Which Aerodrome?
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Clue: The airport is presently named after an American aviation pioneer, who originally took flying lessons on a Wright biplane. He built the airfield, and later he teamed up with another aviation pioneer/industrialist and together they operated the airport and a flying service.
Certainly a mess of options as bri says. Here's a route map, but I'm no closer to finding the right airport:
http://blog.delta.com/wp-content/upl...-dl-cs-map.jpg
C&S sounds more like a railroad than an airline
"All aboard. Chicago and Southern Limited. Calling at Memphis, New Orleans and Havana. All aboard!"
http://blog.delta.com/wp-content/upl...-dl-cs-map.jpg
C&S sounds more like a railroad than an airline
"All aboard. Chicago and Southern Limited. Calling at Memphis, New Orleans and Havana. All aboard!"
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Chicago & Southern merged with Delta in the early 1950s and Delta carried the C&S logo until 1955. Sorry, it is not Memphis, New Orleans, nor Havana. The mystery airport is on the route map, however.
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Lambert - St. Louis International Airport. previously known as Kinloch Field.
President Theodore Roosevelt, the first president to ride in an airplane, took his first ride at the Kinloch airfield. Soon after, the first experimental parachute jump in the world took place in St. Louis. Then, Major Albert Lambert purchased the 550 acres of land known as Kinloch Field and renamed it Lambert Field. Major Lambert was the first person in St. Louis to receive his private pilot's license, having taken his first flight in an airplane with Orville Wright.
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President Theodore Roosevelt, the first president to ride in an airplane, took his first ride at the Kinloch airfield. Soon after, the first experimental parachute jump in the world took place in St. Louis. Then, Major Albert Lambert purchased the 550 acres of land known as Kinloch Field and renamed it Lambert Field. Major Lambert was the first person in St. Louis to receive his private pilot's license, having taken his first flight in an airplane with Orville Wright.
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Moira is correct. Glenn Edmund Messer is the namesake for the Birmingham, Alabama airport. It is too bad you can't post a photo. I do wish more ppruners would post photos.
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Sorry for not posting Bri, but I'll be away for the next 2 days so I just can't follow up ... Perhaps that means I should have left the challenge to others, but hey, just couldn't resist. 
Moira's loss is my gain and it gives me a chance to post a picture of one of my favourite aircraft - aaaaaaaah! de Havilland.
Where was this low flying taking place (notice the two men ducking)?
Edited to add that this is a very impressive photo - the Mossie is very sharp, considering the high speed.
Further edit - the sharpness intrigued me, so I did some measurements. The tip of the port prop has moved through about 25 degrees. Assuming 3000 rpm, this gives a shutter speed of slightly slower than 1/1000.
So I'm guessing the shutter speed was either 1/500 or 1/1000. The lack of helical distortion of the prop blades implies a focal plane shutter. Leica anyone?
Where was this low flying taking place (notice the two men ducking)?
Edited to add that this is a very impressive photo - the Mossie is very sharp, considering the high speed.
Further edit - the sharpness intrigued me, so I did some measurements. The tip of the port prop has moved through about 25 degrees. Assuming 3000 rpm, this gives a shutter speed of slightly slower than 1/1000.
So I'm guessing the shutter speed was either 1/500 or 1/1000. The lack of helical distortion of the prop blades implies a focal plane shutter. Leica anyone?
Last edited by India Four Two; 15th Jun 2008 at 06:31. Reason: Photograph comment
I hadn't thought about a movie. This shot is real, not staged.
Not Borehamwood nor anywhere close to London.
Not Borehamwood nor anywhere close to London.
Time for some clues.
Look at the hangar and the car (lower right).
The picture was taken on 10 April 1945 (VE day + 2)
Look at the hangar and the car (lower right).
The picture was taken on 10 April 1945 (VE day + 2)
twochai,
Yes, it is an RCAF hangar. Right country, wrong province, although I can see why you might think Downsview, since it was home to the Mosquito factory
http://www.museevirtuel.ca/pm.php?id...h&ex=192&pos=1
Yes, it is an RCAF hangar. Right country, wrong province, although I can see why you might think Downsview, since it was home to the Mosquito factory
http://www.museevirtuel.ca/pm.php?id...h&ex=192&pos=1
The crash of "F" for "Freddie" at Calgary
Well done, IF2, you triggered the recall of a story almost lost in insufficiently exercised grey matter 
:
http://www.dunrobincastle.com/Nose_A...to_Freddie.htm
It was indeed April 10, 1945, when one of the most famous Mosquitos of the war on a victory tour across Canada, clipped the roof of a hangar at Calgary, killing the crew.
What a lousy way to end the conflict
:http://www.dunrobincastle.com/Nose_A...to_Freddie.htm
It was indeed April 10, 1945, when one of the most famous Mosquitos of the war on a victory tour across Canada, clipped the roof of a hangar at Calgary, killing the crew.
What a lousy way to end the conflict
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Yes, a very sad story and obviously not very well known, even in Calgary.
F for Freddie was a Pathfinder Oboe Mosquito with 213 operations - reputedly the highest number for an allied aircraft - the Smithsonian's B-26 'Flak Bait' comes a close second with 202.
The father of a friend of mine in Calgary saw the fly-bys in downtown Calgary and confirms that Freddie was below the top of the Hudson's Bay Store, which is six stories.
http://www.hbc.com/hbcheritage/histo...es/calgary.asp
The link you've put up has a very colourful, speculative connection with a Nationalist Chinese femme fatale.
A more prosaic version is told here, but with more (but unfortunately low resolution) pictures:
http://www.asmac.ab.ca/html/F%20for%20Freddie.pdf
The last picture in the pdf is an aerial view, claiming to show the crash site. However, I'm pretty sure that the picture is not McCall Field. What do you think, bri?
twochai has the floor.
F for Freddie was a Pathfinder Oboe Mosquito with 213 operations - reputedly the highest number for an allied aircraft - the Smithsonian's B-26 'Flak Bait' comes a close second with 202.
The father of a friend of mine in Calgary saw the fly-bys in downtown Calgary and confirms that Freddie was below the top of the Hudson's Bay Store, which is six stories.
http://www.hbc.com/hbcheritage/histo...es/calgary.asp
The link you've put up has a very colourful, speculative connection with a Nationalist Chinese femme fatale.
A more prosaic version is told here, but with more (but unfortunately low resolution) pictures:
http://www.asmac.ab.ca/html/F%20for%20Freddie.pdf
The last picture in the pdf is an aerial view, claiming to show the crash site. However, I'm pretty sure that the picture is not McCall Field. What do you think, bri?
twochai has the floor.