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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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As I'm off for the evening I'll confess a bit early - yes it is Stoenhenge -& nvubu has it
Surely the UK's Most Historic Aerodrome - I was astonished they built one there right beside the stones..............
Surely the UK's Most Historic Aerodrome - I was astonished they built one there right beside the stones..............
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Thanks - I guessed at it based on your clue about the surprising location - before going and looking up the challenge I posted in 2018
Here is the next challenge - the airfield is under the smoke. Will provide more images later.
Here is the next challenge - the airfield is under the smoke. Will provide more images later.
I feel lucky today:
A few years back I did a hole-in-one when answering (tong in cheek) Udvar Hazy on a very hazy picture.
If this is a German airfield where they have problems with smoke extraction, then this must be Berlin Brandenburg airport (then Schonefeld)
A few years back I did a hole-in-one when answering (tong in cheek) Udvar Hazy on a very hazy picture.
If this is a German airfield where they have problems with smoke extraction, then this must be Berlin Brandenburg airport (then Schonefeld)
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SLB - you aren't lucky this time as this airfield isn't in Germany.
This isn't bombs going up, but rather bombs going down - having been dropped by the aircraft in the picture.
This isn't bombs going up, but rather bombs going down - having been dropped by the aircraft in the picture.
Are we in the Po Valley?
On second thoughts no. Apple tells me that's an 11 hour drive for Slb. Paris is in the six hour plus range, so northern France?
On second thoughts no. Apple tells me that's an 11 hour drive for Slb. Paris is in the six hour plus range, so northern France?
Could be in the Chateaudun to Blois area - somewhere like Blois le Breuil
I think Asturias has hit the target with Chateaudun (a bit difficult to verify the layout on satellite photos as the current airbase is deliberately obscured, it seems).
Incidentally, I was having a look at the history of one of the B24s in the 14 Jun 44 raid (presumably the second photo) and it certainly had a busy schedule in its one year life from delivery to scrap...I guess that the chances of surviving so many raids were much higher as the German air defences collapsed?
USAAF Nose Art Research Project - Dumbo
Incidentally, I was having a look at the history of one of the B24s in the 14 Jun 44 raid (presumably the second photo) and it certainly had a busy schedule in its one year life from delivery to scrap...I guess that the chances of surviving so many raids were much higher as the German air defences collapsed?
USAAF Nose Art Research Project - Dumbo
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Sorry for the delay, busy at work. Yes, A56 has it with Chateaudun. If you use Google Earth historical views and go back a couple of clicks, the pixilation goes away.
Some of the dispersals on the images I posted are still recognisable once you go back in time.
Over to you Asturias
Who is going to win the prize for being the one to get to 1000 pages
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On my last image, around 9 o'clock, Would that be the ammunition storage for the airfield? It is rail connected - although I think no longer used as such, and seems very overgrown.
Some of the dispersals on the images I posted are still recognisable once you go back in time.
Over to you Asturias
Who is going to win the prize for being the one to get to 1000 pages
Edit to add:
On my last image, around 9 o'clock, Would that be the ammunition storage for the airfield? It is rail connected - although I think no longer used as such, and seems very overgrown.
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No - I only pointed out the area (which was pretty big) and then plumped for Blois le Breuil
it's MAXTOW who looked closely - over to her/him
it's MAXTOW who looked closely - over to her/him
Norfolk pines, palm trees, driving on the left. Australia?
Saro London - probably RAF 204 Squadron visit to the nether regions in '37-38 5 aircraft in the longest formation flight ever