Moira is spot on:ok::D It was home to HMS Nabaron. The airstrip has been overgrown by foilage.

Open house!

Here's one with ready-made clues:
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d4...K/Airport4.jpg

There is a pub just outside Coltishall called "The Three Horsehoes" ?

At the risk of being facetious, these were Horse Shoes. :)

Ergo, not Coltishall

Sorry, could this be my second typo of the night ? is ignorance still bliss ? Keith.

former Usworth RAF airfield

And again: open house if (when :)) confirmed...

Sunderland Usworth it is. Briefly civilian, it now lies underneath the Nissan car factory

Open House so here is the next ( historic) challenge.



http://i251.photobucket.com/albums/g...s/File0009.jpg

Johannisthal Berlin?

RAF Upavon..............

Stag Lane?

R.A.F. Hendon, Air tournement/pageant 1920s?

Gentlemen,neither Berlin,Stag Lane,Upavon nor Hendon. It is however in Europe and the 1920s is close.

Belgium/Italy?

Significant amount of google guess work would suggest that the bomber could well be a Handley Page V-1500.

So could the airfield be Bircham Newton?

Belgian Air Service Brasschaat near Brussels? H.P.1500 in background, with possibly HD-1s or Nieuport XV11s of 9em Escadrille to the right of the picture.

I think Sabredog is right, the airplanes to the right are marked with a 'Scottish thistle', which was the sign of the Brasschaat first squadron.

IF not, it migth also be Evere/Haren, nowadays Brussels Airport.

Just found a picture on the web of Evere in 1919, looks like the same location:

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/j...ereairbase.jpg

Brilliant! MOIRA has it. Haren, Brussels it is - circa 1919. I suspect it's rather more the site of the present Eurocontrol HQ than Brussels Airport,though. The picture I posted was probably taken from the roof of the Zeppelin hangar : Moira's picture seems to be from a lower level.Over to you

Not quite so brilliant if you know that all this time I was searching the web while having two 1921 pictures of the same airport hanging right above my desk! :ugh: Though I must add that they are showing a completely different part of the site. ;) Anyway ...

Open house!

Clue time? Is it a US base at all?

Well it's not the USofA.

Europe would be a better guess;)

I must say I'm very surprised with the lack of interest in this one. Maybe another pic would help?

Is it the old Dornier flyingboat base at Friedrichshafen?

Sorry, not F'hafen........

How many years between the first and second photo? It almost doesn't look like the same place.

It is technically all the same place, but the second pic is of the hangars on the side of the peninsula as far as I can work out from other pics :)

Edit- the 2 hangars in the first pic are still there. As to the timescale between the 2 pics, I've got no idea...but construction started in 1933 apparently.

The hangars look the same but the shorelines look completely different.

I took the photos from the official website of this airfield, so don't blame me if the pics don't match up:sad:

But as far as I can work out from other pics on the site and from Google Earth, the 2nd pic is to the east of the first. The area is/was not only a seaplane base, but later became a training base for a certain type of soldier. The airfield there now is land based and covers a fair area along the coast...

Montijo in Portugal?

Not Montijo.

Hyeres - Le Palyvestre

Cagliari,Italy.

None of the above I'm afraid...

What was the answer to question 2584 ??
http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...83572&page=130

Marseilles?

H.Q. of the Troupes de Marine,looks like you are spot on.

Not Marseilles....

Ajaccio, Corsica?


Snifferdog the answer to 2584 was Karachi.