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Here is a read only link to the Aerodrome Database - WhichAerodrome.xlsx. Up to date as of 1/5/2019. Catching up slowly - up to May 2019 now (Mar 2020).
Here are some "rules" for Which Aerodrome. These are based upon the original suggestions from the very first thread, and have a few additions. Also please be patient as when you are active others may be asleep.
 Thanks to Self Loading Bear for suggesting that we use a wiki. Which Aerodrome I Which Aerodrome II nvubu. 
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Absolutely excellent Duckbutt!
The WWI field (in the lower right corner) is Lannoy/Auxi le Chateau from where J McCudden took off for the last time...
The small wood is the bois d'Acquet and after it outlived its usefulness as the dispersal area of the WWII Auxi airfield (between the two woods center and upper right) the Luftwaffe advantage of the wood to build a V1 launching site of second generation ("Bel Hamelin" type) which explains the extensive bombing...
A house serving as Kasino is visible along the peripheral road on the right and its basement and chimney are still there:
This airfield was probably used by Stukas in 1940, and abandoned shortly afterward. Earthen revetments are still visible in the wood.
DB you have the helm!
The WWI field (in the lower right corner) is Lannoy/Auxi le Chateau from where J McCudden took off for the last time...
The small wood is the bois d'Acquet and after it outlived its usefulness as the dispersal area of the WWII Auxi airfield (between the two woods center and upper right) the Luftwaffe advantage of the wood to build a V1 launching site of second generation ("Bel Hamelin" type) which explains the extensive bombing...
A house serving as Kasino is visible along the peripheral road on the right and its basement and chimney are still there:
This airfield was probably used by Stukas in 1940, and abandoned shortly afterward. Earthen revetments are still visible in the wood.
DB you have the helm!
Last edited by asw22; 11th Apr 2013 at 17:49.
Thanks for the offer LM but it was you who actually got the name, and I'd only OH it anyway.
I've got some photos on an Xd card but can't figure out how to get them onto my Chromebook so I could post them.
I've got some photos on an Xd card but can't figure out how to get them onto my Chromebook so I could post them.
Now that the dust has settled from the back-slapping - is it open house?
And a query. I watched Red Tails the other day and I know a lot of CGI was involved in its making, but there is one scene where the Yanks are giving the Krauts a pasting on the ground and you see a control tower on the left. It looked real and I wondered if they combined real objects with CGI for the scene?
Does the control tower exist in real life somewhere? I though if anyone would know you guys would. Cheers.
Red Tails (2012) - IMDb
And a query. I watched Red Tails the other day and I know a lot of CGI was involved in its making, but there is one scene where the Yanks are giving the Krauts a pasting on the ground and you see a control tower on the left. It looked real and I wondered if they combined real objects with CGI for the scene?
Does the control tower exist in real life somewhere? I though if anyone would know you guys would. Cheers.
Red Tails (2012) - IMDb
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Hello!
The control tower is typical of a pre-war german tower, and the hangar behind is also from pre-war german inspiration...However we are supposed to be in Italy there...
The worse thing for me is the respective distance between the tower, the runway, the hangar and the aircraft parked alongside the runway...This is so utterly ridiculous I almost choked when I saw it the first time!
Needless to say no airfield existed -or exists- even remotely resembling to this one
Concerning your airfield, coul it be a RAF base in the thirties?
JV
The control tower is typical of a pre-war german tower, and the hangar behind is also from pre-war german inspiration...However we are supposed to be in Italy there...
The worse thing for me is the respective distance between the tower, the runway, the hangar and the aircraft parked alongside the runway...This is so utterly ridiculous I almost choked when I saw it the first time!
Needless to say no airfield existed -or exists- even remotely resembling to this one
Concerning your airfield, coul it be a RAF base in the thirties?
JV
Last edited by asw22; 13th Apr 2013 at 12:52.
Needless to say no airfield existed -or exists- even remotely resembling to this one 
Sunday afternoon clues...
We're in India - North West Frontier.
Water supplied from the Kabul River.
Wapiti's.
39 Squadron.
Cheers.