Which Aerodrome Mk III

[dook]

Whitney Memorial Airport, St Cloud., Minnesota.

[Asturias56]

Yes - correct - it replaced the earlier airport (which had been renamed as Whitney Field) and operated until the late 60's when it was replaced by the new Regionbal Airport further out of town...... Te Whitney Family (who are big in St Cloud) gave much of the old airport to the
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community as a park.

[dook]

Thank you Ast.

Next:

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/605x450/wednesday_d71bf6c34a2af408dd8efd4372e682b17ecc3dd5.jpg

[Asturias56]

Are we in the UK here?

[dook]

Not the UK.

[Asturias56]

Is this airfield still in operation?

[dook]

Yes - in use. Current temperature +8C.

[India Four Two]

Single digit runway number? USA?

[dook]

We are in Europe and the runway marking is 01.

[Asturias56]

Does it still have the same runway lay-out?

[dook]

Yes - the same layout.

[dook]

Has anyone seen the film "Behind Enemy Lines" ?

This country was heavily involved in that conflict.

[Asturias56]

Serbia ??/ - i thought it might be Laktasi in Republia Srpska but it doesn't look right

[nvubu]

Vršac Airport

[dook]

That's a hit for nvubu with Vrsac'

Your thread - and I expect we'll now get another rare WW2 aerodrome.

[nvubu]

Thanks - your last clue was the give away - I was off looking around Poland at the time :)


For the next challenge, I'll start with two hangars, one flattened, one still standing.

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[dook]

Flattened by a bomb ?

[nvubu]

Affirmative

(a simple yes has too few letters).

[dook]

Yes...…...

[nvubu]

Some more wreckage

https://nkjg9q.am.files.1drv.com/y4ma3w8oHpasXt-EW4J7BWMzHGNg35V_RRMTik1jzBt6td3zmCmXD7JmmE4F2bliZhpiTWO0zCn 9lmSgQIOcQh1SsUZvZUA7CJgLgTM6x3ZYSQvdHKcqhZerMkDGxOgG-mCfxPN314DFdhRsvaD2lx2I4UsSqyfEY_IJGTDrah3ff-wxUDolOU167ippxPcT8cQPjiv5W0VokqjFtLXVoKLOw?width=817&height=1024&cropmode=none

Not too helpful (yet) I guess.

I'll post some more when I get home from work.

[dook]

Was there Japanese involvement in this ?

[nvubu]

I guess this answers that question

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[nvubu]

Silent overnight

Inside the hangars
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[Asturias56]

lets go mad - somewhere in Germany around 1945? Is it still in use? (not the sign I ope...)

[Auxtank]

Did something rather unpleasant happen there in 1972 too?

[nvubu]

It isn't in Germany - these images are from before 1945, and it is still in use.

I can't find any information that something unpleasant happened here in 1972.

https://0ouuog.am.files.1drv.com/y4mO4WAJTyxMHiJVFIA-DUIRmDSeRlquxYEreVnTnl6J4yJi0vDbmlinaM-JZ9H76V1gUuA6TQCrTRAhbeD0hzwqPiGOX_XbqrmJsXIkXg5Fyi_Oqa874xp UL1HF55-sy4qIJ2aJDOELzKRpkXOJuSlvHQsIrx8Ij_lvnYAcPJj-L39nsN_RWJOv1OyM7DzM0Ytmzg-QQ4Ghbd_uD3RJp9ceg?width=1024&height=618&cropmode=none

https://opmkig.am.files.1drv.com/y4m1bq8FbKFbS79RWkfE34Ndbf6JLU64VrbHCA7yon2Krun7oPBWwYVGVOJW VivxT8kmGiubhxFQqH73mex_SPN-xx7niEwoyzWOJkw93UGX5WTnlgPTgqMLv4Jdex_tjLGVcbkAJyNQLBZ8zm60 B0tU21uRm4QDyHGfhRBwcPnATkz1bBhEiTd28EkTbYHXr93hofCGRN5s19K9 3RR8slW1g?width=1815&height=1222&cropmode=none

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I'll go outside with the next images.

[Auxtank]

It isn't in Germany - these images are from before 1945, and it is still in use.

I can't find any information that something unpleasant happened here in 1972.

No, I was thinking Fürstenfeldbruck - which is in Germany.

Then we are in France?

[Archer4]

Was the site destroyed in april 1944?

[nvubu]

Yes, we are in France.

Outside as promised.
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and it wasn't destroyed in April 1944, although there was a lot of destruction in 1943/44.
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Overheads are coming next.

[dook]

Might it be Villacoublay ?

[Auxtank]

I'm going to shoot in the dark and based on dates nvubu punt;

Maupertus-sur-Mer Airfield, 1943, B-17 strike aftermath.

[nvubu]

dook has it, Villacoublay it is.


Before:
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During:
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After:
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[Auxtank]

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/480x360/hqdefault33_72969678b78bf87fe49ce43d1a41b0b06d28c25a.jpg

[Self loading bear]

Edit I was Getty close
but no place mentioned.
Bombing must have been 1943
as this photo is dated 1 January 1944

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/745x874/6f6c25f4_84c0_4fc0_9554_06bff5863548_0420b3e5af0b15d3e28f761 10c391d5c71829b9f.jpeg

[Auxtank]

5 Points to anyone who identifies the engines in Bear's photo and the first one in nvubu's post #18525 in the trashed hangar (believe same location - different angle)...

[dook]

Watch yer six Auxtank
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/300x230/six_67dd09a34d75bbc1112130aec90bca1cd8571ccb.jpg

Next aerodrome

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/700x421/sat_48b6c39adcc87b3050c641939402c020d1436362.jpg

[Auxtank]

Watch yer six Auxtank
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/300x230/six_67dd09a34d75bbc1112130aec90bca1cd8571ccb.jpg

Next aerodrome



Cheers dook,
CMS deployed.
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/431x207/fksf_e0b23f6adb027c7d09ef42de0469481b3f0ecd8a.png

Looks like a Long Horn type thing on the grass there...

We are in Blighty?

