Which Aerodrome Mk III

[JENKINS]

There seems to be a space left by my old chum, so how seasonal is this? Never been even close to this one, albeit in a neighbouring country in my travails.
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1440x1080/earth_postcard_1576582294_f00a96a357be05a13c38e8fefbada70b9a fd71c4.jpg

[Asturias56]

Not very seasonal as it's Easter Island.

i'm travelling so open house and seasons greetings

[chevvron]

Bravo, sycamore has it Biggin Hill it is. This is a post Air Fair shot taken in 1972 when Sportair flying club were about to depart for the annual trip to the Sportavia Fournier factory in Germany. Aircraft are lined up along the edge of runway 29/11 looking West towards the then still active (OASC) RAF side, not too far from where the below image was taken.

You have the Christmas control.


No they're not on 29/11, that was always in good nick; I would say they're on the disused runway which is now taxiway C roughly the old 04/22.

[JENKINS]

Yes Easter Island, I became confused with the seasons! Asturias 56 has correct ident. OH declared.

[Flap40]

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1000x750/img_1791_copy_ea00ceac4f5854e86c5b7cfefbcba7e326edbe39.jpg
Vaguely topical.

[Self loading bear]

Turkey?

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/710x710/e2f3d7e7_7cf7_4085_8ec7_677c8bbb960b_f0bfab8482bf208c64949ce e0c8ce56bc053c0ba.jpeg

[Flap40]

Well that the country correct.

[Self loading bear]

Then I will give others a try first.

[mustbeaboeing]

Seasons Greetings

Mulga Dalaman LTBS. DLM I think.

if correct Open House

[Flap40]

Sorry, it’s not Dalaman.

[mustbeaboeing]

Ok I’ll try round the corner ........

Milas Bodrum LTFE BJV

Hopefully my counting the light towers was correct this time.

Open House if correct

[Flap40]

Yes, a rather quiet Bodrum at the end of the season. We were the only aircraft on the international terminal.

OH has been declared.

[Haven't a clue]

A festive farewell on departure


https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1235/image_1_f4a64721d6351dba0c30345a189beb883a15f741.jpg

[Jn14:6]

Kansai?
OH, if, by some miracle correct!

[Haven't a clue]

Right country, but the island to the north

[Haven't a clue]

Does this help?


https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1504/image_2_131f1a00ec12abb123bc931e0d21fb31f2acf1f4.jpg

[Jn14:6]

Sapporo/New Chitose?
Still OH if right!

[Haven't a clue]

Getting warmer, But still further north.....


https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/546x658/image_3_9a46d6b67f5a7da122f7715e467d680a205f7c2a.jpg

[Haven't a clue]

This is close to the home of Japan's beautiful Red-Crowned Cranes. Zooming out both my image and the Google Earth shot will reveal the name of this aerodrome. I can put up the former, but perhaps best to wait a bit to see if anyone can find the latter.

Rather than hog the thread I will put up one or the other if nothing has appeared by tomorrow morning, say 10.00z.

[SMOKEON]

Kushiro Airport, Hokkaido?

[Haven't a clue]

Not Kushiro although I see that is also very close to one of the Red-Crowned Cranes reserves. This aerodrome is due north from there.

[SMOKEON]

In that case it must be;
Memanbetsu Airport.
O.H., if correct.

[Haven't a clue]

Memembetsu it is. Lovely send off from the JAL ground crew. Take a bow! SMOKON has declared OH.
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1149/image_4_065ac840c1fb65f4bac7d20042fb1a121e77be84.jpg

[India Four Two]

That is interesting - I checked the Kanji script for all the airports in Hokkaido and couldn't find a match.

All is clear now. The characters for Memanbetsu Kūkō are 女満別空港. The sign on the terminal building is facing away from the airside and so is reversed!

Normal:
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/167x50/screen_shot_2019_12_25_at_2_10_30_pm_2fb488538214bcf8b1822d6 4054a002e0d411a35.png

Reversed:
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/168x51/reversed_kanji_d53e1f935ac742a99662594c8543b9c3051cf703.jpg

女満別空港

I always love the formality of the ground crews in Japan, when departing.

[Terry Dactil]

I always love the formality of the ground crews in Japan, when departing.

Yes. It is an old tradition
W2 documentaries show that they did a similar thing for departing Kamikaze, but without the snowman :E

[Senior Pilot]

People at Gates? Really? Gates? History and Nostalgia? This is, after all, 'Aviation History and Nostalgia'.. I am frequently agog at the level of participation on this challenge. Can you just show a photograph of an aerodrome? You know, runways, taxiways and buildings? From above? Apparently not. A hedgerow on a Yorkshire farm is hardly a clue to an Argentinian aerophile, is it? If similar standards were to be applied to "What Cockpit?", I would imaging close-ups of an ash tray. This 'What Aerodrome?' thread seems to have descended to an absolute #@$%^&! show. Just my opinion.

I await being banished forever from this forum by the 'Forum Modulators'. Merry Christmas.

The rest of your post indicates a surfeit of Christmas spirit, but there is no mandate requiring you to visit this forum or this thread. Others are currently participating and contributing quite happily :ok:

Normal Service will be resumed, folks ;)

[evansb]

History and Nostalgia.

[chevvron]

Christmas?
Humbug!

[Senior Pilot]

History and Nostalgia.

Fair call; it may have been less confrontational to refer members to the Wiki for this thread and the T&Cs there?

Maybe I’ll do it for you ;) :ok:

[Asturias56]

Now we've got over Christmas and it's OH here is one for the weekend...

I thought I'd post a waste paper bin but evans might have had a melt-down....... :E

So, as requested, an overhead

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/649x685/2019_12_15_083636_292fb0e5d5c271c9cf34fc22ccc96d82c22797ec.j pg

[Senior Pilot]

Now we've got over Christmas and it's OH here is one for the weekend...

I thought I'd post a waste paper bin but evans might have had a melt-down....... :E

So, as requested, an overhead



I would expect some attention to the Wiki post at the head of this thread, particularly:

A historic picture of an aerodrome will be posted. Newer pictures are allowed but the theme here is to compare/contrast old with new as well as identifying aerodromes which no longer exist.
and

Try to use elderly photos and not Google Earth pics
Try to post images that are not already present on internet, as Google Image Search will find them if they are.

[Asturias56]

Ok - here is an old picture of the same airfield...................

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/296x180/2019_12_28_083230_a8c0e732317a4b89fade025b6ae78fe70f4708ce.j pg


PS I run ALL the pictures I post through Google Image first to make sure it's not an easy shot for those who might fall into temptation..................

