Which Aerodrome Mk III

[dook]

I can PM you my private e-mail address, you can send it to me and I'll post it for you.

I have done this before for Ken Parry.

[WIDN62]

Dook,

Thanks for the offer, but I would like to do it myself! I have done it before but have failed a number of times recently.

[dook]

As you wish.

Perhaps a change of image hosting site might do the trick.

[Self loading bear]

If you make a screenshot of the photo and then loadup the screen shot it always works. And you dont have to worry about to much details to be revealed.

[dook]

Meanwhile.....

[dook]

WIDN62,

Are you still having trouble or are you going to declare open house ?

[India Four Two]

WIDN62,

The simplest way to load an image is to click on the Picture icon (mountain and sun) in the reply window and then follow the instructions to upload an image from your computer. No image hosting site required.

[dash7fan]

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1333/2011_08_08_16_5b5b6e020a5d71f9e6d7af077dd818c8732a8a84.jpg
As it is still OH

[dook]

What OH is that ?

[dash7fan]

By Jenkins

[dash7fan]

post 13499

[dook]

Apologies - missed that.

Are we in California ?

[India Four Two]

or possibly Germany?

[dook]

As in Lübeck-Blankensee ?

edit: or Cologne.

[dash7fan]

Germany yes, Lübeck no.
Airport closed now

[dash7fan]

Cologne also no

[dook]

Getting tricky. Bremgarten ?

er...no. That's not closed.

[dash7fan]

More to east of Bremgarten.

[dook]

Then may I assume Bavaria ?

[dash7fan]

Yes, in Bavaria

[dook]

I'm now wondering if it's ex-mil.

[dook]

The trouble is that it's been re-registered.

[Dora-9]

Munich-Riem? OH if correct.

[dash7fan]

Dora 9 is correct. München Riem March 1965. Seafury TT Mk 20, D CACE ex VZ302, Sn. ES3613, reregistered G BCOV

[JENKINS]

Perhaps it is Kaufbeuren, been there once.

[Self loading bear]

As the OH has been called again,
May I suggest this different approach?
Of course I left some bits out.
I have more conventional clues available.

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/809x427/dc389fd2_a6cb_455e_bfc8_68b89f1d5aa9_c38a5821d1c2ae9916c0801 b4a270af2428726bc.jpeg

[dook]

I have no idea what this post is supposed to mean.

[Self loading bear]

Can you identify the airport by a related logo?

[dook]

Oh - thank you.

[Self loading bear]

Can you identify the airport by a related logo?
But for you the more conventional clue
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/937x519/50241fea_16df_4650_86b1_1c81a5ce6d8f_f0cc8a65976cd3286dae3b3 903eafb310b1e9df4.jpeg

[dook]

I can certainly identify the shelters as American, because I've used one in Germany.

[Self loading bear]

The shelters are still there but repurposed

[sycamore]

Bitburg AB ,Germany........OH if correct

[dook]

I don't think military air bases had logos, so is it a civilian airport nearby ?

[Self loading bear]

Sycamore takes the lead with Bitburg
I told you I left a bit out of the logo.

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/718x398/87cbde92_50c3_4bb4_85b6_47823a9a3408_59c5962492fc32364e94850 1029ac739d04732d3.png
OH called again

[dook]

I had already found "Bitte ein Bit" but still unable to find the logo.

edit: now I have.

[dook]

http://i65.tinypic.com/3162oi0.jpg

[Self loading bear]

Driving rightside of the road:
European?

[JENKINS]

An early guess at Headcorn?

[dook]

Europe yes but not Headcorn.

[Self loading bear]

European country with 2 letter prefix.
Not so many!

[dook]

I assume you mean the aircraft at the bottom.

[Self loading bear]

Yes 2 of them
looks like they are “at home” on those spots

[dook]

They don't live here.

[dook]

ERROR. I looked at the wrong reference in my portfolio.

Australia.

Challenge is thus withdrawn and OPEN HOUSE again.

