Vis, where I believe the field was Vatni?

[nvubu]

Well, I did think that would last a little longer - It is Vis, Jenkins has it.

Quite an interesting history, but abandoned after the war, In recent times, there have been attempts to reactivate the airstrip. GE has images of it freshly graded in 2013, now it seems to back to grass.

Here are the other images,
Some nice graffiti on the aircraft.
https://pqpvsa.db.files.1drv.com/y4m-sobmprQcwZO2Wj4znX-InJIpYHgfJoxFATpGQU4tpkHEA3VqkA-L73WI_ct81O9Z_boShBH7VSM3QO39ZhRsxVx6xQ1b5Jt4wS-XT2XKTcdu2simgpT8f5iS9fcLP4rpPJNM9kda_D5rkI3a0qzy91jJI2OrtTY sjanxGuR-WpNxItRtad8gLH52BNRfr3UmyI29M36XNzznV_PfNoIug?width=660&height=498&cropmode=none

https://cqj9jq.db.files.1drv.com/y4mMo2UeA132XazMJaxM3tdBY--169lwOl3cue87gmfZVO7DXfOtot1TNWMGjgciM3IgMcx66VRA3ni5BkvZ5k5 sEdBJ3FBQ4-ufzYWRFUVgkmSD4NvgoPY4ceVllckwTMPbfAAynaAS7pqZ4Od05FUAmJEK1n 7h0JNwqJlk2PDlJwNRg0mpQVvJFfVuodIZp9isDyQ-xhMPLBM_B22Rx0qmw?width=660&height=498&cropmode=none


https://blg4ya.db.files.1drv.com/y4mj2G22b85ZXZzd6Z7Nz29X5IJzjzgxFn6qeLscg4r2dHL_I9WvTOkk3pbn w9sZ_ndhuia8wtcd2o9NI_IEwCGyUFGDuwIMLBAc0d4e_6IYshU1_MmuuX8a 5Tdt2iTex2m1u5JUPPc6XaY_WKGuQOJqmehSCTBsHnws4tVyT1AYrrjMwBFe d5SFVkMbT7o7uU5uTEAzsHs8lF3-wGu0s_CCg?width=660&height=469&cropmode=none

https://opohpg.db.files.1drv.com/y4mFwEr-kPCCd2hSE-yYPjTTK8vLpkiZ8nDr2mXFSjlmXpt_E2lYRszPBAJnAtUoFOqXwbVKhupfnL RgZPPqtRcvqzTg9bAnYXpFC8zPm5F7dtbpWTXDK-Pu_ifEGAn6TywxQRu88VxciSSiz81_PwppajIOpquOgYH2OwGPof2LeTrf3Y KrXxa44RLUFNONcORFZjQx62RT1TsA_j4D9eUPg?width=660&height=485&cropmode=none

And for dook, some interesting head gear in these two.
https://dm2lma.db.files.1drv.com/y4mD9Xu5DGV2jZqo3FJMn0e9piRirBMrogw4P4g4ewSvy7nrdC2Z0grIfeG0 9pGu9w9NyR-sGoc89WNXR61CINrHlLU37yISIcvV1UqN_vdR_wzFnvmwwYezszualzBZfok 1MgJ6QCOQkUu5LzoGLPw4Vg56vetQnGkWsiKtbkau3wLcCuPLMMtxrH6PHM6 HUarstQiUHhzV3OSEur5ZeVE3w?width=660&height=464&cropmode=none

https://qefm0w.db.files.1drv.com/y4mZAaoVkre_MV_sq6WV7D_3RRZVtKfPnlyPlJPmgeUqJmH-SYQug3tKA2rrWZFIqGB-ht0nNW5Qi5fWeDyDg1wPxagtdqCqEmMn3HjTDE_IFXrmI-i_Qbaulw_-FhsFcjPIc1z6_kdQ5rNxJNUCrIAOT9qJ6epaEKdnX28356U3Pl2s3FD8u1lw ICxTP6DJBtWxSvIVqQmZDay0RNYC4wxhA?width=660&height=549&cropmode=none

[broadreach]

Good challenge and history lesson NVUBU. Following on JENKINS' guess I tried to find where the airfield might be. Amidst the vinyards above the town of Vis.

[nvubu]

broadreach - zoom in on Pisko Polje.

[dook]

I'm not going to use or say Yugoslavia again !

[JENKINS]

Thanks. Field had look of an emergency spot, and recent reading involved the 15th Air Force.

Now this. One visit, fuel stop on long westward transit. The country has been propping up Europe for some time.https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1440x1080/earth_postcard_1547749853_376c43116c8c45327c9977ebc3a6b07470 377934.jpg

[broadreach]

broadreach - zoom in on Pisko Polje.
Yup, found it. And there's a cricket club.