[chevvron]

I would expect some attention to the Wiki post at the head of this thread, particularly:

Try to use elderly photos and not Google Earth pics
Try to post images that are not already present on internet, as Google Image Search will find them if they are.

Doesn't say you can't use ZoomEarth.https://www.pprune.org/images/icons/46.gif
The overhead image appears to be a Warsaw Pact type airfield; haven't a clue where though.

[Senior Pilot]

Doesn't say you can't use ZoomEarth.https://www.pprune.org/images/icons/46.gif

It does now :p

[Asturias56]

"The overhead image appears to be a Warsaw Pact type airfield; haven't a clue where though"

Now you point it out it does rather look like something from the Pact - it definitely isn't tho'................ Go West Young Man!

[chevvron]

Former East Germany then?

[Asturias56]

Keep going west ...................................... It's NOT a Warsaw pact airfield - in fact I'm not sure it ever was a military field at all

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/246x321/2019_12_15_084021_2a78ab3b93a4ccc6891f404a05e2f1c2f3ef3497.j pg

[Self loading bear]

America’s?
I see a lot of the same aircraft on the grass?
So a factory airfield?

[Asturias56]

Yes it's in the America's

It was a major factory airfield and still has a lot of facilities there tho' I don't think they build any airframes these days - but it was always a civilian airfield throughout

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/162x172/2019_12_28_083159_d439f51e3659918148853bdaebac7fee30edcd23.j pg

[Asturias56]

The area has been known as a point to measure distance/time from for over 50 years...............

[Asturias56]

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/315x220/2019_12_15_083931_7fff1e28eb28106e00b71357b67f55bb83a2b263.j pg

[Self loading bear]

The area has been known as a point to measure distance/time from for over 50 years...............

In a point you cannot measure distance.
I have checked some factory airfields I have found on the web.
But no succes.

I take it that there is an airfield around those garden tables?

[Asturias56]

The distance/time measurement is precise with regard to time but very woolly on distance - but it's quite well known to even the average man-in-the -street

The airport is quite substantial - but has a wide range of users - its not just a factory airport and in fact , as I said, I'm not sure they currently produce whole air-frames any more

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/240x211/2019_12_15_083809_6d262d40f130a97ea4afb849135abb7c701d36fc.j pg

[Asturias56]

Three main runways - up to 10,000ft long (not all three)

[chevvron]

The distance/time measurement is precise with regard to time but very woolly on distance - but it's quite well known to even the average man-in-the -street

The airport is quite substantial - but has a wide range of users - its not just a factory airport and in fact , as I said, I'm not sure they currently produce whole air-frames any more

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/240x211/2019_12_15_083809_6d262d40f130a97ea4afb849135abb7c701d36fc.j pg
International Date line near Hawaii?

[Self loading bear]

Finally,
looking at Locations of Spirit aerosystems
Tulsa Oklahoma
No idea about time and distance though.

I am out tomorrow
Somebody else can do the fireworks.
OH.

[Self loading bear]

Now I see
Tulsa Time
by Don Williams and also Eric Clapton
1978 that’s only 42 years.
You said over 50 years
They are not so much backwards over there.

[Asturias56]

Gene Pitney - "24 hours from Tulsa"

But correct - once a monster aircraft factory as well .................. Someone else can have a go..................

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/241x116/2019_12_15_084120_e0f0daa5810a882d5231c3cbce5971abe538b10b.j pg
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/301x207/2019_12_15_084105_ead377e743c0cfdc08eb4bf4eaf3151925f3c85d.j pg

[India Four Two]

Happy New Year everyone.

Where’s this? From a time when helicopters were thought to be the buses of the future.

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/377x264/cd5071a3_e7a2_428f_8169_b46c44a073c6_7d961eb2a9a45d65ae4263a 6c6af6285bb434fd1.jpeg

[Asturias56]

That looks horribly like the British countryside - if so perhaps it's a civvie Westland WS51 Dragonfly

I found this clip from the Dark Ages................

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGf6V5M4ol0

[India Four Two]

Yes, we’re in Britain and it’s a Dragonfly.

I note they didn’t mention any of the drawbacks of helicopter travel in the documentary!


https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/474x373/ad40f390_456a_436f_9882_fc6fe3f5c24e_ca863cee1ba2df83927ca98 5cf7c2f143be13f6e.jpeg

[Asturias56]

http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/610692/2/Dreaming-of-Helicopter-Travel-in-the-1950s_Historic-Society_paper.pdf has a lot on Urban plans in the '50's

but search on UK eventually brought up Birmingham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay_Mills_Rotor_Station which was apparenly in use 1951-54 -ish.................

https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/forum/index.php?threads/hay-mills-rotor-station.21825/

Lets wait until 2020 for the next challenge!!!

[India Four Two]

Well done, Sherlock!

I love the name Rotor Station. Here's a bigger picture and the equivalent GE view. The bridge carries Yardley Green Road over the River Cole:

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/578x386/hay_mills_rotorstation_fd975cfe6805b105dd9be4ace72739c8c72ea 1b1.jpg

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/638x462/screen_shot_2019_12_31_at_7_47_56_pm_d851902d920db7ecdd6078a f3afcb3bde8d51885.png

I'm not sure if Asturias has declared Open House.

[Asturias56]

Lets start 2020 with a relatively new airport......................

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/345x295/2019_12_31_095801_d55df28274bb277c0ffd5249d5ee3d0987cd258f.j pg

[chevvron]

St Helena?
Well you said 'relatively new'; it looks more like Cancun though!

[chevvron]

Well done, Sherlock!

I love the name Rotor Station. Here's a bigger picture and the equivalent GE view. The bridge carries Yardley Green Road over the River Cole:

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/578x386/hay_mills_rotorstation_fd975cfe6805b105dd9be4ace72739c8c72ea 1b1.jpg

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/638x462/screen_shot_2019_12_31_at_7_47_56_pm_d851902d920db7ecdd6078a f3afcb3bde8d51885.png

I'm not sure if Asturias has declared Open House.
Just look at all those NIMBYs!
The name could be confusing though; in the same period, the name 'ROTOR Station' referred to a chain of supposedly secret RAF air defence radar stations.

[Self loading bear]

Berlin Brandenburg which is set to open this year?

[Asturias56]

Long way south of Berlin - sunnier climes...... here's the welcoming committee

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/555x380/2019_12_19_090634_db100caa5446226527419a78e55923f870f6adc4.j pg

[Self loading bear]

Same red carpet is used in Cameroon,
I will go for Nsimalen Yaounde, although no matching terminal building found.

