Which Aerodrome Mk III

[JENKINS]

Not a Danish island, keep diving.

[sycamore]

Kalingrad....?

[JENKINS]

No Sycamore. Note my assertion that it is not mainland Europe.

[dook]

Nevertheless, a European island ?

[JENKINS]

Thought on Sycamore's last - a bit of banter from Kalingrad would not entirely been out of place on this field.

[JENKINS]

Yes, in strict parlance an offshore island in Europe. No politics please!

[Flap40]

Was that road in the top left previously a railway?

[JENKINS]

No. There has been for some time a light or miniature railway in the vicinity.

[dook]

Oirland ?....

[JENKINS]

Not Ireland, but not far away.

[Flap40]

I have a feeling that we might be in the Fens?

[JENKINS]

I will be tomorrow, but we are not today. Correct island though. No diving there though.

[Flap40]

No idea of the name of the airfield but the nearest village is just out of shot bottom right and is called Ivychurch near Lydd.

Edit: I think it is Brenzett ALG.

[dook]

Good searching Flap40.

That's its' name, or Brenzett Advanced landing Ground if you wish.

[JENKINS]

That's it. Advanced Landing Ground, but given over to V1 defence, 'diver' patrols. Main occupant a Polish Wing. Royal Military Canal nearby, and of course the wild expanses of Romney Marsh with its Rodney, Hythe, and Dymchurch Railway. First came to my attention quite recently, via PPRuNe of course.

[Flap40]

Rodney????

[JENKINS]

Yes, family argot, and Dymchurch also becomes something else.

[Flap40]

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/851x400/where_d3be0d042cd14b62d04618f84f244b7090cb77f3.jpg

Try this one.

[JENKINS]

Gothenburg?

[Flap40]

Rats! You missed the trap. That picture actually appears on a webpage that talks about Linkoping.

All yours.

[JENKINS]

Thanks. I sought the routes for Cityhopper, and the particular stretch of taxiways was quite evident. I am on the road all day tomorrow, so cannot play. Off to Norfolk, hope the rain stops.

So, Open House I fear.

[India Four Two]

I flew out of here in a Pilatus Porter - stunning helicopter-like short-takeoff performance.

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1000x667/wad_2019_10_01_1c3023d13793cc2e5a85f962a15047f755840feb.png

[chevvron]

Banjul/Yundum?

[dook]

The building on the right looks more Arabic to me.

[Asturias56]

Agreed Dook - I've seen those "street" lights somewhere else - tho I don't think I've ever been I've never been to this place - whereever it

I suspect one of the drossier corners of the Red Sea/ Arabian Peninsula...................................

[dook]

I'm laboriously going around GE.

It's not Saudi though - I flew there for five years.

edit: might be a new airport though.

[sycamore]

Look like plastic palms...dook ,riyadh180,hit the coast...
Mukalla Riyan.....OH if correct.....

[dook]

Looks good to me.

At least I can now stop searching.

[chevvron]

No. There has been for some time a light or miniature railway in the vicinity.
The RH & DR narrow guage railway is several miles away running just inland from the coast and the standard gauge railway which stops just short of Dungeness is to the west, just west of Brenzett village.

[Asturias56]

I don't think this is the old RAF base at Riyan which is closer to the town - apparently it s the site a of a "Secret prison" - if that doesn't make your blood freeze nothing will....................

[dook]

It's not the old RAF base.

[India Four Two]

Yes, it is the new airport at Riyan, Yemen. I am not sure if the tower was there when I flew from that airfield in the early 90s. I was in a Zimex Turbo Porter, which we used to do a geological tour of Wadi Hadhramaut – spectacular scenery.

On the way from Mukalla, we passed the old airfield which was littered with decoy Il-28s, a reminder of the recent Civil War.

if that doesn't make your blood freeze nothing will
Driving around on the plateau north of Mukalla, it took me a while to get used to my driver stopping to pick up hitchhikers armed with AK-47s. As a consequence of nearly every male being armed to the teeth, the civilian Toyota pickup, belonging to the security detachment of my company, had a 0.50 BMG on a tripod on the flatbed!

sycamore has the cyclic and collective.

