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India Four Two 29th Jul 2008 02:11

bri has it. The late lamented Banff Airport in Banff National Park.

Elevation 4583' with the lower slopes of Cascade Mountain (10,000') on the left. Infamous for often having windsocks blowing in opposite directions.

Closed for many years on "environmental grounds" - apparently it was affecting the migration of wild animals. Of course the immediately adjacent four-lane Trans Canada Highway with thousands of vehicles per hour and the CP railway with 100 car freight trains have no impact at all!

It was scheduled for permanent removal, but now has had a small reprieve and will be maintained as an emergency-only strip on the VFR corridor between Calgary and Golden.

Over to you bri.

evansb 29th Jul 2008 04:24

Thanks Simon. I flew a C172 into Banff in the late spring of 1975. The winds and gopher holes made for a tricky landing and taxi. I was young and unafraid, and it was a rental. Here is the next aerodrome:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r.../WAD080729.jpg

Crusher1 29th Jul 2008 07:25

Interlaken?

One_of_the_Lads_1973 29th Jul 2008 12:27

Which aerodrome
 
Wilderswil?

evansb 29th Jul 2008 12:28

Sorry, not Interlaken, nor Wilderswil, but it is on the continent.

Crusher1 29th Jul 2008 12:41

Dahlem, Germany?

chevvron 29th Jul 2008 12:57

Berne/Belp?

evansb 29th Jul 2008 13:18

Sorry, not Berne/Belp, nor Dahlem, Germany.

LFT 29th Jul 2008 15:12

Zell Am See Austria?

Crusher1 29th Jul 2008 15:28

Gap-Tallard, France?

irc1804 29th Jul 2008 16:38

Samedan ???

irc1804 29th Jul 2008 16:44

Samedan ???

evansb 29th Jul 2008 21:22

Crusher1 is correct:ok: It is Gap-Tallard, circa 1963. You have control.

Crusher1 29th Jul 2008 22:30

It was the line of Fournier's that gave it away, I knew I'd seen the pic somewhere before!

So open house!

Warmtoast 29th Jul 2008 23:35

An easy one - perhaps!

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...hAirfield4.jpg

KeMac 30th Jul 2008 06:42

Looks like somewhere in Africa - Nairobi?

Warmtoast 30th Jul 2008 19:37

Not Nairobi

chevvron 30th Jul 2008 19:55

Bl@@dy short runway. Is that a Tudor bottom right? And a Wellington parked in front of the Comet?

Warmtoast 30th Jul 2008 21:32


One must wonder if the denial of Nairobi means also a denial of Eastleigh?

Tengah first!!
Not Eastleigh and not Tengah.

Clue - it's in the Dark Continent

PaperTiger 30th Jul 2008 21:55


Perhaps a Valleta? The Tudor perhaps a Britannia?
Def. a Tudor and that looks like a Viking (no roundels). DC-3 seems to be ZS-DBP if that helps.


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