[India Four Two]

Here's another floating aerodrome:

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/706x1260/img_2426_56919ad396a4b1a8d0ad40490808982fe898f428.jpg

[Self loading bear]

Usns Card
Used as transport carrier during Vietnam war and last aircraft carrier sunk by enemy forces.

edit: according reddit website this photo was taken from Golden gate bridge.
so now we can assign a fixed point to a mobile aerodrome.

OH if correct

[Checklist Charlie]

Shame "dook" withdrew his photo. Methinks it was Berwick complete with an Airtourer and either a Mustang or a Firefly

CC

[India Four Two]

USNS Card transporting F-102As. As SLB says, the only carrier sunk by enemy action after WWII - admittedly in only 6 m of water, so it was reflected and repaired.

It was sunk at the Saigon wharf shown below, by limpet mines attached by a VC saboteur:
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/491x255/img_2428_88a3f07c100263e069994e8f33db427859e108a0.jpg
The picture shows the Card's sister-ship, USNS Core, at the wharf at the foot of Tự Do* (now Đồng Khởi) street in central Saigon. The Majestic Hotel is in the background.

Here's the Card after the attack, listing to starboard:
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/593x424/img_2424_686c4e65ec3a29b6609ea77dd60b68a6edbdb44b.jpg

A 12' wide hole was blown in the hull. Five civilian crew members were killed in the attack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_USNS_Card

SLB has declared Open House.


* Tự Do street's original name was Rue Catinat during French colonial times. It features prominently in The Quiet American. Tự Do, which means freedom or liberty in Vietnamese, was renamed Đồng Khởi after the fall of Saigon in 1975. This lead to a joke among Saigonese that when the NVA arrived, they took away freedom and liberty!

[dook]

Checklist Charlie,

You were correct. Having made a cockup I had to withdraw it to be honest.

[dook]

Happy Easter for those who celebrate it.

http://i64.tinypic.com/1127tax.jpg

[Self loading bear]

The blue arrow looks familiar to previous challenges
same region or do you draw in the arrow yourselve?

[sycamore]

Are these aircraft `awaiting delivery`/airtest/etc,at or nearby somewhere like Burtonwood.....
Look like a mixture of T6,Mustang,P40....??

[dook]

I did not draw the arrow.

They are not awaiting delivery or airtest and we're not in the UK.

I feel they are bombers but might be wrong.

edit: American bombers

[dook]

We are in northern Europe.

[Dora-9]

Methinks it was Berwick complete with an Airtourer and either a Mustang or a Firefly


More likely an L40 Meta Sokol...

[Terry Dactil]

Shame "dook" withdrew his photo. Methinks it was Berwick complete with an Airtourer and either a Mustang or a Firefly
Gotta be a Firefly with wings that fold like that.

See the heritage report on the Berwick (Casey) airfield
https://vpa-web.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Historical-Heritage-Report-Former-Casey-Airfield-Hangars-EHP-March-2017.pdf

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1399x736/firefly_2__1f4ee1442a44f2f00c045f9b209ff713d6afaa19.jpg

[lauriebe]

Could it be what was then Meeks Field (now Keflavik Airport), Iceland.

OH if correct.

[dook]

We are in Europe but not Iceland.

These bombers are interred, so surely someone can now find it.

[JENKINS]

Dubendorf? Had looked recently at the internment, but I was convinced the image was gliders, sans Invasion stripes.

[dook]

Go ye north young man.

[JENKINS]

As far North as Vasteras?

[Dora-9]

Gotta be a Firefly with wings that fold like that

Well spotted Ted - I didn't even see the Firefly there! Just the Meta Sokol in the centre of the frame...

[dook]

As far north as Vasteras is just far enough.

Lights - music - enter stage left please. :ok:

[JENKINS]

Exit, pursued by a bear! The Winters Tale, a stage direction. Thanks, very interesting. Have a shufti at the tales of such aircraft in Eire.

