Which Aerodrome Mk III

[Jhieminga]

Nice photo from earlier times at Gilze-Rijen!

[Self loading bear]

Jelle on the ball!
Would it have been more difficult if I had posted this one first?

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1023x569/579117b8_df7b_47b1_8807_4615dfb5a893_a8a305a12a0b37ba26e708a eece8c830d2073914.jpeg

[Jhieminga]

I must say that the NF-5 helped a lot :p The interesting question is: what was the reaction from the cyclist on the left of your first image. It would appear that he/she is past the traffic lights...

Open house by the way, I've got loads of bad shots taken from various aircraft but not a lot that would make an interesting challenge.

[OUAQUKGF Ops]

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1439/gettyimages_158600417_2048x2048_3ae5f6163e081821634aa93a5c45 7ba3a1a0f2dd.jpg
Forgive me if this has been featured before.

[OUAQUKGF Ops]

Clue: And The Wall Came Tumbling Down..........

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1300x904/airport_tegel_is_being_constructed_during_the_soviet_blockad e_of_west_dyfawb_spot_dea1eddf4bc00a3082c809f229d3d5cf0ad80a 1a.jpg

[Allan Lupton]

That'd be Jericho International then!

[Self loading bear]

That'd be Jericho International then!

with the famous Babylon control tower

[OUAQUKGF Ops]

Sorry I don't have much of a sense of humour. Can't stand those bratwursts playing around on that 'Gate Guardian' Halifax.

[OUAQUKGF Ops]

Perhaps this will help?
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1408/gettyimages_545706289_2048x2048_spot_40e67fd24ee8651ef4facb9 bb1e7b170603eab64.jpg

[dash7fan]

Berlin Tegel ?

[OUAQUKGF Ops]

Well done. Tegel it is. Construction commenced 5th August 1948 - Operations commenced 5th November 1948. I suspect this image is of the formal opening which I believe took place in December 1948 . Concrete was not available so bricks and rubble from the ruins of Berlin was compacted and topped with tarmac for the runway ,taxiways and aprons.

[dash7fan]

Thanks, the new challange

https://i.imgur.com/rtyJPeAm.jpg

[mustbeaboeing]

Lorient Lann Bihoue LFRH LRT en France

Open House if correct

[G-ARZG]

KOPF Opa Locka, Florida... Lockheed Constitution
I saw this 'off airport' near OPF in 1978

OH if correct

[dash7fan]

GZG correct, OH

[mgahan]

This airport is still operating, but with a different "owner" since the days when this picture was taken .

MJG

[mgahan]

About a decade later I had a similar view (without the DC6) and saw aircraft takeoff to drop 500lb bombs just behind the hill in the middle distance.

MJG

[JENKINS]

Butterworth?

[mgahan]

Certainly is Butterworth. circa 1967. The next clue was to be the attached shot of a Lancaster, with a red kangaroo tag.

I spent three years and one hour there 1975-78. The outbound charter (QF 166 -a B707) was delayed six hours and the one hour was critical as it made me eligible for Malaysian tax. .

Officiated at a couple of ejections from RAAF Mirage during my tour, one as tower controller and one as the traffic director using the AR1 feeding to two finals controllers using SLA3/C. Both pilots suffered only minor injuries. The first had been a year ahead of me at school and when I turned around to tell the supervisor about the second I came face to face with the pilots wife who was part of "Ladies night Flying Tour".!

MJG

[JENKINS]

Thanks. Pan Am R and R flights interesting. I gather that aircraft joining downwind from the range at Butterworth may have caused Air Traffic problems.

Try this: I have very limited facilities, self and machine, but I hope not too easy. My father ended his military career ici many years ago.
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1440x1080/earth_postcard_1581962591_dccaf36a06531e24ba39db831938f9a17f f48e1e.jpg

[jensdad]

I know Wellesbourne Mountford has a large industrial unit on part of it these days, could it be said aerodrome?

[mgahan]

Jenkins,


Not a serious issue in my day. At Song Song they would call on the last pass and join up on the range to track for initial 36 (usually via west of Penang) or depart the range in trail for a down wind rejoin. Fitting them in a busy GCA pattern for 18 was sporting, to say the least, particularly if we had a Bulldog in the sequence. .

The bombing I observed near Bukit Mertajam, as noted in my post was real time against CT's. But don't tell the Australian Government: they still insist the actions at the time I was there were "not warlike". Guess those black bags being taken off the TUDM Alouettes (https://int.search.tb.ask.com/search/GGmain.jhtml?enableSearch=true&rdrct=no&st=sb&p2=%5ECAO%5Exdm364%5ETTAB03%5Esg&ptb=7E3673DD-AE7D-435C-8855-495EF0F845CE&n=7858233b&si=&tpr=sc&searchfor=Alouettes&ots=1592021863365&ots=1592021872082) on many afternoons contained body shaped logs. Only last week I was explaining to an associate here in paradise the difference between POB and SOB.

MJG

[JENKINS]

Good day, not Wellsford Mountbourne.

[chevvron]

Westcott??

[JENKINS]

Not Westcott. Father retired from Royal Air Force in 1975, so this station was still being maintained at that time. I believe that on his return from India in 1946 he disembarked, from bomb-bay of Liberator, at Oakley, just down the road from Westcott.

[chevvron]

Yes I believe Westcott was pow repatriations.
West Raynham?

[JENKINS]

Not West Raynham. Raynham a far lovelier spot than this. Here we have a very aged, in aviation terms, British airfield. Royal Air Force flying ceased here in mid-1970's; little is left, bar an occasional crash gate ( remember those? ). I believe that the present occupants have named the place after a school in which two of this parish have taught.

[JENKINS]

Here is another view, building underway and some of it in flames since then. I can make out the house occupied by my parents long ago, in the lovely days before the local market town became the place it is now. For the obscure of mind, there is a one-word cryptic clue in my earlier ramblings.
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1440x1080/earth_postcard_1592141702_c18c9fc0963b9cc54636ce4afea02e6434 86b2bc.jpg

[sycamore]

There is a `flyover` over there and another by an Andover when it was handed-over...over..?
and I lived over there out of sight ,on the right.....

