Which Aerodrome Mk IV

[thnarg]

Originally Posted by Asturias56

Ricks'!!!

Stretching it a bit to call it a terminal but you've found it - name it and it's all yours!
A local historical person to fill in the time

Is that Sitting Bull?
Pine Ridge Airport: KIEN or (dyslexically) XPR. The only other US airport I can think of that does that is PHOG/OGG.

[Self loading bear]

Originally Posted by thnarg

Is that Sitting Bull?.

[Asturias56]

Pine Ridge it is - close to Wounded Knee. The gent in the snappy gear is Mahpiya Wakan ("Medicine Cloud") - an Oglala Sioux. Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Sioux. The place is a fully fledged dump - really appalling problems

The 2010 U.S. Census counted 18,834 individuals living on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The vast majority (16,906) identified as American Indian.

• 89% of residents are unemployed;
• 53.75% of the residents live below the Federal poverty level
• Average per capita income in Oglala Lakota County is $8,768 and ranks as the "poorest" county in the nation.
• The infant mortality rate is five times higher than the national average;
• Native American amputation rates due to diabetes are three to four times higher than the national average;
• Death rate due to diabetes is three times higher than the national average;
• Teen suicide is four times the national average; and
• Average life expectancy on Pine Ridge is 66.81 years, the lowest in the United States. Other statistics, attributed to the Pine Ridge hospital, cite an average life expectancy of just 47 years for men and 55 years for women.

[Asturias56]

I'd rather hoped Bear would get it - Frank Standing Bear aka Frank Grouard was a very interesting character around these parts in the late 19th Century..........

[thnarg]

Apologies if I stepped on Bear’s paws, A56. Yeah the Lakota people have had a tough few centuries for various reasons. If wikipedia is reliable the current tribal council president’s name translates as Frank Star Comes Out.

It’s probably featured before but it’s Sunday afternoon and I can’t be arsed to check the spreadsheet:

[Asturias56]

That building on the skyline looks slightly familiar - are we in Europe?

[thnarg]

Not Europe

[Self loading bear]

Airbus A320 family window will not help us much. Perhaps Asian side of Russia?

[thnarg]

Originally Posted by Self loading bear

Perhaps Asian side of Russia?

Not there

[Asturias56]

Asia then?

[thnarg]

Good morning everyone. Not Asia.

[Asturias56]

Americas?

[thnarg]

Originally Posted by Asturias56

Americas?

Yes it is

[thnarg]

I’ll make it easy for you…

[Asturias56]

too easy - Winnipeg I think?

OH if correct

[thnarg]

Sometimes we need an easy one and not just sheds and trees, Asty. YWG it is, an airport not easy to spot from over the US border…



Open house then.

[Asturias56]

India42 country ............................ but you have to admire the surveying................

[dixi188]

Are there two airfields in the foreground? One in the middle and one on the left in the 2nd square up.

Lets guess the state, Iowa?

[Self loading bear]

Originally Posted by dixi188

Are there two airfields in the foreground? One in the middle and one on the left in the 2nd square up.

Lets guess the state, Iowa?

If I understand Thnarg correctly it is a picture from USA with Winnipeg airport in view.
Then the photo must have been taken from the direction of Badger Minnesota.
The diagonal feature is then the Whitney lake ditch.

[thnarg]

Originally Posted by Self loading bear

If I understand Thnarg correctly it is a picture from USA with Winnipeg airport in view.
Then the photo must have been taken from the direction of Badger Minnesota.
The diagonal feature is then the Whitney lake ditch.

Sorry dixi but A56 correctly identified Winnipeg (YWG) and yes that last photo would have been on descent from the south crossing the US border. Difficult to see the airport amongst the city’s northern suburbs. Just a typically boring Canadian airport really and a bit chilly in winter when celsius almost equals fahrenheit with not much snow from the nose-puckering dry prairie skies…



Anyway, open house now.