Now this on a gorgeous UK weekend when in my youth I would earn my pocket money for the week by judicious use of the various aircraft which I flew Mon to Fri in my military job. Be on your guard with what appears here however.
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1440x1080/earth_postcard_1555782834_869fb87268934196f8ae4fa43c88f77a47 f5c924.jpg

[dook]

"guard" seems to be a cryptic hint.

A restricted airfield in Europe maybe.

[JENKINS]

Yes, cryptic. Not restricted, not Europe.

[dook]

Anything to do with the Air National Guard USA ?

[JENKINS]

No, an origin long before ANG.

[dook]

Cobber country ?

[JENKINS]

The same, and still there.

[JENKINS]

Out for an hour, dangle my feet in the Brook.

[dook]

Somewhere in Victoria ?

[JENKINS]

According to my excellent road map of the Four X continent, yes.

[dook]

You said it's still there but is it now disused ?

[JENKINS]

Apparently still in use.

[dook]

I've been through a site listing twenty airports in Victoria and it's not there.

Must be somewhat obscure methinks.

[JENKINS]

It is on the list which I noted.

[Self loading bear]

It is on nr 32 of the list?
a bit chilly around the back?

[dook]

I've just been through a list of 41 and throwing each one into GE.

Still nothing so it's time to call it a day.

[Dora-9]

Coldstream, Victoria?

The clue was a bit cryptic for me (I can't do the crosswords either), but finally the light dawned.

OH if correct.

[JENKINS]

Yes, Coldstream, so be on your guard. And, of course, my toes in the local brook which remains, in April, a cold stream. All very silly, sorry. No. 11 on my list, Slb

OH called..

[Self loading bear]

No problem Jenkins
all depending on the list of course

Airports in Victoria, Australia @ OurAirports (http://ourairports.com/countries/AU/VIC/airports.html)

[dook]

No cryptic clues.

http://i66.tinypic.com/2nvz38i.jpg

[Duchess_Driver]

Kingman, Az.?

[dook]

We are in Europe.

[kenparry]

Unusual parking. USAAF, 8th AF; Eastern England, perhaps after the end of hostilities?

[dook]

They are indeed American aircraft but the photograph is from 1943.

You have the correct country now.

[kenparry]

Perhaps a reception field rather than an operational base. Burtonwood?

[dook]

Not a reception field and it's SE England.

edit: I am sure the aircraft are Marauders and at the time it was an operational base.

Further clues as required.

[nvubu]

How about RAF Stansted Mountfitchet

[sycamore]

Earles Colne perhaps...?

[dook]

nvubu scores a direct hit with Stansted. Photo from 1943.

You have control nv.

[nvubu]

Thanks dook, Wasn't sure if Essex is SE, but couldn't find a match in Kent, Sussex or Surrey. Was looking for the kink in the perimeter track.

Here's the next challenge
https://ziv42g.bn.files.1drv.com/y4mavERA-Gp7WydHyKHFS2MT7XfVomQ9b5tqt9IlibasgDWLhutl_JIZGEd3sENdHV6f1 9LNw-GtW7Wl9xWZRfRB24aqbsxpx3QJ5lDbsctYhggv3Lhl0wuP30I6pBEK_osaDC oXg4-Lzzq-CoTWnWoPsxYWx85f5fNMrCsEiF7czkQiO1WE8bsgdO487snuEhTQXqAIUBQh tvYHQVp9BsGBA?width=1024&height=753&cropmode=none

[dook]

Knowing you, this might be another Vietnam job.

[nvubu]

Nope not Vietnam this time around.

[dook]

Maybe western Pacific then.

Looks like a Seabees or Australian construction jobber.

[nvubu]

Yes to the western Pacific

I don't know the answer as to who constructed the airfield - I don't think it was the Japanese..

However, Wikipedia states it was the Americans.

[dook]

Solomans ?

[nvubu]

This airfield isn't on one of the Solomon Islands.

[dook]

Maybe Papua New Guinea - still trying.....

[India Four Two]

New Caledonia?

