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Old 30th Nov 2009, 10:43
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Could it be in Australia or Tasmania ?

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Sorry Mr G. Another pic taken there fairly recently:

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Is that the aeroclub's pool ?
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No one ever got their feet wet in there, not even any obese young males!
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Old 30th Nov 2009, 12:07
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Wendover, Utah? I'm pretty sure I know what that "pit" is for...

If correct, open house.

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Correct Cubs! Photo shows pit designed for loading atomic bomb on to a B29 (hence Fat Boy).
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Old 30th Nov 2009, 12:51
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Try this.

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French??????????? Bretigny????
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Old 30th Nov 2009, 18:35
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RR.

No sorry,

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Old 30th Nov 2009, 20:47
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Somewhere in America ?

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No, not America.

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Old 1st Dec 2009, 10:20
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Those temporary roundish hangars in the upper right must give away the nationality - but I don't know which.
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Old 1st Dec 2009, 13:03
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Interesting pattern on the ground-some kind of PSP or drainage ?
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Old 1st Dec 2009, 17:46
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PSP or drainage...... Err....... what ???

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Pierced Steel Planking, I think he means, or a land drainage system.....

I haven't seen PSP since 2 short bits of it were tied to my Landrover in Oman, in a distant, previous life.
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Wild guess - Switzerland, Bern perhaps
 
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No, but right Continent.

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Old 2nd Dec 2009, 02:34
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Another wild guess:
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Wrong side of the channel.

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JENKINS

No, not Lee - on - Solent.

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