Brooks Field, Texas ?

No, sorry.
Further clue: of all the respondents to date, con-pilot is the closest.

Well you got me stumped Russel! According to one account only 5 US Army airfields did observer balloon training and they have all been either mentioned and/or their hangars are not in a straight line! Maybe that account is wrong, or I have the wrong 5 airfields, or that balloon is not used for observer training, though it does seem to have a basket hanging from it!

Post AAF, Ft Sill, Oklahoma.

Vinita A.A.F.Base,Oklahoma?

StbdD has it!

Post Field, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, circa 1917-1918. 94000 acres. Curtis Jennies in the photo. Later, Flight E of the 16th Balloon Observation Squadron was based here. I understand it's in the Lawton area, south of OK City. The main road to the currect Lawton Airport is called Post Road, so I assume the Lawton airfield is on some of those many acres.


You have control.

Thanks Mr Gultch. As Fort Sill is the US Army Artillery School that observation balloon was a pretty good hint.

Here's one that will probably not last long:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e7...Challenge4.jpg

Well fer heavens sake, hell I was there two weeks ago. I knew that place looked familiar.

Feel like a right idiot now. :uhoh:

Sorry, c-p. I said you were the closest, eh?

StbdD

The rather granite-looking coastline might draw one to an Atlantic coast. Possibly the west coast of Ireland or Scotland. On that basis I would be tempted to say somewhere like Colnsay.

But we know this isn't the case, because rw 23 reciprocal is marked as "5" and not "05" as is proper in God-fearing countries; an omission that our American cousins still haven't recognized.

So my guess is somewhere in the US or its very many dominions, or maybe Canada. But I still reckon an Atlantic coast.

A very happy new year to you all.

Russ

Kalaupapa, Hawaii

Cubs2jets

Absolutely correct cubs2jets. The floor is yours.

O.K. friends,

I'm just up and online and see I was correct. I DO have a picture to post, but have to get it into photobucket. Please give me a bit of time before someone else posts.

Cubs2jets

http://http://i272.photobucket.com/a...g?t=1199027807

http://http://i272.photobucket.com/a...g?t=1199027898

Pictures from 2003. Joint military/Civil.

Cubs2jets

EDIT: Pictures are in Photobucket. I tried copying URL from both top of page ang box at lower right of picture. Each time I got IMG.../IMG around the picture. Replaced IMG with URL and this is what I got. :ugh:

Too many http's in your urls and the [IMG] tags work for me.
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...g?t=1199027898
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...g?t=1199027807

Thanks Flaps40. I see it now. Lost in the forrest before!

Cubs3jets

...and too many kb for us poor folk on dial-up. Remember, anything more than 72dpi is a waste.

Happy New Year.

Russ

Sorry, Russ, first time posting pictures, but I did follow the 800 X 600 recommendation on the "Image posting" thread.

Let me help you visualize the pictures and maybe you can guess...:rolleyes:

Two aerial shots of the same airport, one taken from the north and one taken from the south. Parallel runways (one now less used). Extensive taxiways with numerous parking "keys". Large parking areas on the NW and SE corners of the airport. A river appears in one of the pictures and the surrounding landscape is agricultural.

Got the picture? :)

Cubs2jets

Over a day and no guesses. Obviously a difficult one!

Central Europe, possibly Germany?

Not central Europe. It is on the coast and was an important air defense base for the country.

Cubs2jets

Greece, or the Balkans?

Further east than the Agean. The airport is important to the surrounding population because there are no roads connecting to the rest of the country. If you want to go somewhere, it's either by boat or by air. The main city served is a familiar port city.

Cubs2jets

Removed as it was yes out of turn

but did comply with the old shot bit

Reluctant to post but it is 2 days on - well I spent far too much time searching but found it at Petropavlosk-Kamchatskiy, Russia. A big AD base and homebase of the Pacific sub fleet I think. By the way - is that you flying in there - interesting place to go.