[nvubu]

dook has the right Island

https://nenuwg.bn.files.1drv.com/y4mMEV7XD6oXRl76xGA7D9-RVxID7PJFq9b4Ulxb6AwcgVozS4klEKTRfX3-1t7FgImyCDgyMaYlTmR3k0Tg1qWC1G6OoCAqopEWOSjEWSPIOLqcuAU6MUPl NyM8jZnS98QR5G8pbK9eMSU9222aUPCh64k6V5---N0zsR4_evyxg8s1wEpdfkvr0Tdl7ZmCbasHOh7m2Et3WdliNhm7Rtm3Q?wid th=1024&height=775&cropmode=none

[dook]

Part of the Dobodura complex maybe.

[nvubu]

Not part of Dobodura

[dook]

Looks fairly long, suggesting a bomber strip.
.
There are a couple around the little islands up in the north west.

I can't find any images but is Aitape close ?

[nvubu]

Not near Aitape, and no bombers that I can see.

https://py0c8w.bn.files.1drv.com/y4mYaFOlomrgaBKhOlu1WWL50vE70BDL27PKIo2N_mEOLAlFy8TTnWAyT5xE Bz-hcOaCqmCMymJ8dckcALqeTHOdXR4rPfkTPHckZWIfpk22wl5q7lw3Y3pg7wO nWTBAPhwPeUrJfzlROqdPIss52jIumhgldwSFW8IjCq7Tz6MRvkc6gNxLTJN WNPgm3PIqTI70ZaXQhT_DMjngTRXixQ4Ew?width=1024&height=760&cropmode=none

[dook]

Abels Field ?

[JENKINS]

Quite an embarrassment of choice, mine being Pongani.

[nvubu]

Neither Abels Field or Pongani.

[dook]

How about Tsili Tsili or Lae ?

[nvubu]

Neither of those either.

If it helps, it is by the seaside :ok:
https://of6wzq.bn.files.1drv.com/y4m7lNc3uPGUYhiKSwFq83nFT9coisSnLlpnAPeMoxdV4P3wEKlZmBtH2j5i ZlFJCbqyf7zzawaMZJLkxlKhLT_oJPwXbormFLIhGN0g60vUXlfEdsVgdSIk Nr2OsbiuMstLqJoVdDfUjjGpQr7Y5yoGQvsoeqQtIX8EjwMtG4OAZ4PwhBnn 4Jn6jmMoVMk0OWTkS_CCMqtpiUO8g6MC4KxMQ?width=1024&height=772&cropmode=none

[sycamore]

North or South facing coast..?
Still visible on GE.../

[nvubu]

Very good questions. The coast at this location is running approx. N/S and the runway is visible.

[Ripton]

Buki, just south of Gagidu?
If so, OH.

[dook]

I thought it was Finschhafen.

[Ripton]

Same place but you've got the name right.

[nvubu]

Finschhafen Airfield it is, so dook has the correct name, but Ripton has the correct location and was first by 45 minutes and as a newbie to the thread is declared the winner - Open House it is. Hope you have some challenges for the future.

Interesting airfield - clicky (https://www.pacificwrecks.com/airfields/png/finschafen/index.html)
At the war's end, millions of dollars of equipment both new and used was bulldozed into a huge holes in the area and abandoned

[dook]

Maybe Ripton can rustle something up.

[Ripton]

At the moment I don't have anything that would be easily identifiable from a google image search so I'll leave this to dook.

[dook]

There's nothing about images from nvubu that are easily identifiable from a Google image search !!

I have six ready to go.

[dook]

Here's one of them.

http://i66.tinypic.com/rcvu48.jpg

[nvubu]

There's nothing about images from nvubu that are easily identifiable from a Google image search !!
:ok: :ok:

[nvubu]

And your challenge - Germany?

[dook]

Nein mein freund.

[lauriebe]

US possibly?

[dook]

Not the USA but you are closer than Germany.

[lauriebe]

After posting the question above, I went north of the border.

