Which Aerodrome Mk III

[Shackman]

Max Tow - in one. Butterworth c 1970, next pic was to be Mirages on the flight line.

My apologies on the image; I was trying to hurry after I discovered that I'd left all the metadata on and that I had the picture reversed. Now I've no idea what I did!!

[Asturias56]

Excellent shot ! as its OH a small something for the weekend
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/233x141/2019_01_30_144938_67daf05d2979f979f1da22baaca1efe3eab32b77.j pg
.......warmer than Ferrara.....................

[Asturias56]

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/507x818/2019_02_08_155434_311001a935d8ae1270bc7cc7b86e6bd66976d521.j pg
First one is a bit small - here's another to help - going out for a couple of hours

[nvubu]

Have seen somewhere same/similar to this before - just can't remember where :ugh:

[Asturias56]

I don't think it's been done before on here .... not surprising really

Locally it has a passing connection with two of the worlds most famous explorers who visited some 350 years apart (approx.) - they didn't stay...............

[dook]

That might put us in Australia.

[nvubu]

I wasn't thinking that this location had been done before, just that I'd seen the layout before - probably searching for another location.

I was originally thinking Africa, but the 350 years between explorers almost certainly rules that out (apart from South Africa).
I wouldn't have thought Australia as Captain Cook was 1792. That leaves the Americas.

[Self loading bear]

Have seen somewhere same/similar to this before - just can't remember where :ugh:

i have passed this one when searching for Asturias Madagaskar Challenge of 27 january.
But where was this one? Could indeed have been Australia as dook mentioned.

SLB

[Asturias56]

Not Australia

The Americas could be considered to be "explored" from Erik the Red to Amundsen - that's 1000 years

Africa even longer and Asia - you have millennia......................

Another clue - in addition to the local language (s) two other languages are spoken widely and neither originated in this country

[nvubu]

India - one of the ex Portuguese areas

[Asturias56]

Not India - but Vasco De Gama is one of the explorers
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/390x274/2019_01_30_144654_be39eba676301360b89c9769fc8205297734a2db.j pg

[dook]

Can't find anything in the Calicut area in India, so are we back to Madagascar ?

edit: just found hid route map to India and it seems he stopped at several place along the east coast of Africa on his way.

Sofala any good ?

[Asturias56]

Not Madagascar - i 'm not sure if Vasco D G ever went there and I'm pretty sure the second explorer didn't at all - heading out for the evening but another clue...

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/224x125/2019_01_30_144853_720c472d49669501dc129eb37d8c338e5ae78f59.j pg

[dook]

Can you check my edit above please.

[Asturias56]

Sofala is now the Province name - old Sofala Town was replaced by Beira more or less I think

This is not Sofala or Beira but it is in Mozambique - i'm out for two hours...

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/162x144/2019_01_30_144928_c5233ac805667739e0cc03df4dc8ea2ca9afaba2.j pg

[nvubu]

Bit further north of Beira at Quelimane

[Asturias56]

Back from dinner

Nvubu has it! Quelimane (again many spellings ) it is

Dr Livingstone visited here as well - the locals speak Portuguese and Swahili as well as their local languages

Not much happens here............................... but it's not a bad spot ... been in a lot worse - especially in Africa

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/223x115/2019_01_30_144913_02339ae4f54df71ab20e71f4ce4b8b638401c78a.j pg
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/441x282/2019_01_30_144749_e046794c7fc25612df07ae6e965e52412007d0a6.j pg

[nvubu]

I'm out all day tomorrow, so I'm going to have to throw the floor open with an Open House.

[broadreach]

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1912x1044/aaapprunechallenge01_2f20ae1cf782b1745faf064ae737141459c658f 8.jpg
This may provide weekend entertainment. Southern Hemisphere. Loads of clues.

[sycamore]

Wot a lotta Twottas....!

Your continent ,broadreach...?

[broadreach]

sycamore's described the aircraft and the continent, now go find the other clue (s?). ;-)

[Asturias56]

looks like a KingAir right center - presumably close to the coast or a major river

[broadreach]

You may be right about the coast or river, Asturias, but what leads you to that conclusion?

[dook]

Suriname ?

[broadreach]

Not Suriname, dook

[dook]

But South America ?

[broadreach]

Yes, South America

[Asturias56]

You may be right about the coast or river, Asturias, but what leads you to that conclusion?

has as swampy feel to it - mosquito-ish, small ponds, little feeder channel to bottom left....... could be anywhere in S America

[broadreach]

Getting closer, Asturias. Swampy, lots of mosquitos, and there's something about that feeder channel and the concrete structure that almost reaches it. There's only one place in South America where you'll find such a collection of Twotters and, if you look closely, there are stands for a lot more than appear in the photo.

[dook]

Chilean Air Force ?