[JENKINS]

Over Dover, on handover, with a Landrover, for Andover........Over. Or words to that effect, silly really. A lovely grass field, wonder what Spitalgate and others of that ilk are like these days. Marlborough Lines, Co-op, Ocado to come.....and go.

All yours Sycamore. Familiar from ETPS days?

[sycamore]

Jenks,lived in `Andover for a couple of years; the dual carriageway wasn`t then,but my Mini knew the way home,like a good horse,especially on TGIF; knew all the laybys,marked with `purple-rain`...
Sorry,it`ll have to be OH.....

[India Four Two]

I flew over Andover on a cross-country during my PPL. A wonderful grass airfield. I never would have recognized its current incarnation. At least there’s still an airfield of sorts, if you look carefully. Part of Marlborough Lines:

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1164x750/a356b0fe_2377_49d2_af60_9c014ebb37d3_1fadafc362b4bd3005b0c4e 6b153b8eae34fc476.jpeg

[Self loading bear]

Let’s see how long this lasts.

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/557x247/b002a17f_39fd_4c9f_a8b2_8b36c2a930e5_a86eb4c9b093cdc7675b37b 5e66ae179ae9ad5cf.jpeg

[jensdad]

The cars look British, or at least European, so I'm thinking it is in one of those land masses? If I had to guess I'd say Britain.

[Phileas Fogg]

Is the car on the far left the back end of one of those Citroens, the ones that had headlights that turned with the steering wheel?

[Self loading bear]

Is the car on the far left the back end of one of those Citroens, the ones that had headlights that turned with the steering wheel?

You are probably mixing the Citroën SM (with the moving headlight) and the Citroën DX19
But it is neither

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/800x600/ac49a657_6be6_42d7_be39_298d888dff09_57988ac3fa3b5be0b2e8696 4ba81af06e9387a3c.jpeg
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/275x183/04d68595_b313_4cef_b46a_b0d32b4c248f_2878627afcffe427be9f054 d05e4763e72ee697d.jpeg

It was a European side (no longer exists)
Not UK

[washoutt]

It looks like a Renault Dauphine to me, with its cooling slots in the back.

[JENKINS]

Kunovice, Czech Republic as it is now?

[Self loading bear]

Not Chechia but closer to your brother
photo just taken an hour ago

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/640x413/19371aa0_c0f7_4873_8ac2_edcd466ad70c_826a183e4c85a876b95885c 09d6dc77d1fbf14dc.jpeg

[JENKINS]

Such a sky one would see when crossing the European coast between Dunkerque and Den Helder. No idea beyond that.

[Self loading bear]

Further East from that line.


https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1137x804/b28b287c_816f_40d6_b2ca_fad2009e68ae_376d7921235ba13ce8e6054 cd0d56b5e760f49d3.jpeg

[sycamore]

Centre d`Equestre de Dolembreux(former airfield)....Tipsy Junior,Walter Mikron OO-TIT.

[JENKINS]

At least I got the engine, but then 'Let' my imagination run wild.

[Self loading bear]

Centre d`Equestre de Dolembreux(former airfield)....Tipsy Junior,Walter Mikron OO-TIT.

Exactly,
I drove by on the way back from (hopefully) last trip to Luxembourg.
Althoug that hope might be Du Pont trop loin.

photos from this Website (https://www.hangarflying.eu/2017/01/dolembreux-over-vliegtuigen-en-paarden/)

sycamore has the stage

[sycamore]

Fenetres et Portes sont Ouverte ...!

[nvubu]

Is it just me or has all the functionality gone from the reply/advanced.

I don't see any formatting options, or any options at all, and the "source" button - which is how I add my images from onedrive - is no longer visible.


Got round the image "issue" by pasting the path, preview, changed the url & /url to &

So here's the next challenge

https://qtetba.am.files.1drv.com/y4mw6ukw_IKjlmFgfromb6njrbzBW_S4OKs_xcHC6sHdWUfYfHc3dh5vo7h9 FBz2_UPYNVFBorqkRtQaLZQmEo5ThgWatSy1sahCPQlFzYDkJG5Vx2Ws3hDi a3JjpKPwuPPEMQ4o2x6VW7_N4tZ0ejUdL4GjI55US5SVjYU_oVthYfFjkcBZ tUahmMdOcKzSvztFbuhX4-b3k36Sg6mfxYcTw?width=1024&height=488&cropmode=none

[JENKINS]

Stansted Airport?

[nvubu]

Not Stansted

[nvubu]

Not on the Indian sub-continent.

https://bafqkq.am.files.1drv.com/y4mTZV3alU8foVjpytmrb6JL6FjJjxQ3OjujvVx1I7PDtGUxJ43exBQGoSa4 BaltG41U3nJyjsjhl9PqZkRzos6jqJ1MPDbEabX0cwj7Mq5wE2kB2LWvCWSe xAo3XubtOUHrZjDvP_nbI7tZI2D97HajCHcuy8FeMR2d5Y-DE-e2ctTzhLsVgBBFKEo_Bg_l5omI1UtI5q2rtT0FDiE3sGPig?width=1024&height=488&cropmode=none

[chevvron]

Banjul aka Bathurst?

[nvubu]

Not Banjul either

https://cbynna.am.files.1drv.com/y4mUwJ4PFQab8PYwITZuanTrDxFVD9XTyoEj0rmO8MHf6kg1fH0Dhj4nz06c nzfmL6OpP_DNxwggdRxQyzQ2x_nNMxFKmG4MHm5nQ0i0eFQuDCbtZBhKkApc I6j4gU6m_W2k9s6f-1Uh9Xwm6XMzGieXMEJ_2mdZFAV1nQnxAXSH73WC41rreO9USbQ8z5CMptmFe OhaZJyg17DnbhhSQpPRg?width=1024&height=488&cropmode=none

[sycamore]

Manston..?

[nvubu]

It isn't Manston.

