That neither but you're getting closer (ie. the correct answer doesn't rhyme..!)

Cuadillo,

Has it been established that the airports shown in post 676 and 689 are the same field? The runway markings are entirely different. 676 seems much closer to the coast that 689.

I'm clearly stumped.

seacue

Yep,
The two pics don't rhyme either. One airfield is waterside and the other isn't and the locations of buildings are different.

To clarify the rules, one must 'win' the right to post a picture by being the first to correctly identify the preceeding one or by the winner declaring an 'open house'. No 'pop-up' pictures please.

Inherent in this is a responsibility for the initial poster to announce a winner, and the winner to post a pic or open the floor.

The last 2 pics posted appear to be 2 different airfields.

To minimize confusion please stick to the ground rules, post in your turn, and finish one off before we move on to another. In this case lets work on the field Caudillo posted in 676 then move on.

Thanks
The Mods

http://i220.photobucket.com/albums/d...o/mystery2.jpg

Pattimura Airport Ambon, Indonesia possibly

You tell 'em Evileyes :)

Thank you, Evileyes.

seacue,
who started this thread.

Fair enough - in that case no winners yet (and whoever gets the first one also has the added bonus of getting the second I promise!)

Seacue, you're right, they do look rather different I've got to concede, although it's the result of a couple of funny angles, a man with a paintbrush and somebody shifting a few rocks..

Unfortunately this place is famous for absolutely nothing aviation related - its main claim to fame I guess is that it is home to the largest mountain in its country.. which is not indonesia :}

Caudillo's challenge thread #676
 

Pico Airport, Pico Island, Azores (LPPI)

evansb- 100% Correct I'd say, especially as the photo on Google Earth is the same one as the one that's in this competition:ok:

Caudillo's challenge
 

It certainly looks that bri is correct but at Post#685 Caudillo stated "The people here have a very pronounced Dutch accent." I have never had the good fortunate to go to the Azores but aren't they Portuguese? Have they a Dutch accent in the Azores? I will admit this clue led me to believe the airport was in what was once known as the Dutch East Indies. The SSK suggested Horta in the Azores at post #680 but received no recognition that he was close.

I confess that I'm sceptical. I've been to Pico (the island, not the airport) and at one point I was visiting a seaside location when to my surprise an ATP took off behind me, I hadn't realised the airport was there. In other words, I was in the area between the runway and the sea, and I'm sure it didn't look like that.

Some of the earliest settlers in the Azores were Flemish, but their descendants have probably lost their Dutch accents by now.

The Dutch accent bit had me fooled too. I was thinking Dutch Antilles or the east Indies, and found a couple that might have matched on a dark night if you were looking in the opposite direction:}

But the pic with the wing in it, is definitely on Google Earth at Pico...think the man owes us an explanation:ooh:

The ATP wing is definitly PICO. You can see the new terminal and tower clearly. The only people with Dutch accents are Dutch tourists.

The other airfield isn't Horta, Flores, Corvu or Sao Jorge, so that rules out the Azores and the idea that the fields are close to each other.

Think I may have figured this out. The second picture is a shot of Pico before the runway extension was done. It must be a fairly old shot as even before the extension, the markings and boundaries didn't look like this. Still have no idea where you're going with the Dutch accents.

Evansb - well done, quite right, so over to you! :)

To DW11, also quite right, I'd discovered the thread and seen a few vintage shots, so I thought my first would be a good bet, though after a bit of thought I reckoned it might be a bit better to include something more upto date.

I threw in the Dutch accent by way of a bit of gentle misdirection, in hindsight it was probably unfair given how out of the way the Azores are.

Strange as it may seem, the Azoreans, despite being paid-up Portuguese do have remarkably impenetrable Dutch accents. So much so that their Portuguese is subtitled when shown on TV on the mainland. Pico in particular has dozens of Dutch accents that vary from village to village, the variety of which I would imagine is only matched by the UK.

The Islands, now known as the Azores (a type of goshawk I think..) used to be known as the Ilhas Flamengas - the Flemish Islands, and the first meaningful settlers there were in fact the Dutch. A bit of googling has just found that the first "master" of the island was a gent by the name of Joos van Hurtere, who received the island in 1482.