[Self loading bear]

5 Points to anyone who identifies the engines in Bear's photo and the first one in nvubu's post #18525 in the trashed hangar (believe same location - different angle)...

Jumo 211J?

[Auxtank]

Jumo 211J?

Yes, good Bear, certainly that variant with the rad fitted in the cowl like that. Powered up those pesky JU-88's.

[dook]

We are not in the UK.

[Auxtank]

Then we are back in France...but not in ancient times - the aircraft era is at odds with the hangar designs...

I'd say that photo was taken in the 60's/ 70's?

Mind you - this is a rather splendid Cote du Rhone that I'm sipping from whilst preparing my repast; so forgive if increasingly meaningless RT.
.--. .. ... ... . -..

[dook]

The photograph is from WW1 and we are indeed in France again.

e-mail for you on a different subject.

[Auxtank]

eM- received.
Going wild on this; it's not that funny little place on the outskirts of Paris is it?
Is it St Cyr-L'ecole...? (I have landed there - and on the strength of my landing, I was not permitted to TO)

[dook]

It was not on the outskirts of Paris

[Auxtank]

Chalky under-soil - we are in Normandy?

[dook]

Non monsieur.

Go SW - Pas-de-Calais.

[Auxtank]

Non monsieur.

Go SW - Pas-de-Calais.

Mais monsieur, dans mon experience le Pas-De-Calais c'est NE de Normandie, non?

[dook]

Apologies.

Say after me " dook is a dik".....

[Auxtank]

Apologies.

Say after me " dook is a dik".....

No, no, no my dear fellow.
You just have to give that old compass a good swing now and again. :E

So Pas-De-Calais eh?

How about Saint-Inglevert then?

[dook]

Now go SE (yes - SE) but not too far.

[Auxtank]

Now go SE (yes - SE) but not too far.

I'm hesitant to go anywhere with that bloody compass you're using mate!
How about some GPS coordinates?
I want to go running back to the safe Magenta Line...

[Auxtank]

Looks like an old WW1 airstrip about 1 click due East (I say again, East) of Audembert?

[dook]

54 miles SE.

[Auxtank]

Possible d'Avesne-le-Comte.
That's a wild guess until I pull my charts/ books out in the morning...

[dook]

Don't bother.

A direct hit with d'Avesne-le-Comte.

Your runway. :ok:

[Auxtank]

Thanks dook.

I'm out and about today so;

OH

[Asturias56]

This isn't in N France.......

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/304x186/2020_02_27_190516_7cef2eddbacd42118a6f68266f198e5cd5b1595c.j pg

[Asturias56]

picture blown up a bit
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/640x392/2020_02_27_190516_0f36623dd381531cd1868fc23fc9cf5428c6b9a8.j pg

[Self loading bear]

Very neat fence, looks new.
Fresly ploughed field beside runway (i assume)
is this a new extension to an existing airfield?

Flatened hills.
I assume Europe?
Ardennes
Harz

[Auxtank]

Nah, Bear - that's Canada. (It's the light)

[Asturias56]

It's Europe alright ...... quite a destination - the airfield has been there since the 1930's but I'm damned if I can find any early pictures ... - here's another one

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/640x523/2020_02_27_185845_cdd7bc0aebcd4feaaa15af1eb1fcb464502fe950.j pg

[jensdad]

Couldn't be one of the less bumpy parts of Scandinavia, could it? Sweden?

[sycamore]

In Latvia...?

[Self loading bear]

Vilnius Lithuania?

[Asturias56]

No we're not in Latvia nor Scandinavia - you need to be further west I think.

This is a major, well known destination with a nautical connection - tho it is not on the sea........


https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/779x421/2020_03_03_090122_db0f75752ccf2768eb16731dbad06b682897f325.j pg

[dook]

Is/was it used by a navy ?

[Self loading bear]

Is/was it used by a navy ?

As not near sea:
Is this about the Luxembourg or Swiss Navy?

[jensdad]

Is that runway part of the road that appears to be disappearing over the horizon further away? If so, I think the Swiss adapted some roads to be used as dispersal fighter bases. Can't think what the nautical connection could be, though...

[Asturias56]

It's a bit closer to the sea than either Luxembourg or Switzerland - its the place rather than the airport that has a nautical connection. Tourism is big here

[Asturias56]

Sorry Dook I missed your question- "Is/was it used by a navy ?" - it was built by some rich enthusiasts, taken over by the military for a while but for many years has been civvie only I believe

I don't believe that any specific naval air units ever used it but I may be wrong - it's hard to discover much about the detail of this place pre mid-50's......... and old photographs are quite scarce

Queries tend to be swamped by Google pages on the nearby city it serves.

[dook]

Thank you 56.

[dook]

Near west coast of Italy ?

[Asturias56]

No I'm afraid not - this place is well connected with established routes to well over 30 other major European cities - but not all the connections are via the airport

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/800x503/2020_02_27_185925_3f82abe1fd2286dbc07ed38c01b67b38e7725739.j pg

[Asturias56]

perhaps more useful

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/794x331/2020_03_04_140507_d681e07da64648994e2d49b35436a49bd9fdbdd1.j pg

[jensdad]

I'm thinking Billund. Nowhere near the sea; a lot of tourism for Legoland; nautical connection as in the Battle of Jutland. But of course this airfield isn't in Scandinavia. Hmmmm.

[Self loading bear]

I'm thinking Billund. Nowhere near the sea; a lot of tourism for Legoland; nautical connection as in the Battle of Jutland. But of course this airfield isn't in Scandinavia. Hmmmm.

I do not recall Billund to have hills.
And from Google Earth I cannot see a straight fence with trees behind.
So I think I can keep searching.

[Self loading bear]

Milan Malpensa?

Not in Scandinavia,
West of Latvia and Lithuania
Straight fence with trees,
Multiple Aerodromes around touristic city?

But probably not enough hills?

[Auxtank]

Are we, this year - off to sunny Spain?

[Flap40]

I'll have a punt at...... Asturias.

[Flap40]

Scratch that. Further west, Santiago de Compostela.

