Rename the image once you have it on your hard drive.

Nothing new for a few days?

OK, here's one from me - I'm not sure of the etiquette here, as this airfield has featured before, but it's a lovely photo anyway!

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...psc8684f84.jpg

As your address is Queensland, I presume it's somewhere in Oz?

Watts Bridge ?

With all those parking spaces - western US ? nb - I can't see the anti spin strakes -is it a CGI ? ;) LFH

Chevvron - Yes, Australia.

Lightning mate - NOT Watts Bridge (they'd wet themselves if they ended up with a sealed tarmac that size!).

Your lordship - Not CGI, the photo taken on a weekend fly-in (clue). The Chipmunk does have strakes btw, it's exactly as it came out of the RAF in 1975.

Parafield?

Oakey Qld Army airbase ? Looking west. LFH

The Chipmunk registration is VH-SSJ.

Anything to do with its' 60th birthday?

edit: somewhere near Brisbane?

Tricky one that. With that amount of tarmac it had to be a service airfield. We could probably park our entire Airforce fleet on that tarmac !

Not airforce tho. It's Oakey which is Army.

Not able to post pics yet so OH

Emeritus

OOPS...too late!!

LFH - correct, it is Oakey.

Thankyou Dora. Apologies for the CGI remark - Place looked so smart I wondered if it was for real- now I understand - Army Rule No 1 - I hope they saluted you ..... and trust you didn't leave the Chippy stationary for too long ...

Now for something rather cooler -

Edited - the C-123 was too easy - try this instead. LFH

http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...psd942f55c.jpg

is the lake Bewl Water in east sussex?

Not Bewl Water W8. Not fresh water either. This was taken some years before Bewl was even thought of. Not England.

Would it be one of the strips on Iwo Jima?

LFH - if I may distract from your current poser for a minute, no offence taken at your CGI suggestion.

LM - well identified, the Chipmunk is indeed VH-SSJ (exWK507), .

The event was a fly-in to support the Museum of Army Aviation (located off to the left of frame). It was held on a Sunday, hence the empty tarmac. It was a stunning clear day, here is part of the gaggle on their way home later in the day:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...ering/OK-1.jpg

Dora - any time. I got my first "air experiences" on Chipmunk, Anson and Auster. Always pleased to see them still flying.

Chevy - Not Iwo Jima - wrong hemisphere. This field opened in the late 30s and was closed by the 80s.

LFH

Is this Northern Ireland

Hey Krakatoa, last time I looked Iwo Jima and Northern Ireland were in the "same hemisphere". ;)

LFH,
The topography looks tropical. Is this in the Bismarck/Solomon Sea area?

PS Lovely pictures, Dora 9

:uhoh: Oops fellas, my mistake - slack language - that's the problem with knowing where it is. How many hemispheres have you got ?

I meant Western rather than Eastern - as opposed to Northern rather than Southern.

So - Western hemisphere but not Northern Ireland.

Northern hemisphere so not Bismarck/Solomon Sea (and not tropical.)

That should narrow it down. Apologies to all.

ps I'd better go and check the defo of Western hemisphere. ****

Okay, further edit after 5 mins - I've found four definitions already so let's just say this is somewhere between 90 deg West and 90 deg East and I am not claiming that as a hemisphere - before this gets me into any more trouble.
LFH

West from 0 degrees longitude to 180 degrees longitude. This is the only definition.

Must be in Canada..?

Thanks for the professional definition LM. :ok:

Not Canada, Sycamore.

To recap - between the Equator and North Pole and between 90W and 90E - the part that passes through 0 deg long. at Greenwich - and it's salt water. Nuff diggin' here - no more haitch-word for me.

North America?

Nothing too difficult then.....

http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps4ce9960b.jpg

TCF - Not North America.

LM - Thank you again. " ..... worth a thousand words."
However, it did start with the entire globe and our razor-sharp contestants have already reduced it to a quarter of that. But to assist further - not Greenland or Africa or the Caribbean (or Northern Ireland ... or Bewl Water ;).) LFH

I'll thus shoot for mainland Europe.

Mainland Europe it is ....

It appears to be of WW2 vintage.

Italy?

It is WWII but it's not Italy.

Scandinavia?

Indeedy Davey, Scandinavey. How ya doin ?

Fornebu?..

I will go for Sola

Oslo Fornebu (Norway ;)) spring 1940 during Weserübung - Well done Lightning Mate. You have control.

BTW Wiki has a much sharper picture of Fornebu littered with all sorts - barely room to fly. I thought I could hear the tannoy echo - "Letzte Pilot im Bierkeller zahlt die Rechnung."

This is what it looked like six years ago - LFH

http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1375275239

Cheers.

If there are no objections I will donate this to Airclues.

He hit the country or I would have been going all over the place.

By Jove you chaps have been busy - three posts while I'm off editing my German grammar.

To celebrate ? his 13,000th post -
LM offers it to Airclues - Take it away Dave !

Hadn't noticed 13,000 posts!

Thanks LM, but unfortunately all of my airfield photos are on slides. Can anyone recommend a scanner that works with an iMac (please PM rather than clog up the thread (and possibly infringe the advertising rules))?

Could I please either hand it back to LM or declare open house.

have a go at this one. put a ruler on the screen. you can see the curvature of the earth.

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/...psbd991a97.jpg