I think I've led you astray with the greyscale pictures for long enough - sorry :), so here's one in colour - from around last Christmas

https://4lpisq.am.files.1drv.com/y4mtVb1rflsF-BUnRzVf_gpnFtZyGIip2y3H5cLZ_rMVM8Fdv8KbSG_jVm4fFDQId4WahdxEU adeZuTM9gKOCi6ggYTCYCGe8_KT8ADDWbvCQep2iDFnVyJxlVk24r0i0O8IV kuEfpQsDKlhu3E9HSHh_wuqEomRRnIk2suuUXwXEGyqMihRmqDWC38OuSXKm szJ5t7CvzhUlHgbF_WAKq2LA?width=1024&height=488&cropmode=none

[Self loading bear]

Dara Sakor Cambodja?

[nvubu]

Not on that continent

[JENKINS]

Western Sydney?

[nvubu]

Not in Australia either. This is not an ex Aerodrome.

https://ey8k7a.am.files.1drv.com/y4m9sg1tfVvZqEkIJ8xOrIGDn1AZDLONTm4dmNCtNgrsB3xcVJO5_Ehovzh6 aDy7gLCM8yyOSoWmDgvlO9veYTchYqM0rA1bBiMlepHbfKm7m_-SI5g_WCBYYmgShFQkNhxaIuZjDB5GI6SXaksNWRT_lFymh2cuoXpybblFcUJ 4SobJOzw2C-it109RHrvHclLeGArbwpC2xx939YGv-eY6Q?width=1024&height=488&cropmode=none

[JENKINS]

Last guess; Laterite, Africa, Luanda?

[Flap40]

Bugesera International Airport?

[nvubu]

You are both on the right continent, but not the correct airport.

Construction started approx 5 months after Bugesera, however unlike Bugesera, this airfield doesn't appear on Google Earth yet, although it has made quite a mark on the ground. It is going to be an international airport, although nowhere near the capital or any other city.

https://d11fyq.am.files.1drv.com/y4mpr51i42MaFjMWDhAFC6p6JwtHwQsO-vBI6XpXvOX271Ef7LS8Mq753kyx--iyKd3XftIqc-Mizn9R4Y1-v6fmjhhxwaQXDcwWkFN902LYE0oD27wLBWiaFdF5hWtDhwRgGk-0WeZfSTjzrtFwRMR7Eah82SF9omamD-4IWqnyR2tLcL6SnPu9QvLes5MEp5Je2LPQBHE5oEwvQrLX7O4Jg?width=19 21&height=916&cropmode=none

[Self loading bear]

Absera/Bishoftu South East of Addis Ababa?

[Self loading bear]

On second thought I think Copperbelt International airport in Zambia is a better fit.

[nvubu]

Not Ethiopia or Zambia.

There was quite a big clue in my post #19058 as to a source of funding, which might narrow down the possible countries. Remember all of my images are from the last few months - so no runway yet.

https://doi3vg.am.files.1drv.com/y4mSuQbd5jMuvnyS04Utz5aK7hbYocjliJ9KuQD-VJ5NBv7qXzMHQEyu0mbsb7WVIfOv0dYjRuCUSftSHBWNoF05LFvccTUE5IL3 SANpjyY5J3WqwuAPTbxcee9qLLYEmRuLwSx6ImXFMZmmGFlzTYGM8d4gIXJA CZ8PSw-eJWw2uNm9x_Mvih9GNqIbuK6Kyg5xiTizvcPqIJQl6WJiFO6hg?width=102 4&height=488&cropmode=none

[India Four Two]

This one, near Hoima in Uganda?


https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/609x573/screen_shot_2020_06_22_at_20_47_39_cc4e9918a6eee1755e6ebaca5 3c97bbae4581192.png

[Senior Pilot]

Is it just me or has all the functionality gone from the reply/advanced.

I don't see any formatting options, or any options at all, and the "source" button - which is how I add my images from onedrive - is no longer visible.


Got round the image "issue" by pasting the path, preview, changed the url & /url to &


nvubu would you raise your problems in PPRuNe Problems and Queries (https://www.pprune.org/pprune-problems-queries-140/) please?

The current functionality is a constant problem which is raised by Mods but generally ignored/rejected by IB management. The more posts about formatting, etc, the more likely to get a response :ok:

[nvubu]

India Four Two has it. It has a couple of names either Hoima International Airport or Kabaale International Airport.

Unlike most of the other infrastructure projects in Uganda (Africa) this isn't being built by the Chinese, but rather by a joint venture between a Ugandan company and a UK based one - hence the JCB rather than a Chinese knockoff.

It literally is in the middle of nowhere population wise and isn't (initially) for tourists, but rather as the article above mentioned for the oil industry that has been growing steadily over the years.

Apologies for the not yet an airport challenge, but thought it was interesting when I came across it - while looking for other challenges in Uganda.

Over to you India.

[India Four Two]

Thanks nvubu. I had never heard of it. An interesting story. No need to apologise for the “not yet an airport”. ;)

I’m responding from my phone and don’t have access to the “Quizzes” folder on my laptop, so Open House.

[India Four Two]

I'm back on my computer. Here's another in the extensive series "Airfields I have flown into!" :

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1024x674/waf_2020_06_24_31f7165372abef1c71159f3adfbe97ed977eb33b.jpg

... although I was in an F28.

[Self loading bear]

Looks like the ESSO Convair
Then probably Libia
But where?
edit: first stab is Benghazi

Esso Convair

[kenparry]

Sarir, Libya? Oiled strip in the boondocks, way south of Tobruk

[India Four Two]

... and I thought the Convair was sufficiently anonymous to not worry about disguising it!

Yes, it’s Libya, but not Benghazi or Sarir.

The runway was hard-surfaced when I went there in the late 80s. The facilities these days are definitely an improvement:

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/600x400/waf_2020_06_24_3_a7b1b0e41162b15b0114d9742c5fa01612c068bf.jp g

PS I wasn't sure if this was a photo of the new terminal or a 3D rendering of the proposed terminal. Then I saw the 380 in the background, which definitely confirms it is a rendering!

[Self loading bear]

Marsa El Brega
Clearly a rendering with too much clouds.

[India Four Two]

Slb is correct. Marsa El Brega in the SE corner of the Gulf of Sirte.


https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1196x610/a23f3521_1344_4d4d_9680_f86013e8d22b_72cb21b85abebb2a31d4ec1 1d7eb476e617db410.jpeg

I was in a group that was visiting the Sirte Oil Company in the late 80s. Confusingly, Sirte Oil is based here and not in the town of Sirte.