[Asturias56]

yes its Yaonde - over to Bear

[Self loading bear]

yes its Yaonde - over to Bear

I am afraid EvansB has had a slight fit over the carpet. ;) ;)
I found the same edge pattern of the red carpet at the pope’s visit:

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/760x431/0496b87f_35da_49fc_a362_1232fb284a15_e210595c44e07028f6d693f 153d0110d809f1996.jpeg
New challenge coming up is a few hours.

[Self loading bear]

The next challenge is to my liking and to another regular poster’s liking:

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/391x248/58ba173a_8577_415e_b151_bc1a0e8b07a4_bf8bd8abba8f23746e31a61 06dc7d39f6dda21a1.jpeg

[Kemble Pitts]

UK, ex-FAA as it looks like four runways (one hidden in the grass), plus Robbin(?) hangars in the old technical area. Apart from that I'm stuck.

[Self loading bear]

All good answers.
Let throw in some aircraft ID:
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/896x500/85f258e8_b7d5_40d6_845b_f2d6514042b1_0bee35507f17c8a71fc4f06 e71863be6da928f9d.jpeg

[Kit Sanbumps KG]

St Merryn of course...

[Self loading bear]

I would have expected MReyn24050 to drop by.
I never would have thought to find an airfield with my First name; Merijn.
But finding one being a saint is way to much.

Kit has control.
(I answered your pm, i cannot open the link)

[Kit Sanbumps KG]

Roger. Open house I’m afraid. I’ll attend to that tomorrow.

[Asturias56]

OK - over 24 hours gone - here's another relatively modern (less than 50 years old) spot

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/286x122/2019_09_09_164118_9e451a4ade45bc9787bbcb3b916ac8745c6b11bc.j pg

[chevvron]

St Merryn of course...
Arthur C Clarke based his docu/novel 'Glidepath' at a Cornish airfield called 'St Erryn'; could this have been the same place? Was he based at St Merryn?

[Asturias56]

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2008/mar/19/arthurcclarke1

At 17 he joined the British Interplanetary Society, an organisation then widely regarded as crackpot, but of which he was later to be treasurer and, eventually, chairman.

In the civil service his mathematical ability took him into the audit branch. But, after the outbreak of the second world war, he opted to join the RAF where, via electronics training, he became an instructor at radio school. Finally he went to work on the development and proving of American ground control approach - talk-down - radar at Davidstow Moor in north Cornwall, a system which pilots never liked because it robbed them of control until the last moments.

[Self loading bear]

OK - over 24 hours gone - here's another relatively modern (less than 50 years old) spot

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/286x122/2019_09_09_164118_9e451a4ade45bc9787bbcb3b916ac8745c6b11bc.j pg

Asturias,
Probably your own photo? Which I always appreciate!
But not much to go on.
Except that we can rule out the Netherlands and Sr Merryn
Do you have more clues?

[dixi188]

Is that a Flybe Dash 8?

(No, can't be, it's too clean)

[Asturias56]

No pictures of the Pope's carpet here Bear.... dixi is correct as to aircraft type and also that it's far too clean to be Flybe - which is a clue in it's own right....... :ok:

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/567x298/2019_09_09_165305_9d058a6606d10d6eee3ec1a8c433ce483b344f3b.j pg
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/476x147/2019_09_09_164840_73f7603676ba8d01524f1e137b4deba6b45e14b9.j pg

[SMOKEON]

Tsushima Yamaneko Airport

[Asturias56]

Yes - far away off japan - some very interesting scenery around there....... Over to Smokeon


https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/270x226/2019_09_09_164052_37ae091f80fdc16e13ee9d3a81bd7efc35c02f63.j pg
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/440x194/2019_09_09_165318_5f0b31572298cb9846b878040e9027b607627fa0.j pg

[SMOKEON]

Thank you. Open House.

[India Four Two]

Here's an easy one to keep things going. I've always liked the runway symmetry at this airport.


https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1504/wad_2020_01_05_3b825c6e7efb589e30e100b87535343ae501a04c.jpg

[evansb]

Edmonton International Airport, CYEG, Alberta, Canada.

[Asturias56]

In summer too!!! :E

[evansb]

Do I wait for India Four Two's go ahead, or do I post a new challenge?

[evansb]

I just can't wait, so here is another mystery aerodrome:

https://i.imgur.com/GZVu6H1.png

[India Four Two]

Follow up to my post of the CYEG picture. The photo is looking east. The town is Leduc, which is famous, not for its proximity to the airport, which was only built in 1961, but for being the namesake of the Leduc No. 1 oil discovery in 1947, which ushered in the modern era of oil exploration in Alberta and is thus indirectly led to me ending up in my first job in Calgary.

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/798x1023/leduc_no_1_5ae091e0c89c57a62f23715f7117199c861a770a.jpg


Leduc No. 1 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leduc_No._1)

[India Four Two]

evansb's picture - lots of Mossies, a Nissen hut and a Proctor. Somewhere in the UK?

Rockets under the wings. Banff strike wing?

[Asturias56]

I'm sure I've seen that airfield picture before.......................

[chevvron]

Or maybe Hunsdon

[JENKINS]

One such image purports to be Dallachy in February 1945, but I imagine Banff itself to be the answer. There was, after all, a good publicity chain available to the Banff Wing. Had a picnic years ago in the lay-by wherein lies the Memorial. Have even flown a Chieftain with a Banff Wing pilot as pilot's assistant.

Cannot claim this after earlier input. Quite an effective unit I believe.

[Asturias56]

https://www.grampianonline.co.uk/banff/new-trust-to-take-over-running-of-raf-banff-heritage-organisation-104941/

has the picture...................

[evansb]

RAF Banff, Boyndie Scotland is correct. India Four Two mentioned Banff first so he has control.

[India Four Two]

Thank you. I must confess that it was an inspired guess. The location was obviously in the UK and hills in the background made me think it might be Scotland, and Banff was the obvious choice for a swarm of Mossies.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many Mossies in one picture. Imagine how much they would be worth now, if they hadn’t come unglued!

Standby while I come up with a worthy challenge.

[chevvron]

Thank you. I must confess that it was an inspired guess. The location was obviously in the UK and hills in the background made me think it might be Scotland, and Banff was the obvious choice for a swarm of Mossies.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many Mossies in one picture. Imagine how much they would be worth now, if they hadn’t come unglued!.
When '633 Squadron' was being filmed at Bovingdon in 1963, there were 12 of them there but only about 5 in flying condition.

[India Four Two]

but only about 5 in flying condition.

... and by 1969, there was only one. I wonder what happened to the other four.