Think I have located your challenge at Fingal, Ontario. Only seems to be the outline of the old runway layout visible now with no buildings.

Wiki indicates it is now a wildlife management area.

OH if correct.

[dook]

Excellent shooting lauriebe - Fingal it is.

It had three runways in a triangular pattern.

OH has been called.

[jensdad]

Thank you dook and lauriebe.

Only 12 years old, but the photo's historic already. Makes me feel a tad nostalgic as well.
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/260x640/2007_12_03_la_palma_copy_260x640__358d6f5b03335a4a112d1cbd0f 214b7fd714d468.jpg

[dook]

Morning jensdad.

Is that an ATR 72 ?

[dook]

Canary Islands ?

[dook]

Maybe La Palma ?

[jensdad]

Oops, apologies for not getting back sooner. It is an ATR72, and it is indeed the Canary Islands. Oh, and it is La Palma!
Historic and nostalgic because the nice old terminal building, with Canarian style architecture and palm trees next to the apron, has sadly been replaced with the standard large concrete and steel box. Progress maybe, but why do they need to make it so ugly? :(
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/352x143/la_palma_old_4ccb12b5871ffb333e1d0bf062b9d47e9c8db9d8.jpg
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/273x184/la_palma_new_3c016945cd0d35087c8e71c1c1ebcc68cead4fea.jpg

OK, I'll stop complaining...
dook has the control :)

[dook]

Thanks jensdad.

Something a little older.

http://i67.tinypic.com/14bnimd.jpg

[JENKINS]

Evans Head, New South Wales?

[dook]

Indeed Evans Head, and done with no clues. Has it been done before ?

Your deal.

[JENKINS]

Thanks. I had initially thought of another country which operated the Battle, and then this pitched up. Not my own choice of steed.

Now this. Still apparently in some form of use, potatoes included. A variety of wars, some particularly singular use, allies, enemies, friends perhaps. There appear to have been hardened aircraft shelters from long ago.
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1440x1080/earth_postcard_1556302350_24ba907863ba5b542e52a7d9e212871ba3 d93a91.jpg

[dook]

What is the geographical orientation please ?

[JENKINS]

North at the top, and these days the North has significance.

[sycamore]

Med or further N/E...?

[dook]

"...the North has significance"

Are you talking about Korea or Ireland ?

[JENKINS]

Korea it is.

[dook]

Near Goseong ?

[JENKINS]

My Collins Pocket Atlas gives two with that name, but neither I fear.

[dook]

I assume it's South Korea.

[JENKINS]

Yes., very.

[dook]

There's quite a lot of cultivation on the islands down south, so is it one of those ?

[JENKINS]

Yes. When I asked Interweb the question, albeit for another country, this spot appeared quickly.

[dook]

Can't find a name but I've found it right down in the SW corner of Jeju Island.

It's 260/17 from Seogwipo.

[JENKINS]

Yes, that's it. Look up Alddreu Airfield, I found it while looking for disused Japanese fields. Sino-japanese War, Kamikaze training, Korean War, even the hardened shelters to which I referred.

All yours.

[dook]

There are certainly no HASs visible on GE.

[JENKINS]

Found the shelters somewhere within Interweb.

[nvubu]

dook - I think I can see 1 or 2 on bing maps (if that is what they are). Not directly on the airfield. Also on the Wiki page.
https://l9d8eg.bn.files.1drv.com/y4mkUpW7v9bQSu3dACPKnSbfm8ZD9qvc8FZETSr78EdiRHGTY3wymoHJzppo 7jSEWJXxNsMz3-xsR0i_srKCTyKTK7Ur0tAN1ulljTI9Yao5qvuv4jK_FEBW80zK0J_FD6DMSb rfLb3bSQKNlOlREvRWEOKL5jl9TyzQxPmNn1s40MkA6JBuVvKlXLpHCo0QlD NJYrmLFW8jDUl4uRrxIbZ8w?width=660&height=398&cropmode=none

[dook]

Thanks nvubu - I see it now. I was looking on the main area.