We were told that the north end of the runway had recently been extended out onto the “sabkha” by building a 20’ high embankment. The extension was to accommodate Ghaddafi’s 707.

We stayed in Ghadaffi’s “guest house” which was surprisingly austere.

The best thing about my one week trip was getting on the Swissair DC-9 to take us out of Libya. The cabin crew refused to get out of the aircraft during the turnaround!

Slb has control.

[Self loading bear]

Thanks India,

In the Netherlands we know Esso from the petrol stations.
I thought a long time that outside the Netherlands it was all switched to Exxon quite a while back.
Some time back I found that in Oil production and tanker trade Esso was also used as an brand name much longer.

Esso aircraft gave the Convair as first hit.

Now this one in my English sports series:

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/868x542/d3e615a5_1ab6_4650_b731_4fc96e933127_bfcf2cd6026cfe86a41faaa ae76f7fa134849568.jpeg

[dixi188]

Are we round the back of Birmingham, UK?

[Self loading bear]

Are we round the back of Birmingham, UK?

I was referring to English sports being played overseas (from your point of view) so not UK.

[Shackman]

I would suggest the Scots might get a bit upset calling Golf an 'English' game!

[sycamore]

Might suggest that it`s a `slice`,and gone into the bushes,judging by his stance...or maybe he`s just `winding-up` to throw the club after the ball....

[JENKINS]

Not a golfer, socially unacceptable! Do I detect RAF Transport Command uniform, with black shoes of course?

[India Four Two]

That looks like an American radar tower.

[chevvron]

That looks like an American radar tower.
Standard tower design used widely in Europe too with only a secondary radar head on it ie no primary head; I've seen that at civil airports in Cyprus and the Canaries but long sleeved sweater would indicate somewhere colder than either of these.

[JENKINS]

My Transport Command guess unlikely, since a photograph of that era would have a different hue; I have many, but none of golf. I suspect home turf from The Bear. Not Soesterberg, radar does not match. Does the golfer look like a Limburger?

[fauteuil volant]

Golf? I thought that the chap in the photograph was throwing the hammer!

[Self loading bear]

..... Does the golfer look like a Limburger?

Everything is possible, but you have to be a member or on invitation to golf here.
This is not in Limburg
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/623x142/challeng1_9cde262a6f3d7ad6057ee6c7ef8a4870d5e68103.jpg

[JENKINS]

I believe that there is a Golfists establishment close to Eindhoven airfield.

[Self loading bear]

I believe that there is a Golfists establishment close to Eindhoven airfield.

Golf range Welschap is quite close to the old Eindhoven airport and the old Control tower.
But that is not the airport we are looking for now.

[Self loading bear]

Golf? I thought that the chap in the photograph was throwing the hammer!

If it was hammer throwing I certainly would have said Scottish sports!

[Self loading bear]

Does this help?

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/413x266/ab9212dc_930c_4f3a_b941_55892f25c050_98b56f91bc460e72751c24f 210c9cf0e19537d3f.jpeg

[Flap40]

It was the White hat that gave it away. Den Helder I think.

Open House if correct.

[Self loading bear]

It was the White hat that gave it away. Den Helder I think.

Open House if correct.

Den Helder it is
With Navy golfclub Nieuwendiep directly north of the runway.

Open House called

[chimbu warrior]

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/640x480/pa310004_7ee25b458e20f5db90992e9dd21a33536eb2c1c0.jpg
This airport has been featured here before, but used again to keep the thread going. I suspect it won't last long.

[chevvron]

Somewhere in Florida?

[chimbu warrior]

Half a world away, in the southern hemisphere.

[Allan Lupton]

PNG perhaps?

[chimbu warrior]

Yes PNG. That narrows the choices.

[descol]

PNG - Daru ?

[grizzled]

Vanimo perhaps?

[chimbu warrior]

Neither Daru nor Vanimo.

[descol]

maybe Hoskins ?

[chimbu warrior]

Not Hoskins. This airfield was originally built by the Japanese.

[Allan Lupton]

Looks a bit green for Momote, but perhaps. . .

[chimbu warrior]

And perhaps it is. Momote indeed.

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/640x480/pa310003_d6e369c6c4121f1d9841f8ac31caaf83bcb68e43.jpg

[Allan Lupton]

A few years ago I posted a photo of Momote in this thread and you listed a few it could be, went for the wrong one and Heathrow Harry sneaked in with the right answer.
I can't find the photo I was going to post so here's a different aeroplane at the same aerodrome:
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/628x383/airfrance_8e59b6dc29e8bd317e88b6d7232f7d21701c4cf4.jpg

[Jn14:6]

Liverpool/Speke?
OH if correct.

[Allan Lupton]

Liverpool/Speke?
OH if correct.
That didn't take long and is correct. Speke it is, selected as it's the first aerodrome I flew to (In a Rapide, not a Connie).
OH is declared.

[grizzled]

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1095x690/2012_apex_2a_pp_773917c42dff83179464c9c8e5d99bf6021342fc.jpg

[mgahan]

Are we in Asia, perhaps south east ?

[grizzled]

Yes indeed, we're in Asia, not south east though.

[grizzled]

Cropped to hide the airport ID and gate numbers. The hill might help. Busier airport than the first pic might suggest

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1034x509/2012_apex_2cpp_aa295f5379c7ded27207e8306d17346bfd3232bd.jpg

[grizzled]

I've never seen dragons here but St. George would have liked the place.

[mustbeaboeing]

How about Phuket. VTSP. HKT ?

Open House if correct

[grizzled]

Nope, Go west. This should help

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/917x757/2012_apex_2dpp_ae29c4ae495f5c384eefc06931b5b5bcba194e8e.jpg

[Jn14:6]

Shenzen?
OH if correct.

[kcockayne]

No real idea - but I’ll go for Delhi.

[Max Tow]

Chennai - OH if correct!

[grizzled]

Chennai it is! Former Madras, Former Fort St. George.
Open House

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/915x687/2012_apex_2ce_8e12731a0298c9866402df61482b972f60b18d3c.jpg

[Self loading bear]

Give the airport and the aircraft type of the bottom left aircraft in the other thread.

