PPRuNe Forums - Which Aerodrome?

OK thanks!

Here's the next one...a clue - home airfield of a record breaker:

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/g...1andy/25_3.jpg

In fact home of two record breakers now I think about it....;)

mustpost

14th Jan 2008 18:55

Early Elvington?

G-ARZG

14th Jan 2008 18:56

Friedrichshafen?

621andy

14th Jan 2008 22:32

Not Elvington or Friedrichshafen...

the incivil beast

15th Jan 2008 07:54

The landscape looks continental, probably even French, but I cannot find the place. There aren't that many airports with a long concrete runway and glider winch launching.

Maybe it is Germany after all.

Some clue would be welcome (maybe the record category)

aviate1138

15th Jan 2008 09:08

Oberpfaffenhofen?

mustpost

15th Jan 2008 10:09

Is it Lubeck?
Or Lübeck-Blankensee to be precise?

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/j...ee-Airport.jpg

621andy

15th Jan 2008 10:29

Mustpost gets it. Lübeck it is!:)

As to the records, well, Hans-Werner Grosse flew 1460km to Biarritz from here in an ASW12, on the 25.4.72. This distance was only recently beaten, I think in wave in south America. Still the longest thermal flight ever.

The second record is his ETA glider which is based there. It has the largest wingspan of any glider of 30.9m and a glide angle of 1:70:ooh:

mustpost

15th Jan 2008 10:47

Thanks 621andy. The gliding record did it - I remember when he set it. This should not take too long - apologies if it's gone before, but I'm at work.
Like the 'first flight out of Heathrow' thread, this is the airport I first flew in to - in a DC3...:O

http://i268.photobucket.com/albums/j.../TN_021_21.jpg

MReyn24050

15th Jan 2008 12:00

mustpost's challenge

Tiree Airport.

Fishtailed

15th Jan 2008 12:24

Is it the 'other side' of Ronaldsway?

mustpost

15th Jan 2008 13:01

Hmmm..too easy by far – Tiree it is, and MReyn24050 has it. :D Flew there as a lad on hol in 1960 in a DC-3 – two days later Grandad seriously ill so flew home in DH Heron. Short hol, but I think I preferred the Dak…:}

MReyn24050

15th Jan 2008 15:54

Next Challenge

Thanks mustpost. It was the Piper PA-28 aircraft belonging to British Airway's Flying Club that gave it away. Incidently the nearest aircraft on the left side of the photograph is G-ODAK a PA-28.236 Dakota :).
Here is the next challenge, which I am sure will not last long.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...ortquiz033.jpg
Mel

Racing Snake

15th Jan 2008 19:16

Santo domingo , Dom Rep?

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