Standby please for the next.

[dook]

Yer 'tis.

http://i68.tinypic.com/fnuwd5.jpg

[Dora-9]

Parafield, South Australia? OH if correct...

[dook]

Parafield it is - well done.

OH is called.

[India Four Two]

A new terminal since the last time I was here:

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/785x472/966d3ee3_e5c6_4fe7_b616_d879f356d535_6840842f664058614fb8cfc 29a58eefd74d8f954.jpeg

[Harry Wayfarers]

Australia?

[India Four Two]

Not Australia.

[dook]

Your side of the pond ?

It doesn't look very big.

[nvubu]

looks right hand drive by the parking.
There is a name on the wall "….. International Airport"

[dook]

Good spot.

I've enhanced that part in Photoshop and it says "...denciales" so it might be Providenciales International Airport.

edit: looks like it.

[nvubu]

Looks :ok: :ok:

[India Four Two]

Well done dook.

Provo airport in the Turks and Caicos Islands. I didn’t notice the sign when I first posted the picture, but I thought I would leave it there as it was not complete. I hadn’t reckoned on sharp-eyed WIWOLs. :)

[dook]

Thank you India.

http://i68.tinypic.com/c235s.jpg

[dook]

Nobody asking for clues.

[JENKINS]

Just one guess, how about Castle Bromwich? OH if correct, bedtime.

[dook]

Just one guess ?

How about Castle Bromwich indeed.:ok:

JENKINS has called OH.

[JENKINS]

Indeed just one guess, the housing in top right corner distinctly British. With OH still valid, and my Manx kipper digested, try this.
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1440x1080/earth_postcard_1556475004_c1e2ccb0ff0af0b7ce88747be5fdd8b128 9916ee.jpg

[dook]

I think "Manx kipper" is a red herring.

As always with these GE images there's almost nothing to go on, although this one appears to be on the coast or an island.

A straight clue to get the ball rolling would be in order methinks.

[JENKINS]

On the coast of an island. I could weave a story around the Manx red herring, a lovely comment on my kipper, but I won't. The people of this island, not very many, voted on a referendum and accepted the result. But that is inconsequential. The name given to the island was intended to encourage settlement, but there was little response. The Portuguese pitched up at one stage, as always, but didn't last long and are now merely but one leif in the history book.

[Cows getting bigger]

That will be Ilulissat airport, Greenland

[dook]

Now there's a shot !

[JENKINS]

Cgb, spot on, it is indeed. All yours.

[Cows getting bigger]

It's going to be OH I'm afraid as I have nowhere new in my library.

[Self loading bear]

It's going to be OH I'm afraid as I have nowhere new in my library.

Lets try this one
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1273x626/3e4cf5d7_01dc_4238_94ee_e30a0dfbb90b_f4dad1cf6cf3719f6a3ea8e 692d1578d3c98226e.jpeg

[dook]

Your country ?

[Self loading bear]

Your country ?

No we have a rather flat country.
I dont think we have any airport with rolling hills in the vincinity.

Although this airport is also just 150 foot AMSL.

SLB

[dook]

Next door in Belgium then ?

[Self loading bear]

Wrong direction

[JENKINS]

Rusty windsock pole is among the features which make me think Eastern England.

[Self loading bear]

Not many directions left

[dook]

Germany ?...

[jensdad]

I reckon you could fit a few pigs in that long farm building on the horizon. Denmark?

[Self loading bear]

Those pigs are definitely destined to end at Danish Crown!


https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/609x478/842b1172_ab60_48a4_980a_ce964aa69a1f_1b8fb19f2fcdc4df57f0cf1 66f5bf714e5235f79.jpeg

[JENKINS]

Randers. Interesting, one learns so much in this parish. My bacon, of course, solely from Hampshire Hogs.