Russel Gulch - there is some confusion re your 'post' (sorry just noticed the pun) - Post Field and Fort Sill are 2 different airports. I feel I should have known as I did (some) of my flying training there, although not as long ago as your picture. This map shows both:

http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2...r/Picture1.jpg

I see someone else has jumped in out of sequence, I do have a photo but it is neither old nor black and white so we should carry on.

Backgroundnoise,

VERY well done! It is indeed Petropavlovsk Kamchatsky UHPP.

It is indeed me taking the pictures. I passed through twice in 2003 and 2005. Things were much more laid back in 2005.

Here are 4 more pictures you may find interesting: another aerial view showing several of the surrounding active volcanos, the terminal building, the alert pad and military parking.

http://s272.photobucket.com/albums/j..._Airport1C.jpg

http://s272.photobucket.com/albums/j..._Airport1D.jpg

http://s272.photobucket.com/albums/j..._Airport1F.jpg

http://s272.photobucket.com/albums/j..._Airport1E.jpg

Cubs2jets

EDIT:

Thank you very much LET and Tiger Mate. It's not as intuitive as the directions lead one to believe! :ugh: I'm learning:rolleyes:

Cubs2Jets you've linked to - 'Direct Link - Layout Pages' not 'IMG Code - Forums & Bulletin Boards'

Regards

P.S. Good post it was too. I Googled for hours all around Turkey, Georgia, Greece the Ukraine etc :ok:

Right click on an image and 'copy' Paste said address into the pprune image link, and...
http://i272.photobucket.com/albums/j...g?t=1199213266
Bobs ypur fathers brother

So, are we all clear for the next challenge?

http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/2...bwsmallqr0.jpg

This one is a control tower seen from the 'landside' and just to make it really easy I have shown a shot from inside the tower looking onto the 'airside'.

http://img232.imageshack.us/img232/2...bwsmallen3.jpg

(Apologies for the very poor image quality and the black and white they were taken with a disposable camera in Feb 1999, so there is another clue)

North Korea:
Sunan International Airport?

The airline is Air Koryo, and Sunan is the airlines hub.

That was obviously far too easy! It is of course Pyongyang. Congratulations to Tiger_Mate.

Apologies for not responding sooner.

Is there anybody here that has never had a go would like to post? If so please go ahead.

NB If no takers by 22:00 GMT > Open House

Tiger_Mate, I must ask, are you familiar with Pyongyang? Did I make it too easy leaving the airline logos visible?:}

Thanks for the chance, here goes.
What aerodrome was this tower and terminal at.
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f2...d/scan0019.jpg

Blackpool ...

Already had this one i believe..

http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h7...dance1/1-6.jpg

Background Noise: I see what you mean.
My source did not differentiate between the two airfields. I have to confess that I did some internet mapping myself, and see "Post Road" as being north of Road 62, which indicates that Henry Post AAF is the correct one. Fort Sill Boulevard also routes N/S parallel to the Henry Post Runway, just west, which might have confused me.
I hope no error/confusion was thus caused; apologies if that was the case.
Russell

Ref: Pyongyang & was it easy.
Not at all, it was a perfect challenge for this forum, and I have no knowledge of the place at all.
It would be fairly easy to post a nebulous airstrip tucked away at the back end of beyond with a poor quality photo and no hints as to a solution. Far better to give a clue for us Sherlock Holmes types to get our teeth into. In this case my initial curiosity revolved around China, and therefore simply googled IL 62 to find an airframe with similar markings. Once the airline was identified, I had a likely country, especially as with so many of one airline, it was almost certainly showing IL62s 'at home' Wilkpidia gave me airline details and about 4 airports to choose from, I opted for the primary hub but could easily have got it wrong.
How certain was I when I posted? No more than 70%
Was it a good quizz? You bet
Am I in need of a life? :mad:

Open House

Well the "open house" seems to have been done before, so I offer the following.
http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...339reduced.jpg

Just a small clue: I know this field because I have a small sherry once a year with a former B17 belly-turret gunner who was based here (and did three tours in that role).

I took the photo myself.

An additional point for anyone who can describe (phonetically) how it is pronounced.
Russell

Is it Burscough, Bersco.

Regardless, good work Tiger_Mate and thanks for your comments.