[broadreach]

Not Chile either.

[Max Tow]

Well, I knew a chap who ferried a lot of Twotters to Peru...

[broadreach]

Did he, now...

[dook]

The Peruvian Air Force has 15 of them.

[broadreach]

Indeed, dook, but where?

[broadreach]

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1116x976/aaapprunechallenge02_879452986724acba53a231769c3997cf6631716 2.jpg
The "feeder channel" isn't always just a feeble creek!

[dook]

I have 11 bases but none of them appear to have a runway in that direction.

[broadreach]

The runway is no longer used commercially.

[dook]

It certainly looks that way too.

I'm searching Peruvian air force bases.

Is this a waste of time ?

[broadreach]

Not a waste of time at all. The runway was deactivated for commercial purposes in the seventies, leaving only the air force base. Now, if you've found 11 bases, which of them might be near rivers that rise and fall?

[dook]

I think it might be home to Escuadron de Transporte 421.

Iquitos ?

[broadreach]

Getting agonizingly close, dook, but the name of the game is "Which Aerodrome Mk III” :cool:

[broadreach]

Indeed, Iquitos. The floatplane ramp leads into a lake called Morona Cocha. In recent years the Amazon at Iquitos has been breaking its own records for high and low water so the base can become inaccessible during the dry season.
Your stick, dook.

[dook]

Story of my life.
Get close and then someone else gets in while I'm looking.

edit: crossed posts.

[dook]

Many thanks broadreach.

Contrary to the views of one or two people on this thread, I do not consider that it belongs to me.

Accordingly, OH.

[sycamore]

...FAP Base Area Grupo 42..........OH if correct......
AHH,too late....

[broadreach]

Completely off topic but Iquitos would have been just the place for the Chapecoense football team 146 to refuel.

[Self loading bear]

Broadreach,

From internet there are 2 Airports in Iquitos

Coronel FAP Francisco Secada Vignetta International Airport

And

Antiguo Aeroporto Iquitos
Old Iquitos airport
(which you challenged)

from Wiki on the Peruvian Airforce:

Air Wing Nº 4

Air Group Nº 42 – headquarters: Iquitos (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iquitos)

Air Squadron 421 (operating DHC-6 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Canada_DHC-6_Twin_Otter) and Y-12 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbin_Y-12))
Air Squadron 422 (operating PC-6 (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilatus_PC-6))

Santa Clara Air Base – headquarters: Iquitos

Are only the (float equipped) Twin Otters based on the old airport?
Is the old Iquitos airport then the same as Santa Clara?
SLB

[dook]

This should be interesting...…………….

[broadreach]

SLB, yes, the base is also called Santa Clara, just to confuse the opposition! The old airport itself isn't called that, though, and I can't remember what it was called other than "Iquitos". I lived there during several stages of my life and recall teaching my little brother to ride a bike on the runway - our house was at the other end - and being chased off numerous times. There were no fences and the runway was lined with huts and light industry. It was sometimes quite scary. A 1-11 swerved to avoid a cow or pig crossing it and clipped a mound of runway rubble, which thrust one of the main gears up, jamming the flap but succeeding in taking off. Landed later at Tarapoto and was repaired. One I was on did hit a pig with the nosegear, and aborted. Awful mess.
C'mon, enough of this, dook declared Open House!

[Asturias56]

I find it difficult to believe but I don't think think this one has ever been featured....... it's a fair way from Peru...........

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/502x574/2019_01_19_143131_241769c7c1b88101d44b381db7c34397b1eb55bd.j pg

[broadreach]

Caribbean? Crushed coral?

[Asturias56]

:}:}

No - not the Caribbean unless they get regular snow........................

[Self loading bear]

So we are looking for an airport with a large apron, blue skies and a low fence.
perhaps with one plane spotter visible from Google earth?

That’s easy!

[Asturias56]

It was a war time (WW2) airfield that became a scheduled international airfield after WW2. The first airline flights operated both German & US aircraft run by the same, foreign, airline

[Self loading bear]

Oshkosh Winconsin?

[Asturias56]

I don't think many German passenger aircraft were operating in the US after WW2 or that foreign airlines have ever operated to Oshkosh..........

[Self loading bear]

I don't think many German passenger aircraft were operating in the US after WW2 or that foreign airlines have ever operated to Oshkosh..........

Clearly crossed posts
German built aircraft just after WW2 can only be JU-52?

We are in Europe?

SLB

[dook]

Was one of the aircraft the Ford Trimotor ?

Northwest Airways ?

[dook]

Merrill Field ?

[Asturias56]

No - we're in Europe

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/254x129/2019_02_10_152455_c438ddc79a46a5f1b74d12400607ca2b2389b007.j pg

[dook]

Germany ?....

[Asturias56]

"German built aircraft just after WW2 can only be JU-52?"

