Which Aerodrome Mk III

[nvubu]

We are not only closer to Japan, but part of Japan.

Not the 13th though.

Here's an overhead

https://ltd9eg.bn.files.1drv.com/y4modxzIdpz40oKCNoWSnrCeXNkFHTbqmBHbg_3l_txwwNx1gEgS_70Q20FO xUL3K1uIzQGBA6IqPbeRwbJ4DBDUh25nQhUC_DeIImcQBF6Yt781BdaAdIYd kM7erPr_9U0gotzJ131cWih4ViqFhODvDv4mKPjtPiyYB-y99giu0jUtiyd_-8eKAhLdF16NmC4w8pLQYpqhxZhMsTsTjIxAg?width=1000&height=1024&cropmode=none

[dook]

Do you mean part of Japan or the Japanese Empire ?

Nobeoka ?

[dook]

I think the air force unit may have also had B29s.

[nvubu]

Part of Japan, but not Nobeoka

The "mountain" casting a shadow has (or had) the same name as a rather more famous "mountain" on another island. The documents I have has the airfield having the mountain name as part of it's name, so name that mountain :)

[nvubu]

B29s don't appear on the Wiki page for this Air Force.

[dook]

Well, all I get from searches is Mount Fuji !!!!

Are we on the island of Fukue-Jima?

[nvubu]

Nope, we aren't on Fukue-Jima. You are looking at the wrong end of "Japan". In the previous image the white stuff is snow.

As an additional clue: the second part of the island you have named is part of the island name that does have the more famous mountain.

[dook]

Working on the word Jima there are a couple of small islands but with no famous mountains.

Time for a rest.

[nvubu]

Iwo...……………………...

[dook]

Iwo No Snow Here.

Perhaps the "mountain" is a volcano.

[dook]

Can't find an Iwo apart from the very obvious one and that looks nothing like the challenge.

[sycamore]

Is there an airport there any more...?
Confirm `N` direction ie L/R/U/D..?

[nvubu]

In the second image, north is around 1 o'clock.

No Airport there any more. but you can still see the outline of the runway and the hangar shown dead centre of the second image.

dook - you need to read back my clue.

The "mountain" casting a shadow has (or had) the same name as a rather more famous "mountain" on another island. The documents I have has the airfield having the mountain name as part of it's name, so name that mountain

You know what the obvious island is, and the short version of mountain is?

Also
You are looking at the wrong end of "Japan".

[dook]

So, Fukue-Jima is the wrong end of "Japan" and there is snow in you image.

We must therefore be north of Hokkaido as far as I can see.

The island of Kunashir is Russian but may not have been at the time of your images.

I'm out.

[nvubu]

Yes, keep on going. You are correct in that it may not belong to Japan now.

One further:
but you can still see the outline of the runway and the hangar shown dead centre of the second image.
Not on Google Earth though - try Bing instead

[dook]

Iturup ?

Might have a connection with Pearl Harbour.

I have done my bit - over to the rest of the crew.

Had enough, good night.

[nvubu]

Are we going Island hopping? A few more to go.

Here's an overhead from Bing. You can see the Mountain, runway and hangar.

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1114x756/20190512_04_516fdd59f2a5eea29599862e505912d250f65f0c.jpg

[Max Tow]

Easier with the Iwo Jima mountain clue...Suribachi Yama, Okeanskoye, Northern Kurils?
OH if correct...

[Ripton]

Here? (https://www.google.com/maps/place/50%C2%B011'10.8%22N+155%C2%B045'44.0%22E/@50.1874884,155.7560368,2000m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m9!1m2!2m1!1smap!3m5!1s0x0:0x0!7e2!8m2!3d50.1 863447!4d155.76222) Googled Max Tow's Suribachi Yama, Okeanskoye, Northern Kurils but nothing came up.

[nvubu]

Max Tow has it - The mountain is/was called Mount Suribachi - hence the Iwo Jima reference, and the airfield is Suribachi Bay Airfield. Originally was a fishing village, developed into an airfield, nothing there now.