[dook]

sycamore called OH.

You have the cockpit thread.

[India Four Two]

dook, that was my next stop. :)

[dook]

No takers in 24 hours.


https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/490x500/sat_941661216abc084e042249477828e62751fde5a9.jpg

[chevvron]

Looks like a USA style aeropark or whatever they're called, where people have houses next to the runway so they can taxy to/from their own hangar.

[dook]

USA indeed.

Sounds Scottish.

[sycamore]

Middle,N,S E W...?

[dook]

West coast.

edit: the view is to the east.

edit 2: it's a private airstrip with no ATC facilities or other services.

[sycamore]

Ock Aye the Noo,Jimmy,`tis Bonny Doon there.......OH if correct

[dook]

Aye wee Jimmi - Bonny Doon it is. Well found. :ok:

sycamore has called OH.

[Self loading bear]

As we have an open house:
I promised to join in and take up an open slot:

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/971x633/d5f43ae8_bf0b_4033_8b19_ab5edcbfd700_0cfd58741fc0cee6454fa78 3415aa5d71586ebcc.jpeg

However I might not be able to answer al your queries right away.

[dook]

Switzerland ?

[Self loading bear]

Not Switzerland
but you are in the right continent

[dook]

Austria then ?

[Self loading bear]

No
not Austria either

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1334x666/5cd47392_e2f9_4370_b292_f1a8739b30db_857da19a35a553c28a29f8e 740317b893884e4bc.jpeg

[dook]

Dunno - Germany or Luxembourg ?

[sycamore]

The flag has `YPRES` on it with maybe an O before the Y,but can`t find any airfield near Ypres; are we in Belgium....?

[dook]

Dumbo here didn't notice that.

[sycamore]

Thought Jag pilots had eyesight like `hi&&*^se rats...sorry ,you were a bomber pilot ,not LLFR.....

[dook]

Oi - I 've also got time on something which didn't drop bombs !

[Self loading bear]

Oops flag not scratched out.
It is not near Ypres.
flag says probably .... perles

[dook]

Is this a grass airstrip ?

I think Perles is a red herring.

[dook]

Can you answer my post at #17297 - I think you missed it.

[Self loading bear]

It is indeed a grass strip
and the perles is not a herring
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1308x598/d061f7a8_0f7b_46f5_9989_8cbc0e8a188f_482b63a1caed942c08a7024 54ac92bb526d6d4a1.jpeg

[dook]

Well, I reckon it's Germany or Luxembourg.

[dook]

On GE, just looked for Perle. It's a town in Luxembourg and near there is an airfield which matches your overhead view.

It is called Noertrange.

[Self loading bear]

If you or anybody else would have read back my posting history you would have found that I had a busy time in Lux and that you would have to look out for challenges from that neighborhood. Noertrange (or Notringen) is indeed home to skydive club cvPerles.

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1322x599/61310030_9038_408a_91e2_449a9b07966e_bf65e4b1c63c354aacc2efe cbfb12f08a37d976f.jpeg
Dook you can take up the next slot

[dook]

I don't look at posting history.

Who is Dik ?

[Self loading bear]

I don't look at posting history.

Who is Dik ?

Dik is a former collegue of mine with the most unfortunate name
Dik de Kok
my spelling correction keeps inserting names it recognizes from my contact database.
If anybody knows how to disable that on an Iphone please send a PM.

dook the thread is yours.

[dook]

Dik de Kok ?

FANTASTIC NAME. :D

[dook]

I have to go horizontal, so for the late/nightshift...


https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/500x500/saturday_2bb403cddd19ebc15987a65c024bcbc66e3e95e6.jpg

[Self loading bear]

Does not look like an airfield with war history
might even be post war?
the roadmap of the city part nearby suggest architectural planning.
European mainland?

[dook]

It opened in 1935 and finally closed in 1952.

It didn't really have a war role.

Yes - mainland Europe.

[sycamore]

Looks rather French......or Italian

[dook]

The former Monsieur.