They built other aeroplanes that could carry passengers.................... but it was s surprise to me when I found out about it...............

[Asturias56]

Not Germany - this place still operates but it was closed to airline traffic when another, newer airport opened

[Asturias56]

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/153x98/2019_02_10_162326_f59e8e0a4af49e54e0ce5a63c51e2f2c0d26d434.j pg

[dook]

How about Finland.

[Asturias56]

Here's one taken at the end of the war - I think

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/208x109/2019_02_10_164021_28341835cfd809c0650d603f31a67a722fbd81da.j pg

[Asturias56]

No, not Finland - it also changed its name while still a military airfield -

this challenge is fun................... I'm off out for an hour or so guys

[kaikohe76]

If I had not seen the crossed runways in the photo Asturias posted, I might have suggested the former Munich airfield.

[Asturias56]

As stated above not Germany - the US Navy once had a small presence here for a while.................. this place has had a far more interesting history than I ever thought TBH

It has also been associated with other modes of transport -

I think I've beaten my previous record!!

[Kemble Pitts]

RAF Hartford Bridge = Blackbushe

[Asturias56]

That'll teach me to boast!!

Blackbushe it is - I'd been through it many times but it was only when posting that picture with the snow (Jan 2018 IIRC) that I checked the history - which is amazing! See https://www.blackbusheairport.co.uk/history/

Also astounded that it has never been a challenge according to the spreadsheet!!

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/500x326/fjgjhgs_ebd388af336eb6436e7fda465720e98360d8e8a5.jpg

[Self loading bear]

I did look at the FW Condors before the ju52.
In combination with a hunch towards an airport on Iceland or Faeroer.
But as only 1 was operated by a Danish airline and already crashed in 1946 I thought the possibilty to be too remote.

Nice Challenge!

SLB

[Kemble Pitts]

I'll try a slightly unusual angle, which might last seconds...

The aircraft should give it away - the Bf109, not my 'superb' Jodel in the backbground by the way... (sorry, can't shrink the image).

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1504/file3_1_84d4f06548ad8a9f67dcb0feaf4f3d60272c0273.jpeg

[dook]

That looks like the rare and well-known two seater (Buchon).

[Self loading bear]

Zirchow on the Island Usedom in Germany?

SLB

[dook]

Belgium Brasschaat ?

[dook]

I think it is G-AWHC possibly at La Ferte-Alais.

[Shackman]

Duxford? Just after 'the film' was made.

[Asturias56]

I did look at the FW Condors before the ju52.
In combination with a hunch towards an airport on Iceland or Faeroer.
But as only 1 was operated by a Danish airline and already crashed in 1946 I thought the possibilty to be too remote.

Nice Challenge!

SLB
Thanks - I was truly amazed that it has never been used before - right next to Farnbro' and Heathrow...........

I use it regularly as well.................................

[Kemble Pitts]

SLB sort of has it, he's (or she's) got the right physical location but the aerodrome is actually called Heringsdorf.

You have control SLB.

(Well that didn't last long did it).

[Self loading bear]

Apologies,
I tapped the airfield in Google Maps but it gave only Erlebniswelt Hangar 10 as tag.
Hangar 10 did the restauration of two seat bf109.
Roll out was in 2016?
Return to flight?

Warbirds (http://warbirdsnews.com/warbird-restorations/two-seat-messerschmitt-bf-109-fly-soon.html)

Just found this postcard

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/605x440/5314fac8_41b9_432f_900c_9bfcac1e399d_689b9ae314c22937bddb1ba e91cce63eb11881a0.jpeg

Return to sender?

SLB

[dook]

TU104 so east Europe or Russia.

[Kemble Pitts]

That 2 seat 109 has flown with both DB power and Merlin power. When I visited last summer she was doing touch and goes on the grass runway (under RR Merlin power) as we joined the circuit and landed on the hard. She taxied in after we'd entered the Hanger 10 facility. They also have two airworthy single seat DB powered Bf109s in there plus lots of other superb German aircraft (and a Mk 18 Spitfire and a P51D Mustang).

Don't know where that Tupolev is...

[jensdad]

That's a large terminal building for that era so I think we're looking at an important city here. I've a feeling that the Tu134 might be a red herring and we aren't in what was the Soviet Bloc?
Helsinki?

[jensdad]

And if it's any help to the next contestant, I think that's a LOT Tu134 (I'm a bit more confident on that than I am on Helsinki) :)

[Self loading bear]

The differences between the Tu 104 and the Tu 134 are in the T-Tail, Tail engines and not having a centreline window (that all is for the T-134)

Oh,
and it is not in Helsinki

SLB

[dook]

For the night and morning shifts.

If you Google Tu-134 airport postcard you will find your answer.

http://i64.tinypic.com/108fz3a.jpg

[jensdad]

Hmmm, could it be Warsaw?