Paramushiru Island has switched between Japan and Russia a number of times over the years. Was part of Japan from 1875. Japan gave up sovereignty in 1951.

Google Earth sometimes has really poor coverage compare to Bing - compare the link in Ripton's post and the screenshot I've posted above.

Open House it is

[Max Tow]

Most educatiional how these things lead down interesting avenues thanks to the web...
a bit more here on the B24 raids:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eareckson_Air_Station

[Ripton]

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/720x960/26907119_10156445343042923_1278932763223095191_n_739defe236b 67e5878f96d6c64f48e79a5f2cb4f.jpg
I'll give it a go. A slightly different airport view.

[dook]

Hamad Airport, Doha.

Oryx Airport Hotel.

[Ripton]

Hamad Airport, Doha.

Oryx Airport Hotel.

Correct, although it's not actually part of the hotel, the spa, pool, gym and squash courts are open to anyone willing to pay. They'll even lend you racquetes and trainers.

A great way to spend a couple of hours away from the crowds.

[dook]

Thank you.

So, an aerodrome.

http://i64.tinypic.com/2aagj6x.jpg

[sycamore]

Looks tropical,or should that be pacific...?
Is it still there,and where is N...?

[dook]

Still there. View is about NW.

Pacific.

[sycamore]

OK..N/S of Equator...?
S`Pore to 140*E(Papua/PNG) ,or further E....?

[dook]

Southern hemisphere and within the longitudes you have specified.

[Checklist Charlie]

I reckon on Momote Airport in PNG.

If so as I have nothing available and it's time for bed, so OH.

CC

[dook]

Checklist has scored with Momote.

He has called OH.

[nvubu]

Have another from me

https://ltd6eg.bn.files.1drv.com/y4ml-YWikwt5IIGypwphp4zDbP3SisDJYOze30s1K0uZfyXtbWvB1-KcCvfm7MbTw4Z0wJ4LvdwrMTtxaEbVfYtiIqW1Eops4AIl6tQ2Vw48C7uA8W nXyv1PsJKsPgiyTAPFDtgubstj1LCGt-AybIc4N_zJKfY0HTtLT7Ung-0a8rozZw54ygZa4k5nPcPwo24UygnkKvkX6sCxkyCnBHlSw?width=1024&height=842&cropmode=none

[dook]

At least it's an aerodrome !

Might it be in France ?

[nvubu]

Yes it is in France - no longer an aerodrome though.

[dook]

Expeditionary force again ?

[nvubu]

Nope - WW2.
Built before the war, but expanded by the Luftwaffe between 1940-42.

[dook]

From those clues it might be NE France.

[nvubu]

Not NE France.

[nvubu]

Fairly far away from any front line on land.

[dook]

Wild shot - Aix-L'Enfant ?

I have found several which are described as "no record found of any Luftwaffe units stationed there" so was it actually used by the Luftwaffe ?

[nvubu]

Not on the Mediterranean

The USAAF bombed it in June 1944

https://k1ttca.bn.files.1drv.com/y4mMq9TRyHmxxpyxr-4SVih-qpDyt3AQF5Ydd3sBgeklqhE6u8f7Xzw02jJM9qZw7HMg7izTcUr0jhDG-aXOkwozkFKwGm026u4xdFJY6Dv107h_Vwf_m5Eq6om3jTSfxvzPzNAxV4ANJ Gbcr9p419-ECjZ7CQdWZprdGWbJw2KUsFvVoPHcGCPHlnF46cGRw7W33bXcr1wG58YU2-9uT2G0g?width=791&height=1024&cropmode=none

[dook]

Bordeaux area ?

[nvubu]

Yes, close to Bordeaux.

Still recognisable (ish) from the air.

[dook]

Landes-de-Bussac ?

[nvubu]

Landes-de-Bussac it is

Al last, someone else didn't jump in first with one of mine :ok:

Over to you.

[dook]

That makes a change doesn't it !

Took ages to find. I've bookmarked that site.

New one....

http://i67.tinypic.com/11vl02e.jpg

[nvubu]

Is that water bottom right ?

[dook]

It is indeed.