Anyway, they're well worth a visit, Pico in particular with its spanking new aerodrome!

Good luck!

Thank you Caudillo. 621andy's challenge on thread #675 is the next "Which Aerodrome?".

I'll re-post it if it makes it easier..and thanks evansb:ok:
http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/7...bildyx9.th.jpg

Click on it to enlarge, or try this:

http://upload2.postimage.org/665375/mysterybild.jpg

Interesting two parallel runways but the airfield doesnt seem very busy.

Only one parellel runway, 08/26 is disused, we can see 08L/26R but whatever happened to 08R/26L?

621andy's challenge
 

Former RAF Gatow, Germany. Situated in the western outskirts of Berlin, the disused aerodrome is now home to the Luftwaffe museum. Suburban residential development is taking place on the western edge of the airfield.

The Google Earth picture shows a diverse collection of aircraft parked on the runway(s), doubtless because of the museum?

Correct! It is indeed Gatow... over to you evansb, unless you want me to post something more challenging;)

Sorry for delay, been away to the occupied north, visitng friends...

Postcard's challenge
 

Thanks andy. Postcard put this unanswered challenge up on Aug. 24, thread #601. so if he would be so kind as to monitor the responses, here is the next 'Which Aerodrome?":
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...dChallenge.jpg

Somewhere in the Sultanate of Muscat and Oman? Salalah?

BTW, I would have said that the aircraft in front is an F27, not a Convair 640 (as in the pic's title). The Twotter in the background is probably a clue to those who can interpret it. I don't think the F27 is one of Gulf Air's, though, although the tailfin looks a bit like that. It's an Arab-type colour scheme, though.

But the water tower in the distance looks very American - or is that type built elsewhere?

It's a Fokker!!
 

Not sure where the CV640 in title bit came from...it's definately a Fokker FK27,with a Twin Otter behind...

It's not a Fokker F-27, it's a Fairchild FH-227 of Mohawk airlines at Keene NH

The FH-227 has airstairs which are just visable in the pic.

Open floor as I will be away for the next few days.

Dillant Hopkins Airport
 

Spot on...Keene,New Hampshire...(and FH227!!)

Since the floor is open, here is one to try
http://users.erols.com/rcarpen/airp26b.jpg
Colour picture is fairly recent but field layout basically unchanged.

Patrick Henry Airport, Newport News, Virginia. Open floor!

Cubs2jets

Cubs2Jets has it. It was too easy given the recent photo.

He has opened the floor to anyone to post.

Ok, yet another fairly easy one from me:
http://upload2.postimage.org/709193/mysterypic3.jpg

Ingolstadt/Manching?
 

Would this be Ingolstadt/Manching, south Germany, by any chance?

NP

Bu99er, gonna have to find some more difficult ones:rolleyes: Ja, es ist Manching!

Home of EADS who test Eurofighters there, and also home to WTD61, who do the military test flying:
http://upload2.postimage.org/712373/f104manching.jpg

http://upload2.postimage.org/712393/Vj101cmanching.jpg

Well done, over to you for the next pic, natopotato:ok:

One from my 2007 Hols
 

http://i180.photobucket.com/albums/x...7/CNV00011.jpg


Here is a picture my daughter took on our holidays this year. It is in a beautiful location, but tricky with a strong on-shore wind!

NP

Perranporth...or the other cornish one;)

Perranporth Airfield
 

Yes, that was quick, Perranporth it is. Good fun in a light aircraft with a stiff westerly wind!

If I am lucky enough to recognise another mystery airfield again, I will try to make my photo more obscure. Over to you

NP

Spose it's time for another one for me..again. Still, with my record there'll be time for another one this evening too:ok:

http://upload3.postimage.org/7749/Mysterypic4.jpg

621andy's challenge
 

Is that a Sabena DC-6B or DC-7C on the extreme left of the photograph and a unidentified Viscount on the right? If Sabena then those colours date the photograph about 1960s.