Oh, Those Airship Hangars!!!!!!

Tears fill my eyes.


But is it Lakehurst???? Or Recife???


Certainly not Cardington.:}

Far too easy, Lakehurst it is :ok:

Definitely Lakehurst

Airship Hangars 5 and 6 it would appear.


How about Hangar 1??


Now there's a thing. :)

Is Recife the one in Brazil about 50 miles west of Rio?

Recife is , as you correctly say , in Brazil.
It is way up the coast from Rio at the Top-Right hand Corner of Brazil where the Atlantic is at its most narrow. Thus a logical landfall for traffic coming down from Europe along the West African Coast. Almost a straight line if you look at a globe.Then its a another 2000k to Rio , following the coast, again almost all in a fairly straight line.

Are we awaiting a new challenge from RETDPI?

We were on an excursion to a lagoon west of Rio, and I could see from the coach to the south of the main road what I took to be a pair of airship sheds about 50 miles from Rio.
Looking on Flashearth, there's a military airfield near a town called Santa Cruz posn 22 deg 55' 48.2" S 43 deg 45' 6.5" W which has one airship shed, so where I got two from I don't know!!

For some time I wondered if I was getting confused with Sunnyvale California, which has these ( Quickbird image, note the C130's and S60s)
I presume they are the old Akron and Macon sheds.

http://i170.photobucket.com/albums/u...ck/Airship.jpg

Ah well ! An interesting little diversion between challenges.

Don't think it was him - and not to worry BAMRA;). We've had a small hiccup with my stealth post, apologies. Here is the next challenge - taken in 1983.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...kshaker/ft.jpg

All right,gizza clue,N,S,E,W,hot/cold ?

Funny I seem to have seen that picture before!

Was it further up the page? It is west of here and still active.

By "here" do you mean west of the UK?

Vague similarity (just vague) to Shannon.

OK - to move it on, West of the Atlantic. N America in fact. Further picture clue to follow if required.

Plethora of runways = USA
Airfield name on taxiway at right centre 7 letters
Surrounded by arable farm land
Threshold of runway 17 at mid right therefore photo taken pointing east

Right on almost everything. The word on the taxiway, is 'taxiway'. There's yet another runway there now.

Is that a C-130 "gate guardian" ?

There were a number of aircraft on sticks - the others, and there are plenty, around the base were for technical training.

Wichita Falls - Sheppard AFB/Wichita Falls Municipal (KSPS), Texas.

Correct - Sheppard AFB, home of, the then relatively new, Euro Nato Flying Training school. The whole of flying training, all on one base, on one of 6 training bases, each turning out way more pilots than we did in total. 5 swimming pools and a base hospital - it all seemed pretty huge at the time. Dallas (JR Ewing Dallas) was still in its heyday and it was all a bit of a culture shock. Over to you, Evansb. Did you know it all the time?;)

PS to say it still looks chuffing big. That new runway must be 15,000 ft and there are a good selection of aircraft types parked around the place.

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...shaker/ft3.jpg http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...tcockpit-2.jpg

No 2 is a bit `slack`!

We'll give him the benefit of the doubt and say he was joining! - or maybe I was too far forward.

Thanks BN, that was a fun challenge. Here is the next mystery aerodrome:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r.../WAD081029.jpg

Possibly Burtonwood ?

Sorry, not Burtonwood. Not in the U.K.

Clue: Hangar 2 no longer stands, but the airfield is still operational.

Anchorage Int'l Airport PANC

C2j

Sorry, not Anchorage, but you are getting warm.

Is Anchorage ever warm?

How about Fairbanks,but haven`t a clue about N,or S side..?

Fairbanks is cooler. Michigan cooler still. Willow Run has been done.

Does "not Anchorage" exclude Elmendorf AFB then ?

How about "Sea-Tac" then??

Sorry, not near Anchorage, and farther still from Seattle. It is, however, a maritime locale. The base has undergone a name change since the photo was taken.

The "Black Pearl".

Shemya/Earackson AFB Alaska.

Also know as "The Rock". PaperTiger is correct.:ok: Shemya airfield is located at the far western (it is so far west, it is east) end of the Aleutian chain. The base was home to a variety of Cold War missions.
You have control.
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...mya-island.jpg

I'm away for the weekend so OPEN HOUSE !

How about this?

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...One-IThink.jpg