[Self loading bear]

Jenkins takes the lead!
Randers/Borup.
The Flying club is older then the field.
The second largest Flying club of Denmark.
For dook their (late) gate guardian:

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1205x546/1d9124b6_d353_4717_a7d3_e3b54390fb48_1fd85fd2c77a1d8d371bf9e 759d32ba6be68aa13.jpeg
Now sadly scrapped

[JENKINS]

Thanks, seems to have been a prominent town in its past. Now this, where one may find legendary beasts to counter your gate guardian. I have flown at this airfield, albeit in a single turbine, and seen 4-piston aircraft of yore doing the same. Small 'gamey' beasts appear to prevail, with an occasional hunter-gatherer sniffing around, able to counter even the legendary beast.
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1440x1080/earth_postcard_1556544326_b880119b8ebd48bb6d6922533c3d2fc6ca 1c61dd.jpg

[dook]

Was that hunter-gatherer a Nimrod ?

[dook]

This looks too short for almost anything except helicopters or STOL/VTOL aeroplanes., so is there another longer runway which we can't see ?

[Self loading bear]

4-piston aircraft:
like Cesna’s an Pipers?

[JENKINS]

Not a Nimrod, but the deviousness was successful, and there are much longer strips. Four piston, four piston-engined aircraft, big aircraft to avoid ambiguity.

Bit slow, sorry, shopping.

[dook]

I don't do deviousness.

Is this a military airfield ?

[JENKINS]

Military, with four different services running the place at different times. It has been done previously I fancy, but this view is new.

[dook]

Four different services suggest NATO in Germany.

[JENKINS]

A reasonable suggestion, but wrong I fear. One organisation used HMS as part of the name.

[Self loading bear]

I can only find mythiological Phoenix falcons to kill the draken.
Mig falcons?
hunter gatherer a bear?
small gamey could be hinds?

edit: clearly crossed HMS suggestion

[JENKINS]

Wonderful imagination Slb. One 'gamey' with a bushy tale, one fleet of foot or feet if you wish. The hunter gatherer a North American. My mythical or legendary beast would cope well with your dragon.

[dook]

HMS.....

Are we in the UK by any chance ?

[JENKINS]

Yes, and the sun is shining.

[dook]

Lee on Solent ?

[JENKINS]

Not Lee. Services were Royal Air Force, USAAF, Royal Navy, and...... I have flown out of Lee on Solent and this field on the same day in the same machine.

[dook]

Wherever it is I don't think it looks like that now.

Is the missing unit the Coastguard ?

[JENKINS]

Not Coastguard. Constellation and DC4 were the large pistons seen.

[dook]

Blimey - it must be some time ago then.

[JENKINS]

You have identified in the past, dook, a field 45 miles down the road where once I had to fly over and move the sheep before landing, and one barely 3 miles from this airfield.

For Slb, the current organisation here has no direct equivalent in Holland. If Sycamore is aboard, he was possibly too busy with head in books, or wax tablets, to notice.

[Flap40]

Not sure how the clues fit but I think it is Middle Wallop. OH if correct.

[dook]

Well - that's that one killed.

And I don't get the "clues" either, especially "the sun is shining"

[JENKINS]

It is Wallop. Squirrel, Gazelle, Apache, Griffin. Two 'gamey' beasts, one hunter gatherer, and a Griffin for the legend. Connie and DC4 at the Airshow. Now, of course, very quiet, not a Chipmunk in sight and the Tutor rarely in the air. The sun, merely a comment with reference to my viewing point. No Army Aviation in Holland.

OH declared.

[sycamore]

Jenks,you forgot the other watery rodent,the French lark ,the N American other hunter and the `south-wind`...!

[dook]

Having spent all afternoon trying to find the last one and narrowing down the country, I think I'll throw one up.

http://i65.tinypic.com/s6kk05.jpg

[JENKINS]

Aloutte only historic, Sycamore. Was Alize so 'mighty?' I imagine you will have flown the machine, ho-ho.