[dook]

If you mean propping up the Euro, then Switzerland has now stopped doing it.

[nvubu]

I assume he means the USA

[dook]

Well, he might mean defence but his clues are sometimes devious.

[JENKINS]

Not finance so no Euro. Numbers are involved, 1,3,17,18. Not USA

[dook]

See what I mean ?

Too much Scottish amber liquid I'm afraid.

[dook]

fuel stop on long westward transit

Must have been a fair way east then. Depends upon the aeroplane and speed though - maybe a prop.

[JENKINS]

Temperature is now plus1, and the long western journey started close to a central point on The Grand Trunk Road and finished in Essex. Jouney of one day, Brazilian Barbie Jet.

[dook]

Were you coming from India ?

[JENKINS]

Yes I was.

[dook]

Can't tie it to propping up Europe, but are we in Turkey ?

[JENKINS]

Not Turkey.

[Self loading bear]

Tbilisi

SLB

[JENKINS]

Yes, Tblisi. Magnificent terminal building. Propping Europe? No rugby club worth its salt is without a Georgian prop, numbers 1 and 3 starting,17 and 18 on the bench.

[Self loading bear]

Jenkins,

Thanks,
I already figured out that it was not Israel or Australia propping the Eurovision song festival.

Next I wonder if the clue will be in the Character recognition or the aircraft ID.
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1880x1300/challenge_3_5bf9c3c3e826318268566e4536d1a0fbd7de2035.jpg
Succes SLB

[Auxtank]

En France ?

[Self loading bear]

En France ?

Mais non, pourqoui?

[Auxtank]

Parce que le aircraft and the hats look french. Mais, je suis obviously wrong.

[Self loading bear]

Parce que le aircraft and the hats look french. Mais, je suis obviously wrong.

Inspired by French spirits

[ea200]

Looks like a Farman but could be inspired by one. Canada?

[Self loading bear]

Looks like a Farman but could be inspired by one. Canada?

no Canadian connection

[Auxtank]

Actually, the hats look very stylish indeed.

Italia ?

[ea200]

How about Larisa, Greece?

[Self loading bear]

You are both diverging from the subject.
The lady with the feathered hat has later been a unusual expat.

SLB

[nvubu]

Looks Kaiserish to me, so Germany

[Self loading bear]

Looks Kaiserish to me, so Germany
Closer but no sigar

[dook]

"Sigar" is a Spanish word.

It's also Dutch so Netherlands ?

[ea200]

Or Belgium? Flanders?

[JENKINS]

1919, bit late for that machine, but that doughty lady Queen Wilhelmina at Amsterdam North?

[Self loading bear]

1919, bit late for that machine, but that doughty lady Queen Wilhelmina at Amsterdam North?

Queen Wilhelmina is correct

[dook]

Soesterberg

[JENKINS]

Haarlem, Queens Birthday, 1911?

[Self loading bear]

Soesterberg

Soesterberg it is
First Dutch military aircraft called
Brik van Meel
built bij van Meel after a Farham.
van Meel had obtained a air brevet in France and was hired as Civilian pilot instructor.

Aircraft sold to government for 4500 Dutch guilders (without engine!)

Soesterberg first military airfield inspected by the Queen in 1911.

Now closed, has a military museum on its premises.

Dook has control

[dook]

Many thanks.

http://i65.tinypic.com/35n2br9.jpg

[sycamore]

Liberator and Corsairs...Pacific...?

[dook]

It is indeed.

[JENKINS]

US Navy and USMC at Kwajalein?

[dook]

Not Kwajalein.

[dook]

Unexpectedly I have to go out for about 90 minutes to two hours. Apologies..

[Asturias56]

AMazing - Dook has to go out!! Something so important he can't send the servants..........................

Has this ever happened before???

[dook]

No, but I'm back now.

Wot servants ?

[Asturias56]

The hours soem people keep on here (just look atteh last intrchange)they must be

1. Running a lighthouse

2. Hospitalized

3. In prison

4. so rich they can afford servants to run everything else

Of course I'd assumed from your posts that, as a perfect gentleman, you were in Cat4

Could it be Guam?

[dook]

I wish I were rich. If I were, I would not be on this thread from the UK.

It's not Guam but you are moving in the right direction from Kwajalein.

[JENKINS]

I look very often when listening to the wireless on the same device. Radio 4 Extra, BBC UK nostalgia, excellent. At the moment, rugby on TV so device screen not required. Ankle-biting grandchildren a distraction.