[sycamore]

Is the straight bit the`end of the line`.....?

[dook]

Do you mean the runway or the bit at 90 degrees to it ?

[sycamore]

If that`s the runway,then it looks like it`s repaired by the same crew who do the potholes around here...
Water..? sea or lake ?

[dook]

Sea...…………….

[sycamore]

Warm sea,a la Med...?

[dook]

Cold...…..

[sycamore]

And upside down..BODO Lufthavn.....HO if correct..
Once had the pleasure of `ice-skating` a Herc there in the winter 8/10 for `artistic entertainment......

[dook]

But it's not Norway.

[sycamore]

OK....back to the Aleutians.....?
Still there...?

[dook]

Now you're talking.

It's still there.

[Self loading bear]

Now you're talking.

It's still there.

I already thought I saw it this week.

[dook]

I cannot believe that you or anyone else hasn't located it by now.

I've just entered the obvious words into Goggle and it comes up immediately.

[sycamore]

Shemya...? bit like being sent to MPA......OH if correct this time ...
Gute nacht,,,

[Max Tow]

Does anyone know why Shemya hosted Concorde?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KAJzG8Ot_E

[dook]

sycamore gets the top banana.

Shemya army air base as it was.

OH has been called.

[Self loading bear]

Does anyone know why Shemya hosted Concorde?


To create black snow?

[JENKINS]

OH so something simple.
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1440x1080/earth_postcard_1557334618_ad225d8af590d0754081297312fe44530e c1fc24.jpg
9

[dook]

First bite I would say UK.

[JENKINS]

Indeed, I had a day-out in the area today.

[dook]

I wish I knew where "Chicken Run" is.

Bomber country ?

[chevvron]

Long Newnton near Tetbury., far from 'bomber country' in 'Mildands Training Airfields' country.
and OH

[JENKINS]

Yes, Long Newnton, WW2 training field. An enormous clue of that long straight hedge line. Such hedges useful in my 'chicken run' country as datum lines for aeros. I fear that the chicken runners have tended to disappear in line with the disappearance of a small striped rodent.

OH declared.

[dook]

Yes - I had just found it to find that chevron had got there first.

[chevvron]

Yes, Long Newnton, WW2 training field. An enormous clue of that long straight hedge line. Such hedges useful in my 'chicken run' country as datum lines for aeros.

OH declared.
Remnants of a roman road? It peters out when it hits Kemble to the north east.
The airfield apparently has a WW1 history too; post war it was used by a gliding club which moved to Aston Down and I'm sure I saw it listed in the RAC list of recognised kart circuits too.

[JENKINS]

The Fosse Way.

[sycamore]

Might draw your attention to the DXB crash of a DA42 operated by FCSL.....think one of our `fraternity works there....

[dook]

Which thread please.

[sycamore]

Rumours,or ME...

[Self loading bear]

ASN (https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/225159)

4 fatalities

[dook]

Now watch the armchair experts here tell us why it happened.

[India Four Two]

JENKINS beat me to it!


https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/684x671/45b57da9_0bb5_497e_9f64_7064ccf115aa_c53dc05693d2e7317cc10a4 3d86cb079d2f997de.jpeg

[Max Tow]

Might draw your attention to the DXB crash of a DA42 operated by FCSL.....think one of our `fraternity works there....
Also hoping that CGB will post here to confirm all well.

[dook]

No takers for the OH.

http://i64.tinypic.com/2u3w45g.jpg

[sycamore]

OK....UK...?

[dook]

UK it is.....

[chevvron]

I'll have a stab with Westcott.

[dook]

Not Westcott.

[sycamore]

Is the long feature across the picture a canal...?

[dook]

It's a road.

The airfield is still identifiable on GE.

[kaikohe76]

If the road is the old A1, the position of the airfield is not unlike Dishforth, although more runways than I can remember.

[dook]

It's a B road unfortunately.

Only in use from 1942 to 1946.

edit: it was never used for it's intended purpose.

[Kieron Kirk]

Snetterton Heath.

[dook]

Snetterton was in use until 1948 and the challenge was exclusively RAF.

