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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
Here's another floating aerodrome:
Usns Card
Used as transport carrier during Vietnam war and last aircraft carrier sunk by enemy forces.
edit: according reddit website this photo was taken from Golden gate bridge.
so now we can assign a fixed point to a mobile aerodrome.
OH if correct
Used as transport carrier during Vietnam war and last aircraft carrier sunk by enemy forces.
edit: according reddit website this photo was taken from Golden gate bridge.
so now we can assign a fixed point to a mobile aerodrome.
OH if correct
Last edited by Self loading bear; 21st Apr 2019 at 00:12.
Shame "dook" withdrew his photo. Methinks it was Berwick complete with an Airtourer and either a Mustang or a Firefly
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Last edited by Checklist Charlie; 21st Apr 2019 at 07:11. Reason: .
USNS Card transporting F-102As. As SLB says, the only carrier sunk by enemy action after WWII - admittedly in only 6 m of water, so it was reflected and repaired.
It was sunk at the Saigon wharf shown below, by limpet mines attached by a VC saboteur:
The picture shows the Card's sister-ship, USNS Core, at the wharf at the foot of Tự Do* (now Đồng Khởi) street in central Saigon. The Majestic Hotel is in the background.
Here's the Card after the attack, listing to starboard:
A 12' wide hole was blown in the hull. Five civilian crew members were killed in the attack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_USNS_Card
SLB has declared Open House.
* Tự Do street's original name was Rue Catinat during French colonial times. It features prominently in The Quiet American. Tự Do, which means freedom or liberty in Vietnamese, was renamed Đồng Khởi after the fall of Saigon in 1975. This lead to a joke among Saigonese that when the NVA arrived, they took away freedom and liberty!
It was sunk at the Saigon wharf shown below, by limpet mines attached by a VC saboteur:
The picture shows the Card's sister-ship, USNS Core, at the wharf at the foot of Tự Do* (now Đồng Khởi) street in central Saigon. The Majestic Hotel is in the background.
Here's the Card after the attack, listing to starboard:
A 12' wide hole was blown in the hull. Five civilian crew members were killed in the attack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attack_on_USNS_Card
SLB has declared Open House.
* Tự Do street's original name was Rue Catinat during French colonial times. It features prominently in The Quiet American. Tự Do, which means freedom or liberty in Vietnamese, was renamed Đồng Khởi after the fall of Saigon in 1975. This lead to a joke among Saigonese that when the NVA arrived, they took away freedom and liberty!
Last edited by India Four Two; 21st Apr 2019 at 06:00.
Methinks it was Berwick complete with an Airtourer and either a Mustang or a Firefly
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Shame "dook" withdrew his photo. Methinks it was Berwick complete with an Airtourer and either a Mustang or a Firefly
See the heritage report on the Berwick (Casey) airfield
https://vpa-web.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-...March-2017.pdf