[dook]

"wireless" - how quaint.

[Asturias56]

Jenkins is clearly not just a gentleman but one of the Upper Class

How about Saipan??

[dook]

I'm afraid not - that's too close to Guam.

[Auxtank]

What did I miss - been out for the day.

Jeez - dook gone AWOL.

Close call on total thread collapse.

Are we at Anderson AB ?

Edit: scrub that - just looked properly at above posts.

How about Canton AFLD then?

[dook]

Had to look that up.

You are much too far to the east.

Try the Philippine sea

[Auxtank]

Are we still too far east at Guam - which I know has already been called?

[sycamore]

Yap island...?

[dook]

I think I said no to Guam and it's not Yap island either.

I don't do cryptic so go north west gentlemen.

[JENKINS]

Going North West takes one to Kadena, B24 and Corsair.

[dook]

Okinawa it certainly is.

Some people here would now demand you state the airfield but I won't. It's Yontan.

Over to you.

[JENKINS]

Thanks, interesting. Didn't fancy the CAC Boomerang as a steed under the prevailing conditions. For Asturias56, Welsh working-class Roman Catholic, ignored by all in the village where I have lived for 26 years. Hey-ho, up theirs!

Now this. My first weekend after departure from Royal Air Force. Very busy, as were the nearby cobbles.https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1440x1080/earth_postcard_1547573495_73dcd4c38136c64529a3bfd77e3ec66ad1 91a8fc.jpg

[Auxtank]

Okinawa it certainly is.

Some people here would now demand you state the airfield but I won't. It's Yontan.



Well I for one demand that he states the ruddy airfield.

Actually, no I don't.

Next challenge please...

[dook]

….departure from Royal Air Force

The Royal Air Force please !

….nearby cobbles. 'Ere we go again.....

Auxtank, aren't you on the wrong side of the drag curve ? ^^^^^^^

[JENKINS]

Yes, a serious lapse, sorry.

[dook]

You may fall out - to the bar.

[JENKINS]

Local time, it is bed-time. I regret that there is little which I can leave as a clue. Not many famous people from this area, although that situation is normally associated with those over the border.

[Asturias56]

Border, border...

Carlisle??

[TheiC]

Aerodrome de Maubeuge, a lovely spot.

OH if correct

[JENKINS]

Mauberge it is. Paris - Roubaix was passing not too far away on one of my days there. ATC very busy with helis, cyclists with survival. The town suffered greatly in two World Wars.

OH declared.

[Self loading bear]

Are the Belgians considered unfamous by France?
I learn everyday.
Cobbles refered to the kasseien cobble roads? Some Cycling going on (Paris-Roubaix for example)?

Edit: Crossed posts!

SLB

[Cows getting bigger]

Here's one from yesterday. The flying school has been in operation for over 70 years.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7913/39846445363_76f43f82e7_c.jpg

[Asturias56]

Looks like a Sanskrit typface on the sign over the door on the left?

India?

And 55 ft AMSL - so near the sea.......................

[JENKINS]

Saidpur, Bangladesh?

[Self loading bear]

Hazrat Shahjalal Intl Airport,Kurmitola
Dhaka Bangladesh
is the adress of the Bangladesh Flying Acedemy established in 1948.
SLB

OH if correct

[dook]

I think it could be Sha Makhdum.

[Cows getting bigger]

Some of you are in the right ball park but not there yet. Dook, that’s not a name I recognise.

[dook]

Well, that's quite a coincidence.
http://i64.tinypic.com/r90ih1.jpg

[Cows getting bigger]

In these parts it’s called Radshahi (VGRJ). Good shot though and over to Dook.

[dook]

You had me concerned there.

Here's another blast from the past.

http://i63.tinypic.com/r222xv.jpg

[JENKINS]

WW2 jet fighter field?

[dook]

Not military and does not exist anymore. It has been completely built over but the old tower is still in use for a different purpose.

A GA airfield in use until the 60's.

[India Four Two]

In the United States?

[dook]

Yes to the USA.

[TheiC]

The original Tamiami Airport, handy for the trail. OH if correct.

[dook]

Well, I did think that would last longer.

Please tell me how you found it.

TheiC has called OH.

[Asturias56]

Wow - another chance at 22:00







https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/413x249/2019_01_15_171404_505169e9ed8d3c017f34bcc5f1abe445138e916f.j pg

[dook]

Where's the airfield ?

PM for you.

[ve3id]

The hours soem people keep on here (just look atteh last intrchange)they must be

1. Running a lighthouse

2. Hospitalized

3. In prison

4. so rich they can afford servants to run everything else

Of course I'd assumed from your posts that, as a perfect gentleman, you were in Cat4

Could it be Guam?
You forgot retired!