[jensdad]

Oops, Dook beat me to it by one minute!

[dook]

That makes a change !

[Self loading bear]

For the night and morning shifts.

If you Google Tu-134 airport postcard you will find your answer.

http://i64.tinypic.com/108fz3a.jpg

Although this is a later paint scheme. It is clearly the same terminal.
Jensdad was right all along with his LOT assumption.
I had to look it up but Aeroflot also carried a similar blue band but on their Tu’s there was always a thin white cheat line between the blue band and the black nose.

Dook has control.

[dook]

Good morning/afternoon/evening.

http://i68.tinypic.com/2j5z7es.jpg

[nvubu]

I'll have a stab at Kenley - but I don't think it is as the control tower is missing from the end of the hangar (and I don't think there was grass in front of the hangar). So two reasons why I don't think it is Kenley - but I'll go with it anyway :)

[Cows getting bigger]

Stab in the dark, Hooton Park. Googling WW1 Aircraft Hangars comes-up with this, rather rapidly.


https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x905/air_pict2_7fa8e6db0782697ac9877dc65cb7f02576980725.jpg

[dook]

It's not Kenley or Hooton Park - the latter has been done before by me I think.

[nvubu]

Didn't think so - I've done the formed twice :)

[dook]

Very few pictures of this airfield exist.

[Cows getting bigger]

Well, there were never too many Belfast Trussed hangars. How about East Boldre?

[dook]

Give that man a banana ! :)

All yours Cgb.

[Cows getting bigger]

Some interesting scaffolding at this international airport.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7835/46147641915_d38d93db9e_c.jpg

[dook]

Bamboo scaffolding suggest far east to me.

[Asturias56]

Pretty neat tho' - and lots of warning tape int the right place - so Far East but organised - Malaysia or Thailand possibly?

[broadreach]

Colombia's big on bamboo in construction, too.

[Asturias56]

Saved to the desktop Cows picture is only 186kb . so that can't be the problem

Dooks Good morning picture is the same size

Drop the Mods a line put or put a post in the Computer forum - there are some red hot people there

[Self loading bear]

I go for Shah Amanat Airport Bangladesh.
Cows has posted before from Bangladesh.
Google Maps link to the Airports shows same blue Safety pylons.
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/628x649/059e8dc3_9e82_4f7d_808f_360ccb67b3d7_80088fafa22b94cef9fcbd0 485c205b3a90c60e9.jpeg

SLB

[Self loading bear]

Update
Osmani International Airport Sylhet
has a better matching tower and the blue columns on the building.

SLB

[Self loading bear]

And photo

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/748x492/d8e1fe51_380c_45b9_bf2f_4b691e026063_136a54a54f0b00074ac4b61 7c72cd3a2bd7f8b3e.jpeg

[Cows getting bigger]

Sylhet it is. I've almost ran out of Bangladesh pictures, fortunately. However, tomorrow I'll be getting something new! In the meantime, over to SLB.

[Self loading bear]

When the sh!t hits the fan!
I have posted a toilet challenge before but that one went down the drain quite fast!
I hope this is not a... fixation.


https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/611x909/4cff9b6c_8c8f_46b8_ad97_2b2eb3a1094d_c2ebf7ce11940d81da3abcb 81ad3c30e97266a6c.jpeg

SLB

[dook]

Knowing your posts, is it in the Netherlands ?

[dook]

Found this very similar one.

http://i63.tinypic.com/u1v9i.png

[broadreach]

Ahh, that has to be Dutch! It all started with the fly printed on the inside of the public urinals. Same in Changi?

[dook]

Unfortunately the place where I found it doesn't say where it is.

I have just found it again and it says Eindhoven.

SLB likes his home-grown stuff doesn't he.

[Self loading bear]

Eindhoven indeed.
I also like Stairway to heaven

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/510x375/b9474e01_1bad_47f0_aad0_d28194f16a63_7c8b781939cf425d8ae48e4 07602022b3972a6b0.jpeg

and also Economy seat

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1200x1200/b7f39639_3d59_41a5_a7df_b73dca646153_f0295822afd9da35a0ec47b 94f04e8cbd7dabffd.jpeg

Dook has control

[Asturias56]

I had that seat the last time I flew BA.......................... :sad:

[dook]

SLB described his toilet as the stairway to heaven.

No - this is a stairway to heaven.
http://i64.tinypic.com/2qsqz9u.jpg

Challenge follows.

[dook]

I posted this before but withdrew it.

http://i63.tinypic.com/sqh6qu.jpg

[Asturias56]

Algiers??

looks warm

[dook]

We're not in Algeria.

[sycamore]

Bizerte,Tunisia....

[dook]

You need to get away from North Africa.

[kenparry]

French territory in the Pacific?