Here’s an airfield where I rented an aircraft but never flew from that runway. ;)

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/256x147/4757c342_0803_434c_8e27_201942842f07_5406c99668c9af8738d9f5c f2d9b7ff997ca7310.jpeg

Sorry about the size. I’ll see if I can increase it.

[Asturias56]

If you rented the plane but didn't fly from there how did you get out? Taxi down the highway for 50 kms or so???

Are we in N America?

[India Four Two]

If you rented the plane but didn't fly from there how did you get out?

All will be revealed in the fullness of time. :cool:

We are in North America .

[Asturias56]

N America - big place.......

Do the natives mutter "oh Canada!" or stand tall singing "Star Spangled Banner" - or of course I mustn't forget my challenge last year perhaps "Allons enfants de la Patrie, Le jour de gloire est arrivé, Contre nous de la tyrannie...."

I doubt it's "Nunarput, utoqqarsuanngoravit, Niaqqut ulissimavoq qiinik.Qitornatit kissumiaannarpatit , Tunillugit sineriavit piinik."

[India Four Two]

The locals sing "O Canada!" and there is no muttering, it's belted out just as loudly as those singing the "Congreve Rocket" song, but without the hand-on-the-heart thing! Incidentally, I have just discovered after nearly 50 years of being in Canada, that the song was originally commissioned by the Lieutenant Governor of Quebec, Théodore Robitaille for the 1880 Saint Jean Bapiste Day celebrations. The original lyrics were in French; an English translation was published in 1906. That is a rather ironic history.

Your last sentence made me check to see if Greenland was part of North America - it had never occurred to me before. According to Wikipedia, it is, so that must be true. ;)

Here's a wider view, which will narrow the location down to two provinces and one territory:

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/360x270/invermereairp_small_316facc693d1cda42f64cc9444318f6da4d1dce8 .jpg

[dook]

If those are the Rockies I think we may be in British Columbia.

[India Four Two]

dook, right on both counts. :ok:

[Asturias56]

Ah - Invermere? GE looks v brown cp your shot

Wait 24 hours to confirm!

as Senior Pilot said (What Cockpit post # 1350 07/01/20) "Quite simply, you can post and discuss to your heart's content from the moment a challenge appears, but the declaration of a winner will not occur until 24 hours has elapsed. This applies to all three competition threads: a reference Wiki also covers the airfield thread.I would emphasise that all threads should respect that this is the Aviation History & Nostalgia forum with an expectation of historic images and/or subjects please."

[India Four Two]

Buon pomeriggio, signor Asturias,

Your reminder of the 24 hour rule causes me to respond with "At this time, I can neither confirm or deny." :E

Come back in two hours.

[sycamore]

I42,now +40 hrs...
You must be on Newfie or Quebec time,...!!

[India Four Two]

Ah, I'm confusing posting times. I see my original post was well over a day ago and so I can confirm what anybody with any curiosity and access to GE will already have discovered, it is Invermere airport (CAA8).
GE looks v brown cp your shot
The valley can be very dry and parched at the end of the summer.

Concerning my aircraft rental riddle, it was a Super Cub on floats! In the early 90s, a friend of mine who had just got a float rating at Invermere, took me for a ride. I hadn’t flown floats for 15 years, but the flight rekindled my enthusiasm. A few weeks later, I was on a weeks holiday, staying in a cabin on Lake Windemere (bottom left of the picture). The first weekend, I drove up to the airport and enquired about how long a checkout would take. “Oh, about an hour” was the response, so we went flying.

After my checkout, which reconfirmed what fun floatplanes are, I asked if I could do some flying during the week.

“Well, we’re not very busy during the week so why don’t you take the keys and the logbook and settle up at the end of the week?”

So I had my own floatplane for a week. I spent a lot more than I had planned to!

The Super Cub was stored on a ramp by the road bridge, where the Columbia River flows north out of Lake Windemere. An interesting feature of the photo is the prominent valley. This is the Rocky Mountain Trench, a 1600 Km rift valley, which runs from Montana up to the BC-Yukon border. It is a very obvious feature from space:


https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/720x480/rocky_mountain_trench_from_iss_761d564763d88bcad78c0249881d8 bab113e7d2d.jpg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Mountain_Trench

Asturias has control.

[Asturias56]

I thought "float plane" seeing how close it was to water....................

as for the Rocky Mt Trench any chance it could become a spreading centre and condemn Alberta to permanent servitude under the pinko leftish radicals of Ontario while BC drifts off to join Hawaii? Tho I see its Right lateral so BC is more likely to become part of the NT............................................

Here's another challenge.... I42 is a big glider man.....................


https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/304x264/2020_01_04_090907_4e039a9fe54b4e3fd9cf0fa72c3589821a5fb5db.j pg

[chevvron]

... and by 1969, there was only one. I wonder what happened to the other four.


One remained at Bovingdon until about 1967; it was in the same hangar as our gliders (on detachment from 613 GS Halton until we were displaced by 617 GS moving in from Hendon) and I climbed inside it once.
Before Neil Willams flew it out, they drilled a hole in the tailplane and drained out several pints of rainwater; it returned in 1968 along with at least 2 other flying examples to film 'Mosquito Squadron'.

[chevvron]

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/304x264/2020_01_04_090907_4e039a9fe54b4e3fd9cf0fa72c3589821a5fb5db.j pg
Looks like 'Daisy' at Lasham on the left.

[Asturias56]

It isn't Lashup ...................
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/295x239/2020_01_04_090941_32aa3360d70edbbdddf5c101d6c7f177367beace.j pg

[kcockayne]

Could it be Swanton Morley ?

[India Four Two]

I42 is a big glider man

I resemble that remark. I assume you are referring to the 20m ship I fly and not my mass! :)

I recognized the T21b and Olympia (?) but I didn't think the trees and hills matched Lasham. Is it in Scotland?

[dook]

Kent gliding club Challock ?

[chevvron]

I resemble that remark. I assume you are referring to the 20m ship I fly and not my mass! :)

I recognized the T21b and Olympia (?) but I didn't think the trees and hills matched Lasham. Is it in Scotland?
Daisy was the prototype T21, not a T21b and she was painted red when I flew her in '66.

[Asturias56]

It's NOT in the UK - and It's also a commercial airport with a limited number of International flights...............
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/628x422/2020_01_04_090429_9af8339e1330cc60175a8946e91259be900d6b42.j pg

[dook]

Is it Rieti ?

[Asturias56]

No but it is in Europe

Two languages spoken in the nearby city..............

[sycamore]

Dutch....?

[Asturias56]

No - pretty flat around the challenge tho'....................
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/624x531/2020_01_04_090519_ba47aeaa0112c6bb8676677422895f9d0aa99398.j pg

[jensdad]

Desperately trying to think of bilingual European cities where one of the two languages isn't Dutch...