[Self loading bear]

Does not look British
But small corn or grass fields with lots of hedges.
Could be France.

That straight line in the river bend or lake is that a wing top antenna or an actual dam or jetty?

SLB

[TheiC]

Please tell me how you found it.

Just in case you’re concerned that I used GIS, you may rest completely assured that I didn’t. I remember the LightningMate saga well, and hope there won’t be a return to those days.

[Asturias56]

A very long way from France - the murk is rather common here and the filed is in the top left of the original picture


https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/273x205/2019_01_15_171656_895bbff71b3d3905c2b364acef1aec9dbc2db0f0.j pg

[dook]

Murk is common and a very long way from France. Maybe the far east.

[JENKINS]

Note the tracks in the fields which perhaps indicate agricultural workers walking to their tasks. India rather than Pakistan, Siam perhaps?

[dook]

I think I'll call you 'Ole Sharp Eyes".

[Self loading bear]

Sibisa airport Indonesia?
There are fish farms in the bay.

SLB

OH if correct (I am to board in 5 minutes)

[Asturias56]

Jenkins is correct - it is India - tho I suspect Bears "fish farms" may be partly correct . It's what they call a "tank"

It's one of these busy, successful places with a few million people that few tourists ever visit and people just get on with life - hundreds of them across Asia these days

Always seems to have been a trading spot but nothing important has ever happened here as far as I can tell tho' the town center was planned by the Brits

Air India, Jet Airways, SpiceJet and IndiGo seem to be the main operators here

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[dook]

Just looking at IndiGo. Are we near New Delhi ?

[Asturias56]

Too far North......................

I'm off out until 17:00 local 16:00 Uk

[dook]

Your sample operators suggest a domestic airport nearer central India.

Looking.

[JENKINS]

Mangaluru perhaps, do I see the old Terminal? Not millions, but still lots of people.

Fish pond, a stew pond in British Abbeys.

[Auxtank]

I will chance Indore...now known as Devi Ahilyabai Holkar International Airport.

(I see Asurias has stated he has gone out but omits to add "for a glass or two" - which given time of day is quite correct - although Monday is free for all as far as I'm concerned to get over the weekend.)

[dook]

Well, I certainly can't find it.

[Asturias56]

Break in meeting - yes Indore - a busy 2++ million place full of light industry and hi-tech and nothing else - never heard of it until I had to visit a couple of years back

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1131x822/2019_01_21_120205_51b9c76655e968287ecf1ade6d95d420c44e6104.j pg
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[Auxtank]

Very busy growing itself in to a tech centre.

Came across this old photo the other day so here goes...

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/800x354/4583459834_87af19052092436d72ebdec523a9ea13044eaba4.jpg

[dook]

Ah - aircraft ident. A Saro London I believe.

Now the difficult bit...

[dook]

Well, that wasn't too difficult.

I do believe it's Mount Batten. I was born and brought up in Plymouth.

[Auxtank]

Indeed it is dook.

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/344x235/674th54_4e0dfe1a3bf5fa91fda857457363e853069f14e4.jpg

Interesting history.

dook has control.

[dook]

When I was young and at school I remember seeing many flying boats there, especially Sunderlands.

As an RAF pilot some years ago I did a survival course there and the sea survival part was done using RAF sea rescue launches. Remember those ?

Standby please.....

Here you go.

http://i66.tinypic.com/ogxqo7.jpg

[dash7fan]

Rangsdorf, Bücker Flugzeugwerft ?

OH if correct

[dook]

Now there's another hit. Rangsdorf it is.

dash7fan has called OH.

[JENKINS]

Was a touch short of fuel one afternoon, this place very helpful. I was heading South, I returned but aircraft stayed, albeit in bits
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.

[Auxtank]

Are we near the Gulf Of California?

[JENKINS]

Not California.

[Auxtank]

Still looks like that neck of the woods - albeit with distinct lack of trees...

[dook]

JENKINS,

You should have flown the Mk3 Lightning - we were short of fuel on start-up !!

That looks like a very long runway.

Why was your aeroplane in bits ?

[Auxtank]

@ dook

Well you're not going to get any sympathy from me for that - you lucky sod. :cool:

[dook]

Are we somewhere which is not the USA ?

[Auxtank]

Yes, I've changed my mind - we are in tut sandpit somewhere.

Jenkins running out of fuel and this lot being useful, etc.

[JENKINS]

Yes, sandy area. My machine continued South with me on my planned journey. Months later I returned but machine in bits in a different country. Not pilot error, and the perpetrator has been spotted on Pprune. I loaded it but didn't fly it that day. Night stop on day of photograph in national capital, and I was surprised that ale was available.

