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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).

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  • A historic picture of an aerodrome will be posted. Newer pictures are allowed but the theme here is to compare/contrast old with new as well as identifying aerodromes which no longer exist.
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Old 4th Dec 2018, 21:00
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Nope.
I'll even give you more: We're not in the Middle East
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Afghanistan?
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Australia ?....
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India For Two is on target...
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Shindand ?......
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I have to go offline soon so I'll try to hasten this: A Canadian would feel right at home whilst enjoying the boardwalk...

Sorry dook I missed your last post, Nope, not Herat.
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Old 4th Dec 2018, 21:39
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When did I suggest Herat ?

Might I try Khost.
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Was trying to help by saying it's not anywhere in Herat Province...
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You'll kick yourself...

Sorry, Not Khost
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When I was first there the "Commander" of the airfield was a former Commandant of RAF College Cranwell...
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Old 4th Dec 2018, 22:22
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As John Denver wrote, "I'm leaving on a jet plane" soon, so one more clue then I suppose I'll have to give it up -- or you have to wait a day or so...

In 2009 it became the world's busiest single runway airport...
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A Canadian would feel right at home whilst enjoying the boardwalk...

https://timhortons.com/ca/en/corpora...se.php?id=7542

Kandahar?
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Old 4th Dec 2018, 22:41
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Yes Indeed!
That location of Tim Horton's holds the record for the most "IceCapps" sold in a day (great trivia question if you want to stump a Canadian...).
And if you don't know what a Tim's IceCapp is, you must go to Canada and find out -- rather than the boardwalk at Kandahar...

Take it away, India!
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Old 4th Dec 2018, 22:54
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Terima kasih Sam,

Like all good Canadians, it’s important to know where your nearest Timmy’s is. There is an app for that, called appropriately enough, Timmy Me.

When I lived in Vietnam, I tried it out, expecting to see Kandahar, but that was not included in the database, presumably since I wouldn’t be able to walk in there. It turned out that my nearest “double-double” was 5600 nm away in Whitehorse, YT!

Standby until I get home and access my laptop.
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No Tim Hortons here and no conflict, as far as I know:

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Gents:

At the risk of totally disrupting the sequence, may I return to Dook's posting (#10287) of Gould?

While there were several wartime constructions in Australia where widely separated runways were joined by taxiway, Gould is unique in that it was joined by taxiway to another airfield (Batchelor). Note Gould appearing at the bottom of the diagram of Batchelor

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India Four Two`s airfield could be Saba.
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Not Montserrat. Similarities to Saba, but not there.

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Originally Posted by Dora-9
Gents:

At the risk of totally disrupting the sequence, may I return to Dook's posting (#10287) of Gould?

While there were several wartime constructions in Australia where widely separated runways were joined by taxiway, Gould is unique in that it was joined by taxiway to another airfield (Batchelor). Note Gould appearing at the bottom of the diagram of Batchelor

Unusual maybe but not unique; in Wales, St Athan was joined to Llandow by a taxiway and on Malta, Luqa, Safi and Hal Far had a taxiway connecting all three.
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Originally Posted by Sam Asama


It's a challenging place for ATC
Don't see why; that's a 'normal' sight at Farnborough round about air show time.
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