[chevvron]

French territory in the Pacific?
Would have been white colour scheme like 'SXX.

[dook]

Not Pacific or French territory.

Checking on colour scheme.

[dook]

I have found a couple of photographs of the aeroplane in bare metal finish but nothing of that era in white.

[dook]

This was an RAF base.

[evansb]

RAF Mauripur, Pakistan ? from John Holloway, RAF Retired: "The French occasionally had flights passing through. Once a month a lone DC-4 would arrive from Saigon, usually landing in the early hours of the morning when we should have all been fast asleep – so they were very unpopular. We also had a flight of Privateers arrive and the odd Nordatlas. They were on their way home as the days of the French in Indo China were rapidly coming to an end."

[dook]

A cigar and a large malt to the man. :D

All yours e.

[evansb]

Thanks dook! Here is the next mystery aerodrome:
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/845x634/btugwig_4a5d8cb7561944234b32a7a0ac911c4b7ce85eab.jpg

[dook]

Doesn't look used very much.

[evansb]

Not so much as of late, but still open. Actually had HS-125 corporate jet service back in the day. Photo was taken in 2005. Current image on Google Earth looks even less cared for.

[broadreach]

Lots of silica sand around, and a hint of rapids in that dark stream. I'll guessing Africa, Angola perhaps.

[dook]

I'm thinking outbackish.

[evansb]

Not Angola nor Australia.

[kcockayne]

Would this be the south east of France, by any chance ?

[evansb]

Not on the European Continent.

[Self loading bear]

In Canada?

[evansb]

Not Canada, but the locale had a Canadian connection.

[Self loading bear]

CHC or Okanagan helicopter operation?

[evansb]

No, but I did find this gem of a photo taken at the mystery aerodrome:

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1024x689/8tpipro_3ffd1c58a4794e98dd05089837bbcee76f1c6385.jpg

Please note I'll be back around 1400 UTC.

[broadreach]

Gave it away there, evansb. Canadian connection = Alcan; Alcan = British Guiana/Guyana. Mackenzie Airstrip. I knew there was something about that sand! Open House if correct.

[dook]

Maybe you should have airbrushed out serial number 34322.

A Google search brings up Watooka, Guyana.

[chevvron]

Not Pacific or French territory.

Checking on colour scheme.
I only suggested that because when Lancaster G-ASXX (now at East Kirkby) arrived in the UK from New Caledonia in about 1966, it was in all white 'Aeronavale' colour scheme.

[dook]

Thanks - now I'm with you.

[evansb]

broadreach is correct. Linden-Mackenzie, Guyana. Linden Airport (ICAO (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICAO_airport_code): SYLD) is an airport (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airport) serving Linden (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linden,_Guyana), the capital (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_(political)) of the Upper Demerara-Berbice (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Demerara-Berbice) region of Guyana (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana).

As requested, OPEN HOUSE.

[dook]

My suggestion just shows how unreliable the web can be. :(

[evansb]

Re the USAF Piasecki H-21, my source says Mackenzie, British Guiana. Watooka, Linden and Mackenzie are served by the Linden-Mackenzie airport. It is now just the Linden airport. It was once known as just the Mackenzie airport. What was the USAF "flying Banana" doing in British Guiana anyway? I can speculate, but I have no facts to back me up.

FYI Watooka was a residential area of MacKenzie Guyana, named after Watooka Creek (an Amerindian name).

[dook]

It does seem to be a strange place for the USAF to have been.

Maybe it had something to do with the "constitutional coup".

[dook]

I'm waiting for a "non-regular" to post something.

[nvubu]

I've got one too, so go ahead and post

[dook]

Standby...….

http://i63.tinypic.com/27xj68n.jpg

[Self loading bear]

It does seem to be a strange place for the USAF to have been.

Maybe it had something to do with the "constitutional coup".

Seems to have been AST#5
Aerial Survey Team #5

AST5 (http://www.1370th.org/asts/ast5/ast5bg/ast5.html)

SLB

[nvubu]

Thar be gliders :ok:

Not sure whether it is for D-Day or Market Garden though.

[dook]

D-Day...……...

[jensdad]

That looks like a UK airfield. Could it be the 09 threshold (pre-extension) at Lulsgate?

[ea200]

I'll take a stab at Tarrant Rushton.

[dook]

ea200 takes the biscuit with Tarrant Rushton.

[ea200]

Thanks dook. Nothing to hand and off to bed so OH.

[kaikohe76]

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/594x226/landing_zone_2_7562fcf20b5af43a9d4c538fb37e3fb7bea47119.jpg
After some of the great images recently, you might like a breather with this one.

[nvubu]

Doesn't look UK, but the square by the control tower reminds me of UK, so I'd go for Commonwealth country - one of Australia, Canada, New Zealand or South Africa?

