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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.
  • 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.
  • The person who correctly identifies it will be declared the 'winner' by the original poster.
  • That winner shall either post another challenge or declare the floor open. Anyone may then post the next challenge.
  • If the winner of the challenge does not respond to the notification of their success within 48 hours, an Open house can be declared when there is consensus between multiple other posters which are on line.
  • When the poster of a challenge does not respond within 48 hours of a posted answer, this poster can be declared winner if the answer is considered correct in a consensus of multiple other posters.
  • If Open House is declared, regular posters should not jump in immediately, but time should be given for those who are not great at naming the correct location as they may have some good images.
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  • When confirming the correct location, the location and winner should be stated to negate any deletion of posts.
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Old 14th Dec 2012, 13:07
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Correct . In the news for all the wrong reasons
The former Sheffield City Airport is about to be redeveloped and its runway destroyed. The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is fighting to reverse that decision, gathering signatures to a petition that would force the city council to debate the issue - and the FSB is convinced that it has sufficient support amongst councillors to drive through the call for an independent review. In a new twist, a bidder for the airport has emerged, and he plans to kick-start GA at Sheffield
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Which may account for it being on another forum. You have control, Chevvron.
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Open House.
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There's a film clip often shown on programs about the era of airfield personnel watching a B29 flying very low just offshore and apparently about to ditch, this location and viewpoint appear very similar. However from memory I think that was at Tinian and as you say the field hasn't been posted before, that can't be it.

Is it a Pacific base in 1944 or 5 though?
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Old 15th Dec 2012, 16:52
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Correct so far!
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Old 15th Dec 2012, 18:13
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The video you refer to is the first plane shown on this clip.
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Old 17th Dec 2012, 08:46
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Reduced to guessing now - Tarawa or Peleliu?
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Old 17th Dec 2012, 08:58
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Possibly Iwo Jima.
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Old 17th Dec 2012, 10:48
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Correct, Lightning Mate. Another of the islands captured at huge human expense in order to secure yet one more airstrip nearer Japan. You have control.
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Old 17th Dec 2012, 13:17
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Apologies, but I'm busy trying to solve multiple challenges elsewhere.

OH please.
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Old 17th Dec 2012, 13:31
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And there was I, thinking that Lightning drivers were multi-tasking chappies
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Old 17th Dec 2012, 13:36
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Not at my age anymore.
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Old 17th Dec 2012, 14:25
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'One more airstrip'
The feature article in After the Battle listed about 7 airstrips on Iwo Jima
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Old 17th Dec 2012, 14:37
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Indeed - as did several of the Pacific island 'toe-holds'. Apart from the hill (Suribachi) at one end of the island, the better part of the rest was devoted to aviation.
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Old 17th Dec 2012, 21:59
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Hello! Since it is OH, here I come again with something a bit different (we will come back to my favorite area later don't worry):



For now I will just say that's it is in France and that the Germans did not show any interest into it...yet someone did!
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Old 19th Dec 2012, 20:21
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Two days on...I request a clue from asw22 (is there a "polite rule" on the time between posting and the rest of us getting bored? )

Russ.
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Old 19th Dec 2012, 21:22
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is there a "polite rule" on the time between posting and the rest of us getting bored?
I was always under the assumption it was 24 hrs? Same goes for the other ID threads.
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Old 20th Dec 2012, 13:46
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Sorry I have been away for the last 36 hours...To my credit nobody having even posted an hypothesis I told myself everyone is busy with the end of the year preparations or just trying to escape the end of the world...or less interest if not Commonwealth related ?

As a clue I will say that this is still an airfield; actually, one of the most recent airports in Europe...As it may be too easy now please indicate the emplacement of this 1947 runway in the new entity...

I am stable again an I will follow the thread closely...

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Old 20th Dec 2012, 19:01
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or less interest if not Commonwealth related ?
I wouldn't even recognise my backyard from the air mate.
just trying to escape the end of the world...
I'm posting from the 21st - all looks good! (I even pushed my getaway spaceship back in the shed.)
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Old 20th Dec 2012, 21:43
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I'll start the guessing game with Charles de Gaulle.

Edit: Change that to Lyon Satolas/St Exupery. The pictured airfield is now under all the rubble to the SW corner.
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