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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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Which Aerodrome Mk III
TD and D9,
Ignore the GOF. Can we have the Aloha Carrier back?
I assume it's probably docked in Pearl Harbor, but my carrier ID skills are not on a par with my aeroplane skills.
Ignore the GOF. Can we have the Aloha Carrier back?
I assume it's probably docked in Pearl Harbor, but my carrier ID skills are not on a par with my aeroplane skills.
The first two rows of aircraft look suspiciously like Gannets. I can't make out the last row. If that is the case and based on some quick carrier research, the superstructure and the partially angled flight-deck points towards HMS Centaur.
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Gannets yes. HMS Centaur no.
Good guess though.
This deck also has very little offset, only 5.5º as it was modified mid construction from a straight deck design.
Most of the early British and US carriers had around a 10º offset.
So scratch Britain and the US (it never operated Gannets anyway!) and there aren't too many navies left.
Good guess though.
This deck also has very little offset, only 5.5º as it was modified mid construction from a straight deck design.
Most of the early British and US carriers had around a 10º offset.
So scratch Britain and the US (it never operated Gannets anyway!) and there aren't too many navies left.
In that case, I was going to say HMAS Melbourne. My hunch was confirmed by Wikipedia, which has a slightly different photo taken on the same day.
Open house if correct.
chevvron,
I agree with you. Reading the reasoning behind the deductions and proposed answers, makes these kinds of threads much more interesting.
Open house if correct.
chevvron,
I agree with you. Reading the reasoning behind the deductions and proposed answers, makes these kinds of threads much more interesting.
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You got it!
This is the Australian HMAS Melbourne in Pearl Harbour in 1958.
BTW the last row are Sea Venoms - the single fold wing with tip tanks makes the twin booms hard to discern.
As it was only a "little ship" according to the Americans it was parked where normally US destoyers were put.
The sailors did not mind this at all, as it placed them very close to the exit gates of the base and easy access to the delights of the civilian establishments just outside.
(A story told by a retired Australian Airlines pilot I know who flew Sea Furies and those Sea Venoms off this ship during his naval career)
India Four Two has declared OPEN HOUSE
This is the Australian HMAS Melbourne in Pearl Harbour in 1958.
BTW the last row are Sea Venoms - the single fold wing with tip tanks makes the twin booms hard to discern.
As it was only a "little ship" according to the Americans it was parked where normally US destoyers were put.
The sailors did not mind this at all, as it placed them very close to the exit gates of the base and easy access to the delights of the civilian establishments just outside.
(A story told by a retired Australian Airlines pilot I know who flew Sea Furies and those Sea Venoms off this ship during his naval career)
India Four Two has declared OPEN HOUSE
They said it was only a "little ship" then, imagine their comments when they saw the RAN successfully operating Skyhawks and Trackers off her later! Ted, I'm blown away by your knowledge of Commonwealth aircraft carriers and their aircraft...
Here's my next offering:
Here's my next offering:
imagine their comments when they saw the RAN successfully operating Skyhawks and Trackers off her later!
...S-2 Trackers, with their 22.12-metre (72 ft 7 in) wingspan, had less than a metre's clearance for their starboard wingtip when landing, and pilots from other navies often refused to attempt landing.
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Dora-9: Extensive use of Wikipedia can make one appear quite knowledgeable. 
In this latest challenge, the lack of the centre red circle in the roundel indicates the aircraft was in the South East Asia Command in WW2 when the red circle was hurriedly removed after an American Wildcat shot down an Australian Catlaina because it looked like it had Japanese markings. The red circle was restored after the war ended, so this is an old photograph. I'm guessing that this airfield with its distinctive runways does not look anything like the photograph now.
Are we somewhere in Asia?
In this latest challenge, the lack of the centre red circle in the roundel indicates the aircraft was in the South East Asia Command in WW2 when the red circle was hurriedly removed after an American Wildcat shot down an Australian Catlaina because it looked like it had Japanese markings. The red circle was restored after the war ended, so this is an old photograph. I'm guessing that this airfield with its distinctive runways does not look anything like the photograph now.
Are we somewhere in Asia?
Actually I'm engaged in some "evansb cunning bugger" behavior - I think the glare has hidden the centre of the roundel and it's not, as you'd assume, a wartime RAAF or RAF SEAC roundel. It's a 1950's photo (definitely post-war) in Asia.
The airfield still exists.
The airfield still exists.
Jenkins - not Dien Bien Phu. It's an RAF airfield.
It's an RAF airfield.
The runway layout is worthy of a caption competiton: "Bloggs, I meant Magnetic, not True. Go and build another runway!"
Open house if correct.
India Four Two is correct, it's RAF Sek Kong, in Hong Kong's New Territories. I think the shorter runway was built using Marsden matting, and was replaced by the sealed runway.
I was originally going to use this photo, but that Wessex with the white markings is a dead give-away:
India Four Two has declared OPEN HOUSE.
I was originally going to use this photo, but that Wessex with the white markings is a dead give-away:
India Four Two has declared OPEN HOUSE.
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I'll take back my Open House. 
Yes. Somewhere in NZ, again!
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North or South Island?
I reckon the aircraft with the tilty canopy is probably a Vans RV7A.
There are not too many of that version in New Zealand (most have the sliding canopy), and I've matched the color scheme to ZK-RRV. That leads to links to Tauranga, Papamoa and a fly-in at Raglan, but none of these places have the distinctive mountain skyline in the background.
I reckon the aircraft with the tilty canopy is probably a Vans RV7A.
There are not too many of that version in New Zealand (most have the sliding canopy), and I've matched the color scheme to ZK-RRV. That leads to links to Tauranga, Papamoa and a fly-in at Raglan, but none of these places have the distinctive mountain skyline in the background.
Hi Terry,
Exactly the question I was hoping for. The pedantic answer is "neither".
PS Compliments on your research.
North or South Island?
PS Compliments on your research.
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