[Asturias56]

¡Santiago, y cierra, España! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_y_cierra_Espa%C3%B1a)

Good shot Flap 40 - Compostela it is - linked by routes (boat and foot) all over Europe used for many centuries by pilgrims. The badge is of course the Pecten - a sea shell (as used by Shell Oil).

Airport opened by a rich flying club in the early 1930's, taken over during the Civil War and then returned to civilan use later. One of Spain's busier airports but not on teh radar for the Stag 'n Hen brigade or the Sun 'n booxe crowd..................

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/241x198/2020_02_27_190452_fd8b840403098a53fa735c180b10c2808e1875e9.j pg
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/245x244/2020_03_03_090015_369998468100d39e5ba9f76d1dc544d64989197d.j pg

[Flap40]

Thanks. I’m surprised you found so many pictures of it with the sun shining. In my experience the wx always seems to be rain/low cloud/mist/fog each time I check it as we fly past. A bit like Cork & Brest.

Open house.

[nvubu]

Been quiet for a couple of days, so here's a starter for 10.

https://awbk3q.am.files.1drv.com/y4mYqyUX7AbpcL5eaOn8liTw9AfKsmf-rNJfCt3-gX1QWbBTYmJsPovlKsE1hC_mhLubx2rij74wUFUBs68mYwYnoEGTDinUIUzN 8uKAIruhbFbjza_aJknBMHHhmugw8YkCMuvT2Hnyzn7XtY-ehM_cDBruN23U2hZN87MeVDqBNKx5x-g3QfEpQ8EAq_rfyCaS1jao3L_nksbEvQC6OWIzQ?width=1024&height=689&cropmode=none

[oldpax]

Wake island!

[nvubu]

I'm afraid we are not on Wake Island.

https://pf5nxq.am.files.1drv.com/y4m_8l3Ypqtpglp3h-nRhjodg2Chzkq7jJYeUxWE4CFzUPc44FIvceVOkcWmhz3ipz1ejSPL9ahRHA 6SITlkCkBOt8qlzxuUU8ebJuDfDzYo8c5YNVFe5bpn0ED7jL35LZ7NQJxbja oPEGyc0GAvLMv83-u3Gd6Afu3_VnrgxTK7GPUaevlg-mckuJQnzH3qC8GdEw_BssekDeo35WSeAlDfQ?width=1024&height=709&cropmode=none

[Asturias56]

Are we on a Pacific Island?

[nvubu]

No we are not on a Pacific Island.

https://oomrig.am.files.1drv.com/y4mkhuhVUZ5soi2DYgqlBGiiurZdaO4k2YdNiLY6ichYDeJD67a0H2Q7H4qz _F3N6kfsXYyZrzkXFo7fIfCC7b-9fvXJjB3iS3CGreYEN5n_YqXSXfUd6KuZj9gy8w68XFYdgddYQwfVWA1dfoM cLj3b3B6nFmgoulEeN1_ldxGVG5PqIVmbNxDe51KsFTyNlwe2U6djFEBt618 5giYkmZt4g?width=1024&height=750&cropmode=none

[Self loading bear]

March air reserve base?
Just because we are in the same month?

[dook]

Okinawa maybe.

[Auxtank]

Muroc Bombing And Gunnery Range - later Edwards AFB?

[nvubu]

I like Bears thinking, but it isn't March.
Neither is it Okinawa or Edwards/Muroc.

The ramp is to the top of this image.
https://qi2qug.am.files.1drv.com/y4mBjL_ZdNERH5kOKVuLacCLNQ-Yytst6kwpYCnDKuw45III_naxcS6FlIRqNTqQLN8hdIESKRTRpeA0qlGW7Vl fhBKwhKNxLpjU_NzAGyj7B1vwWkfgNQ26yPlc-7BbUstu9VP74plH6wyYCKhdrlV-HwTJnB1EqSq6-JCSZZsGRcc2c6qQnPrYwPqNeWPOTG0yMUWZicGHbeVrW1xh03ytA?width=1 024&height=822&cropmode=none

[dook]

Are we in Arizona ?

[nvubu]

No we are not in Arizona

[nvubu]

Here's the ramp - unusually for me, in colour :ok:

https://nrcwma.am.files.1drv.com/y4m3qwWkRxZT66YhMctxjZe9f-wD9lE64IE22ppbxTjSK_LKQRflZgY4QcZ4UKb9PwIM7eJpWaImJaNGIYOzzv qx-6ZYtp0htEhdukx3tFFpPFqkSoG9D8KwUVD0J359eomM2c4RZVibA8iups8rb jSA30jl5MPmsJ9RIXEWgY5TgT1P8hgsQyCsCShqZ9LWBsI_cf3nT8fjaKbUx E-XUQSmg?width=1024&height=541&cropmode=none

[sycamore]

New Mexico...Albuquerque...?

[nvubu]

Not Albuquerque either.

https://ltdbag.am.files.1drv.com/y4mYu4GONBu33LXJSJLNEqY_-Dah9tFhjRWdB4g9z9SJoM-3_ywwEUGncam2Vhzg14vSgDwM24ckKHbZ6kKG7tDo2zhiP14X_DWNfdnCpuU 4qI4ENpzkrfd81kFmMp7JLr6SyAQh0rTjnOZPK7YZrZIhWYba-nK4fkk_ly-c-Paig6RuWtqf4CSn_c7AnBW3UclyNGrJgGKAQgebPeU1WCpUA?width=1024&height=572&cropmode=none

[sycamore]

New Mexico......?

[nvubu]

Sorry not New Mexico.

[Self loading bear]

”Chinese copy” reversed engineered from V-1 first tested from Wright Ohio but much more from Eglin Florida.

[dook]

Wendover AFB, UTAH ?

[nvubu]

SLB was going along the right tracks, but dook has got to the location first. It is Wendover AFB in Utah.

Here are some more images I had lined up - the first two I think would have led you to it much sooner.

