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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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Yep, WIDN62 has it!
The mountains in the background are the Apuan Alps, a sideways spur of the Apennines. The not-quite-perpendicular historical architecture being of course the famous Campanile of the local cathedral.
My next clue was going to be something to do with telescopes (the airfield is named after Galileo Galilei). As with many airports in Italy there are several weekly connections to Romania due to the large amount of Romanians living and working in Italy.
As well as a commercial airfield , it's a large Aeronautica Militare base, although I was surprised to see this Pakistan Air Force C130 there. I photographed it through the window of my Easyjet flight back to Gatwick.
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The mountains in the background are the Apuan Alps, a sideways spur of the Apennines. The not-quite-perpendicular historical architecture being of course the famous Campanile of the local cathedral.
My next clue was going to be something to do with telescopes (the airfield is named after Galileo Galilei). As with many airports in Italy there are several weekly connections to Romania due to the large amount of Romanians living and working in Italy.
As well as a commercial airfield , it's a large Aeronautica Militare base, although I was surprised to see this Pakistan Air Force C130 there. I photographed it through the window of my Easyjet flight back to Gatwick.
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The not-quite-perpendicular historical architecture
Nice one. 👍
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Looks like a hot/sunny climate as you can see sun shade on the balcony, so Colonial maybe, not British though as it look like an British colonial building I've seen.
If a Lodestar maybe South American?
Covering a lot of bases there
If a Lodestar maybe South American?
Covering a lot of bases there
Possibly Dutch colonial?
Terima kasih banyak! 😀
In Java?
In Java?
Kemayoran.
Harry, your picture shows up on the Wikipedia page. The caption says 1940.
I flew to Medan and back on a Garuda DC-9 in 1985, shortly before the airport closed. The most alarming landing I have ever experienced. The cockpit door was open and the approach was so steep, that all I could see was the runway number!
JENKINS,
I think what you have spotted is just a typical locally-made barricade on an access road.
Harry, your picture shows up on the Wikipedia page. The caption says 1940.
I flew to Medan and back on a Garuda DC-9 in 1985, shortly before the airport closed. The most alarming landing I have ever experienced. The cockpit door was open and the approach was so steep, that all I could see was the runway number!
JENKINS,
I think what you have spotted is just a typical locally-made barricade on an access road.
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India Four Two is correct
My old man was there in late 1945 - driving around Batavia with a jeep full of Japanese POW NCO's shooting up anyone who though that the end of the war meant they'd got rid of the Dutch..... colonialism - don'tcha love it!
Now built over
My old man was there in late 1945 - driving around Batavia with a jeep full of Japanese POW NCO's shooting up anyone who though that the end of the war meant they'd got rid of the Dutch..... colonialism - don'tcha love it!
Now built over
My old man was there in late 1945 - driving around Batavia with a jeep full of Japanese POW NCO's
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indone...nal_Revolution
Dirk Bogarde wrote a very good novel about this period in Indonesia:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...tle_Occupation
Open house.
PS An interesting fallout from this period is that, in the 1980s, I saw ex-British Army CMP trucks being used in a quarry near Bandung.
Last edited by India Four Two; 22nd Jan 2017 at 00:17.
The first place that I flew a Tiger Moth
I42,
Afraid this one is rather a given for me having flown the caravan at bottom right for a living, I'll leave it for others to name and retire to the 'Bricklayers Pasture' for a wine :-)
Afraid this one is rather a given for me having flown the caravan at bottom right for a living, I'll leave it for others to name and retire to the 'Bricklayers Pasture' for a wine :-)