Believe demise of machine due to power lever malfunction. Unable to check, local militia peppered the machine with bullets in double-quick time, and journey to strip by road somewhat difficult. And yes, this is not USA.

[dook]

What an interesting story. I have also destroyed an aeroplane with gunfire.

Are we near the Caspian Sea somewhere ?

[JENKINS]

Not The Caspian.

Jindivik?

[JENKINS]

That vague piece of coast is an East coast, and the sea is a major ocean.

[dook]

It wasn't a Jindi. It was on the ground.

[dook]

Might we be in NE Africa ?

[JENKINS]

Not N E Africa, but you have reached the correct continent.

[dook]

Maybe NE Africa was an inaccurate call. I was thinking Somalia.

[JENKINS]

Not Somalia.

[dook]

So your major ocean isn't the Indian I assume.

[JENKINS]

You assume correctly.

[dook]

Now trying to correlate that with the east coast of Africa. :eek:

[JENKINS]

Perhaps if I now reveal that a West coast was very close?

[dook]

But you said east.

[JENKINS]

Yes, the East coast is seen, the West is very close but not seen, making a peninsula. Always devious but never untruthful.

[dook]

So perhaps the major ocean is the South Atlantic.

[TheiC]

Nouadhibou International Airport, Nouadhibou, Mauritania.

Open House if correct.

[JENKINS]

Yes, it is the South Atlantic, and yes it is Nouadhibou. I was on my way to Monrovia, but next stop was Nouakchott for the night. Very French, and in 1993 still apparently very colonial. My hotel felt as from a Graham Greene novel.

OH declared.

[dook]

After all my questions last night I eventually found it only to find that I had just been beaten to it.

A late night to no avail.

Early bird etc...…

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[Cows getting bigger]

Hmmm, the American fire engine is a red herring I feel; too many European cars about. So, how about RAF Bentwaters for a start?

[dook]

No smelly red fish on you.

However, it's not Bentwaters or indeed American.

[sycamore]

Unusual types ,PZL`s various,so,somewhere in Poland..?

[dook]

It is indeed.

[Davidsoffice]

Could it be the old Krakow airport, now the Muzeum Lotnictwa Polskiego? Didn't think they had flying there but seems they do.

D

[dook]

It could well be. :ok:

Also known as the Pas Stortowy Muzeum.

Over to you D.

[Davidsoffice]

One of the few on here I've visited but still didn't recognise it! It looked greatly different in 90/91.

Open House.

[dook]

Pity about the OH.

[JENKINS]

So, here comes the cavalry to the rescue, nothing cryptic there.

Motor racing anyone?
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[dook]

Doesn't look like the racing circuit is used anymore either.

In fact it doesn't look like a racing circuit at all.

[JENKINS]

Quite correct, it is not a motor racing circuit.

[dook]

RAF Folkingham.

What did the reference to motor racing mean then ?

[JENKINS]

BRM was at Folkingham for two separate periods, before and after Thor. Just imagine, 16 cylinder 1-5 litre. Not a success, but apparently very fast in testing at Folkingham. Over to you, this driver lapped at an early stage.

[dook]

I had a 12 cylinder 5.3 litre. No guesses as to what that was. A gentlemen's club on wheels.

http://i63.tinypic.com/25q93qh.jpg

[kenparry]

Architecture looks to be Middle East. A country bordering the Gulf? (Arabian or Persian according to choice)

[kaikohe76]

Dubai possibly, from very much earlier days?

[dook]

It does abut the Persian Gulf.

It is PC nowadays to refer to it as the Arabian Gulf, but not me - I lived in SA for five years and refuse to do so.

Not Dubai.

I should add that this is part of a hotel on the airport.

[broadreach]

PC Arabian v Persian Gulf. Some years ago was at reception for IRISL, the Iranian national shipping line. Discussing our own services to that body of water I called it the Arabian Gulf and was promptly corrected by their reps, "Persian Gulf please". No offence given or taken.

[dook]

Choose your words according to whom you are speaking in those parts of the world.

Re. the challenge, just over ten years ago there was a well-known army 'charge' here.

[JENKINS]

2008, Basra?

[dook]

Very exact.

You to bowl.

[dook]

Wheressa pic ?

[JENKINS]

Machine, not self, trying.

[JENKINS]

Here it is. Seen on TV yesterday, it's that time of year. I haven't
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flown there.

[dook]

I don't think it was on UK TV.

[JENKINS]

Not on UK TV. There was an important seat to fill after a recent death.