They don't speak French and German in Liege, do they? (the airfield being Bierset if I'm correct. I'm probably not :) )

[UV]

Looks like RAFGSA, with a T21....European, so Germany or Cyprus? Laarbruch?

[Asturias56]

It's not French or German and it's not Germany....................... nor Cyprus

Opened in 1938 I believe

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/145x190/2020_01_04_090631_153ef9a38a85f242fe658362e65f824ca2bf973b.j pg

[dook]

Pretty flat - Denmark or Finland maybe.

[Asturias56]

Yes - you're right...................

[jensdad]

The bilingual clue makes me think it's somewhere on the West coast of Finland. Where exactly, though? I'll have one of my occasionally-lucky punts, and say Oulu.

[Asturias56]

You are correct - mainly Finnish speaking but a large proportion of Swedish speakers...... first time I went to Finland I'd never realised I spoke Swedish - but compared to Finnish..... all signs are in both languages and you can at least make an educated guess at looking at the Swedish....................

But not Oulu.................
https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/292x236/2020_01_04_090755_5b1a38ec5b09e94320a944f0758291acbe9e375b.j pg

[dook]

I have found your uncropped image.

The caption says it's Vaasa early 1960s.

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/500x310/pik_5c_at_vaasa_airport_in_the_early_1960s_d04980c0bd76ab482 e760367462d39e3c405bcba.jpg

[Asturias56]

wait to 18:28......................

[sycamore]

...A56,,WAIT..WHY..?how many fingers have you? the game is over after 24 hours....from first post....!

[Asturias56]

Sorry - I've got enough problems with the mods that I'm super sensitive - I really can't afford another transgression................

Senior Pilot said (What Cockpit post # 1350 07/01/20) "Quite simply, you can post and discuss to your heart's content from the moment a challenge appears, but the declaration of a winner will not occur until 24 hours has elapsed. This applies to all three competition threads: a reference Wiki also covers the airfield thread.I would emphasise that all threads should respect that this is the Aviation History & Nostalgia forum with an expectation of historic images and/or subjects please."

Personally I think it would be best if you could only post once a day - which would allow the inclusivness they want but until then..................

So 24 hours has now passed - it is Vaasa and Dook has the con..................


https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/252x318/2020_01_04_090823_7f7000634e3fc01e40dbf676abd81e520bc1d020.j pg
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/558x603/2020_01_10_153547_1045009b60ab8b8d36009f295ccf04a17a3ff2d8.j pg

[dook]

Thank you 56.

I still have a flying machine challenge running so therefore OH.

[asw28-866]

Standby day, here is an easy one to keep things rolling along...

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/800x600/220519lre_1_s_2bc62f094d60407ced9405b1170b050759546098.jpg

[John Eacott]

asw28-866 I’d say Longreach would fit the bill?


But it does look a fairly recent photo :hmm:

[asw28-866]

YLRE Longreach it is, photo recent, however location surely befits 'history-nostalgia'? I'm not old enough to have taken a historic picture! John E. has control.

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/800x599/220519lre_2_s_8445c8e78405dafaf9e4b944077f30bacf422fbe.jpg

[Asturias56]

Qantas DC-3, VH-EAP Longreach Qantas Founders Outback Museum Queensland with their first 707

[John Eacott]

YLRE Longreach it is, photo recent, however location surely befits 'history-nostalgia'? I'm not old enough to have taken a historic picture! John E. has control.

Well, honoured as I am at my first attempt harrumph, I quietly admit to actually driving plank wing into Longreach. Once.

Here's an historic airport from a different aspect: none of this running up and down runways to get airborne stuff :p


https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/800x544/sea_king_whereat_b2d2a994058ef737634cfda09fd37f8eeb6ec0bb.jp g

[Haven't a clue]

Looks a bit like Lion Rock in the background. Kai Tak? But the perspective seems wrong.

[sycamore]

Could be an old Mk1,so you might have needed a bit of runway if it was hot/heavy....!!


(but then,you probably weren`t allowed ashore with 4 x MK 46s)...

[John Eacott]

Could be an old Mk1,so you might have needed a bit of runway if it was hot/heavy....!!


(but then,you probably weren`t allowed ashore with 4 x MK 46s)...

Old?!! I’ll have you know they were virtually brand new at the time ;) Mk46s didn’t come along for another year or two; I did the jettison trials which is another story in itself :cool:

[dook]

Somewhere Far East north of Australia?

[John Eacott]

Somewhere Far East north of Australia?

Yes to both :ok:

[dook]

I feel it might therefore be a Royal Australian Navy Sea King but can't find that emblem.

Are we in Indonesia ?

[John Eacott]

I feel it might therefore be a Royal Australian Navy Sea King but can't find that emblem.

Are we in Indonesia ?

No to Indo, and it’s a Sea King HAS1 of the mighty 826 Vertical Pursuit Squadron swanning around on HMS Eagle. Definitely not RAN, I did my time back in the Real Navy about when you were paid by the Light Blue :ok:

[dook]

Having found a map of Eagle's last deployment with 826 I think we may be close to Singapore.

[SMOKEON]

Sek Kong, New Territories, Hong Kong?

[Self loading bear]

Singapore and Hongkong might be too obvious.
HMS Eagle Sea Kings rescued crew of SS Steel Vendor and delivered them to Subic bay Philippines

[dook]

The hill profile is at RAF Kai Tak.

[dook]

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/500x321/kwun_tong_road_1945_d5d66fb7cbaf432d888b994338d1adba551429cc .jpg

[John Eacott]

Looks a bit like Lion Rock in the background. Kai Tak? But the perspective seems wrong.

The hill profile is at RAF Kai Tak.


It is indeed, RAF Kai Tak where I went to pick up some stragglers when Eagle left for the last time on 27th October 1971. Honkers was a very different place then, and we had a fairly free rein flying around doing various jobs such as lifting equipment to a remote island for the RE to build a water purification plant for the village, same for a lighthouse on the edge of the New Territories with a Chinese gunboat tracking us with the AA to ensure we stayed on our side, landing on the Blue Star ferry pier, etc.

Line ball between Haven't a clue as first in, refined by dook with the actual strip. I hereby nominate dook to carry the torch to the next location :ok:



ps this was the return to Eagle from HK, and a flypast for the Governor where we had half a dozen Sea Kings: 100% serviceability wasn't unusual! :cool:


https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/800x538/826_sea_king_144_returning_to_eagle_off_hong_kong_195adf4af2 43058f7941bb56ead97bd334eab232.jpg


https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1800x1191/hong_kong_fly_past_behind_wessex_sioux_over_harbour_edit_66c 3bfa224023b981f2532739de9bc68cbd91976.jpg

[dook]

Thank you JE - a great challenge.