It no longer exists.

[sycamore]

Was it in a suburb of PARIS...?

[dook]

No. East of Paris.

It is now part of the town you can see.

Would you like a GE view ?

[sycamore]

I`m sure it`s all swallowed up; GE would be nice

[dook]

OK here it is.


https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/603x424/capture_2e70b7a620f0bcd17aaa5670de2c7ef1d7b4fbda.jpg

[Self loading bear]

I am surprised that there are far fewer hippodromes than Aerodromes

[dook]

A racing track.

I note that we may no longer call your country Holland.

[sycamore]

GE playing up,and no street view...thought the centre point might have had a monument,but not.Hippodromes in UK are usually old theatres,and most probably never seen an `orse inside...except the 2-person one...Over to SLB ,I`m out for a bit......

[Self loading bear]

A racing track.

I note that we may no longer call your country Holland.

This has always been the case.
About the same as all UK countries speaking English but the majority objecting to be called English.
For the Scotland we have The Frysians in Friesland.

Holland explained

[dook]

I shall refer to it as Nederland from now on Sir.

[kcockayne]

Quite correct, as Holland is only a province of Nederland.

[Self loading bear]

I do not want it to become a ping pong game with dook.
But no takers after 24 hours:
Reims-Bezannes

OH

[dook]

Nicely done Bear.

Reims-Bezannes it is. :ok:

Bear has called OH.

[jensdad]

Thank you dook.
Right, somebody get in quick before SLB gets back...
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/640x480/2016_06_21_001_207_copy_640x480__65c08cdcd8e58fd7a777f2d3251 4492330210806.jpg

[Self loading bear]

Never been there
Not in Holland?

[jensdad]

Hi SLB. Not in Holland, no :)

[India Four Two]

South Africa?

[dook]

Holland ? Holland ? I thought it was Nederland.

Belgium possibly.

[Self loading bear]

I just explained the difference
Not in Holland
like not in Bayern when looking in Germany

[dook]

I'm getting confused.

Is the challenge in Nederland ?

[jensdad]

Hi team, apologies for the delay. Meant to check in this morning but didn't get a chance...

It's in the Netherlands, yes. The part where the coos come from.

[kcockayne]

Hi team, apologies for the delay. Meant to check in this morning but didn't get a chance...

It's in the Netherlands, yes. The part where the coos come from.
Would it be Groningen - or Leeuwarden ?

[jensdad]

Would it be Groningen - or Leeuwarden ?
Neither of those, but you're in the right neck of the woods with Leeuwarden especially.

[Flap40]

Is it Vlieland?

[dook]

Maybe Sneek or Drachten ?

[Self loading bear]

One of the Dutch Hebrides?

[jensdad]

Flap 40 has it. The heliport on Vlieland, one if the Frisian Islands. No helicopters there when I passed by in May, just what I think is a redpoll sitting on the fence.

Over to you, Flap.

[Flap40]

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/800x545/screenshot_2019_10_08_at_17_12_28_9615fd0f9e6e4117e19df0b082 50fd81e0b58ebb.png
Thanks. Try this. A fairly unique layout.

[JENKINS]

Not fishing, and it is not Sutton Bank, but close.

[Flap40]

Correct. It is not in the UK. What is fairly unique is the layout.

[Self loading bear]

I have searched “zweefvliegveld” and “Segelflugplatz”
i think it is not in The Netherlands nor In Germany.
Fishing for another clue.

[dook]

That's two of us.

[Flap40]

Sorry for the late reply. I've been to LCA and back today.
It is in one of those two countries and the surrounding terrain should make it obvious which one.
I believe that it is a GA airfield as well as being a glider site.
Have you noticed the runway edge markers at both ends?

[dook]

OK - I'll shoot for the Netherlands.

GE obliques distort terrain.

[Flap40]

In the words of Edmund Blackadder..... One more guess.

[dook]

Like the Bear, I have searched Germany to no avail.

[Flap40]

Have you looked closely at that runway?

