Skopje?

macedonski

Split ? down the middle...

Pristina, BKPR?

Yes it is skopje. all yours larssnowpharter...well done! DH

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t...r/nicetrip.jpg

Apologies for the delay; (computer) virus problem.

here is your next airfield.

Over 200 views and not even a stab at it.

Clue: This airfield is one of the oldest active airfields around and was certainly a military airfield during World War One.

Asiago, Italy?

dash7fan,

You have control, Sir.:D:D:D

I note that you are not far from this well known cheese making 'Altopiano'.

Well done.

Asaigo is also one of the highest airfields in Europe as well as one of the oldest.

I am not sure of this but there is also the possibility that ac from the Austro/Hungarian air forces as well as the Italian Air Force also flew from this strip during that war. The locals say this is so.

Plug: Great place to go for gliding. The Dolomites are - arguably - the most beautiful mountains in the world.

Try a cross county to Innsbuck from here. VERY testing.

Thanks Larssnowpharter,

I know this field only from overflying and it is not far away from my homebase Innsbruck. You are correct, Asiago was an airfield from the Austro-Hungarian Airforce during 1914-1918.



Here are 2 photos of the next airfield

http://member.file-upload.net/seneca/101-0193_IMG.JPG




http://member.file-upload.net/seneca/101-0195_IMG.JPG

Davis base AAT?

I don't know where the photo was taken, but I do know the aircraft in the photo is the best short-range turbo-prop airliner the world has ever known. In addition, the engines and props were designed by a group of stellar engineers. Without any personal bias what-so-ever, I must concede the people who assemble the aero-engines in my home town are second-to-none. Yup, completely without bias. Well...just a little bias..:)

overfly

it is not Davis

Evansb

I fully agree that the Dash 8 is a wonderful aircraft. During my more than 11000 hrs on this type I had only 2 uncomplicated engine failures. A very reliable and easy to operate aircraft. Thanks to all your people in your hometown.

11,000 hours on a Dash-8 ? Any Dash-7 time ? She was the Cadillac of Regional Airliners.
If DH would have slanted the windshield on the Dash-7 an additional 10 degrees, it would have yielded an additional 12 knots airspeed. Dang! The resultant increase/change was on the drawing board before the first Dash -Seven left Downsview !

Yes Evansb, I have 6000 hrs on the -7, but I retired 3 years ago. So no more hours on these wunderful aircrafts. By the way I trained for the -7 and -8 at Downsview at the old de Havilland Pilotsschool. You know the old buildings where the Mosquito was produced during WW2. Instructors were, for instance, Don Rodgers, Mick Saunders, Bill Pullen...

And the airfield in question has a similarity with Downsview. It was established 1936 as a company airfield.

rgs

I don't think its Downsview, Dash7Fan, unless the 'hill' behind the airplane is the Missisauga garbage hill, on approach to rwy 32 at YYZ, now a ski slope.

My guess is we're looking at somewhere in Alaska?

Sorry for misunderstanding. Downsview is the airport of de Havilland Canada. This airfield is an airfield from an other aircraft manufacturer, which went out of business a few years ago and is not in America.

OK, I can backtrack quicker than most!

Oberpfaffenhofen??



Dash7fan: check your PM.

twochai, yes you are correct. It is the former Dornier field Oberpfaffenhofen near Munich.

The Dash 8 was leased to Qantas for 2 years.

Here is the next challenge.

Tip: While the rather cold water doesn't exactly fit EvansB's precise definition as a 'licenced waterdrome', the visible land does constitute part of a recognized 'landing ground' with some historic significance, I think.


http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/k...i/Ifoundit.jpg

One suspects that this may be a certain beach in N Carolina. Very good, Sir!:ok:

Certainly not as historic and quite a long way from the beach at Kill Devil Hills.

This is not a very high resolution photo, unfortunately, but that's ice out there in the channel! By the way, the photo was taken just last month, in August!

Tip: Try doubling the latitude.

Cambridge Bay?

Not Cambridge Bay, Flap 40, but you're not so far away - at least in Arctic units of distance. You're only 660NM+/- too far south southwest.

You (or somebody else) can find it!

Is it the strip at Beechey Island just off the s tip of Devon Island?

Wainwright airstrip, a bit south of Wiley Post airport Barrow Alaska?

Sorry, not Wainwright, not Beechey Island, although they're both close.

Unortunately, I'm going travelling and will be out of touch for 24 hours so I'm going to have to bring this one to an end prematurely! The answer is, in fact, Eureka, in the eastern arctic territory of Nunavut.

Eureka was recently the most northerly point of landing of two intrepid DHC Beaver owners/enthusiasts from Seattle who are currently on the final stages of a a very ambitious circumnavigation of Canada in two Beaver floatplanes! Flying up the BC coast and across the Rocky mountains to Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, and north to Inuvik on the Arctic Ocean they then headed east to follow what is generally known as the Northwest Passage to Cambridge Bay, Resolute Bay and then up to Eureka. The trip was meticulously planned with satellite communications and modern GPS navigation devices, of course, but otherwise they just landed when the weather deteriorated, erected tents and camped out on the tundra until the weather improved to allow onward flight, just as the pioneers did 60 years ago!

The rather tenuous historic connection I claim for Doug DevRies and Mark Schoening is their landing on floats at Eureka, a very lonely Canadian weather station located at 80 degrees north latitude. I believe they must have broken some sort of record for the most northerly landing ever undertaken by a floatplane anywhere in the world because only recently, with the effects of global warming, has there been enough open water to permit such an escapade.

Their exploits can be followed on their excellent website at:

The Great Actic Air Adventure

I commend it to anyone interested. Discovery Channel documentary to come.

Again, I apologise to all, I thought we could complete it in time, we were so close. Regrettably, now it must be: OPEN HOUSE!

Next aerodrome
 

Okay . . flame me all you like but I have read the FAQs and instructions on insertion of pictures -- and there is nowhere on this composition page I can find a way to activate the attachments or img function.

Help?

Have you read this thread?

While we await developments, can I slip this easy one in ? Keith.

http://i261.photobucket.com/albums/i...me/where12.jpg

Edinburgh?

Agreed. EDI before the new runway was built.

Background Noise has it, it is indeed Turnhouse 1962 I think ? Looking forward to your next challenge thank you. Keith.

Great picture! The bings are now a national monument.

Um yes ! credit for the pic must go to Colin Laurie, But what are the bings ??? Keith ?

Thanks BN
 

It's all yours. I'll have the photo posting figured out by the time another open house comes up . . .

Grizz

Bing is the Scottish word for Slagheap, two of which are visible in the distance.

Thanks for that Flap 40, We live and learn ! Keith

Excuse the thread creep, but that picture shows the spot where I started my interest in aeroplanes 60 years ago. No 1 tram from Liberton to Corstorphine, walk from tram terminus to Turnhouse to watch Spitfires and then Vampires of the RAuxAF while standing in the ditch beside the railway line! Even logged the odd steam engine.
Where do all the years go?
ASMCCUK

Not too historic but we haven't had it before:
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...mewheretoo.jpg

Back seat of a Hawk/Tucano into Leeming as a first shot.....