I feel I should offer this to Haven't a clue. If he is unable to take the baton then I will call OH to give the "international" players an opportunity.

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[Haven't a clue]

Thanks dook; my apologies to all for being tardy in responding but I have been in a car, departure lounge, an aeroplane, several trains and (sorry) a restaurant.

I'm in the air again tomorrow (I'll be close to Kai Tak for the next week), so regrettably it has to be OH.

[dook]

Mind the girly bars then...….

[nvubu]

As we are on an Open House and I'm currently going through the 2019 posts updating the Aerodrome list, I thought I'd set this challenge.

https://jvtiga.am.files.1drv.com/y4mtoWuOicBxDb5d6nciZAxNmt1c4zHv-oK7CunB-HJ3z3E641OiSakWCsUv8PVC1bXXx6czhfvAMvvT88Y9fCQcZveuxazeP9GGw JiU2pM2qQLX6JcNN6QbWr5V-mAkLZaduayIATf4NRj3S3cM3j-x321WvfalE9XYyx9oU571X9N7EySwJMPGOKcf8LoFhu2nfjuUmqkMDFY4vAi HOv1dg?width=1024&height=627&cropmode=none

[Self loading bear]

From the Seebee’s book you have?

[nvubu]

Certainly is the Seebees. You now just gave to discover where it is.

I was going to start with these two images

https://yovp8g.am.files.1drv.com/y4mo1-BGv46DpPXnUL87lPHJw-w7FGnft1h9z62vSN5MDYptun82hk0XqceYU05GwGu1ivcoW0xa3B5BFIvmj3 TxMWA__XMmUTilyEupJv1QSXk-hCkm6g_-zIXpFoEobu3BLfsuMxWoNoTV8WsyFkyhqi85UWdFOy39Ro2TAVQQnSLSYEhv ngNgXxIyMJUTMVuUIujBycK7IPqiWC0xWHaCA?width=788&height=610&cropmode=none

https://lxdcua.am.files.1drv.com/y4mz4h0eqocuxsFgpgni-yL2o0i6u2M21B8QsJYXkcBQ6XLEHkilwLMSkCqeaMb9SxQBam9KOXJwZ1tmO 38oZ8h7-hi4vusN6GiLRRXq8DEAmwnO_zBQAsuWhSzK9oZcW3jb4Cjbc4h-9SLpl-F5AXcZUdtRNrAZsztmmT1kUYZaJS2G2vztVjXJ-ef4kC4hQGEu6q37h37nJCi7puNzlu3Jg?width=788&height=610&cropmode=none

[dook]

Suspect the Admiralties - somewhere like Pityilu maybe.

[nvubu]

I had to look up the Admiralty Islands, and I can confirm that this airfield isn't there.

[dook]

Marianas any closer ?

[nvubu]

Yes the Marianas are closer.

[dook]

Palmyra atoll ?

[Asturias56]

Palau perhaps?

[nvubu]

Blimey, Palmyra is in the middle of nowhere isn't it. Not Palau either.

Looks like some wide open spaces there - once they got rid of the huts.
https://lkknrq.am.files.1drv.com/y4mVwGaAJTKcsNgeLWerMqjPteoEfOwe9n1H6_51UtQ1c12kL23koW-tadFHGoTBZ7tt_cZba3NRADgT-tygBgi03X2UeB3i7JoyE-5J9aUG7OmrxL5PAssE43bxbT_6r_Frxo8pUMJenBqKG9Pmr4LrKVXW4fqJ6T HRibOsbmF0WA3OKcKGIjV3evw0hIIuSdlGvKdHR9EBUsBJxM1D-0zfA?width=1024&height=649&cropmode=none

[dook]

Is the surface coral ?

Angaur possibly.

[nvubu]

Yes, a coral surface, but not at Angaur (had to look that one up as well)

[dook]

Near Guam ?

[nvubu]

Not really. It was built for these - although I suppose that is true for an awful lot of the airfields built in the region.

https://jvthga.am.files.1drv.com/y4mnqQjs2XnSEkQxAyRDb5ydraREvy1PKc9YKcbqRZBvdhmto5Md0Mir_kr4 Y_gZc-K7L3YsC7myYdn7Zqv178rGNbJsLv7SzO6edsWaEF_A8dimRzSv9WfuRd25E5 hyuvoRjP4NaaD114gy8PCqiFB4IkdFYuSzAnl-_hSx9IQ-pNltjfP0_RrLNdS8pwNjAQOf0n-hMahZVRII97MGlS-XQ?width=1024&height=663&cropmode=none

[dook]

You said closer to the Marianas.

Tinian ?

[nvubu]

I said the Marianas are closer to this airfield than the Admiralty Islands - but you are still over 1000 miles away with all your suggestions.

[dook]

I was spoofed by that particular B29. :\

[dook]

Philippines maybe.

[nvubu]

Not in the Philippines either.

https://lxc1ua.am.files.1drv.com/y4mjeMjHYDVY1n4fXje6wUHOmZFRJAgRiYk5LZNIE57agBMGUz_MsDzqzkzX 9jCL1_sHohsEkG63pBrnZ0CueGWZe-H-bwMMaMsAoSaQw6qQR49O0_2_2ilmKsimiF9Tg3k8YqrEJHbS7wYjZtlJKTGv vmXvirmtjiHIzRyEFsaajUUoMh3i2KNE1KkYevnGgah4BLs3gyCi1noNSpZa 4vuXA?width=721&height=572&cropmode=none

[nvubu]

Airfield still under construction.

https://mpng2g.am.files.1drv.com/y4mBkCtlB1klPrD4iQAX9HehFws7mpy4PGKPezkJf2tFVCnuWuPUWiDR8ZoO AKNIBhNXngySGU5QKq_brjDCw_ww4MHgaHKRPPhLsUT_B_SSuGE1C5A2zv76 caRBhFG5G-rOMxymRI2gYtvBOWBrnzoQoCnbec_WwnM2_kUejLX28rszvMVc_vkyRL-5CVm3iQFHn-c1cMMEPv42kOCmcKeow?width=1024&height=738&cropmode=none

[dook]

The P47 makes me think we are not too far from Japan possibly.