[dook]

Found this image of Flugplatz Sobernheim


https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/500x374/images006u3iny_19f28156f30ae84e83bd59daae18611b344f8fa2.jpg

[dook]

Herewith GE image.


https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/539x469/capture_6a537ec9a557928c106af6188e2e843481b05b6d.jpg

[Flap40]

That’s the one. There are not too many airfields where the runway has a bend in it.
officially it has 03/21 and 04/22 but only 04/21 is marked.

[dook]

Good morning/afternoon/evening all.


https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/650x346/thu_ba7b445bf1f2cedc6190f3197138a8a839aafe69.jpg

[jensdad]

Good evening dook! There seems a distinct lack of trees on that photo. Could it be on of the strips in the Falkland Islands?

[dook]

Good evening to you jensdad.

We are in Europe and on an island.

[jensdad]

Hmmm. Don't recognise it from my wanderings in Shetland, Orkney or the Faroes. Is it one of the Inish-es, i.e. one of the Aran Islands?

[dook]

No. It's not UK, but not far away.

[Flap40]

Either i dreamt it or I posted this airfield a few months ago. I can't remember who solved it though.

[dook]

My memory is not wot it wuz.

Where is it then ?

[Flap40]

A short distance away from a scientist. Leave it up as others might also have a short memory!

[dook]

Scientist ? You're getting as cryptic as JENKINS.

I think I get your drift.

[Flap40]

PM sent.....

[dook]

Received with suggestion.

[Flap40]

Suggestion taken. It was InishBoffin (or Inishbofin) which I originally posted back in May.

Here's a picture that I took yesterday.


https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/900x1200/img_1278_0f46f6940fdf387052184173a3b82630855022fe.jpg

[dook]

Got a good dive angle for that village at the top - about 30 degrees for a dive-toss release.

Strip looks disused.

[Flap40]

Google earth suggests it is still partly in use.

[Flap40]

Toss bombing from a 737 might upset the pax. ;)

[dook]

The 5-6g recovery will certainly upset your aeroplane !

Somewhere in Europe ?

[sycamore]

If you look at it on GE and turn the clock back to 2010 ,the runway `numbers have been reversed,at the wrong ends...

[Flap40]

Inishbofin, yes but not the current challenge.

[dook]

Golf Four Zero Degrees I say again - Europe somewhere ?

[jensdad]

Well, I got the first five letters right anyway, but not one of the Aran Islands!
Current challenge looks Warsaw Pactish to me. I'm thinking Poland.

[Flap40]

It’s not Poland but was Warsaw Pact.

[dook]

Say after me "dook is a dumbo".

I put it up on 13th August.

Merseburg

[Flap40]

DDR is correct.

[dook]

F40 I posted above.

[Flap40]

We seem to be doing well on the repeats! All yours.

[dook]

Nothing wrong with repeats as far as I am concerned.

There have only been responses from a couple of people since you posted it.


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[dook]

If it helps, the orientation is about 260 degrees true.

[Flap40]

Are we in the UK?

[India Four Two]

I think it has a more US look.

[dook]

We are in the southern hemisphere.

Naval.....

[India Four Two]

I've checked Nowra, which doesn't match. Can I continue to search in Oz?

[dook]

You certainly can.

New South Wales.

[JENKINS]

Another, albeit very different, Bankstown?

[amc890]

Nirimba, Quakers Hill

[dook]

You were only 15 miles away J, but amc890 is there.

It was named HMS Nabthorpe.

Over to you amc890.

[amc890]

Here we go

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/570x377/b08e171b_48fe_4871_bc1e_92a644769bf4_b8c661fc2b06c4f49fda39c 9d4f956bc59593cc0.jpeg

[dook]

Your place possibly ?

[amc890]

You got it

[dook]

Just entered "ww2 new zealand airfields aerial" in Goggle and up comes your pic without the bit of the aeroplane at the top cropped.

I'll leave it to someone else.

[amc890]

@Dook. Hehe that’s how I got your one.

[amc890]

Yes it is. Over to you.

