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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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24hrs is up, OUAQUKGF is spot on it's Seeb during Enduring Freedom/Operation Veritas. The dispersal is now under the Stands for the new terminal. The accommodation site can still be seen just to the west of the two taxiways connecting the now two runways. It was an interesting time, along with the RAFO normal contingent of Strikemasters, Hueys and Hercs and the Omani Royal Flight 747SP, there was a varied collection of Coalition arircraft including E-4s B-1Bs, Hercs UK & US, the odd Greyhound resupply, Canberras , Tristars, VC10s (until they were asked to leave due to being too noisy), Chinooks, and of course the Nimrod MR2s.
MR2 over Afghanistan, a long way from the sea
5* accomadation
North side of the airfield on the approach
206 Sqn Crew 2 ready to go (no badges, just rank slides)
MR2 over Afghanistan, a long way from the sea
5* accomadation
North side of the airfield on the approach
206 Sqn Crew 2 ready to go (no badges, just rank slides)
Last edited by Sideshow Bob; 25th Mar 2021 at 14:52.
Bob - Many thanks for gently leading me to Seeb. A most interesting challenge - I had never heard of 'The Boulevard' until now and then in the previous exhausting challenge Max had us chasing around the place - conjuring up strange looking aeroplanes that one had never seen, let alone heard of. Thank you both very much. Slightly cooler climes now, tho' the winter temperatures in the the Gulf I remember as being very pleasant.
In England's green and pleasant land?
Looks a bit like the chap waiting at South Kensington tube, who I used to walk past every day, but no airport there and it's not LHR! So on investigation, it seems sculptor Imre Varga made a few of Mr.B with the same distinctive leg-wear and hat, including one for his home town of Siofok (not to be confused with O.P.'s home of Niofok).
That's not a very aeronautical path to a guess - in fact, more like "Which Composer?" - without any idea how the "Mercury & Messerschmitt" fitted in, but on further thought in this edit, could it simply be Freddy's house in S.Ken and a 109 prop? Trying to start with an answer and then fitting the clues, which is a bit unsatisfactory.
There may of course be other statues in locations which also got one from Mr Varga, but the grass/asphalt parallels and unusual Minecraft-like "R" runway letter seem to fit.
OH if correct as I'm looking forward to resuming air travel this w/e so I'll be seeing real airports instead of sepia images for a change. Yay!
That's not a very aeronautical path to a guess - in fact, more like "Which Composer?" - without any idea how the "Mercury & Messerschmitt" fitted in, but on further thought in this edit, could it simply be Freddy's house in S.Ken and a 109 prop? Trying to start with an answer and then fitting the clues, which is a bit unsatisfactory.
There may of course be other statues in locations which also got one from Mr Varga, but the grass/asphalt parallels and unusual Minecraft-like "R" runway letter seem to fit.
OH if correct as I'm looking forward to resuming air travel this w/e so I'll be seeing real airports instead of sepia images for a change. Yay!
Last edited by Max Tow; 26th Mar 2021 at 22:07. Reason: Mercury & Messerschmitt thought update
HA- registration is Hungary not Romania so Budapest/Franz Liszt or to be correct Ferenc Liszt.
Bugger, that's runway 13R and L.
Bugger, that's runway 13R and L.
Last edited by chevvron; 26th Mar 2021 at 11:13.
I think it a statue of one of the Bata shoe making family - they started in Zlin (now Austria) was Moravia) but I can't see any airport nor any with that heading nearby
G-ARZG - Sorry not Romania. Central Europe yes. You mention AN2 - was that in connection with the propeller? Certainly AN2s have visited this airfield but I think the prop is from an AN26.
Yes Bartok is all over the place..... However I hope my comments are taken in the good spirit that was meant. I guess Asturias couldn't quite read the inscription on the base of the statue. Max Tow has it with Siofok Hungary. Tony Spooner's very good autobiography 'In Full Flight' recalls a flying visit to Siofok in the late 1930s. I was interested to see if the airfield still existed. I chucked in a couple of minor Red Herrings with the Statue: Mercury = Crater on the Planet named after Bartok. Messerschmitt = ME210 flown by the sculptor Varga Hungarian Air Force WW2. The image I posted of the statue is from that in Siofok - Varga's birth-place. Incidentally re Chevvron's contribution Varga produced statues of Liszt too !
Taken prior to the laying of the new runway in 2018. Looking towards the resort town of Siofok with Lake Balaton beyond.
Parachuting appears to be very popular here: Suggest you turn down the volume.
Lisunov LI-2 at Siofok. Photo credit: Janos Tamas
You can turn the volume up for this. Filmed I think at Budaors Airfield:
Max Tow has declared Open House.
Taken prior to the laying of the new runway in 2018. Looking towards the resort town of Siofok with Lake Balaton beyond.
Parachuting appears to be very popular here: Suggest you turn down the volume.
Lisunov LI-2 at Siofok. Photo credit: Janos Tamas
You can turn the volume up for this. Filmed I think at Budaors Airfield:
Max Tow has declared Open House.
Last edited by OUAQUKGF Ops; 26th Mar 2021 at 14:27.