[nvubu]

Correct - not too far from Japan - 0 miles in fact.

https://lkkmrq.am.files.1drv.com/y4m5RXfDwORYYi0g5b6z-vuSQnliHyrapqlDLRdDy4LbGf2pJEA9OmoZwNMg9Fa6ftDoQBMSGmUlM87zy 4EEE2wVJtBnoHdlB4JX7Wg5IGIASWRsAZ_LVgi4sJxM_y4Bm8oYygPRi9daX F-488njwjv_hw2oybOeXD6f0__6m0zG-1lN3VpK0Fv2imSs5tm9wHvnRwFEGZzWb5IB-UCa9x8TA?width=1024&height=609&cropmode=none

[dook]

Bolo, Okinawa.

[nvubu]

Now you have it - Bolo, Okinawa, never used in combat

https://ps3mcg.am.files.1drv.com/y4mtwm0c9gYBloA7UrtHgm9vWUYGEQI11PsXpqYYzKs3gmct_ZBxEmyW127G oku_JiQuBLd6DH3bHvEkBmTEPubWHQCPshwC3BaK6DnyoxipmYx93DI4p5ZJ 4lbPQjb0Rk_hPB3Mu8lFr22ZAIfM3lE5o4VvwOvlIJqhKjVvfj-y_qVDEGM35w_S7zL-WtuqYtVbDMPLxnw44hP8Y6e29s15g?width=660&height=584&cropmode=none

https://kndvig.am.files.1drv.com/y4msT2JYVb3n4dh89mXTkf25F5XIHKEqc_R4gdYdmW0yLEAakNDY-y9AuSDTpL6rA9GkVB8OA1b-197_pU8U4qqLds-CvQh5jqmp929eOXQjCXDzQsPG9lxfChKEGPeFQpMS45Xjwc4bSsk3CC2GKSe Jrjzdu48I326077BzajeX0T6eu0FRBNTIzG2IF_usNwOLuD1CWJnj_svcf5Y 5p2jqQ?width=660&height=404&cropmode=none

[Asturias56]

Just look at that fleet offshore in post #18182 :eek:

[dook]

Just look at that fleet offshore in post #18182 :eek:

Apologies - I had gone to bed when nvubu posted.

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/700x387/friday_50b3ac10919daf99f1a6134776b8e1e56605e149.jpg

[Asturias56]

OK - I'll bite.... (but suspect I'm being set up) ;)

mmmm Switzerland?

[dook]

Not Switzerland I'm afraid.

[India Four Two]

How about the only country where I've flown in an HB Porter - Yemen?

[dook]

Sorry, not there either.

[evansb]

Is it an aerodrome in Palestine?

[JENKINS]

RAF Masirah?

[Asturias56]

Masirah had a much squarer Tower IIRC

[JENKINS]

I have been around the square tower in back of Gannet, facing backwards, at very low level. Fifty years ago!

Added - trip was on 26 November 1971. Perhaps the machine had taken part in the Kai Tak venture of several days ago. Pilot? One of, I believe, two within the relevant organisation sharing initials with a South African who played cricket some years later.

[chevvron]

Biggin Hill RAF tower? (early model Porter with piston engine at an air show?)

[dook]

It's not Biggin Hill.

[Asturias56]

Is the location in Europe?

[dook]

No - not Europe.

[chimbu warrior]

early model Porter with piston engine at an air show

Definitely appears to be a PT-6 powered machine, possibly Zimex.

A wild guess, but might this be in Libya?

[dook]

Not Libya.

JENKINS hit it squarely with Masirah.

Photograph taken in 1966.

JENKINS has the thread.

[dook]

JENKINS has found it ^^^^^.

[JENKINS]

Thanks, the photograph had a familiar ring to it. I am now off on long journey to Derriford, visiting. That also will ring a bell. Regret cannot play, so Open House.

I wonder if it was a demonstrator to Royal Oman Police?

[Asturias56]

Lets see about this one...............

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/315x290/2020_01_12_162945_3f2a2c8903c152b387e6e7087076473627d6e35f.j pg

[sycamore]

Early Butterworth...?

[dook]

I'm sure I saw something very similar whilst looking for nvubu's airfield recently.

Around Papua New Guinea somewhere methinks.

[Asturias56]

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/389x221/2020_01_12_163009_1d7d921351ae0b8a7d9a539f88d6dde3ae4fc5b3.j pg
Neither but closer to PNG than Butterworth - bu there is also an Oztralian connection.............

[dook]

I think it could be Ambon.

[Asturias56]

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/165x244/2020_01_12_162517_84b801acc29d959d87b1b50793c8ce94b8714193.j pg
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/740x517/2020_01_12_162809_f847e18e9c4b65ca0cd43b16849bf51766faa989.j pg

[chimbu warrior]

Definitely Ambon (WAPP).

[Asturias56]

Yes Ambon - not my favorite airport at all ... it gets very bumpy with a NE wind funneling down from a gap in the mountains to the NE and late afternoon you can get a lot of Cu building up in the bay. The town is a dump a but at least they've finished the bridge - which saves a long taxi or "interesting" boat ride to town........................ Dook has control and can post immediately..............

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/268x218/2020_01_12_162059_2c6ae2f162bf5b6c51e752232ce2e446d5ff5fac.j pg
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/483x350/2020_01_12_163211_73b736465cecfff6a30149a61e8bb770984d418a.j pg
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/786x835/2020_01_12_161816_332dcfd9dc1ed0480e2a2976f967d76e121476ae.j pg

[dook]

Thank you 56.

For the night shift maybe.

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/650x425/sunday_c93bd7d87644b2e228a5d5b2aee4af2c071dafc6.jpg

[Cubs2jets]

Seletar airport Singapore.

C2j

[dook]

Sorry, but it's not Singapore.

[sycamore]

As it looks like a Blackburn Swift/Velos/Dart,could be at Brough....?

[dook]

Not Brough either.

[chevvron]

That type of hangar was used at Upavon.

[dook]

But it's not Upavon either.

[Asturias56]

Perhaps Gosport?

[dook]

It isn't Gosport either 56.

[dook]

Three Lightning squadron numbers and one Jaguar squadron number operated here in the thirties.

[dook]

The Lightnings squadrons were 111, 19, and 23.

An Empire Day airfield.

[nvubu]

It isn't Kenley is it?

[dook]

No - two letters back in the alphabet......

[dook]

……..
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/278x450/poster1_edf6158e07ec4d7872781ac181834539dab8e0bb.jpg

[Asturias56]

Hendon? tho I'm baffled by your last clue...............

[dook]

My last clue simply lists the Empire Day airfields of which the challenge is one, but it's not Hendon.

There is one there which is the answer.

[sycamore]

Or,back 3..any Hs

[dook]

Surely by now someone must shoot correctly...…….

[sycamore]

Hornchurch....OH if correct,as/when...