[JENKINS]

Mine will not delete for some reason -finger trouble - though found it a different way. Shame, would have been some nice scenery to view. In which case, on the assumption that I have the imprimatur from New Zealand, shall I go ahead? Back in 15.

[JENKINS]

Got it, thanks, here goes. Nice spot you picked. This I have cherry-picked, on an impulse perhaps. 'As you Like It' may have relevance.
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1440x1080/earth_postcard_1570813924_f7cd669b4a9b88b57b01bc5eee500c640a ea1727.jpg

[Self loading bear]

Is the relevance in Japan?
(Where the movie was recorded?)

[JENKINS]

Yes, Japan, but I knew naught of the film. Another of my pieces of word play takes you closer. 'Blow, blow, thou winter wind' was the Shakesperian image.

[Self loading bear]

Ibaraki/hyakuri
I Never new that the play was also located in Japan...
The character Rosalinde and Orlando surely do not point in that direction.
I am away for a few hours so open house if correct.

[JENKINS]

Not the play, just the wind. Yes, that is it, in the land of the Brave Blossoms and the Blue Impulse Aerobatic Team. Now also I must wander off, and acknowledge your Open House.

[Self loading bear]

I am back early and will fill my open house:
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[dook]

Hello Bear.

I have seen that before in a search. I think it's a disused terminal or one which is still in use as something else.

[Self loading bear]

Indeed a former terminal

[dook]

I've just noticed the high fence.

Military ?

[Self loading bear]

Now a days indeed military use.

[dook]

Australia ?

[Self loading bear]

No but on the right hemisphere
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/761x550/87d53d06_fe69_44a5_8f83_0f6c25982775_2ebf9397b670c04c30d352d 6f3fcdfcf77b14138.jpeg

[dook]

Southern hemisphere and looks Art Deco.

I'll shoot for South Africa.

[Self loading bear]

You can zero in on South Africa

[dook]

Louie Botha, Durban ?

[dook]

No - I'll change that to Stamford Hill.

[Self loading bear]

Stamford Hill it was
now a military base
Your turn at check-in

[dook]

dook checking in....


https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/518x450/sunday_280fc3f210ffe0c38da6c92225a894f3b3b5000c.jpg

[Self loading bear]

Upper left looks like water
is that a black boundary line plotted in?

[dook]

It is water - a canal it seems.

The black line is simply soma kind of fault in the photograph. It does not actually exist.

[dook]

At the end of WW2 it acquired three runways and the remains of one still exists.


https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/328x450/capture_f7153edb5078a7f1c5c215783b28b5dba8e405ff.jpg

[Self loading bear]

Looks quite Dutch

[dook]

Does it ?

Strange, because it isn't.

It is Europe though.

[nvubu]

I think it is in Germany

[Self loading bear]

Mittelland kanal?

[dook]

OK chaps long enough.

Spain.

Someone who doesn't participate here has identified it.

Further clue imminent.....

[Self loading bear]

NOT many canals in Spain but
The area around Cadiz is quite flat.
Sevilla besides the Guadalquivir

[dook]

Good shooting Bear.

It was known as Tablada.

Clear enter the active. :ok:

[Self loading bear]

Tablada
I was thinking Moron.
But could not get positive location.

For now something not Dutch:

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1334x424/e98ae83d_0fe6_49c0_8b24_b78eb07491f8_55604202da77d4ffb4a8daa 54dde6a22ec9234ed.jpeg

[dook]

Shadows indicate low latitude.

Tropical ?

[Self loading bear]

Yes Tropical

[sycamore]

Jouez-vous au tennis ,M`sieu...? Voudrais un reunion en cinq minutes..?

Faite la Porte Ouverte...si vrai..

[dook]

Pardon Monsieur ?

[sycamore]

La peinture a la P-S,c`est tres faible.....

[dook]

You're rotor rpm is exceeding limits.
Name the place.

[Self loading bear]

Jouez-vous au tennis ,M`sieu...? Voudrais un reunion en cinq minutes..?

Faite la Porte Ouverte...si vrai..

Mais Monsieur Roland, c’est ne pas votre court pour jouez.

[dook]

Good Night.