[kaikohe76]

Yes nvubu, you are in the correct ball park with your idea. Cheers.

[dook]

Good thinking nvubu.

I'll start with Australia.

[kaikohe76]

It`s not Auz Dook, but your on the right track.

[dook]

Good pointer.

NZ ?

[chimbu warrior]

How about Whenuapai (NZWP)?

[kaikohe76]

It is NZ Dook. It`s not Whenuapai chimbu warrior, but I can well see why you might suggest it.
It`s getting a bit dark in my part of the Commonwealth now Gents, so bed time it is until 1900 or so. If anyone gets it right before then, rather than delay any more image posts, if you are all happy, you might like to continue on.

[dook]

I have just searched "new Zealand old airports aerial" and on the second line down is an aerial view of Old Canterbury Harewood.

[nvubu]

Looks bang on dook - there's a blog spot page showing the changes over time. (this website doesn't allow a link to blog spot or even the full word entered :( )

[dook]

Is anyone else happy that Harewood is correct ?

[ea200]

Well I am. Found a picture!

[dook]

Well that's two of you - thank you.

Standby please.

Ball rolling again.

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

[Self loading bear]

Operation Manna?

[dook]

No - some time in 1946.

[nvubu]

I am fairly certain I've seen it before somewhere - might even have it on my PC at home, but can't check until 9pm.

Have you been editing out registration numbers :)

[Cows getting bigger]

I want to say that looks like Aries which left RAF Shawbury in 1944. Couple of years out though. Hmmm.

[dook]

nvubu.

Registration numbers would have helped to give the game away.

They are only partially visible in the original photograph and both begin with G. :)

[Asturias56]

Netherlands??

[dook]

UK...……...

[Self loading bear]

Heathrow acc BBC website
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/735x691/07d1ef4a_7758_4e23_b562_c14c308c0536_acd5e012e4457b662589e10 1bb81af2eff3908e4.jpeg
SLB

[dook]

A large scotch for our Dutch friend please.

Heathrow it is. :D

[Self loading bear]

I prefer Cognac,

Following challenge.
No longer used.
Also used to be a heli port.


Edit further cropping required

SLB

[Self loading bear]

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/742x1253/20656379_84b2_48bd_8cc3_af6997727a69_3b8d0a2c3da48a76dd766ad 61336e3a8d3c12858.jpeg

[dook]

I think you have already cropped the original quite a lot.

I see water at top left so are we on an island ?

[Self loading bear]

Mediterranean Coast
indeed

[dook]

Does that mean an island near or on a Mediterranean coast ?

edit: Rhodes ?

[sycamore]

Should`ve gone to `Specsavers`....

[Self loading bear]

Not an island It featured (very short) in a novel of Phillip Kerr.
But he has the date wrong as it was probably not yet realised in 1957.

[dook]

Is the reference to Specsavers meant for me ?

If so I have clearly missed something.

[dook]

The only novel that I can find which might fit the clues is Greeks Bearing Gifts

[sycamore]

Sheep,sheepdog,blurrred,etc...SLB might not have seen advert...

[Self loading bear]

Correct
It is part of a luxerous estate now for sale as the owner has met his gods.

[dook]

sycamore

Good spot but I'm not sure how it helps.

[Self loading bear]

Sheep,sheepdog,blurrred,etc...SLB might not have seen advert...

Thank you, I have Pearl vision.
(Only the shell has to open up!)


https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1000x749/ffded604_9322_4d55_b218_99d2863075f1_8aee60dc0037c83eb55d361 a7874adcefa230985.jpeg

[sycamore]

Porto Cheli Alexion,Greece......all pixelated on GE...OH if correct....

[kaikohe76]

I would say you are right Sycamore. Apparently the airfield closed in 2004 due to maintenance issues & permanently closed in 2008. Does look a rather nice spot too.

[ea200]

I looked at that and thought it promising, but gave up due to the pixellation and other strange GE effects around there. However, if you go on the coastline then it is a strong contender. I would bet on sycamore being correct. SLB?

[Self loading bear]

Sycamore is completely correct.
This was one of the challenges where Google earth cannot give the Final closure.
But plenty of photos on the internet.
The clue was in the first post.
In Philips Kerr novel it is called Porto Heli.

Nice novel with anti-Hero Berny Gunther, the ex-SD war criminal trying to make up for his wrong doings.
Definitely gonna read some more in the series.

OH called

[nvubu]

Strange how GE pixilate it, but when you select the historical view, they don't.