Republic-Ford JB-2 - the previous image was a crashed one. The launch site for these is still visible to the south of the airfield.
https://mqjf9q.am.files.1drv.com/y4mZxpeuYLS9mw5gwZVUrHRQizoghBPHZ-AANjR5AWP2Zeb2UkCMNdWA0MMwyOBqvi6SpP0eeo1yfFY-_p8smAJ9P2dThcZL_dRv3-xDRdPqxiFDTsjqMab2U-dFgBnUmhvpg6q6Fi3VQZldHdEeJ00mTplNKCX1mTg3alfHv-N2VN_gBsre1yxGjHbxERHgyhippi5u1cpvbnhQdVFR4dDTA?width=660&height=415&cropmode=none

This image is from September 1945
https://ltdpag.am.files.1drv.com/y4mxomXGar4GGHe_22OLJ0wdiYn2b0LkQv5vKyx67EWpFs72jy44lFDgqxdG D5gHh9-YZqaEmGeBiosWmxh60uSEp5HXg10IfHFqIGNWY3yP0YEGh64yPgqgmFFG_pa 01xcD-hxr792AUxluV6k7PM9RmoGvcErmBLnZxbQLdrMyd2JefeU7DvdZwIbusGOPN tTLsMSkAwACoxI7S47B1hk2Q?width=660&height=400&cropmode=none

On the bombing range
https://0iu9og.am.files.1drv.com/y4mtiTdOrjs071hPpqKNU59PmrGBzbJSrk3SJSHygDl39HDf1xV-8PDtIs54T6XklsPIbJk7BTXWqc3cbJgcfOA9B2bS80vgIu8-s_E_f-JcmEP6yHP_LkIpwJzi9mVhl7mDVVRsgYwKZFR3Hdcp6IiBudiU8vbh1SabPs s32anxmu1dHacfxKDx86i-5zIGxGRIrFbFvU8ZXZD57T7t_6eKQ?width=660&height=497&cropmode=none

https://pf5bxq.am.files.1drv.com/y4mxyaP1qFrSXrKCAWyhPspSmnRYLl_nvQSRdgBw2F-_UYLToliVjD-YA4ggxCu6_GVoqZI2bT7NGNbSz898h2RUrB7ui2GnGoJqltSkawp00uxg8Ag iPadVXrUtnkwj4IrQ62asVKzGJiMX_Cqz06V5fBnkB0s3X3roxGBfn7CmVED iYIhQV6cfsfZySDvj9OAtHX4vNjRSNK9r8_1dh1H1w?width=660&height=512&cropmode=none

And these two were going to be the next images
https://lddhag.am.files.1drv.com/y4mBar2l9IWwFVpvb8NPm7XqoD4PbdY_Ecgev3SEO7NpjCeGeBG7vzp__Bbv I6Oz81CW-ohHE7JE7rHeo02L7eEPJXomuZ61AG96TIVzf3GbuNLW6XuBnHoUWFXAKjXbJ IdGu8Nkpe00WMXgcFsuoZ-D70Lcrh6MjMRzi4SWI5jnsAMx38lg6BlxC5_w0lXANsDaCOr9IMax5KNgK4G uhi09A?width=660&height=456&cropmode=none

https://agbd3q.am.files.1drv.com/y4mP6sUPOiu1lsU8KiefIDUvNj36pWmpUWeyGN4CCRuuItC-RLnoQLkDZXP5_OwckrQFBRyO_93R8POsJD6zE9yiIexrKg7wstuY6LGXvqTu wKhc2ZW6p3tMzSi9Xnyv0CBY0yuSEKyhQ2N36c8Upi1FE_dnhXtmCBdnn36w fBC7pciT20Hn9xaL5wz_8aO1VhIun17uEK7MWX8xnDzAHt7cA?width=660&height=520&cropmode=none

From the 1970s
https://o15txq.am.files.1drv.com/y4mjGidiSSXLrWkZ6ppW_LipdctnNqAEYPiWoVgFqakItwkkQDR-0WMQO0PpuLwhYOXcvpRVVkFzCPvQ7emN2zxVFMsGJdDemA-G8e-cZ9M24iFUqvSlHSMwEQMFwEIq_9J5Ah_LXFA3JCI50FoAGWDZVNmuVHwVA_c bAXP-IQeKYbpKiBEdnfrkugyAGgzF4etUg9ktanwpdPvRue_u3MS2w?width=659&height=660&cropmode=none

[dook]

My apologies - open house.

[Self loading bear]

Time to fill the house
Hamstering pies?

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1133x611/861ec1c0_7e16_4b60_b66d_9475ca969c05_f972ba30b2a7497192b7be3 12449d16d2f4f8a45.jpeg

[chevvron]

All meant for Freddie Starr I presume.

[dook]

....or a bear...….

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/400x400/bear_c92ada604357a918bcce360c3728c93c9805c304.png

[dook]

" hamstering pies ?"

Vliegveld Haamstede ?

[Self loading bear]

" hamstering pies ?"

Vliegveld Haamstede ?

Not everything is a clue.
Hamstering was referring to the shops currently being sold out due to Corona.
(In the Netherlands they are mainly thinking that toilet paper is running out!)
The pies are obviously related to the airfield.

Freddy Starr eating a hamster sandwich,
I had to look that up.
In Dutch that is a “broodje aap verhaal”.

Next clue:
Would you think a Dutch bakery would print his pie boxes with “built from scratch”???

[jensdad]

Would you think a Dutch bakery would print his pie boxes with “built from scratch”???

Good question. I guess there aren't many Dutch hamsters called Scratch :)

[dook]

"(In the Netherlands they are mainly thinking that toilet paper is running out!)"

That's because you are all s******* yourselves.

[chimbu warrior]

Might we be in New Zealand?

[Self loading bear]

Not New Zeeland.
By the way it are the cherries which make the pie.

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/744x881/1c74abce_29c8_4419_a3f7_72d3dacaee61_4db8cbdabaf328fd0284a4a 7fd51f9450411105f.jpeg

[chimbu warrior]

Traverse City, Michigan?

[Self loading bear]

Wrong state

[dook]

Reading the clues so far could it be Cherryland Airport, Wisconsin ?

[Self loading bear]

As we have some hours before a winner can be revealed:
Bonus points can be obtained when the aircraft in the last photo is identified.

[Self loading bear]

Cherryland airport Door county Wi
dook has it again.

