Which Aerodrome Mk II

[handsfree]

If not Hythe, maybe Poole. Open House if it is.

[Krakatoa]

I seem to remember the Short Solent was used mainly on the Africa routes during its brief time with BOAC. So lets start with Alexandria.

[MReyn24050]

Update of Which Aerodrome List.

Which Aerodrome "sticky" list updated today. 01/07/2009
Mel

[Old Bald Pilot]

Auckland NZ ?

[KeMac]

Possibly Rochester

[one11]

Guess its Clue time. It is not in the UK. The Solent was almost certainly on the Africa run. The buildings and dock shown were opened by the relevant British ambassador in May 1949 to replace more basic facilities and shut down with the end of flying boat ops in November 1950 .

[MReyn24050]

one11's challenge

Augusta, Sicily

[one11]

Augusta, Sicily it was. Mel has control.

[MReyn24050]

Next Challenge

Thanks one11, it was your clue that did it. Here is a nice easy one which I am sure will need no clues as they are already there in the photograph.

[sidtheesexist]

Lazy guess.........Ascension Island............?

[MReyn24050]

sidtheesexist, not the Ascension Island.

[Double Hydco]

RAF Akrotiri?

DH

[MReyn24050]

Mel's Challenge

Sorry, Double Hydro, not RAF Akrotiri.
Mel

[Liobian]

Ref EKVG Faroes

If anyone's interested, re post from mid-June, the original WW2 watch tower at Vagar has been restored by locals, and the amphib slip-way is still there.

[chevvron]

Hot 'n sunny by the looks; jet blast deflectors as per a civil airport; Victor tanker taken from what looks like a Comet; as a guess I'd go for Nicosia c1966.

[MReyn24050]

Hot 'n sunny it was and it was also a civil airport; Victor tanker but not taken from a Comet. It was a few years later than 1966 but not at Nicosia.
Mel

[Davidsoffice]

Doesn't help with the airfield but is it taken from a 1-11?

As a pure guess for the field and probably only to rule it out....Gibraltar.

[nacluv]

I'm pretty sure the camera car is a VC10 - but where is the 'field?

[chevvron]

Dakar, Senegal? An RAF Det. there during the Falklands campaign in '82, with Mike Rosenhorn Laing as boss

[MReyn24050]

Mel's Challenge

Chevvron has it, it is indeed Dakar . I took the photograph from an RAF VC10 on route to Ascension in 1985, we had landed for a refuel. The VC10 was parked someway from the terminal and all on board had to leave the aircraft during the refuel and stand by a very smelly monsoon ditch whilst the aircraft was refuelled.

Chevvron you have control