[Self loading bear]

Sycamore is on set point
but match suspended due to rain and low light.

[sycamore]

Wanna play tennis in fffrench=Roland Garros=WW1 French Fighter pilot=Born `Reunion`,Indian Ocean=airport Saintpierre-Pierrefonds....but not RG at Saint Denis...

[Self loading bear]

Game set and match
sycamore called porte ouverte which leaves the house wide open for anybody to play

[India Four Two]

A beautiful photo taken by friend, posted with permission.


https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/715x884/wad_2019_10_14_28be92b58d3ecb722a26863383c3266cb3a2b58f.jpg

[JENKINS]

Lovely colours, and tennis courts for Sycamore!

[Asturias56]

having nearly died with shock I have found my sun glasses and taken a look

Are we in Canada perhaps? Bits of mining/road quarrying around,

[India Four Two]

Not in Canada but this community was originally established due to the presence of iron ore. Tourist oriented these days.

I’m checking with the photographer about the colours. It looks to me like a filter has been applied.

[dook]

If those cars are driving on the left, might we be in Orstralia ?

[JENKINS]

Even a Rounders pitch.

[India Four Two]

If those cars were driving on the left, they would not survive very long! We are half a world away from the Lucky Country.

I am aware of three different games might be played on that “pitch”, but I doubt that anyone would have the temerity to suggest playing Rounders.

asturias,

The picture was “Lightroomed”. You can take your sunnies off now! :cool:

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/746x907/5426b726_6eb3_44f5_a71e_69297fe91278_bd4a4e417319a79d61e1bf3 8fed814df3b672ca9.jpeg

[dook]

USA any good ?

[JENKINS]

No cricket pitch.

[India Four Two]

dook, USA is more than good, it's a direct hit.

Definitely Not Cricket, JENKINS.

[Asturias56]

Mountains look high & dry to me - California, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico?

[India Four Two]

Appearances can be deceptive. Further north than all of those states.

In case it might help, the view is to the SSW. The mountains in the distance are less than 5000' ASL.

[JENKINS]

Touch of calm to the proceedings, Lake Placid?

[dook]

Looks like a good shot.


https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/600x450/duclosairport_43deecb5e90715bfa6d1bafb610de2548c954023.jpg

[JENKINS]

Out for a couple of hours, so I fear OH if correct. Enough clues, India Four Two, for a former geography master. Was wrong about tennis courts, but I stand by my assertion of 'Rounders.'

[India Four Two]

Well said, JENKINS. I was going to try to work Desiderata into my clues.

The picture was taken by a friend of mine during the Montreal Soaring Council's Fall Wave Camp expedition to Lake Placid. I'm surprised no one spotted these in the background, which rather give the game away:

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/149x102/ski_jumps_02dbc3475bc71706e7b296d069e58c536f9083a2.png

JENKINS has declared Open House.

[JENKINS]

Just read 'Desiderata' for the first time, totally unknown previously. Thanks, and a comment comes to mind, 'Party on Dudes.' I hope that the inference from this is not entirely lost.

Still Open House from me, but I have something up my sleeve if required. Difficult to be up my sleeve in a Tarzan outfit.

[dook]

Oh, go on, be bashful.

[JENKINS]

Right, try this.
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1440x1080/earth_postcard_1571215447_25fccddd6525494ef2448b1973c87a4bde 71217a.jpg

[dook]

Roof pitch on houses looks fairly steep.

Mainland Europe perhaps.

[JENKINS]

Yes, so they seem, but no to location.

[dook]

A very long shot at Canada.

[India Four Two]

Red roofs and a roundabout? More likely Australia.

[JENKINS]

Not Canada. Tarzan costume out of place there, but there is a link here.

[JENKINS]

And not Australia.

[dook]

Tarzan - apes - Africa ?

[JENKINS]

In my travels I have flown from here.

[JENKINS]

Not Africa. This Tarzan, with a tiny (?) link to this field is from my own home town. Bought his own furniture, apparently.

[dook]

I can't believe it's UK.

[JENKINS]

Won't get far if you believe that.