[dook]

A GE view orientated north. Further clue shortly.

http://i66.tinypic.com/314uwao.jpg

[lauriebe]

Calveley, near Nantwich.

Originally intended as a fighter defence airfield for the Mersey area but not used as such.

OH if correct.

[Ripton]

So the long feature across the picture is both a road (A51) and a canal (Shopshire Union Canal Main Line)?

[dook]

lauriebe has identified Calveley.

He has called OH.

[kaikohe76]

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x738/rongotai_4dd38ad2dec316d9311c6fe5515738f2999162f7.jpg
Can I drop this one in thanks? Can get a bit windy here at times & a little more activity these days.

[dook]

South America ?

[kaikohe76]

Hi Dook, right hemisphere, but not South America

[dook]

Then it must be southern Africa or the antipodean lands of roos and kiwis.

Time to fire up Google earth and have a look around.

[kaikohe76]

One of those spots.

[Max Tow]

Wellington?

[kaikohe76]

Yes Max TOW, the old Rongotai airfield I think 1950 ish, now Wellington Airport as you rightly say. The image stands out quite well on GE.

You have control thanks.

[Max Tow]

Thanks, the "windy" was a giveaway!
OH please.

[dook]

So many OHs. :uhoh:

[Self loading bear]

Quite recently in the news

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1323x344/97950d5c_cfbc_485a_a35a_4cb0c2def1d9_cc5bc145d961630ac0ef642 22705be602a802690.jpeg

[dook]

That might be the crash at Shermetyevo Moscow.

[Self loading bear]

That might be the crash at Shermetyevo Moscow.

indeed moscow

dook has the floor

[dook]

Cheers SLB.

After the clue it was the first place I looked.

http://i66.tinypic.com/33vj2th.jpg

[Ripton]

No longer there? Although there's a road running pretty much along the location of the main runway that has a clue in it's name?

[dook]

There is virtually nothing left of it now.

I think the road is meaningless.

[Ripton]

Bethpage Airfield, New York with Grumman Road running roughly where the runway used to be?

[dook]

Excellent shooting. :D

Bethpage Grumman airfield.

Your service.

[Ripton]

Thank you. Purely coincidental, I was trying to plot a cycle friendly route out of Manhattan to the other end of Long Island and the name jumped out at me.

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/967x645/airfield_b153d1451fd65303230f52b90dafdaa29496e76d.jpg

[dook]

Do you live in that area then ?

[Ripton]

Currently living in Doha ;)

[dook]

And if I'm not mistaken we spent a couple of days last new year with some friends who live in the village just off to the left in your photo. :)

[Ripton]

And if I'm not mistaken we spent a couple of days last new year with some friends who live in the village just off to the left in your photo. :)

They may well have purchased their Christmas tree from the place at the center of the photo.

[Ripton]

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/971x647/airfield2_9c653522bf6449fbcca55c6e31ccb4653b5a8f6c.jpg
A slightly wider shot for you, in case you are mistaken.

[dook]

I have no idea where they got their Christmas tree my boy.

[dook]

Several regulars on thread I see.

Anyone going to take it ?

[dook]

I think I am correct with Warboys.

My friend was at Wyton.

[Ripton]

You are correct with Warboys although Wyton is a bit further down the road that disappears out of the top of the last picture. Warboys is just out of shot to the bottom left.

To answer your earlier question, I'm assuming you're referring to my user name, Ripton? I've lived in both of the Riptons.

[dook]

They actually live in Warboys.

I asked previously about you location because of your seemingly intimate knowledge around New York.

http://i63.tinypic.com/15n9jdk.jpg

[Duchess_Driver]

If I may interject, for those that haven’t seen or connected the dots... Cows Getting Bigger a.k.a Dave Phillips flew his last approach yesterday.

Threads in the Military and Middle East Sections.

[dook]

I am very very saddened to hear that.

Blue skies Cows.