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/640x640/6906f0da_8580_4f02_bace_fcc2e3eeb854_73958cc4f83f80b8065a10d c08974e7bf817123b.jpeg

[Jhieminga]

Rotterdam Waalhaven perhaps?

[Self loading bear]

Rotterdam Waalhaven perhaps?

That is a miss!
Actually I couldn’t find any pictures of this aircraft at Waalhaven.

[chevvron]

From the helmets in the foreground it looks like Germany so Friedrichshafen?

[Self loading bear]

From the helmets in the foreground it looks like Germany so Friedrichshafen?
Indeed Germany but not Friedrichshafen.

[Jhieminga]

Germany seemed too easy and the type pulled me in a different direction, did I get that one right?

[Allan Lupton]

Germany, but easy flying distance for the P2 from Holland I'd guess, so the Köln or Bonn area but not Köln-Bonn which was not invented then (c1930)

[Self loading bear]

Germany, but easy flying distance for the P2 from Holland I'd guess, so the Köln or Bonn area but not Köln-Bonn which was not invented then (c1930)

I like the waypoints in your thinking.
Please firm up your thoughts.

But I also have seen a photo of the P-2 in Hannover....
Does anybody know the range of this aircraft?

[Allan Lupton]

I don't know the range but my guess was that it was not a long range aeroplane!
I see that Bonn/Hangelar has existed since 1909 or thereabouts so if my guess about the area is right I'll go the step further and say that's where it was. I see that LZ 127, "Graf Zeppelin" visited in 1930 so that's a bit more evidence.

[Self loading bear]

I don't know the range but my guess was that it was not a long range aeroplane!
I see that Bonn/Hangelar has existed since 1909 or thereabouts so if my guess about the area is right I'll go the step further and say that's where it was. I see that LZ 127, "Graf Zeppelin" visited in 1930 so that's a bit more evidence.

Allan you have the lead.
Bonn-Hangelar / St. Augustin

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/711x1202/12bfae66_7ede_4e25_9a3e_29bebc59bb16_5c22486e80c378f0ec3fa0d f9b0c76e81bc2ee00.jpeg

[Allan Lupton]

Thanks SLB - oh is the Bi-Polar Bear who posts somewhere any relation?
Here's an easy one which is all I have ready and may even have been used before:

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/625x421/junkers_e2e533a50cf839b903b7cff5648ade296418755d.jpg

[Self loading bear]

Thanks SLB - oh is the Bi-Polar Bear who posts somewhere any relation?....


I am not aware of any other bi-polar bears but I will ask my physiatrist Doctor Jekyll next time I sit on his couch.

[chimbu warrior]

Wau PNG, Junkers G31, year 1931.

Yes an easy one.

Open house.

[Allan Lupton]

chimbu warrior is correct, of course.
Open House has been declared.

[sycamore]

Ref #19127...first you have to fly-in the crane....!!

[Allan Lupton]

Ref #19127...first you have to fly-in the crane....!!
which they did! What they are unloading are parts of an enormous gold dredge so the crane would have been by way of a rehearsal.
They were airlifting heavy machinery when we in Europe still thought we were brave flying London to Paris as passengers.

[emeritus]

A bit of useless info re the J52 and PNG...read somewhere a few years ago that one of the years in the early 30's PNG carried more tonnage of airfreight than the rest of the world combined.

Emeritus.

[nvubu]

Something for the weekend.
https://lzq9ug.am.files.1drv.com/y4mI8YtAW6GOlAJIT-NbFv1Isw3lUunsKRfgd_euZ1pf7uJWXcRyzzPjpo9n0C8bEHMD3jZwVlR6DS 9oKqrJ6QR5oIBWdU28sppInfqY4l1Kq6f4mzHczLpsg2uYf-6Aw9VVJwWyAi6SKa6jz0zF5SYs4AhCs6_vWY5racoFayA8MDFTISfuBEa9mI XPRcQKeWcKllA0f0ihiRg5fPGmdyCMw?width=1024&height=783&cropmode=none

[chimbu warrior]

A bit of useless info re the J52 and PNG...read somewhere a few years ago that one of the years in the early 30's PNG carried more tonnage of airfreight than the rest of the world combined.


Not useless information, but fact. It was the G31's that performed this feat however, not the JU52. The JU52's came to PNG much later, post war, and were operated by Gibbes Sepik Airways. All well documented in Sepik Pilot, by the late James Sinclair.

[Self loading bear]

Something for the weekend.
https://lzq9ug.am.files.1drv.com/y4mI8YtAW6GOlAJIT-NbFv1Isw3lUunsKRfgd_euZ1pf7uJWXcRyzzPjpo9n0C8bEHMD3jZwVlR6DS 9oKqrJ6QR5oIBWdU28sppInfqY4l1Kq6f4mzHczLpsg2uYf-6Aw9VVJwWyAi6SKa6jz0zF5SYs4AhCs6_vWY5racoFayA8MDFTISfuBEa9mI XPRcQKeWcKllA0f0ihiRg5fPGmdyCMw?width=1024&height=783&cropmode=none


sand in the foreground of the picture says desert to me.
brick lay tower means probably build before war, this rules out 90% of the pacific/Asia airports
But underground stable enough to cycle says probably not North Africa
For the moment I think small USA airbase?
edit: by the angle of the sun light these must be shadows of quite large trees. So not so desert-ish as I thought.

[chevvron]

Bathurst???

[nvubu]

SLB
This airfield hasn't been built in a Desert, but the country it is in does have a desert.
This wasn't build before the war.
Correct, not North Africa.
It looks to be quite large, and had a mixture of bombers, fighters and reconnaissance squadrons/groups

chevvrown
not Bathurst..

ETA: It looks quite large, but is not longer an airfield - and hasn't been since the 1940s, although the runways were removed sometime after 1980.

[SMOKEON]

Pandaveswar CBI

[nvubu]

Smokeon has got it in one, Pandaveswar it is. Over to you.

[SMOKEON]

Thank you,nvubu.
O/H

[Flap40]

This should be an easy one for some.

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1024x659/screenshot_2020_07_28_at_18_23_07_047f39a4aed61348b0297d44ec 3211633ea6bcdb.png

[jensdad]

The only airfield I know with a water tower bang on the extended centreline is Guernsey :)

[Flap40]

I said it would be easy!

