Which Aerodrome Mk II
Dakar,Senegal ?
Jack's Granddad
Although reasonable suggestions, neither Casablanca or Port Harcourt. A photo taken much more recently would seem to show that the tower in the first photo has been superceded:
Jack's Granddad
Niamey it is.
I stand to be corrected but I understand the Transair DC-7B was chartered in August 1968 by a Danish priest to fly medicinal supplies into Sao Tomei and was transiting though Niger. The pilot was Count Gustav von Rosen the Chief Pilot for Transair who had previously had a somewhat adventurous flying career. He was persuaded to make a flight from Sao Tomei to Uli, Biafra with humanitarian aid and he did so without reference to his employers.
A little later he organised a rudimentary air force for the Biafrans using redundant Swedish MFI-9B trainers converted to hold twelve rockets in pods under the wing. It was claimed they destroyed at least four MIGs, one Ilyushin 28, two Canberras, a Heron and a control tower!
I stand to be corrected but I understand the Transair DC-7B was chartered in August 1968 by a Danish priest to fly medicinal supplies into Sao Tomei and was transiting though Niger. The pilot was Count Gustav von Rosen the Chief Pilot for Transair who had previously had a somewhat adventurous flying career. He was persuaded to make a flight from Sao Tomei to Uli, Biafra with humanitarian aid and he did so without reference to his employers.
A little later he organised a rudimentary air force for the Biafrans using redundant Swedish MFI-9B trainers converted to hold twelve rockets in pods under the wing. It was claimed they destroyed at least four MIGs, one Ilyushin 28, two Canberras, a Heron and a control tower!
That looks suspiciosly like Wynyard in Tasmania with a Dept of Civil Aviation
(or whatever they called themselves at that time!) aircraft.
Open house if I'm correct.
Emeritus
(or whatever they called themselves at that time!) aircraft.
Open house if I'm correct.
Emeritus
Well done
The railway no longer runs across runway 05/23.
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Marrakesh,Morocco.