[Self loading bear]

My condolences to Dave’s family, the families of his colleagues and all people who will miss them.
I trust Dave and his colleagues are lined-up on the flight path to heaven.
Cows will be missed in this parish.
I will think of him, that he will now have the best aerial view on all challenges.
RIP

Self Loading Bear

[sycamore]

Seconded,and thanks DD.....

[nvubu]

SLB sums it up perfectly.

I only knew Cows through this thread, and always found his challenges interesting as they were ones he had taken deliberately for us to solve - which I never seemed to be able to do.

[kenparry]

I can only echo what nvubu said above. Sad days, and deepest sympathy to his family and friends.

KP

[chevvron]

If I may interject, for those that haven’t seen or connected the dots... Cows Getting Bigger a.k.a Dave Phillips flew his last approach yesterday.

Threads in the Military and Middle East Sections.
I've connected with him many times on FF but didn't realise he was on here as CGB.

[chevvron]

They actually live in Warboys.

I asked previously about you location because of your seemingly intimate knowledge around New York.

http://i63.tinypic.com/15n9jdk.jpg
Attlebridge and OH

[dook]

Good call chevvron. Attlebridge.

We have an OH.

[Ripton]

I asked previously about you location because of your seemingly intimate knowledge around New York.



Not too intimate but we visit friends there on a fairly regular basis. As I said the road name jumped out at me when I was trying to work out a relatively traffic free route out to other end of Long Island and I googled it.

[Self loading bear]

For Cows

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1018x660/c33b0e0c_ef83_4c9f_a304_03988b393a81_4997f819d9ff3efa9aa733b f95264a96e9eb7aac.jpeg

[dook]

An AW139.

It brings up your uncropped pic.

We'll leave it up shall we.

[dook]

SLB,

PM replied.

[dook]

I seem to be the only one who is playing.

This helicopter is at Malta - Luqa I think.

[dook]

Dave "Spot" Phillips' passing has been posted on a private air traffic control site.

[Self loading bear]

22-dec 2018:
Hmmm, some good guesses, some not so good. It isn’t Luqa, I’ve saved that one for another time.

Perhaps the RAF’s ubiquitous overseas sqn required the increased height doors?

The challenge which Cows has not been able to post.

Luqa Malta it is
book has control

[dook]

Thank you SLB.

This airfield has received some visitors it appears.

http://i64.tinypic.com/d6yqq.jpg

[Ripton]

Is it in mainland Europe?

[dook]

It is indeed.

[Ripton]

Flughafen Böblingen?

[dook]

Blimey ! Nicely done.

Boblingen it is and your thread.

[Ripton]

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/521x371/airfield3_98b828c414cb6140c26ee15b993e8d337eedb596.jpg
Thanks. How about this?

[Self loading bear]

Although there are hardly any features we can close out the Netherlands

[dook]

A Seabees job possibly ?

[chevvron]

Dutch Harbour sorry Harbor in the Aleutians?

[Ripton]

No to the Seabees and no to Dutch Harbor or the Netherlands.

[Self loading bear]

RAF Sek Kong
(Google on Marston Mat)

[Ripton]

RAF Sek Kong
(Google on Marston Mat)

Good call.

Googling Marston map doesn't bring it up for me.

It's all yours.

[Self loading bear]

My apologies,
Could not replicate a straight search either.
It appears that I tapped RCAF Station Masset as looking almost the same.
And then it was under “related images”
But that is basically google image searching.

Therefore OH

[dook]

I couldn't find it searching for Marston mat either.

[jensdad]

I've been away for a few days, and just seen the very sad news. We could always rely on a good challenge from cgb, delivered with knowledge and good humour. My deepest sympathy to any of Dave's family and friends who are reading this.

[Flap40]

One to try.


https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/862x571/mysterya_83f6f5863a7205ea222fad76e05195ef346cceea.jpeg

[Haven't a clue]

Well it's my old friend G-MIMA I think. Luton?

[Flap40]

Not Luton. The aircraft in the foreground is AirUK.

[dook]

Frankfurt ?

[Flap40]

Not Frankfurt but you are on the right side of the Channel.

[dook]

Amsterdam ?

[Flap40]

No. Go further away from the sea.

