As it's open house here's one to keep things rolling.
http://i462.photobucket.com/albums/q...d/dromepic.jpg |
A huge ramp; very geometric layout. A superpower is my guess, but current or former?
I'll go former - Russian? |
Sorry, not Russian.
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Former Walker U.S. Army Airfield, near Victoria, Kansas.
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evansb has it! Yes - not to be confused with the other Walker AAF base in Virginia (previously set). The Kansas base was used for B29 training amongst other things. Obviously an encyclopaedic knowledge of the NA cotinent where he lives! You have control sir.
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Thanks! My 1965 Jet Navigation Chart also shows Walker listed as "Victoria-Pratt" airport. Here is the next "Which Aerodrome?"
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r.../WAD090304.jpg |
An RCAF station and a visiting RAF Hastings, looks great, no idea where but who cares.
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Would say the pic was taken late forties. My guess RCAF Greenwood.
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Sorry, not RCAF Greenwood. It is indeed a visiting RAF HP Hastings. OTRW, Krakatoa is quite brilliant.
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Looks to me like Keflavik but don't know why...
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Sorry, not in Iceland. Too far east. Krakatoa's suggestion was also too far east. Here is a photo taken in 1949 from the control tower of the mystery aerodrome:
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...WAD090304A.jpg |
Bag-Town,er Bagotville,,,?
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Brian,
Is that three Black Widows and a Chinook? ;) |
Sorry, not Bagotville, Quebec. Still too far east. Bagotville has been done before, (by me actually, with a fly-by photo of Canadian built Hurricanes..., yet another superfluity).
Yes, India Four Two, they are Northrop F(P)-61 Black Widows. Perhaps a strong nor-wester is pushing them, but that would not be a true Chinook wind, would it? The hills visible in the distance have been described as peaceful. Here is another clue: http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...WAD090304B.jpg |
Edmonton, Alberta?
A DH Sea Hornet was there for cold weather testing with the RCAF in the late 1940s, I understand? |
I was quite distracted by the photo of the Sea Hornet (aaaah - de Havilland) and I'm not sure about your clue, but it looks like it might be Ft. St. John, BC (in the "Peace River Country").
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India Four Two is correct:ok: Fort Saint John, British Columbia, Canada. (CYXJ). The airfield, big enough to accomodate four-engined bombers, was built near the Alaska Highway, and was part of the Northwest Staging Route during WW.II. For those who don't know, the route provided aerodromes for military aircraft ferried from the U.S. to Russia during WW.II. Simon has control.
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...StJohnBC01.jpg |
This won't last long, but it is a nice picture:
http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...ia42/17702.jpg |
Bagotville?
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Not Bagotville.
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