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seacue 26th Aug 2007 15:26

OK maybe I DO have a challenge - rather hard I think. Pics taken 55 years ago.
http://users.erols.com/rcarpen/airp52a.jpg
http://users.erols.com/rcarpen/airp52b.jpg

MReyn24050 26th Aug 2007 16:20

seacue's challenge
 
Second photograph, is that a tail-fin from a B24 Liberator?

seacue 26th Aug 2007 16:31

No, Mel, from a B-25, taken by me in an earlier life.

621andy 26th Aug 2007 16:57

I was guessing at a B24 too, no idea of the field...
Somewhere in Canada?

seacue 26th Aug 2007 17:13

Not Canada. It's in the USA, New England state.

MReyn24050 26th Aug 2007 18:36

seacue's challenge
 
Westover Air Force Base, MA perhaps?

seacue 26th Aug 2007 18:57

Mel, You are much closer. Right state. Mixed civilian / military now, I think. Certainly at least partly civilian these days.

MReyn24050 26th Aug 2007 20:01

seacue's challenge
 
Laurence G Hanscom Field Bedford-Hanscom MA perhaps?

seacue 26th Aug 2007 21:21

Bingo! Mel has it. KBED it is. My ultimate hint would have been "The British are coming!" since KBED is between Lexington and Concord, close to the route Paul Revere took some years ago. The towns of Lincoln and the namesake Bedford are also close.

The floor is Mel's.

MReyn24050 26th Aug 2007 22:43

Next Challenge
 
Thanks seacue, did you fly the Mitchell B25 from there or from some other location?
I am sure this one will not be a problem.
http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c6...ortquiz011.jpg
Mel

seacue 26th Aug 2007 23:30

Mel, I was a passenger. I was assigned to the USAF Cambridge Research Center and we had the B25 on our project. The plane was based at Bedford.

My assignment to AFCRC was a wonderful experience for a new BS in EE and 2nd Lt since I didn't expect to make the service my career. My direct boss was one of "our" Germans who later became Comsat's VP of Engineering.

seacue

MReyn24050 28th Aug 2007 09:52

Mel's Challenge
 
No takers, this one is not that far from seacue's last "which airport".
Mel

seacue 28th Aug 2007 11:54

Mel,

Read your PM.

I won't reveal the answer, thus others can participate in your challenge.

BTW, there is a very good image of the field on Google Earth.

seacue

MReyn24050 28th Aug 2007 12:56

Mel's Challenge
 
Seacue
That is the one.
Mel

seacue 28th Aug 2007 20:28

No Other Players
 
No other players so I will reveal all.
Mel's challenge is KBDL, Bradley International serving Hartford and Springfield.
Since Mel tells me I am correct, here is the next challenge, rather wetter than most:
http://users.erols.com/rcarpen/239B0233.JPG

pigboat 28th Aug 2007 23:22

Foynes seaplane base?

Speedpig 29th Aug 2007 00:56

Foynes was my immediate thought, but then it looks a little too warm for Ireland?

pigboat 29th Aug 2007 01:12

Looks a little too warm for Botwood also. :)

seacue 29th Aug 2007 01:27

Not the seaplane bases guessed so far.

You are not close.

pigboat 29th Aug 2007 02:54

The Azores someplace?

If that's correct, open the floor. I'm going beddy-bye. :zzz:


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