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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
Yes, it's Luscombe Field - the runway within the Australian base at Nui Dat.
Interesting details of its history here:
Luscombe Field | 1 Field Squadron RAE
The famous battle of Long Tan was fought just east of Nui Dat - 108 Australians encountered 2500 VC and NVA troops:
https://battleoflongtan.com
Asturias56 has control.
Interesting details of its history here:
Luscombe Field | 1 Field Squadron RAE
The famous battle of Long Tan was fought just east of Nui Dat - 108 Australians encountered 2500 VC and NVA troops:
https://battleoflongtan.com
Asturias56 has control.
Phew ! Would never have got it without that clue ........................
Here's one suggested by a colleague...
Here's one suggested by a colleague...
Asturias, it's just visible on GE if you know where to look:
Núi means hill or mountain and Đất means land or soil, so Núi Đất loosely translates as Dirt Hill. It was known to the Aussies as Sapper Hill.
I felt I needed to post that clue to put dook out of his misery!
What did you Google, dook?
Núi means hill or mountain and Đất means land or soil, so Núi Đất loosely translates as Dirt Hill. It was known to the Aussies as Sapper Hill.
I felt I needed to post that clue to put dook out of his misery!
What did you Google, dook?
Asturias, it's just visible on GE if you know where to look:
Núi means hill or mountain and Đất means land or soil, so Núi Đất loosely translates as Dirt Hill. It was known to the Aussies as Sapper Hill.
I felt I needed to post that clue to put dook out of his misery! What did you Google, dook?
Núi means hill or mountain and Đất means land or soil, so Núi Đất loosely translates as Dirt Hill. It was known to the Aussies as Sapper Hill.
I felt I needed to post that clue to put dook out of his misery!
What did you Google, dook?Why was it called Sapper Hill?
Was it where the boys with the bridges and surfaces and stopwatches and mines went in?
well stuff me!
It has at least 4 names and I was looking forward to a long weekend
Dook it is - but NEXT TIME ↨ -it's a small airfield in the central USA.............................. and esoteric clues.....................
Why was it called Sapper Hill?
I had to look it up and discovered that I had had a senior moment. It was actually called SAS Hill, presumably because the Aussie SAS were based there. At least I got the first two letters right!
"Upset" - if you mean I'm at Bologna Airport with my horsewhip packed so I can ambush you on the steps of your mansion in Mayfair and give you a good thrashing - no
"Upset" - as in you think you've backed a winning horse and it doesn't even get out of the gate and all you can do is dance on the torn shards of your betting slip - YES I'm upset
I know I should learn but just when I think I've got one that will run and run - BANG - down in flames (again) . It astonishes me at the geographical and historical knowledge on here - and people have minds like cork screws - look at the last half dozen challenges - UK, Vietnam, Maryland.... and 2 of those places no longer exist - and lasted a max of 24 hours....................
So, as V I Lenin asked - What IS To Be Done?" - work harder Asturias, give up your childish ways and put some back into .it..........
The challenge is a rather neat spot - those woods are carefully arranged an d trimmed - not sure that's a very "English" landscape. And the Airfield - very neat, very small ramp but two very smart turn round areas at each end of the runway
Switzerland perhaps..... (I can't see any litter either...) but very N-S which is often characteristic of the USA
"Upset" - as in you think you've backed a winning horse and it doesn't even get out of the gate and all you can do is dance on the torn shards of your betting slip - YES I'm upset
I know I should learn but just when I think I've got one that will run and run - BANG - down in flames (again) . It astonishes me at the geographical and historical knowledge on here - and people have minds like cork screws - look at the last half dozen challenges - UK, Vietnam, Maryland.... and 2 of those places no longer exist - and lasted a max of 24 hours....................
So, as V I Lenin asked - What IS To Be Done?" - work harder Asturias, give up your childish ways and put some back into .it..........
The challenge is a rather neat spot - those woods are carefully arranged an d trimmed - not sure that's a very "English" landscape. And the Airfield - very neat, very small ramp but two very smart turn round areas at each end of the runway
Switzerland perhaps..... (I can't see any litter either...) but very N-S which is often characteristic of the USA
OK some of those fields look a bit strip-like - so France?
There goes the afternoon.................
just to be sure - this is Metropolitan France not France overseas... eg Corsica etc etc?
N-S runway isn't very common in France proper - so I'd guess somewhere away from the Atlantic/Channel costs
Doesn't seem to have extensive facilities so not a major destination for scheduled services. No major road up to the airfield so probably away from a major town. No visible car parking, no aircraft parked up. Those turning circles look big to me - bigger than you'd need for a King Air or similar - looks like it might handle the odd ATR or business jets
But still looks a bit smart to me... is it used by one large business or Govt organisation for example?
N-S runway isn't very common in France proper - so I'd guess somewhere away from the Atlantic/Channel costs
Doesn't seem to have extensive facilities so not a major destination for scheduled services. No major road up to the airfield so probably away from a major town. No visible car parking, no aircraft parked up. Those turning circles look big to me - bigger than you'd need for a King Air or similar - looks like it might handle the odd ATR or business jets
But still looks a bit smart to me... is it used by one large business or Govt organisation for example?