The cherry pies were ferried to a funeral of a woman who had visited Door county often and had written a book with various pie recipes.

The canned cherries were ferried in 1940

[dook]

Thank you Bear - excellent clues.

OH

[dook]

By the way Bear,

The aeroplane was the Consolidated Fleetster Model 20A.

What were the bonus points ?

[Self loading bear]

"(In the Netherlands they are mainly thinking that toilet paper is running out!)"

That's because you are all s******* yourselves.

dook
I was to award 3 rolls of toilet paper
But you have just done yourselves a favor

[chevvron]

dook
I was to award 3 rolls of toilet paper
But you have just done yourselves a favor
FAVOUR!!!!

[Self loading bear]

FAVOUR!!!!

Yes, thank you.
I hate it when people put dots when they don’t know how to spell sh!t.
I always give it a try.

[dook]

I bet he can't speak Dutch as you speak English.

[Self loading bear]

Say after me:
De schele Scheveninger reed een scheve schaats.

[dook]

……….Que.....?

[Self loading bear]

A little rhyme to practice the Dutch sch’s
Only years later I found out that the riding a skewed skate means cheating on your wife.

[Self loading bear]

To recap:
Dook has called Open House.

[nvubu]

As no-one has taken the recap:

https://ol5bxq.am.files.1drv.com/y4m-YCB1ZqS7hVQPSbnRjCgzhzJcNVCK5hbAUTWw2dZMI-5z2UM0cH1p4P0x55PEuWYijMS9MCnJNXdA-fso6XoIsgh4siMC_QRM7K_0CFc_PaV03IFkBt7OpsJdwWzIi3X1OKwmMLCLz r1UqedErjNI5CklsDewr1nv9mfqMgZqkg501L9FJSzZfdeZYSbMD49hzZ38w EHlFodFKIta86_1Q?width=1024&height=809&cropmode=none

[chevvron]

I bet he can't speak Dutch as you speak English.
I speak double dutch which I can't understand.

[ea200]

Forward airbase in Burma? For no good reason, I will have a stab at Namponmao.

[nvubu]

You are on the right track ea200, but you have not pinned the tail on the donkey with Namponmao. Have another stab.

I guess this isn't going to last that long now :)

https://mkju9q.am.files.1drv.com/y4m0ScII4yDyTZAka_xgHNaVerEuQ2NpUTcfGs9Xhx5KaI_fPD-olN9a4fyMUTp7mKlCiY0Y4Ox3aC_TtsucZeF-_N8Gb9-A8wpNnu7AAo3W02cQIhTlKX8V7iMxVKM6KYdKpS4SNJ2CrR7qSuY5Lgp3OES vzqd77onK1KVtc4EVhxDSZH17veBPPaWSqpktsrV7pq46W8KNoalDZ9eyAst 8w?width=1024&height=784&cropmode=none

[ea200]

Just down the road at Sahmaw then?

[nvubu]

It isn't Sahnav either.

I guess we are going on a tour of Burma. I'm having to look these up to check the name hasn't changed :)

[dook]

I have been on your tour and found that it isn't in Burma, but India.

[SMOKEON]

Hailakandi Airfield, India.
319th,Troop Carrier Sqdn., 1st Air Commando Group.

[nvubu]

We are definitely in Burma.

[SMOKEON]

Warazup Airstrip

[nvubu]

You have got it right this time with Warazup

Here's a closeup of the tower.
https://npmzig.am.files.1drv.com/y4mprUjOH72a7e8NwPOOPJEUeY_OOy9REbMIxpqQSomRVkSmtdBHbrh9cpEu H6BvSbg1uVN9tX5SvGyqk9ARUlEna4LGd-vGyMM6FZlas3nZpKc1-axGjqAvB0MNkuCYgOwubI3KLGk67DPr6JNvEk2niQE4zLIEFSpFyDlTmNGeF zWYgpLs0JX0bhiZ4j4IBpFJo3TcIKOVTlFPaIEpplgPw?width=858&height=1024&cropmode=none

[SMOKEON]

Thank you, nvubu.
Open House.

[India Four Two]

"Crowd line? What crowd line?"

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/977x542/wad_2020_03_17_6961a96e3fc4fdb361a002770cfbb2e31d319b69.jpg

[nvubu]

UK, late 1940s?

Hatfield?

[Auxtank]

RAF Jurby 1950

Cave low flying Vampires

[chevvron]

SBAC display Radlett?

[India Four Two]

Sorry for the delay chaps. I've been crossing the Pacific - another COVID-19 refugee returning home. Wearing a mask for 20 hours is very unpleasant.

Auxtank has it - an air display at Jurby in 1950. Here's a Mosquito beat-up - with real bombs or just pyrotechnics?


https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1094x610/1950s_jurbyshow_3_87016420784561dd7fe8733d939db598189356d7.j pg

More pictures on Jim Harris' very interesting site - I think it would particularly appeal to Air Traffickers:

Isle of Man Air Traffic Control in the 1950s (http://www.island-images.co.uk/ATC/zRon1950s/z1950s.html)

[Auxtank]

Thanks India. Yes, anything longer than a couple of hours in a mask and one feels one knows oneself a little too well!

Here we are then chaps...


https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/628x450/32523hbvj_acad9ab4f6c2aaeed4b95d9ba3361f8e2aba632c.png

[Asturias56]

WWI France perhaps?

[dook]

nvubu,

When SMOKEON suggested Hailakandi Airfield, India, you said no.

I have found this USAAF photo of your image.


https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/700x533/for_nvubu_01780a5469619ee5f50c21953e92724ef9342ca8.jpg

[Auxtank]

WWI France perhaps?

Qui, c'est vrai.

[sycamore]

Just `backtracking` a bit to #18641,in the middle of the photo is a kid running wildly about,later to be known as `sycamore`,with 5/- ,ready for his first flight in a Rapide.....

[Auxtank]

Excellent sycamore.

[dook]

But wouldn't sycamore have been about 20 when that photo was taken ? :p

[Asturias56]

Is the airfield still in use?

[Auxtank]

Asters - Non.