[dook]

Interesting.

Are you hinting at somewhere land-locked such as Switzerland?

[Flap40]

It's not landlocked but Switzerland would be a similar distance from the coast.

[Haven't a clue]

Manx used to do ski charters to Chambery IIRC (which also has trees...)

[Flap40]

Strangely enough so did AirUK. It is Chambery.

[Self loading bear]

I see photos on Jetphotos from both and and AirUK in Alicante Spain?

Crossed posts, good to see the thread up to speed again.

[Haven't a clue]

Nice one!

Alas my airfield image collection is modest to say the least so OH I regret

[Haven't a clue]

Here's some more trees...


https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/320x214/challenge_4bcb5cbc44eb7885fea9109e79ebdf47a6120193.jpg

[Flap40]

Old warden?

[Haven't a clue]

Yes. Well done!

My first and only visit there so far, and most enjoyable it was too.

[dook]

Possibly Old Warden.

edit: :mad:

[Flap40]

Another one then.

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/431x287/mysteryc_4fd4dac9962db036c599bfbf5eded9eae465b053.jpeg
[img]https://i467.photobucket.com/albums/rr34/SimonS_06/mysteryC%201_1.jpeg

The uploader is mucking about. Larger pic at the above link.

[dook]

Driving on the right and fairly flat.

Holland ?

[Flap40]

Not Holland and it's not that flat. It's a Flybe destination.

[cavuman1]

Pardon my interruption, but I wanted to say a few words about Mr. Phillips:

My introduction to power-on stalls took place in 1976 during my second flying lesson. My flight instructor, a fine gentleman with 28,000+ P.I.C. hours, had asked me to climb to 4,000 feet and maintain level cruise at that altitude. As I was taking in the wonder of it all, my instructor placed his left hand on my right knee and began to lightly guide that hand toward my meat and two veg! Oh NO! I am trapped above the Earth with no ‘chute! What I failed to realize was that while he distracted me, my instructor had been applying increasing back pressure to his control yoke. We were in an ever-steepening climb.

Just as his hand reached my upper thigh, our wing lost lift and our 152 surrendered to the inexorable force of gravity. We plummeted two hundred feet and made a gentle recovery. My instructor said: “One day, you’ll be flying along with a pretty girl who will put her hand on your thigh just like I did. Pay attention to the aircraft; not her! Remember: Pull Back to go Up, Pull further Back to go DOWN!”

We were just inland of the Atlantic Ocean, cruising nearly a mile above a large cattle farm. He asked me to initiate a stall, and, against all instincts for self-preservation, I did. Pre-stall buffet shook the aircraft as the stall warning horn blared. We stalled. The windshield was full of green pasture and a number of brown Golden Guernsey cows who seemed not the least bit interested at our less-than-spectacular aerobatic exhibition. My instructor laughed and said: “See? Pull back to make the cows smaller. Pull further back to see the cows getting bigger!”

Though I never knew Dave Phillips, every time I saw his moniker it made me smile, for it caused a flood of clear and pleasant memories. May his cows vanish to tiny points of spectral starlight, but when he wants a gulp of fresh milk may he alight softly by their warm sides....

- Ed


https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/746x420/cattlehello_3fcf7f564914f8fa19cde1e7ca60a92ec1ed664b.png

[dook]

France west coast ?

[Flap40]

It’s in France but not on the coast.

[dook]

Limoges then ?

[Flap40]

No. There are more runways in the picture than you will find at Limoges.

[dook]

Rennes looks more hopeful.

[Flap40]

Bullseye. No scallops was going to be the next clue.

[dook]

Doesn't look the same now though.

http://i66.tinypic.com/wvwfw6.jpg

[Flap40]

I’ve posted that one before.

[dook]

My apologies.

Would you like to take it or do you want another ?

[Flap40]

Leave it running if you wish. It was a few years ago so I’m sure it will be new to most others.

[dook]

OK - that's very noble of you.

[JENKINS]

That curve, Jersey?

[dook]

Sadly not Jersey, but it is in Europe.

[dook]

This challenge seems to be generating little interest.

