I found the patch of bare earth on googleearth an hour or two ago. The hard bit was finding what it was called!
Here's an easy one.
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~jode...d/quiz3011.jpg

Lakehurst NJ I think.

Correct! Over to you.

I don't think this is a duplicate......:O

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b229/Twyler/Puzz6.jpg

English Midlands?

I thought perhaps Hucknall, but I see from Google Earth it isn't. However, can anyone tell me what the structure is in the middle of the runway at Hucknall?

IFT, that's an engine test bed for Rolls Royce. It can simulate rain, birdstrikes, cold, etc. Click link to see picture and read more.

http://www.rolls-royce.com/history/h...s/hucknall.jsp

Geeze.. and here I thought it was a Q-hut for drying spuds.

KMG 635

Thanks. I could see it was some kind of pole, but I was mystified by the large embankment around it. It all makes sense now, but why did they have to put it in the middle of a perfectly good runway!!

evansb,

The spud drying machine would make more sense if it was at CFB Summerside ;)

It is in the UK but not in the Midlands.

There is a motorway this side of it, is it Stretton, nr Warrington? ex RNAS

AL1 Just checked Google & it is.

Open House, I was only passing through and not ready to join. Sorry

Well err, Spotted!

Just how do I attach a picture file in here?

Spot 4
 

I hope you'll stick around instead of just passing through.

Don't worry about not having a picture, because it gives me an opportunity to step in with pictures of an airfield I have been trying to find for a long time.

I just found them yesterday and they are better than I expected. I can just see Hercule Poirot and Captain Hastings walking into this terminal:

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...AF230Nov07.jpg


http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...AF130Nov07.jpg

Notice the Spartan Cruiser in the first picture. It looks like they are becoming mandatory in What Aerodrome pictures!

Chitterne, sorry to jump in ahead of you. Have a look at the Sticky at the top of this forum http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthread.php?t=203154

Hmm, I've seen those piccies before, presumably on a search related to this thread. All I need now is to remember where. Wouldn't be Le Touquet again, would it?

Or this one?
 

http://www.diecastaircraftforum.com/...ramsgate-1.jpg

In which case it's Ramsgate

SSK has it.
 

Ramsgate it is.

My first flight was there in about 1958 in a Rapide (7/6d or 37.5p). Perhaps it is the one in SSK's photo (although looking closely, it might be a Dragon).

The rows of tents are from an Airport Camping Weekend.

And sadly, the whole airport and that wonderful terminal are buried under an industrial development.

Over to you SSK.

Agree about the terminal. Here's the next challenge:

http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d4...Airport1-1.jpg

Sisteron, France Perhaps?

No, further east than that.