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RAF Geilenkirchen?
Edit;
If not Geilenkirchen then how about Percival Pembroke XF799 departing RAF Gutersloh on it's way back to Geilenkirchen?
Edit;
If not Geilenkirchen then how about Percival Pembroke XF799 departing RAF Gutersloh on it's way back to Geilenkirchen?
Last edited by Captain Airclues; 2nd Dec 2008 at 14:43.
twochai & grizzled
Yes, although a rather old, now well over fifty-years old photo taken in the 1950s which pre-date flight sim games by forty-years or so.
Captain Airclues
Its not Geilenkirchen and it's not RAF Gutersloh.
Furrther clue.
The location is NOT in Europe and here is another view of ATC.
Is this actually a photograph?
Captain Airclues
Its not Geilenkirchen and it's not RAF Gutersloh.
Furrther clue.
The location is NOT in Europe and here is another view of ATC.
Last edited by Warmtoast; 2nd Dec 2008 at 15:55.
Not RAF Muharraq, or RAF Khormaksar or El Adem.
However, if you tanked up an aircraft at El Adem with enough fuel for a 3,500-mile journey you'd reach the location just as the tanks ran dry.
However, if you tanked up an aircraft at El Adem with enough fuel for a 3,500-mile journey you'd reach the location just as the tanks ran dry.
Duckbutt
Harare it is, but when the photos were taken in 1953 it was called New Sarum Air Force Station (formerly Kentucky AFS) and occupied by the Southern Rhodesian Air Force.
The Pembroke shown was the first of four purchased by the SRAF in 1953 to replace DH Rapides like the rather smart one shown in my photo below that flew Sir Geoffrey Huggins, the prime minister of Southern Rhodesia to RAF Thornhill near Gwelo (Gweru) for talks about the closure of RAF Thornhill when the Rhodesian Air Training Group closed down in late 1953.
SRAF Pembrokes were phased out of service in 1963
The 1950's New Sarum ATC tower still shows up on Google Earth as below.
Duckbutt has control
Harare then?
The Pembroke shown was the first of four purchased by the SRAF in 1953 to replace DH Rapides like the rather smart one shown in my photo below that flew Sir Geoffrey Huggins, the prime minister of Southern Rhodesia to RAF Thornhill near Gwelo (Gweru) for talks about the closure of RAF Thornhill when the Rhodesian Air Training Group closed down in late 1953.
SRAF Pembrokes were phased out of service in 1963
The 1950's New Sarum ATC tower still shows up on Google Earth as below.
Duckbutt has control