As no-one has jumped in overnight, here is the mystery aerodrome I had lined up a couple of days ago

https://cm2goa.bn.files.1drv.com/y4mNXGOHV1qhDN-prLBPteqv7EXcbiOOYe-EWbLN9ECjDuuqdQiuOl17oz8C4kRsOe9kwAst16h0PKNHLZqi39A1DhiFs72 fJQhLo9GM3yZv0NWgWDbF34kDSTACeOmjo0HOnPcLixJaIVA3cBPqi7lMjOO dl0YE3l6y9AQqsBo21A2iMDWQx59M5nguBJhrUjLS7sbuHmLGpxmS24QUr3H Mw?width=1024&height=871&cropmode=none

[Asturias56]

Somewhere warm?

[nvubu]

Yes it is......

[sycamore]

Far East or SW..?

[nvubu]

Not Fat East. Not sure what SW means (but I don't think it is there either :) )

[chevvron]

Not Fat East. Not sure what SW means (but I don't think it is there either :) )
South Wales?https://www.pprune.org/images/icons/46.gif

[Asturias56]

he said warm......... so maybe Africa?

[nvubu]

Yes, we are somewhere in Africa.

https://oqppua.bn.files.1drv.com/y4mS8ShwHGTjjpicMZ_Rky6dhzmE5MA5ebCcFZh0QCOhGQIAVIDPWme53mcB tLi0fbJs8ocpO5yeuvt0vDwlPCK7aa7wY59v5ROLnbnUznZfr-SShU8XrbZpi7DJvChlFFDUGsikfgAXacl2C63lWbXEQiToxj_UK8wClsS_ij e1LVocPpgLGvesiKfVQKKL9eDiGttKwNUoh6WVsAUsDsJ2A?width=1024&height=871&cropmode=none

[Asturias56]

Are they the Kings African Rifles or similar?

Kenya?

[nvubu]

Similar - I think probably Police, and not Kenya.

This should point you in the direction of the year
https://qfbvfq.bn.files.1drv.com/y4mpx3Cv1nimVJFzAp-76cuOvlOBgQId9WCF_SgV4If3C5C0I9pDhCs4I9ywR3kq7gq6lUmFIQoHhqA YZf01_O-1dMSDJr4GbhV5RDTD2v1vLhmKYWdC3Nm5mgLYh5ywQpc9Q6B781xH3_zQObZ kHtdTm2B3BDcmnYbSmqqvIM4kX8umhqmVZQTQx9JRw-yK9NxQQirqYUaUmb8F74iAE_ryw?width=1024&height=871&cropmode=none

[Asturias56]

Royal Visit? could be what is now Luanda Kenneth Kaunda???

[nvubu]

That is a good guess, but no, not in Lusaka, You are quite close though.

If you know who this chap is.
https://28qwia.bn.files.1drv.com/y4mK7vcpOn7D_CfkMW-lZF7jVhsETiZcrBET40EEBw_gMU2bgfSLm2CGF1sytsdwZjYftjlkkEzweex DZXoN1T4QxC1YVpK2IyLqrMImgm80gz2dY_YdtPSTwHDazlwPbmRYndIgq-sWHS-Rtc9XBEObdjsDFj2mxTR4bJzNMt7VyVdhaM0T6sC49DfWuYdR7cER5zogoCs RwluUCSQrIlqcw?width=1024&height=871&cropmode=none

Who is declaring the airport open (cost £1 million to build)
https://algyaa.bn.files.1drv.com/y4mcSL7c8vMtg_SC-CzcH1Mo3fscBKkPZoadwERF7g5sGSxQIlWEuAiqu7nvpqO2uFB3V9nRa5LNn hiOu0U5icICzfDIne5bkRMJ88fnO6u16TTmOJJ2Ta_UODfM3I0ku4KbvZUqz XNzpTD6Wka5JASR6Uk7NZuleVO3uWhE-Mkn_oCJEZqNIqNOtJU3MQ9RljfcyBDVi3AhVTH5UdUAjdRkQ?width=1024&height=871&cropmode=none

You will have got it.

[ea200]

Charles Prince Airport Harare?

[nvubu]

It isn't in a capital.
Opened 1950
Same layout today as in the first image

Lusaka is around 100 miles closer than Harare.

[chevvron]

I was gonna say 'Could that be the Belgian King? (Baudoin?)' but then I noticed the Union Jacks!.

[broadreach]

Duke of Kent.

[Asturias56]

Blantyre - now Chileka??

[nvubu]

Not a royal, and not Blantyre - which is even further way than Harare.

[Asturias56]

Kariba then - but it doesn't look right.....................

[nvubu]

Nope, not Kariba. But it does have a "link" to that location.

[Asturias56]

Livingstone Victoria Falls connected by a power line............ now Harry Mwanga Nkumbula International Airport

[nvubu]

You've got it - Livingstone Airport, Northern Rhodesia - sorry for not telling you when you were in the correct country, but there aren't a huge number of airports in the region so it would have been too easy.