[dook]

The challenge has been up for well over 24 hours so I may answer.

It is indeed Hornchurch, sycamore. I'm glad you got there.

sycamore has declared OH.

[kenparry]

Ah, Hornchurch!! No aircraft when I went there, but lots of oil drums, planks, and lengths of rope. OASC in its pre- Biggin days.

[dook]

Blimey.

You're older than me !!

[oxenos]

So am I - I did my selection board at Hornchurch

[dook]

Perhaps we should form a BOF club.

[Self loading bear]

Wow!,
You turn your head to football for half an hour and two threads have exploded

something else in shambles:

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1092x603/a182953b_80cb_45db_b0e4_2f6665dac994_decaa51923110013b7ab87f cf4165249a66ff4a7.jpeg

[Self loading bear]

The hangar in shambles of the first post was in the building stage when it was blown down.

before the build of that hangar it looked like this:

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1272x844/e2804630_44d0_4ca8_b7ed_c6b1aab491a3_a06032c4302bf327183fd32 17d1b4b1b95c974c3.jpeg

[Asturias56]

Looks quite neat and tidy but a load of rather ancient 727's - are we in Florida Bear?

Defo in a right hand drive country - you can see the markings on the traffic circle sign bottom centre..............

[Self loading bear]

Right hand country but not USA

[JENKINS]

Perhaps France, Perpignan?

[Self loading bear]

Perhaps France, Perpignan?

Amazing!
but right

Jenkins has control.

The EAS company as shown on the photos was supposedly involved in some rather dubious aircraft deals.
and also the delivery of the 6 Exocets for Iraq.
(see cockpit thread)

[JENKINS]

Thanks. Air Mauritanie 727 was the clue. I have flown in Mauritania for a short(s) while, but never at this next place. I have picnicked nearby however. Sorry for GE, it is all I have.
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1440x1080/earth_postcard_1579732436_07eb850c6bd29fb62d2d696f85c739d624 c3d71e.jpg

[Asturias56]

looks like Devon to me..............

[JENKINS]

Not Devon, England.

[sycamore]

Birnie,Sturgistan......

[JENKINS]

Birnie is very close, and Birnie Kirk was my reason for visiting. I have seen the field referred to as Easterton, but the simplest title appears to be the Highland Gliding Club. Close nearby is the former RAF Elgin, recognisable in my days there by the former airfield buildings. W/pedia seems to have correct text for RAF Elgin but an incorrect location, namely Milltown.

Birnie, Sycamore, will certainly suffice, all yours.

[sycamore]

Aye,a nice wee kirk...!
A long way to go to seek absolution for your sins ,J..?
Or were you seeking inspiration from St. Brendan the Navigator...?
Anyway,it`s Open House time....!!

[Asturias56]

somewhere a damn site nicer than Elgin................... IMHO of course....................

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/201x229/2020_01_01_163434_b68f73ced5018e0241a7488847997dc479e909e3.j pg

[grizzled]

North America, as a start... ?

[Self loading bear]

I think I recognize some British WW2 Vehicles.
most left could be a CMP (Canadian Military Pattern)
So could be Canada as well.
But most right in the row (mid photo) could be Leyland Hippo or a Retriever or such alike which makes UK or overseas RAF more likely.

[Asturias56]

Not N America and not overseas RAF

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/292x234/2020_01_01_163446_a517aaaffb05a26b3eae0ff0dcf0fdee0ff3bd74.j pg

[Asturias56]

but warm enough to sit outside...

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/118x135/2020_01_01_163332_1252fb2940ecf22905939e512d1b83b8e93920e8.j pg

[Asturias56]

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/286x244/2020_01_01_162731_4a80be90024bbf8d04989abc7f4753cc36688afa.j pg

[Self loading bear]

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/286x244/2020_01_01_162731_4a80be90024bbf8d04989abc7f4753cc36688afa.j pg

I think We need one more clue.
Your last photo doesn’t show much apart that the airport is probably still active.
I have looked for hangars with black stripes on the roof and glass above the doors.
I have tried to identify the DC-3 airline
I looked for airports at 151ft altitude.
I have even looked for airport promenades and fences.
I even start to see similarities with a French WW1 aeroplane but that’s is probably an illusion?

[Asturias56]

Keep taking the tablets Bear!

Its a reasonably well known International airport........ but may be replaced in coming years......

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/146x204/2020_01_01_162805_5317d7c220af84e36ff88ec4c4e522fb5abe3381.j pg

[Archer4]

Hmm, may be replaced in the coming years and 151ft.

Berlin Schönefeld?

Nice people in the tower there. I really liked the crossings they allowed me.

[Asturias56]

Not Berlin - further south...................... not too far from the coast as Bear has noticed..............

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/121x141/2020_01_01_163132_1b3f3e36515c16d54c8143da897d9489abf29c4d.j pg

[JENKINS]

Suspect Air France, guess Ajaccio?

[dook]

Those Constellation fin markings are TAP.

Possibly Lisbon.

[Asturias56]

The master strikes again Lisboa it is..........................

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/277x330/2020_01_01_163305_e7fd8c1a91d8a68faf05a25a35ad37635734d344.j pg

[dook]

Thank you 56.

I'm going for the flying machine challenge, so OH.

[nvubu]

The thread seems to have stalled - so here's one from me for the weekend - I have many more images of this airfield.

https://najf9q.am.files.1drv.com/y4mTqJoHbI8aPwLTlFCw-BgaWAk9Cjqp2qFRRCbxQq-GCWvtLpB3yorO4XyroUR_KHIDGs3lrfCMtbRZu2pxRftSSHKgWUZ7SYuo3Zi que8vMbQD5rMrzbxGabxN2a_1icWNCInN7PWqIF7i5UV28WZLpi-83NZv7YwcJONjeDnKbzvHNslYiHBEt7c_0gfStJPq-LXaQsqf6VpACcSU6C8gQ?width=1024&height=609&cropmode=none

[dook]

Have you defaulted to France again ?

[nvubu]

We are in France

https://bgbl3q.am.files.1drv.com/y4mWSZeGuKdY4HRLdaJK_3gsFUD1bPGf2RtiIDtRLKFfxZexQvYzYZDcS7gF TiMKVjmEy0wtEyAc-cz0TwmRxJ14uzhzhi9VOn1MSSWhAlskDfnqNB4F9Ea_bEH3JmbFCe-cyc-__hZO4MDISYYuKt5pFYNuVjQ6Vy-JGLUK9bhmGoYDz2Rpu3BHpZUWdOnBD0bs5kFdGn8CpLQDf1DmLOqBQ?width =1024&height=316&cropmode=none