The airfield is no more.

It opened in 1939 and closed in 1955. It spent a few months as a civilian aerodrome but for nearly all of its' time it was RAF.

[Self loading bear]

This challenge seems to be generating little interest.

The airfield is no more.

It opened in 1939 and closed in 1955. It spent a few months as a civilian aerodrome but for nearly all of its' time it was RAF.

I spend whole last evening searching Art Deco terminal buildings and old postcards but RAf stations are not listed there.

This is now a clue overload and basically a give away.

RAF Grangemouth

[dook]

At last - Grangemouth it is.

Your thread SLB. :ok:

[Self loading bear]

Thank you dook
next challenge:

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/740x417/49a3371f_9083_4f13_b3e3_621d8f9063da_ffb4048f03022d7597f3f80 c1e66df1f2290ea6d.jpeg

[dook]

Helo is PH-PHB.

Midden Zeeland.

[Self loading bear]

Helo is PH-PHB.

Midden Zeeland.

correct your thread again

[dook]

Let's give someone else a chance.

OH.

[mgahan]

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/256x256/828b_3f34_5ad1_a7b0_d2642abebd74_e63b918741ae8e9e5f52c4f8342 6fac3b1dcf49b.jpg

[kaikohe76]

Looks military & is that part of a roundel on the top surface of the wing, bottom right in picture.

[dook]

Looks like a roundel but I bet it's not RAF.

[magruder1980]

I think it might be a Wirraway or similar which makes it CAAC at Port Melbourne

[dook]

Note the river.

New South Wales ?

[dook]

magruder 1980, who is as yet unable to post as he is a newbie, suggests CAAC Port Melbourne.

[Self loading bear]

magruder 1980, who is as yet unable to post as he is a newbie, suggests CAAC Port Melbourne.

If Magruder means CAC Fishermen’s bend then he probably right.
I found
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/300x208/eba95968_ddbf_43fa_bf68_417aa8545da0_d740d6af5d530735f058e2d 13d125ff8c8e7b5d2.jpeg

on
Fishermen’s bend (https://pocketozmelbourne.com.au/lost-fishermans-aero.html)

Lets wait until mgahan wakes up.

If confirmed by mgahan and Magruder would like to post a challenge as a newbie , he might be able to post a photo on a photo server and post de link as text in the post.

[dook]

I am sue he's correct, but I don't think we'll see mgahan for a while as it's 2305 in Melbourne.

I'll check out.

[Dora-9]

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/909x960/fishermans_bend_e330cca2f8ebd2017754f5acebf9b5643652e01a.jpg
Definitely it's Fishermen's Bend, Vic.

[dook]

Jeez mate.

Some of you Aussies get up early.

[mgahan]

Well done. Magruder. It's now got a bridge approach overhead head so a little difficult to land or take off!

I'm actually up a bit late this weekend day - back at Bonriki.

MJG

[magruder1980]

Bonriki? Been there a while ago - not exactly the center of the Universe......... sunny tho'!

I was lucky - something about the curve of the wingtip just popped Wirraway into the brain.

I have to declare OH - as a newbie all my posts are subject to screening and my inbox is blocked - many thanks to Dook for helping out but until I'm allowed to travel in the same part of the bus as the rest of you I'll just lurk on here....

Good luck

[dook]

magruder now has ten posts - surely enough to be able to post.

I think I only had seven or eight when I put up my first challenge.

[magruder1980]

try this

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/760x587/airfield_photograph_c2b70179842f13b63cc74ccd390971d0d779fe7e .jpg

[dook]

Three runways in a triangular shape suggests RAF, and the fields suggest UK.

Any good ?

[magruder1980]

Correct - UK certainly

[dook]

Is it RAF Graveley ?

[Shackman]

More to the point - is that a FIDO installation I see (to go with the Halifaxes)?

[JENKINS]

A guess at Croft?