[nvubu]

dook - you may well be correct seeing the source on your image. My source has the image taken at Warazup on 19th April 1945. SMOKEON got the correct airfield in the end so nothing lost at the end of the day.

[dook]

The previous challenge was resolved.

nvubu,

It just proves that conflicting sources sometimes lead to someone giving the wrong answer.

[nvubu]

As dook says, the previous challenge has been solved (in an Inspector Clouseau voice), Over the years I've had a couple like this - my sources says one thing, another source something else.

Full steam ahead with your challenge Auxtank.

[dook]

The same thing happened to me today when looking for the flying machine challenge.

[sycamore]

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1626/2019_10_04_112048_fat_charlie_ed5187cad40b8dee9f4835f8b6c39b 371225d5e7_c29dc4b2ae5322a61e8cf7a5a326163ebeed7249.jpg
just found this again...
dook,if I`d been 20 then,I`d likely have been flying one of the Mosquitos,rather than just wishing I was.....
What you can`t see on that photo is an RN Avenger parked around the corner of the hangars ,possibly because it was an RAF airshow..
Some 54 yrs later `Admiral Aloysious Fudnucker USN(aka an older `sycamore) displayed an ex-USN Avenger there at the last airshow at Jurby….!!

[Auxtank]

Asters is correct in that it is WWI France

[Asturias56]

Looks very substantial - 1918??

[Auxtank]

Was very busy from 1915 - 1918 and in 1919 was ploughed over.
Nothing to see there now - Mumms the word !

Another angle...


https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/850x350/2_ae3c2ca48aa468f7ac79b226233c2f6124d4f019.jpg

[Asturias56]

Mumms... as in Champagne so around Rheims..... La Noblette Aerodrome, located 1.6 miles (2.6 km) Southeast of the commune (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communes_of_France) of Mourmelon-le-Grand (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mourmelon-le-Grand) ???

[Auxtank]

Yours Asters.
Was also known as La Cheppe - depending on which end of the airfield you were standing.

Asters has the stick.

[Asturias56]

Phew!! Sweated blood on that one.................. thanks for the clue

Somewhere more modern


https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/720x435/72687222_773268279787734_803763667286884352_n_f13bb96c0ce659 35de2a16826c53613d162db3bb.jpg

[chevvron]

Looks Nice.

[Auxtank]

Looks rather odd. Old and new.
Sunny Spain?

[Asturias56]

Not Spain - a ways from there....
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/397x193/2020_01_25_163452_e4931e25e68fab49877569199e14abeb9755d78f.j pg

[Auxtank]

The make of rikshaw precludes India...?

[Auxtank]

Here be marmalade.
El Aeropuerto Capitán FAP Pedro Canga Rodríguez (Código IATA: TBP, código OACI: SPME)

That was the most intense WA I've done so far.
Rikshaw - non Indian.
Far East tuk tuk search.
Home in on non-charachteristic overhanging rear bicycle tyres - South America - specifically Peru.
Small airport building - big jet parking...
Much GE zooming.
Arrive.

[Self loading bear]

Applause
I hadn’t even started yet.
Strange loop for cars/busses on the apron side.
Especially as there appear to be no busses!

[Auxtank]

Cheers Bear, looks like a loop for pax busses - it's mainly a holiday airport;
Wiki: The airport is used mainly by locals and national and international travelers because of its proximity to beaches and resorts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FAP_Captain_Pedro_Canga_Rodr%C3%ADguez_Airport

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/597x388/dgggd_85aabdfb903d3ca41457db6df79bb48e25908bb2.jpg

[Asturias56]

Aaaagggggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh hhhhhhh :ok:

Bloody hell - "the clever men in Oxford know all there is to be knowed..."

It is indeed Pedro Canga Rodríguez - right on the border and used by inhabitants on both sides to get to & fro

Auxtank has it and I'm off the nearest railway line - but there aren't any trains running.......................


https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/420x315/10366155_354628926_n_75a2ed4d05fad25eb30dbcf40b697de5d82d0eb d.jpg
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/720x960/29187165_414693768958213_6006455585283768320_n_b201564844cd3 fd1d8fd83e62c0320a0d0c21b1f.jpg
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1920x1280/17389207_10154979450655856_4244846716497805239_o_d6fee001dfd 232c67ebadb4277955448f200d860.jpg
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/674x631/2020_01_25_162857_b8fc5fe88ebe42328bde58d12723654055972c42.j pg

[Auxtank]

An interesting challenge Asters - it was the rickshaw that gave it away...
I doubt there's a man living with a greater knowledge of the various rickshaws of the World than I, Watson.

[dook]

Girly bars as well no doubt.

[Auxtank]

Ahem! yes, well..that's quite enough of that thank you mr dook.


Herewith devilishly difficult challenge...

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/400x214/ffbfgb_322d0cd8df9469f1611eef00a55390ec08bc5de7.jpg

Just doing an "Asters", i.e; just nipping out for a bit.

[Asturias56]

"I doubt there's a man living with a greater knowledge of the various rickshaws of the World than I,"

that's the problem on here - too many experts on the most arcane subjects - no knowledge at all that's useful of course but rickshaws or Indian train conductors Uniforms 1850-1875 and we're there.....

The picture looks like Bonnie Scotland to me?

[chevvron]

Lerwick (new airfield not the old one)

[Auxtank]

Nope.
We are not in Scotland me wee haggis's, haggessises...haggisae?
Sheep sack stuff..

Sorry.

[jensdad]

I'm thinking possibly South-Eastern France, foothills-of-the-Alps sort of area?

[Auxtank]

I'm thinking possibly South-Eastern France, foothills-of-the-Alps sort of area?

Check HDG - Ignore DME - from Lerwick.

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/350x338/ndmap1_e443ab3614a27f3e8f2b6217c381352d833f9a0d.jpg

[jensdad]

Check HDG - Ignore DME - from Lerwick.
A quick glance at my atlas has me thinking it's more Switzerland, Italy sort of way... If I have time tomorrow, and if nobody has it by then, I'll get me protractor oot.

[Auxtank]

jensdad - you were closer with that first answer.

No-one else want a punt?