[dook]

Am I correct in thinking it's being decommissioned and making way for roadworks ?

It might be near Yeovil.

[Kemble Pitts]

Thame maybe.

[JENKINS]

Grass at Thame, and still reasonably useable? Not near Yeovil in a strictly geographical sense.

[dook]

Is there a connection with Michael Heseltine...…….?

South Wales ?

[JENKINS]

The Welsh coal owner, Salopian, and Mace waver? Yes

[dook]

So is it actually in Wales ?

[JENKINS]

Not in Wales, missed that, sorry.

[dook]

That's why I originally asked about Yeovil as in the Westland affair.

Maybe we're near Liverpool.

[JENKINS]

Stick with the Westland affair.

[Kemble Pitts]

Weston Super Mare.

OH if correct.

[JENKINS]

Yes, W-s-M. Westland had a presence there for several years in the final days. My one trip from there was to Little Snoring for Fakenham Races.

Open House declared.

[dook]

It seems to me that you went back in time in GE to get your image.

[JENKINS]

No, straight from my GE, unaware of any other way.

[dook]

For your interest, this is the GE image that I have, and I think you will agree that it is very different.
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/650x413/capture_856f08bd0ceea6eab5e5d382d4f3d213d092a342.jpg

[sycamore]

Clock it back to 2013, when it was WIP...
been around those roundabouts,as my late wife used to visit friends about 1/4 mile to the right ,beyond the heli museum....

[dook]

I did just that.

JENKINS - maybe you would care to download the latest version.

[India Four Two]

I doubt that the GE version number has anything to do with the images displayed. Leaving Historical Imagery turned on could display older images accidentally.

[dook]

That is precisely why I always have it turned off.

[Asturias56]

try this......... . a bijoux spot

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/267x292/2019_10_17_102812_e8837244b18ed7dc66ccf50a0c628a14c2760464.j pg

[dook]

"bijoux" might indicate France.

[Asturias56]

Sorry - i was showing off my famous command of European languages - not France........ no commercial air services here

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/235x188/2019_10_17_102336_d6749da205d1a2847f63e4be510bb703b9fedc54.j pg

[dook]

I see.

Italia then ?

[dook]

Based on what I think is a Diamond Twin Star I thought it might be Bergamo but that has commercial services.

[Asturias56]

We are indeed in Italy but you are correct - not Bergamo

This place has an old University (now that's helpful in Italy) which was the home of one branch of the sciences in particular
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/267x218/2019_10_17_102419_8f2d4a535b3953a2fa8fb27e26598d46638d4ce5.j pg
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/546x416/2019_10_17_102248_77b8fa904bb526c2e501bc1279903777fceb8e49.j pg

[dook]

You're right - It's the second oldest university in Italy and it took me here....


https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/577x525/capture_3349fd367f72eaee973bf40edc30c9ac0af2d8ee.jpg

[Asturias56]

didn't think it would last long.................

as the bard said;-ACT I

SCENE I. Padua. A public place.

Enter LUCENTIO and his man TRANIO

LUCENTIO

Tranio, since for the great desire I had
To see fair Padua, nursery of arts,
I am arrived for fruitful Lombardy,
The pleasant garden of great Italy;
And by my father's love and leave am arm'd
With his good will and thy good company,
My trusty servant, well approved in all,
Here let us breathe and haply institute
A course of learning and ingenious studies.


Its a lovely town

Dook in command

[dook]

Thank you A56.

It's a good job the university was almost at the top of the list.


https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/550x365/_2__16a55137285234cbad444eb473ee035b026148df.jpg

[India Four Two]

Judging by the layout and the rectilinear road pattern, I’m going to suggest the USA, possibly an old USAAC base and maybe in flyover country.

[dook]

Good afternoon 42.

It's a long way from the USA.

[India Four Two]

Then my second choice is Australia.

[dook]

Correct hemisphere but wrong country.

[sycamore]

Fisantekraal,Cape Town,SA........OH if correct....

[dook]

That's a hit sycamore.

Fisantekrall it is.

OH has been called.