I was thinking more of the River Zambezi being the connection - especially as the Kariba Dam hadn't been built in 1950 :)

The chap opening the airport was Lord Pakenham, Minister of Civil Aviation - Flight Global archive (https://www.flightglobal.com/FlightPDFArchive/1950/1950%20-%201538.PDF)

Asturias56 has control

[Asturias56]

hmm that was a struggle............

try this one

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/877x529/2019_02_09_164632_0e483506c9cda3c9f1b31c46381ad22cbe3eb296.j pg

[kaikohe76]

Countryside looks not unlike the Spanish Costas, but not sure about the elevated approach lights & the high ground inland would have been closer?

[Asturias56]

Not the Spanish COstas

off out until 23:00 UK

[Self loading bear]

The guardrails could point to Italyi

[Asturias56]

Give the Bear some honey - Italy it is - quite an interesting airfield this one............. off to bed..........

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/354x265/2019_02_09_164249_ff29e8077656fc3b3f7e8cee7b719ce6e34811c7.j pg

[Self loading bear]

Aeroporto di Taranto, Grottaglie

OH (nothing to declare)
SLB

[Asturias56]

Jeez guys - I thought the convention was that I had to OK the answer before everyone started posting a new challenge?

This is turning into Twitter - I'm off

[nvubu]

Jeez guys - I thought the convention was that I had to OK the answer before everyone started posting a new challenge?

Yes - people should wait for the answer to be confirmed.

Here's a very general view of an airport somewhere in the world
https://ozr4tq.bn.files.1drv.com/y4mEhCh9zejiW8kxOhBhQXEg6-P6N8LBGtH2xkR-tNA4L6QBQsfxQ90ZcgpWDxnWlbgGh52aS5qZ_oVtShJvXUc7cx8rKtBjHh1w jv-pFnPOwdoKE90bDjA0yg4EGtnsJQzHlY5H4r5dB0gxTWlJFxS536ZZDOIXLmk z4wSUw6MeuKPTvEMNsL1EewUanDW5RRawVB0vuUtmRVZp_PoJaJMHg?width =1024&height=867&cropmode=none

[sycamore]

SLB,,the convention is to declare ``OH,if correct``,if you are busy and wait.....Simples..
A56...DON`T SULK.....
No wonder TM has problems in Brussels.!!

As to the pic,possibly Everett Field,747 ,first flight ,with F86 Sabre chase(top right)....OH....(if correct..)

[Self loading bear]

That must be Washington Dulles seen from the HAZY museum?

[jensdad]

A bit of a fraught atmosphere on WAMkIII these days. Anyway, could the latest challenge be Thurleigh? I once saw some publicity pics that BOAC did with one of their first 747s there.

[nvubu]

We'll I thought that would be a hard one to get from that image, and I has quite a few more pictures for it.

Dulles it is. SLB has control.

[Self loading bear]

Apologies,
I indeed forgot to add “if correct”
I knew i was to sleep late this morning so did not wanted to keep everybody waiting.
My sight is about as hazy as the next challenge.
Specsavers?
Pearl?
Or less cognac?

SLB

[Self loading bear]

We'll I thought that would be a hard one to get from that image, and I has quite a few more pictures for it.

Dulles it is. SLB has control.

Correct? Ooh wauw!!
When googling for images “hazy airports”
I got the result of
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Just posting out of fun!

I am afraid Open House again.

SLB

[Cows getting bigger]

Early Thursday morning. I'm actually quite surprised this 80+ year old airfield hasn't appeared on The List yet.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7911/33217749538_f0f8aecf6c_c.jpg

[chevvron]

Er Gatwick? (OH if correct)

[Cows getting bigger]

Nope, not Gatport Airwick. :)

[dook]

If I see PAPIs, it's somewhat unusual to have them on both sides of the runway is it not ?

[Cows getting bigger]

You do see PAPIs on both side. That's not too unusual.

[dook]

I'm obviously getting out of touch these days then.

Are we outside the UK ?

[minuteman]

I’d hazard a guess at Shannon?....but on closer inspection I’d say not!

[Cows getting bigger]

Not Shannon. I think we're in the UK, hence my "I can't believe it" as far as the wiki list is concerned.. :)

[dook]

I thought it might be Stansted but that isn't 80+ years old.

[broadreach]

Could that be Prestwick? The only clue, really, is what looks like a hangar off to port.

[dook]

I also thought that a possibility but I think it only has PAPIs on one side.

The last time I landed there was 1984 !!

[dook]

Lorraine Chase and Luton ?

[Self loading bear]

Newquay?
(since 1933)

SLB

[TheiC]

Bournemouth perhaps

[Cows getting bigger]

Nope, none of those. Look closely and you may be able to identify aircraft types. The Americans may have spent some time here......

[Shackman]

Sort of looks like Mildenhall - but I was blinded by all the lights on my last approach there.