[Self loading bear]

Jenkins,

I was a bit distracted by a football game.
Yes I know Griffins (from Harry Potter)

We Dutch keep our
Leopards end Fenneks (not Phoenix) on the ground
Our Falcons in the air
our Walrus in the water
It sounds odd but we have seals which drive Vikings on the beach.
It is possible that a Viking can club a seal but that is not preferred.
Both are on the beach in the mud about right were they belong.
We only have problems with our Caimans which spin their heads around so fast that they think they can fly.
But due to that problem they are most times in their Kooij (cage)

[jensdad]

Good morning dook. A very squiggly, complex airfield design there. Could it be the still-squiggly Dyce?

[dook]

Good morning all.

The challenge is a long way from Dyce.

[chevvron]

This looks too short for almost anything except helicopters or STOL/VTOL aeroplanes., so is there another longer runway which we can't see ?
The 'H' on the runway designator indicates a helicopter only runway.

[Self loading bear]

Good morning all.

The challenge is a long way from Dyce.

So i assume not even Europe?
USA?

SLB

[dook]

Not USA. It is in Europe.

[dook]

It was an RAF station and closed in 1968.

[Cows getting bigger]

Looks Germanic to me.

[dook]

It's quite a long way from Germany too.

[sycamore]

Think there`s a Baltimore/Maryland in the middle.....

[lauriebe]

Might it be Bassingbourn.

OH if correct.

[dook]

We are not in the UK.

[lauriebe]

Took a bit of finding but I now think it is Ta Kali, Malta.

OH if correct.

[dook]

The target was Ta Kali, Malta and laurieb has hit it fair and square.

Sadly he has called OH.

[Flap40]

Ok, Try this one.
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1399x933/157_578928_b47021068fe11cea79843345d3fe0b1812a2553b.jpg

[dook]

I assume the airfield is a grass strip just below centre and it looks UK.

[Flap40]

It is UK. I can see hangars and a windsock.

[dook]

Looks like a flying club airfield.

[Flap40]

A fair comment. A speed record was set here in the 1950's.

[dook]

Well. I don't think that would have been a jet.

Furthermore I think we're looking at a lake and not the coast.

[Flap40]

It is not a lake but is a UK club run airfield where a speed record was set that did not involve a jet.

Edit for clarification.

[dook]

I'm glad you edited to not a lake.

I'll start again.

Is it one of our islands ?

[Flap40]

No. Mainland UK.

[dook]

Anything to do with the Kings Cup ?

[Flap40]

No. The record still stands to this day.

[JENKINS]

Very cunning, a loch rather than a lake. Scottish Gliding Centre. OH if correct.

[Flap40]

Correct. On the 10th May 1959 Nick Goodhart got airborne from Lasham in A Slingsby Skylark 3 with a declared target of Portmoak on the banks Of Loch Leven. A Distance of 579.36km which was covered at a speed of 90.7kmh. The speed still stands as a UK Open 500km goal record and the distance as a 20m class record.

[dook]

Surely a loch is a lake. Now I'm grumpy. :uhoh:

[Flap40]

Incidentally, there is an account in Peter Scott's autobiography, The eye of the wind, of his flight in the same competition where he made it to the Scottish boarders only to find that he had been beaten by Nick.

[Flap40]

Surely a loch is a lake. Now I'm grumpy. :uhoh:

There is only one Lake in Scotland and that is the Lake of Menteith. Allegedly that is only a lake due to a victorian cartographical error.

[dook]

My daughter is a Scot.

"Loch is a Scottish Gaelic word for a lake or fjord"

[JENKINS]

Just as only one lake in The Lake District. Thanks, have flown past Portmoak and Balado Bridge many times at low level, without refuel - ho ho, and have a distant memory of the Goodhart escapade.

OH I fear.

[Dora-9]

Time to contribute something methinks....

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/639x573/leyburnairfield01_6b3effd10ed8a831498b166299ce7fc9515e0b5e.j pg

[dook]

I've seen that on "Forgotten Airfields". It's very distinctive.

I bookmarked a very large site which I shall now look at.

[dook]

Error - wrong site.

Trying the other one.

[dook]

Leyburn, Queensland.