[jensdad]

I'm amazed it took so long, with some esteemed contributors from the Channel Islands who lurk around these pages...

Here's another airfield of these islands that might not last long. Some of it might even have gone already, I'm not sure...
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/640x480/whereabootsisthisthen_c6e44b4fb28b6e26d0e13251014acef0028f32 b7.jpg

[Flap40]

That's only a few miles from where i'm currently sitting.

I'll leave it for someone else.

[jensdad]

Very gracious of you, flap!

[jensdad]

Is anyone out there?
To sum up previous clues: it's in the same group of islands that I live in, and flap lives near there.

[jensdad]

And it's featured here before...

[Self loading bear]

Edinburgh Turnhouse

[jensdad]

Absolutely correct, SLB. I think my last challenge on here was from the same airfield. I need to get out more :)
You have control...

[Self loading bear]

Thanks, not so very easy when you do not have the residence of Flap.

something different:

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/460x288/7880cba4_a2aa_49f8_b9e4_336fbfab5680_b1acb2c55835844924567d3 69f20d355927f0f20.jpeg

[India Four Two]

Tropics. SE Asia. Possibly driving on the left. Malaysia?

[jensdad]

Is that a (upside-down) Gabonese flag hanging from the lamppost? If so I'll take a shot at Libreville.I'm also thinking the Michelin advert might point to somewhere in the francosphere...

[jensdad]

Although the airport sign is in Anglais, so maybe not. Hmmm.

[chevvron]

Absolutely correct, SLB. I think my last challenge on here was from the same airfield. I need to get out more :)
You have control...
That VCR (glasshouse) was originally on the tower at Blackbushe, being moved to Edinburgh after the MoA summariily closed Blackbushe in May 1960.

[descol]

Looks like Kigali ?

[Self loading bear]

Descol has it with Kigali Rwanda.
flag has same colors as Gabon.
Rightside of the road driving.
Previously a Belgian colony, French is the 2nd official language.

[descol]

thanks SLB - nothing available at present - open house

[mgahan]

Should b a quick one.

Still in use but with considerable expansion.

[mgahan]

Don't be civil if you look 12nm NE of Pasir Mas.

MJG

[Self loading bear]

Don't be civil if you look 12nm NE of Pasir Mas.

MJG

Lapangan Terbang Sultan Ismail Petra, Kota Bharu, Kelantan, Maleisia
is 30 km almost north of Pasir Mas.
That is however not a military base.
But used to be 8 brigade Army camp?

[mgahan]

Good first step - military base. Still is but also has other aviation uses these days. .Look to the west coast for a military aviation connection and then go south for the name connection.


MJG

[Self loading bear]

Good first step - military base. Still is but also has other aviation uses these days. .Look to the west coast for a military aviation connection and then go south for the name connection.


MJG

to cryptical for me.
I am on vacation.

[sycamore]

Alor Star or Butterworth....?

[mgahan]

Butterworth is the military aviation connection, now for the name... look south and a little east let's call it the "new south".

MJG

[sycamore]

Possibly 3..Sitiawan...private.;Taiping,where that `Aerocar crashed a few years ago...unlikley..which leaves Ipoh....OH if correct

[mgahan]

The name and aircraft connection are in Malaysia but the airport is not. You may need a Bahasa Melayu/English dictionary.

Lapangan Terbang Sultan Ismail Petra is to Kota Bharu as wwwwwwwwwww is to nnnnnnnnn.

[Self loading bear]

Lapangan Terbang AirPort
Kota Baru New city
airport W+10 characters
City N+8 characters
RAAF Williamstown in Newcastle Australia
fits the bill.

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/701x681/d731d1f4_e8a1_4a3d_ad1c_d928d7fc5e15_eb0e14dd4b7a7f983bf1f35 47317186da46d74c7.jpeg

[mgahan]

Good vacation work SLB, Billsville it is. Some of those old buildings are still there but plenty of development in recent years.

Over to you.

MJG

[Self loading bear]

Thanks MJG,
If you would have stated more clearly that the name of Lapangan contained the full textual clue,
it would have been more straightforward.
Eventually found by your reference of “new south” (wales)

Now this
One will have to determine the aircraft first.

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/420x240/1bda2755_1016_4731_a2ac_06cea13a4ebe_48eea10c12eca4914b6ba1f 1528b252dec92a105.jpeg

[chevvron]

Deperdussin from the tailplane.

[Self loading bear]

Deperdussin from the tailplane.

The designer/pilot took notes and inspiration from several aircraft.
What I can find on Deperdussin is that his first creations where produced just after the aircraft shown.
We are looking for a country first achievement.

[Self loading bear]

The event has been commemorated:

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/640x360/e2972fa9_51f8_4670_82a6_c20794627558_a287c08a2882a01eeaf9ea2 764c8a7041f4ab180.jpeg

[Self loading bear]

It was in 1909

[Max Tow]

The last photo looks like the Harry Ferguson memorial in N.I., but it's obviously not the monoplane in the earlier photo...?

[Self loading bear]

The last photo looks like the Harry Ferguson memorial in N.I., but it's obviously not the monoplane in the earlier photo...?

You are right about the differences between the planes on the photo and the memorial.
However they both relate to the same occasion: the first flight in Ireland by Harry Ferguson.

Location Hillsburough Park outside Belfast.
The memorial is on the crossing at Hillsburough Park of the A1.

Max Tow you have the con.

[Max Tow]

You are right about the differences between the planes on the photo and the memorial.
However they both relate to the same occasion: the first flight in Ireland by Harry Ferguson.

Location Hillsburough Park outside Belfast.
The memorial is on the crossing at Hillsburough Park of the A1.

Max Tow you have the con.

Thanks - wasn't sure I'd actually identified an aerodrome for your challenge! OH pls.

[Self loading bear]

Thanks - wasn't sure I'd actually identified an aerodrome for your challenge! OH pls.

Hillsburough Park did not become an established Aerodrome.
But when an airplane has landed and took off from a location it can be a challenge here.
Nvubu also Posted some ww2 glider landing areas as a challenge here.

OH called.

[India Four Two]

Back to the top. Sorry about the small size.