[Self loading bear]

Belgium then???
I stab at Liege

[Auxtank]

No no no Bear - South...
jensdad had it with France...

My flight planning software says 160° - (see Airbus A320 ND above) or thereabouts...from Lerwick.

Good hunting Bear.

[Self loading bear]

Colmar has some hills in the background.
But seems to be to far away?

[Auxtank]

They are - as you say - too far away.
But your compass might need a dip - round to the right a bit.

[Asturias56]

S France - Pyrenees???

[Auxtank]

Right country - wrong mountains Asters,

If you're down there see if you can tune to the Toulouse VOR (TOU 117.70) - go TO then fly the O/Bound Rad of about 50ºM. You'll lose the VOR at 130NM or so but you'll need to keep flying a fair bit after that until you get there.

[dook]

Not many navigations skills in evidence here.

Auxtank has told you where it is and how to get there !

[Self loading bear]

Not many navigations skills in evidence here.

Auxtank has told you where it is and how to get there !

It is not so much the skills as the hardware available.
I like this way of clues but I
have no (free) app for air navigation on my phone.
anything you can recommend?

[dook]

Yes - Google Earth.

Make sure you set the distance measuring scale to nautical miles.

I'm sure you have that, but there's one simple thing to do before it. :)

[Flap40]

I think it might be Bellegarde - Vouvray.

[chevvron]

Vouvray?.
Don't mind if I do.

[Auxtank]

I think it might be Bellegarde - Vouvray.

Bravo Flap40. It is indeed Bellegarde-Vouvray Airport; ICAO: LFHN; IATA: Type: Small Airport.


https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/900x488/18_36_3_4102d97d050a04c1ce6fee339cffb3f0a82f4dea.jpg

You win the prize...

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/300x300/dgdfgdf_04d52673575d8911b65d1b52740c09dc2d3affca.jpg

- though note This Vouvray is not THE Vouvray - Loire Valley, where said celebrated wines come from.

Bear - a good free air nav map is Skyvector https://skyvector.com
SkyDemon is very good but you need a subscription.

Flap40 you have control.

[Self loading bear]

Google earth
A right I used Google maps up to now .
GE gives distance but not heading?

[dook]

GE gives bearing and distance. Bearing is degrees true.

[Flap40]

Ta. Open house.

[sycamore]

So,the DME was to LTP then....?

[Auxtank]

So,the DME was to LTP then....?

The A320 ND was solely to give a HDG clue from Lerwick - with instructions to Ignore DME.
Though you're correct in that LTP is indeed on that course.

By that token if you'd followed the nav clue I gave Asturas56 From VOR TOU outbound 50ºM you would have flown slightly N of LTP and closer to VOR LSE at Lyon.

If I do another - Navigate to the aerodrome - challenge I shall ensure that all given nav clues fit together and can be cross-referenced.
It was coincedence that the bearing did in this case - so well spotted.

OH has been called by winner Flap40

[nvubu]

I, for one, have no idea what any of that means - apart from the OH.

[Asturias56]

I follow the railways..............

[Auxtank]

Sorry - navigation's my bag, as it were.

Asters - railways are good - especially as they glint nicely in the moonlight.

Anyone got anything? where's the dook?

[dook]

dook is here, but I have a challenge up on the silhouette thread.

I think 56 might mean IFR.

[Auxtank]

Thought so.
See you over on the silhouette thread.

[Self loading bear]

Should not be difficult as BOAC was only a small operator compared to today’s Airlines?

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1133x596/8f3616dd_c94d_4450_9788_b077e9c923f0_b6e19305f539d420365d775 cb58c0e6903607d5b.jpeg

[OUAQUKGF Ops]

Hong Kong?

[jensdad]

Sorry for disappearing mid-challenge there. I'll be interested to find out where this is, if only because it looks very much like my local. It isn't, by the way. I'll take a stab at Gander.

[Auxtank]

Tokyo Haneda

[Self loading bear]

Jensdad,
You will have to stay tuned a little longer it is not
Honk Kong
Tokio
nor Gander

[dook]

USA or South America ?

[Auxtank]

Are we in the Far East?

[nvubu]

Is that a KLM tail top right? If so hazard a guess at Schiphol?

[JENKINS]

Military Airlift Command.

[sycamore]

Think it might be Bangkok....tropical weather,lightweight clothing,USAF C54,couple of Beech 18s,possibly couple of other mils ,left upper...dolly with umbrella...

[Self loading bear]

ID of the MATS C-54 is probably correct.
(thanks for this find, I can now present my son with a whole lot of his “own” aircraft!)
The twin engine to be a KLM is highly unlikely.
Weather assessed correct.
Not in the Far East

Nice to see such a great crowd on the search.

[Auxtank]

Palisadoes, Jamaica.

[dook]

I think you missed my previous post.

[Self loading bear]

I think you missed my previous post.

I have not missed it all.
If I don’t answer it, it should say enough.

But not Jamaica.

[Auxtank]

But not Jamaica.

In the neighbourhood though?

[Self loading bear]

In the neighbourhood though?

Yes, In the neighborhood as being
USA or South America
(and tropical weather)

[dook]

"I have not missed it all.
If I don’t answer it, it should say enough."

I seem to have missed something here. If you do not answer then I understand you mean correct. This should be interesting.

Must be Central America then. If that's correct then I assume you will remain quiet.

[Self loading bear]

USA or South America ?

dook,
I do not read Central America in your post above?

edit
but I have to admit the border is shaded

[dook]

I'll take a punt at Piarco Airport, Trinidad.

[Self loading bear]

Dook has it with Trinidad Piarco.

Today I learned that Trinidad and Tobago as well as the ABC islands are often regarded as South America but are also listed as Central America (in Wikipedia)

[dook]

Thank you Bear.

I regard it as Central America.

OH

[chevvron]

Thank you Bear.

I regard it as Central America.

OH
They're all Caribbean to me.

[Auxtank]

You tell a Trini - (Trinidadian) that he's American (South, Central or otherwise) you're likely to get a punch on the nose. Especially during Sunday School - not what you think - more of a riotous Sunday evening party with much drinking and foolery than Church matters - ask me how I know!

