Is this actually a photograph?

I was about to ask the same question as Twochai. It look very much like a screen shot from a flight sim game.

RAF Geilenkirchen?

Edit;

If not Geilenkirchen then how about Percival Pembroke XF799 departing RAF Gutersloh on it's way back to Geilenkirchen?

twochai & grizzled

Yes, although a rather old, now well over fifty-years old photo taken in the 1950s which pre-date flight sim games by forty-years or so.

Captain Airclues

Its not Geilenkirchen and it's not RAF Gutersloh.

Furrther clue.
The location is NOT in Europe and here is another view of ATC.

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

I'll have a stab at El Adem then......a.k.a. Marham but no grass;)

What about RAF Muharraq? :)

RAF Khormaksar?

Not RAF Muharraq, or RAF Khormaksar or El Adem.

However, if you tanked up an aircraft at El Adem with enough fuel for a 3,500-mile journey you'd reach the location just as the tanks ran dry.

RAF Negombo in Sri Lanka, now Colombo International.

Not RAF Negombo in Sri Lanka, now Colombo International.

Long shot - RAF Changi as was........

Not Changi - too far east

Wild stab in the dark - Yelahanka?

Not Yelahanka (wherever that is)

A Further Clue

Try going south from El Adem and you'll be warmer.

Is it Gwelo in Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) ?

Not Gwelo (Gweru) but you are exceedingly warm.

Harare then?

Duckbutt

Harare it is, but when the photos were taken in 1953 it was called New Sarum Air Force Station (formerly Kentucky AFS) and occupied by the Southern Rhodesian Air Force.

The Pembroke shown was the first of four purchased by the SRAF in 1953 to replace DH Rapides like the rather smart one shown in my photo below that flew Sir Geoffrey Huggins, the prime minister of Southern Rhodesia to RAF Thornhill near Gwelo (Gweru) for talks about the closure of RAF Thornhill when the Rhodesian Air Training Group closed down in late 1953.


SRAF Pembrokes were phased out of service in 1963

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

The 1950's New Sarum ATC tower still shows up on Google Earth as below.

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r...Google2007.jpg

Duckbutt has control

Lets face it, Slim Shady crossed the ball for me to knock it into an empty net.

Where is this then:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ler/Puzz25.jpg

How about Ouarzazate?