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/400x178/wad_2020_08_23_0b4016901e608fdd848bb0f21d0600e3d461d4c8.jpg

[JENKINS]

Manston, Kent?

[chevvron]

Manston, Kent?
Didn't we have Manston a few months ago?
I think it's the wrong type of hangar for Manston anyway; maybe White Waltham?

[JENKINS]

Some form of 'Downs' in background? Untidy parking, University Air Squadron Camp?

[chevvron]

The 'downs' in the background could be the high ground south of Duxford, but once again the hangar is wrong.
There used to be a singular hangar of this type on the south side of WW near the ATA HQ which later became ULAS and 6 AEF.

[JENKINS]

Agree with all Chev., lovely to see 'Downs'' described as 'Ups.' I live in the midst of such country.

[India Four Two]

Sorry chaps, I had forgotten I had posted, until gently reminded by nvubu. Real-life flying got in the way.

Not Manston or WW. If those are UAS aircraft, they would have probably come by ship! :)

No “downs” here, but “downunder” applies.

[chimbu warrior]

No “downs” here, but “downunder” applies.

Might it be Maylands, Western Australia?

[India Four Two]

Not WA, go east young man!

1941
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/664x338/wad_2020_09_03_1941_37b83f17be9e36053173654c6bfa4f5f5e04ae98 .jpg

1955
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1208x838/wad_2020_09_03_1955_54643c739a29d9acf40f376475bc5988052af356 .jpg

[chevvron]

Sorry but it's out of my area of operations; I'm limited to that part of the globe between a line drawn N/S through Mauritius westwards to a line drawn from San Francisco through LA through Cancun to Rio de Janiero.

[India Four Two]

Not WA, go east young man!

A long way further east - this aerodrome is not on the West Island. :)

[India Four Two]

This should narrow it down, but the answer is still not obvious.


https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/664x484/wad_2020_09_06_1122447e46d6cd4ca7d0da3cce29827a190af394.jpg

[chevvron]

Mount Fujiyama?

[India Four Two]

All my Japanese friends think it is Fujiyama, but it's a look-alike. :)

[Self loading bear]

Stratford New Zealand ??

[JENKINS]

The early creation of New Plymouth, Bell Block Aerodrome?

[India Four Two]

JENKINS rings the bell!

Bell Block - New Plymouth’s original aérodrome which was replaced by the current airfield in 1966.

Now completely built over but commemorated by road names like Mustang Drive, Hudson Road and De Havilland Drive.

The volcano is Mt. Taranaki, which has been used as a stand-in for Fuji in movies.

[JENKINS]

Thanks. Sister married into New Plymouth family 45 years ago, but in common I gather for many in Taranaki, the entire family has scarpered. Shame, I liked it.

Now so long since I posted a photo, cannot find how to do it albeit having one available. Please excuse Open House while I endeavour to find the correct prompts.

[JENKINS]

Think I have cracked it. Ubi?
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1440x1080/earth_postcard_1598967879_c2f8f88c926bcb6aefcf2b5c967e98c61f bb9beb.jpg
?

[chevvron]

Waserkuppe?

[JENKINS]

No, but your answer gave me some interesting reading. The field came to my attention while watching television last week.

[sycamore]

JENKS,were you in the `Peloton`,pedalling hard on your `Zwift` cycle....no time to look at the countryside...?

[JENKINS]

That is exactly where I was, though this field was a couple of miles off the route. Prominent glider field.

My summer holiday is following gorge-porn and chateaux-porn around France.

[chevvron]

Ah I did catch a glympse of of a gliding field whilst watching 'Le Tour' on telly but I didn't get the name; somewhere near Nice?

[JENKINS]

Much closer than the Tour is now. East of the Rhone; I have flown into a relatively close jump field, but not to this place.

[chevvron]

I now know where it is but in all honesty I can't name or claim it as I was told by a lellow thread contributor.
Glad to note others are watching the 'tour;' I thought my wife and I were the only ones even though we're not cyclists ourselves.

[sycamore]

Longest Tour day today......
Aerodrome de Serres / la Batier-Montaleon..44.27N 005.43E.
la maison est `ouverte`....

[JENKINS]

Yes, that's it. Looked impressive. I have been to Gap, but no closer.

Open House declared.

[Self loading bear]

Let’s give it a try,
my challenges are usually too simple

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/760x1077/00e01827_9fd7_4188_bcd8_759d9dd66d7c_cde1bd6cdcf6275c4220eeb 99dcb3bf0da70f8e2.jpeg

[nvubu]

One or two airfields? Strange looking layout(s) Still existing?

[Self loading bear]

One or two airfields? Strange looking layout(s) Still existing?
The smaller is a decoy
The larger is still existing.

[Flap40]

Is it Haamstede?

[Self loading bear]

Is it Haamstede?
It definitely is Haamstede.
Not much changed actually.

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1078x750/a7f78bbb_ba7b_4be5_abe0_c6133ce98ebc_13e024c71d60f879d359c03 3e2a24750529d9c5b.jpeg
Flap40 on the lead

[Flap40]

Thanks. Open house.

[nvubu]

All a bit quiet here, so where might this be?

https://g6t6dq.am.files.1drv.com/y4mzh5e5_GWtVbyydD5TXA9nnEjMGIqVNzvo8dG99nbrsRXiPsOKuxiJW5Uf lOHrnCMNPpMir5_98h_CqbUuy9BX4poZaHDzrj2uEOUe0Y1VHgOj94L3__QF ej9ggn_qD1UeLqnZ8TEdVHb3TJz2f6Z5gCnf7K9BaHu2qsnfECLU3kbtLSY-VqXU4x7T3HG98610VgL8fkMXEk8MuoqbtPa2Q?width=1024&height=739&cropmode=none

[JENKINS]

Burtonwood? Unconvinced by hangar, but at least it is a start.

[nvubu]

Yes is is a start, but not the correct one. It is still an active airfield.

[India Four Two]

Judging by the hangar design, I'm guessing somewhere in the US.

[nvubu]

That guess would be wrong, nowhere near the US

[sycamore]

Morocco,Rabat ,or Marrakech

[nvubu]

None of those, but you are on the correct continent.