[Asturias56]

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/326x310/2020_03_21_151110_2b5b46c840cf5fc7ed8db166da4243c0e3a9947d.j pg


try this..............

[Self loading bear]

Non tropical
at first sight

[Auxtank]

Bear goes in.
Giant's binoculars deserted in the centre of the picture.
Apart from that - I see nothing but Far East - maybe Japan.

Asturias has laboured hard to achieve...difficulty Level 5 (of 5)

And tricky it is.

[Asturias56]

Non tropical
at first sight

Not tropical but this isn't a common sight there.......

East but not that far.......

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/381x262/2020_03_21_151205_ab1ba7f6af60d5ff966fe45ee5b945993ee798e6.j pg

[sycamore]

Lebanon....?

[Asturias56]

CLoser than Japan... it does get a bit dry here - more often than it snows!! clip form a landing video

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/612x555/2020_03_21_152321_0314c023699c0816593078587b57e588a4283263.j pg

[Auxtank]

Alexandroupoli

Tricky one, snow threw it completely off but the control tower design led the search and ultimately betrayed the location.


https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/400x267/vdv1_4f5b4b771894b0e4e2a2a1c39858482d7bfd146c.jpg


https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/511x316/fdsf_be24ad710bc5d921361132e77d6af74055783902.jpg

[Asturias56]

Yes it's Alexandroupoli - couldn't resist it once i saw the snow picture.. I was also going to post the Turkish chopper that defected there a while back ....... over to AuxT

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/561x312/2020_03_21_152421_4065369985ca949260046a0d5690170d0073b0fe.j pg
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/291x303/2020_03_21_151146_2797a607e0d241192a7b82a62315fbfbd52912c1.j pg
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/229x163/2020_03_21_151940_d5b3d7081b4d99c016a0317d06ad0219e7433086.j pg

[Auxtank]

Thanks Asters - yep, snow was a good ploy.

Here we are then...


https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/679x398/sksb_ea0a4f9aa1a00b6033603706972b177169c5cc08.jpg

[UV]

Lot of American aircraft. Left hand drive cars with front number plates so not USA. West Europe?

[grizzled]

Canada perhaps?

[Auxtank]

Canada perhaps?

Not a million miles away...

[ea200]

Maybe Montana from your reference to Big Skies? Wild guess at Missoula.

[Self loading bear]

Not a million miles away...

Airport de Saint-Pierre Pointe Blanche?

[Asturias56]

we had that earlier - I posted it - and I don't think so

Interesting hill/mountain in the distance on the challenge

[Auxtank]

grizzled is correct; we are in Canada.

[Asturias56]

Someone wake up India42..................

[India Four Two]

I'm here! Just a bit slow getting up these days, while counting down the last days of my quarantine!

Left hand drive cars with front number plates so not USA.

I'm confused by UV's comment. I live in Alberta, which, as far as I know, is the only jurisdiction in North America, where cars don't have front number plates. Saves the government a lot of money, but must really irritate the cops.

An airfield on flat land with a prominent hill in the distance. I don't know of any hills like that on the Prairies. I had a look at Abbotsford and Boundary Bay in the Fraser Delta, but those don't fit the bill.

The predominantly white number plates might indicate Ontario.

[Auxtank]

I'm here! Just a bit slow getting up these days, while counting down the last days of my quarantine!



I'm confused by UV's comment. I live in Alberta, which, as far as I know, is the only jurisdiction in North America, where cars don't have front number plates. Saves the government a lot of money, but must really irritate the cops.

An airfield on flat land with a prominent hill in the distance. I don't know of any hills like that on the Prairies. I had a look at Abbotsford and Boundary Bay in the Fraser Delta, but those don't fit the bill.

The predominantly white number plates might indicate Ontario.


India Four Two takes it with Boundary Bay. Nice deduction Holmes - it fits the bill.

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

India Four Two has the yoke.

[India Four Two]

Well, well!

I dismissed Boundary Bay because I couldn't find the yellow traffic barriers, but my inspection was too cursory! Here they are:

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/569x436/screen_shot_2020_03_27_at_22_48_08_a93f7bd52a3014a2603bc1de7 c28d961aa06308a.png

Now I'm going to have to find that hill. It must be in the US - there's a reason the airport is called Boundary Bay.

Nothing to hand, so Open House.

PS The hill looks like it is on the peninsula immediately south of the border, just west of Blaine.

[Auxtank]

I think it might be either Mount Constitution or Mount Dallas over the border down near Friday Harbor.

[nvubu]

As it is Open House, I'll start the weekend: link to a large image here (http://www.nvubu.co.uk/pprune/20200327_00.jpg) if anyone wants to try to identity the aircraft.
https://ov5oxq.am.files.1drv.com/y4m5o24Z8nySZ28fy_00-z6uAdCUBdr-9ZTP-UOcbsl6hjcIGalwXtGJmdn7DcyGKF3Hd_QB3kHvhR6niTaui3tbWfx_Rp-pFQoTmzsV4s5zdL4gkiI_yNmDZlvvBkdCqz7Mdyii7d4HU5y_W8mhtwTUJ06 a7cYDohehbzz69KGQYcFIwgy7d72zZOEg-q5MsHNER5IwVZztMjItZZ5zNAyTQ?width=1024&height=771&cropmode=none

[Asturias56]

are they Me-262's north or above 3 the hangers?

[nvubu]

They look more like tail wheels to me rather than a tricycle layout.

After a visit by some bombers.

https://a3xqfw.am.files.1drv.com/y4mTjG1QWhs4EeK_KcIZdIvYdRs7UrwfmXk-fKLHwNUdXxFY6LLbKD7o8l6Dw9sTOE3HYodF0sfEzdXXRW-WjWEK-lk2HgliVRMjzmrE3BxmkdoMhxb9hWSE05KI8z_NZn0pjXDMcVO8h-GLetuLpQYzXipAvAduSiUzVCNypgNLfKrctlvtrg-aWEkLiVpfGk_-6irB9eQXQZVvh_rkyac1g?width=1024&height=789&cropmode=none