[magruder1980]

Graveley it is - it was used for the movie about the Great Train Robbery apparently...... Over to Dook..........
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/310x230/trainb_bc953c0a2a2bf8a1a3bfd63906b5a4312c347eff.jpg
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/275x183/picture2_0cd2074f1452deedc2ca51c536171eaaf049d660.jpg

[dook]

Thank you magruder - a great first challenge.

http://i68.tinypic.com/9jj4og.jpg

[sycamore]

Seems like a distant place,Russian ,or Chinese....?

[dook]

It is distant but not Russian or Chinese.

[kenparry]

Japan?...………..

[ea200]

Odd layout, possibly due to terrain, but I think I've seen something like it before. Can't remember where though. An Island?

[dook]

KP - not Japan but there is a connection.

ea - yes.

[Shackman]

South Pacific ? Initial thought was Midway, but looks like old Japanese runways overlaid by US, so ....

[dook]

Do tell us more...…...:)

[Shackman]

Marpi Point - Northern end of Saipan.

OH if correct (nothing available at moment)

I'll let dook tell you more of the cliffs at the top of the photo.

[sycamore]

Best to read it quietly......

[dook]

Known as the suicide cliffs because during the battle for Saipan, 800 Japanese troops committed suicide there.

Shackman gets the top banana with Marpi Point and has declared OH.

[jensdad]

Thanks Dook & Shackman!
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/343x207/2018_04_02_zluxembourg_15_640x480__0c6217bd95a51dc4256a5e299 ff1b1b2f7963323.jpg
Just a little bit of fun, this one. Shan't last long, I don't think...

[dook]

:eek:...………...

[jensdad]

Haha Well, there are three clues in there, Mr. d. Two of them very large! :)

[dook]

Yes - I have nb'd all three. That's the easy bit.

I would say Europe.

[jensdad]

You would be correct!

[dook]

And it is very reminiscent of an airfield I knew in Germany.

[jensdad]

The airfield hasn't been part of Germany for quite a while, I'm afraid. Long before your time, I'm sure, dook. :)

[dook]

If you're talking about German administration it might point to Luxembourg.

[jensdad]

Yep, 'tis Luxembourg. I'll give you it as there's obviously only one airfield in that country that has EasyJet service :)
The cooling towers on the horizon, on the other hand, are in France. Luxembourg was not only occupied by the Nazis during WWII but was actually annexed, like Austria, into the German Reich. The bit of France the cooling towers are in, is Lorraine which (I think) was also part of Germany at one time, although maybe a different time to the one in which Luxembourg was.

[dook]

Thank you jensdad.

The cooling towers didn't help but your last clue did, and even then I wasn't sure. It might have been Holland.

http://i68.tinypic.com/dzf393.jpg

[magruder1980]

This one I know - NAS Philadelphia in the USA?

[dook]

Nicely done magruder - the US Naval Aircraft Factory.

New balls please.

[magruder1980]

Try this - a bit harder than my first one I think..... I'm off out until about 16:00 London time

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/412x284/a5_094892a783c2bc4764d77982cfbbf14ce5c78df1.jpg

[sycamore]

Any arborists around to identify the trees,or are they storks nests...?

[dook]

Not an arborist and I don't think they are stork nests, but I'll shoot for South America.

[Self loading bear]

I go for NASA Crows Landing Airport

SLB

[Self loading bear]

Might aircraft ID help us?
Cessna 172 44000 built
Cessna 150 only 25000 built.
I think we will need another clue?

[dook]

bear,

I was beginning to wonder what you have been drinking today after your suggestion.

I have tried everything I can think of and we certainly need a clue.

magruder is late on parade and I am the jankers inspection officer...…………...

[ea200]

That looks more like Mistletoe than nests. I'm no expert but the trees could be Aspens. Not that it helps much!

[Self loading bear]

What I think it are crows nests in a hardwood tree in spring.
So probably modest climate. But then the gravel strip makes not completely sense....

[dook]

I still think it's South America.

[Self loading bear]

bear,

I was beginning to wonder what you have been drinking today after your suggestion.
.

It only matters what I would have been drinking before my Suggestion.
But that was nothing today.

[dook]

That's what I meant - an English/Dutch language thing.

[sycamore]

Could be Southern Effrica....