Here is the control tower.
https://skyejg.am.files.1drv.com/y4mvzWqoBq7x-owZkFmgPL9_rlagb7zZngvpQbFRf8HIzKoVw-y6Rx0JQJyj_6dQ7g3j9nkE4se2VocpMpHMfY0H8kTDThreDa4J3oOiLnhSb_ Ah_foiHIfneZpVJzcfK_XWMQTlip1xYS_TFLOJQCn3TWnLZ11H8UsXq96d6j MrlEpSB3o4g2lbwu0nPFh97UDpWxmN1MuDljL2d4ssje22A?width=1024&height=767&cropmode=none

[ea200]

Possibly Cairo, but can't find any photographic evidence.

[JENKINS]

Wheelus perhaps?

[nvubu]

Not Wheelus or Cairo.

[nvubu]

Couple of views of the accommodation blocks

https://xff6dq.am.files.1drv.com/y4mVuRrXsJCGfXqTc2csqyyB9S_8EP8bR531fpc6bow7F0MeZeUks7fnbTtk FmKlyWF_hclqu2HU_dOYppAwXOlwVlLPY0dYApvSXj20NX3L8BUni7ztGOGz m0JNBxNNzMAaGrjNmg6HQZGnEydY2Iz1EU9CGCG4xFtOtOPgpytawPVT1xyu _RH9cW1QMgEhV8-lAQYDgooKfB6HYMnpBPiBA?width=1024&height=713&cropmode=none

https://6tewvq.am.files.1drv.com/y4mmyzQNKhrNKK1zFS2CSkd75lcwTqD1Lfidd3TdmOqNmWWqgfQkejepaAip K1zgEmDYiolT_Y9ibkry5_MiEai7MlP3NFJUiQkHReDpaU6fmV4BTn-IcGcczlcqWRtN_YPfZcZjxgWSVhotQF6XhPEBypE0Robr3Rpcz_dwPnzab46 R7ElBo0UFT42mp0tcYr59jh7vn2ieoPu3LeGM_BTTQ?width=1024&height=708&cropmode=none

[chevvron]

Plenty of shelter; Canadian plains?

[nvubu]

Not in Canada - sycamore has previously named locations on the correct continent - Africa.

[zetec2]

The barrack blocks look very similiar to those we had at Khormaksar ?

[nvubu]

I wouldn't be surprised about that as it was an RAF station

The admin block
https://lk9nxq.am.files.1drv.com/y4mZxTBGknukRGIDN_jbip1YoD7bw2oDSMxnXIf-v-K6mvw1zt6BdPKuQuIy2inUAKbKpdz6-AqPvV0Ft75QkOHDlpctfVYkQCcDF1aIP51QxwMWDPWVZ1B9CNIg7BqXUHqLj vZi7jZTVY215OyWmWU2Vv0_2xrCesdImlfhU0_mAnXwyVCRRs6TmsJ-eo-1_xnO-QBmar3sjBtI2Uj34Du3w?width=1024&height=778&cropmode=none

and the Transportation building
https://hkw9ya.am.files.1drv.com/y4mWrCeF1TOak-axant3o5asY38MdvU3aq2ieQ8LUgnZFZuF8UKmmw58EAcwiHSoqlsgznjt-qQXagtwEmuRKfwYshX1W2ORz1NC0gALTsNjmR4BvKbCrcuVXgdJw8aKuQ6VF EafYwLZInK8B2vtZ9Kc02l8jW5G0ZikYgcwo6cIFSns1dD-deXIEGMnz2_-MsXR3DjlyXx54WpeeMehqB6Jg?width=1024&height=674&cropmode=none

[nvubu]

evansb - tried sending you a PM, but it won't go through.

[nvubu]

This should help

https://wdzs0g.am.files.1drv.com/y4mP24zTNPfdkWtxS_G5PlSOF0sA6gvmXmOpDNRE0kWB-P4igrNe_vW_qx1WNvsiTONR7HCxGC3pZwmelyXJyhEnHFT-dVa4RiNO9lclAQ8GNLmLR6MfgTLObIcRseXyPyAYRx3d9btm0iDua_8gtE9B 1fWQKOSO8LJASTGA0TMmVPsrkeFht4Ilgy7K9vAgx9QNGjK6X_j5AGKFKEAU TabQg?width=1024&height=753&cropmode=none

[chevvron]

Looks like the Sudan or somewhere similar.

[nvubu]

You'd be correct with that assumption

[JENKINS]

Is Abu Sueir sufficiently similar?

[nvubu]

'fraid not Jenks - there is a really big clue in my last image.

[JENKINS]

Yes there is. A photograph of the RAF Khartoum cricket pitch helped even before you pointed out that. So, how about Khartoum? I had not realised that it was such an established station.

[nvubu]

Ah ha, you've noticed the clue, but It isn't RAF Khartoum :)

[JENKINS]

Good, I'm glad. Buildings on cricket pitch were not quite right.

[nvubu]

There aren't that many airfields that might have a warehouse with "Khartoum" over the door.

[Hen Ddraig]

Gordon's tree was very busy in WW2

[nvubu]

It's on the other side of the Nile to the railway station called Gordon's Tree in Khartoum..

[JENKINS]

Interesting, found a colour photograph of the hangar at last. RAF Wadi Seidna.

[nvubu]

That'll be the Getty image you've found, and yes it is RAF Wadi Seidna

I fairly sure that the barracks are still present - minus some of the structures in front of them in my images - which are looking south

Over to you.

[JENKINS]

Thanks. I fear my only response has to be Google Earth. Try this; not former Royal Air Force. Have visited several times in my travels.
https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/1440x1080/earth_postcard_1600710758_758008e1c95dd33787ce013dbc77f246c2 2923e7.jpg

[nvubu]

very straight road - Roman?
river
East/West runway?
not RAF, but former Navy?

[chevvron]

Long term car park at left so civil nowadays?

[Self loading bear]

What about the round glass roof building?
north in the photo

[sycamore]

Somewhere in France...?

[JENKINS]

East-West-ish, with no Roman influence. Not in France, nor was it naval, and even though on my esrly visits I should not have been there I found it very civil. As for the round building, I might have to ask the ......

[nvubu]

Are we in the UK?

[JENKINS]

Not United Kingdom.