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pigboat 18th Aug 2007 02:41

Québec City (YQB)?

evansb 18th Aug 2007 02:55

Not Quebec City, but you are getting closer.

ThreadBaron 18th Aug 2007 06:51

The concrete apron at Ottawa looks as if it might fit.

evansb 18th Aug 2007 07:16

Not Ottawa. Close.

Saab Dastard 18th Aug 2007 07:37

Dorval, then?

SD

evansb 18th Aug 2007 07:47

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...e_Montreal.jpg
Saab Dastard is correct.:ok: It is indeed Montreal/Dorval Airport. The challenge photo was taken in the late 1940s. I thought the Northeastern Airlines DC-3 would have given it away a wee bit earlier. Dorval has been renamed 'Montreal-Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport'. It is Canada's third busiest airport, in terms of passenger loads. You have control.

Saab Dastard 18th Aug 2007 09:43

OK, next challenge:

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d1...minals/32r.jpg

SD

paddyboy 18th Aug 2007 12:17

A very early Lasham?

Saab Dastard 18th Aug 2007 12:32

Indeed it is, over to you.

SD

paddyboy 18th Aug 2007 12:40

Ok. My first time so be gentle!
http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n...0/DSCF0585.jpg

seacue 18th Aug 2007 21:26

Hints? Hints? Hints?

paddyboy 18th Aug 2007 21:30

UK

Ex WW2.

canard68 18th Aug 2007 22:30

Langar ?

paddyboy 19th Aug 2007 09:09

Nope, not Langar.
I'll post another pic up later if this is too tricky.

ThreadBaron 19th Aug 2007 14:32

Don't give up yet paddy. Feed us some clues!

paddyboy 19th Aug 2007 14:42

Eighth Airforce!

ThreadBaron 19th Aug 2007 16:16

My head hurts now, but I think it is Rattlesden!

MReyn24050 19th Aug 2007 16:22

ThreadBaron
 
I would agree with both the head ache and it being RAF Rattlesden.
Mel

ThreadBaron 19th Aug 2007 16:23

Should one, or perhaps the two of us, get a life, Mel? You must have been following me through the Mighty 8th website cross-reference page, a step behind!:uhoh:

paddyboy 19th Aug 2007 16:45

Well done chaps.:D
Here's the close up I would've posted.
http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n...0/DSCF0586.jpg

MReyn24050 19th Aug 2007 17:01

ThreadBaron
 
Very true :\

ThreadBaron 19th Aug 2007 17:51

Next!!

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...on/AeroD13.jpg

paddyboy 19th Aug 2007 18:33

Ormond Beach?

ThreadBaron 19th Aug 2007 18:44

Sorry, Paddy,not Ormond Beach.
That's the first one of mine that's got past Round 1 - Wooooo Hoooo!

Portlaoise 19th Aug 2007 19:05

I think it is Gander going by all that forest. Actually never seen the airport but lots of forest and lakes made me think of Canada and it appears on further searching that the photo was taken in 1946 from PBY-5A 48314.

BEagle 19th Aug 2007 19:21

You're quite correct. Gander, Sep 1946.

More here: http://www.zianet.com/tmorris/ganderrescue.html

ThreadBaron 19th Aug 2007 19:24

In which case you don't need me to tell you that you now have control, Portlaoise.

Portlaoise 19th Aug 2007 19:27

Ok sorry about small images but this one might be fairly easy otheriwse.

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/4...romeeh7.th.jpg
http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/1...ome1cs5.th.jpg

Portlaoise 19th Aug 2007 21:25

Ok I will give a small hint to this airfield to make things a little easier. Operations from this field were civil then military then civil again. From the 80s until recently the field was used again as a motorbike racing track. Part is still used for karting today.

Tiger_mate 19th Aug 2007 22:37

It has Coastal Command written all over it, but for now, I will opt for:

Nutts Corner

As I am right, OPEN HOUSE*

*In accordance with Seacues wishes in post #68

RAF Nutts Corner was a Royal Air Force station in County Antrim near Belfast. It was originally a civil airfield, then a military base and subsequently Northern Ireland's main civil airport until the 1960s.
During World War II it was an important Coastal Command station and was also used as a transport hub for aircraft arriving from the United States. No. 120 Squadron operated B-24 Liberator maritime patrol bombers from the base from 1941.

OPEN HOUSE

seacue 20th Aug 2007 02:04

Try this challenge from the 1940s.
http://users.erols.com/rcarpen/airp42.jpg

pigboat 20th Aug 2007 03:16

NAS Pensacola?

If that's correct, I open the floor 'cause I'm going to bed. :zzz:

seacue 20th Aug 2007 03:18

Not Pensacola.
I, too, am calling it a day.
Back in service.

seacue

seacue 20th Aug 2007 15:46

Problems have arisen and I will be unable to monitor this one challenge any further.

The airport is Anacostia Naval (Air) Station, Washington, DC. Home of the presidential Marine helicopters.

http://users.erols.com/rcarpen/airp42a.jpg
\The Floor is Now Open!

seacue

Flap40 20th Aug 2007 15:50

Okay here is one that should not last too long.
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jodel/photos/Q1.jpg
Edit to add that it is in the northern hemisphere in a place where English is spoken but there is a strong French connection.
The tower building still stands but the hangars have now gone although a copy of the BEA hangar was later built and still stands further to the north in the open area in the top left of the pic.

evansb 20th Aug 2007 22:51

Is it Jersey International, in the Channel Islands?

Flap40 21st Aug 2007 00:05

Yes it is Jersey.

evansb 21st Aug 2007 00:56

Thanks Flap40. I've heard the Channel Islands are quite pleasant places to visit and live. I am impressed that BEA had a hangar there. Here is the next aerodrome, in a country that is also a pleasant place to live and visit:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...40/3426480.jpg

Portlaoise 21st Aug 2007 07:22

Which Aerodrome
 
Well I am from New Zealand and that looks to me to be Wellington airport. It is actually built on land raised from the sea and it is a windy city so I would expect most pilots enjoy the challenge of that airport. I have nothing ready so open floor (provided I am right, of course)

Portlaoise 21st Aug 2007 12:43

Vintage Aerodrome
 
Ok Well noone has posted so far so thought I might as well take my own 'open house' Here is something that shouldn't cause too many problems. Click on thumbnail for bigger image.

http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/3...porthq3.th.jpg


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