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dixi188 24th Apr 2009 21:50

Is it Liverpool (EGGP)?
I seem to remember the terminal used to look a bit depressing from the ramp.

nacluv 25th Apr 2009 10:39

If I didn't know better, I'd say it looked a little like an airside view of Arrivals at EMA.

But I don't remember all those lifeboats on the roof!

AfgAirOps 25th Apr 2009 19:10

Neither Liverpool or East Mids, sorry.

Still need to move to cooler areas....

Rgds
AAO

India Four Two 26th Apr 2009 04:46

It seems to have a Russian look about it, but if so where are all the derelict Tupolevs and Illyushins ;)

saman 27th Apr 2009 14:34

It wouldn't be Bromma would it?

AfgAirOps 27th Apr 2009 18:29

I'm sure the derelict Ilyushins & Tupolevs are there somewhere....

Rgds
AAO

Hen Ddraig 28th Apr 2009 13:04

The style of architecture suggests Islamabad to me

Time to spare, go by air

Hen draig

AfgAirOps 28th Apr 2009 15:14

Granted it does look like Islamabad (but isn't, sorry). Thats not usually cooler than Liverpool or East Mids though.

I.e., it's somewhere cold!

& where there is very likely to be I42's derelict Ilyushins & Tupolevs.

Rgds
AAO

Captain Airclues 28th Apr 2009 15:22

A wild guess.......Novosibirsk?

Dave

Hen Ddraig 28th Apr 2009 16:27

Message to self. Do not post without reading other replies.

Tashkent always seems to have a number fo surplus aircraft sitting decaying and the same style of architecture.

Hen Ddraig

AfgAirOps 28th Apr 2009 17:06

Neither Novosibirsk nor Tashkent, sorry.

Definately on the right track though. Novosibirsk being closest so far.

Rgds
AAO

one11 28th Apr 2009 18:58

......purely by geography , Irkutsk ???

AfgAirOps 29th Apr 2009 05:38

Getting closer....

Rgds
AAO

Captain Airclues 29th Apr 2009 08:45

Ulaanbaatar (Ulan Batar)?

India Four Two 29th Apr 2009 14:57

Not Irkutsk, but in the Irkutsk Oblast.

Bratsk airport. Strangely there does not seem to be the usual Russian aeronautical junkyard here - just a lot of empty fighter alert pads.

I don't think I want to go there - some quotes from Wikipedia:

Bratsk was among the Blacksmith Institute's "Dirty Thirty", the thirty most polluted places in the world.
and

Bratsk has been declared an ecological disaster zone. The Bratsk Aluminium Plant has been polluting its surroundings to such great degree that the town of Chikanovskiy was evacuated in 2001 due to repeated health emergencies.

AfgAirOps 29th Apr 2009 19:49

It is indeed Bratsk. Over to you I42.

Rgds
AAO

India Four Two 30th Apr 2009 14:24

Thanks, AAO.

Next:

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3.../WAF090430.jpg

Cubs2jets 1st May 2009 02:31

Kindley Field, Corregidor Island?

C2j

India Four Two 1st May 2009 06:07

c2j, you are correct. I think you must have inspired the song "I've been everywhere." :)

I've just been on a day-trip to Corregidor, and so it was an obvious choice.

The long ridge in the distance is the largest part of island, where all the coastal batteries and barracks are. The slightly closer, darker and smaller ridge is the hill which contains the famous Malinta Tunnel.

Here is what looks like a posed photo of Ki-21 Sally bombers over Corregidor. Kindley Field is at the bottom left.

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...seaircraft.jpg

Over to you.

Cubs2jets 1st May 2009 12:15

Thanks, I42,

I've been fortunate to travel widely in my career. I spent a number of years flying out of Singapore and my wife is from your "location".

The new challenge is an early picture of what has become the international airport in the capital city of this country. This picture was taken circa 1943.

C2j

http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...g?t=1241180064


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