Maralinga?, Australia (the aircraft registration is a big clue!).

I think the perceptual curvature of the earth is a lens effect at that low altitude!

More likely a fairly wide angle lens I would suggest.

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Mel

sorry the airfield is not maralinga. it is a lot closer to the coast. next try.

yes it is in australia. the airfield does not have an entry in ersa.
no more hints.

I think that's what I said earlier!

I've spent this evening searching just about every Australian coastal airfield and... it's time for my bed!

I dunno... it's in Oz!

TCF

chilternflyer
while the answer you give is indeed correct it is so vague ...

c'mon where is it?
:D

I'll give you a totally useless clue.
see the aeroplane on the tarmac just under the strut. well if you stand behind that aircraft at the edge of the bitumen at night time, in the entire 360 degree sweep around the horizon there is not the slightest hint of a man made light.
it is so dark at night that you can see all the subtle graduations in the Magellanic clouds of the milky way. Lying on the bitumen is incredibly uncomfortable but do it and the stars are so bright that they appear to be just off the end of your extended arm. You can see stars all the way down to magnitude 9 I think. A most amazing view.

W8 - you're correct, that is a totally useless clue.

Dora
not really a useless clue.
the nights are so dark that there is no light pollution from a nearby city.
hence it is not near a city.
let me taunt you further :ok:
does the landscape look like cane fields?
does it look like the great dividing range?
does it look like the rolling hills of new south wales?
does the environment look tropical?
no?
well it is probably nowhere near those parts of australia.

would you say that it looked like an ancient landscape?
where are the oldest landscapes on the planet?
believe it or not people holiday nearby.

"Nearby" mean Uluru?

no not uluru. it's near the coast.

uluru, Ayer's Rock is the world's largest boulder.

nearby to this airfield you will find very old rocks created by blue green algae called stro..........

Near Port Augusta?

true that area to the west of port augusta looks very similar but no sir it is nowhere near port augusta.

Shark Bay WA?

John this isn't about seaplanes.
you gotta name the airfield.

certainly a lot closer than Port Augusta as a guess.

Well then, how about Denham?

Lego even made a model of the place!

http://en.bricker.ru/images/sets/LEGO/6444_main.jpg
..complete with a PL-12!

Sir you have just won a virtual cupie doll and the need to discuss with Airclues as to who puts up the next airfield challenge.

Well done John.:D:D:D

Denham is on the side of Shark Bay in Western Australia. It is a fishing and tourist destination on the way to Monkey Mia.
In the nearby Hamelin Pool are the oldest living structures on the planet. Stromatolites are 2,500 million years old and predate the evolution of animals.

http://www.longestblinddate.com/accom/yshk/M0379.jpg

that is the airfield off in the background.

Thank you, thank you, but I could not have done it without my friend Google and your Stro.... clue!

So who is next to post an airport?

What the heck! I will put up an easy one, it has almost certainly been done before..

http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3782/9...eee8de94_z.jpg

I jumped in because Airclues couldn't get a slide into electronic format.
so I defer to him.
John if you can't post a challenge airfield I'll give you another.

south island or north island?

OK, hope this sorts itself out, everyone please be aware that Airclues still has an option to post one of his.

It is on the Mainland. (as we call it)

I just looked on a block of cheese in the fridge.
mainland cheese. company address in Auckland.

so the small island is the mainland and the big island is the other one.
ok got it. :ok:

how about Taupo?

Sorry, not Taupo.

Never believe anything those Orks tell you, the Mainland is aka the South Island!:)

an old photo of Milford Sound Airport?

Excellent! View up a side valley not the usual view towards, or from, the Sound.

I was using the googleometer to find a photo of Timaru and in the list was a shot of milford. not quite the right angle but with a long valley off into the distance that looked a possibility.
definitely a SWAG. (scientific wild arsed guess)

well this photo was taken on a 42 degrees C day.
it was a famous gold mining area in its day.

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/...ps98daab3e.jpg

the Cherokee in the shot took off from Newman 20 minutes before me and I beat him in.:ok:
apologies to the poms who may never have seen the sky before.

You have got me on that one!

Obviously still in WA by the flag on the pole and enough water to keep the trees and grass green. Also looks like Air Services Australia radio masts so there might have been a FSS there in the past.

Nope, no ideas at all!

hmmm.
it is within bladder and fuel distance of Newman.

in the middle of town is a park and in that park is a little steam engine.
it is about 115 years old and is the only Haine St Pierre locomotive imported into Australia. Haine St Pierre being the famous Belgian locomotive makers.

the local aboriginal people are Wadjarie. wonderful people really.

c'mon you poms it isnt that hard. (deliberately not easy though)

dont be fooled by grass in the photos. we make a lot of use of bore fields in the arid climate.

Maybe those clues are too good? How about Meekatharra?

It was the green plant life that made me look NW of Newman.

Sir that is your second Qupie doll. congratulations.:D

the poms arent doing too well are they. thank heaven we arent from Canada.

over to you.

yes that is the refuelling apron of Meekatharra Airport. once a thriving gold mining centre with regular airline flights. the airport is maintained by the local council in rather superb condition for the one private flight a day that usually passes through for refuelling.

Thanks, but you practically told me the name of the place!

It was 1969 when I was last in WA and I doubt I will ever be back but I sure enjoyed the experience. I took a slow train to Geraldton from Perth and flew back on an F28 of MMA(?) Then went south of Perth to Albany and later got the train to Sydney, via Adelaide.

Those poms should be in the office any time now as it is coming up to 11 a.m.?:E

I declare Open House, bearing in mind that Airclues has got a turn owing to him.

John

open house! cant miss that.
here is a wet one for the poms.
http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/...ps3de80c4e.jpg

Rottnest Island, WA?

But, if I read you correctly W8, you're declaring Open House so here's one from me:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...ps4bb14525.jpg

Dora you are absolutely correct on both counts. so the Qewpie doll goes to you.

I'm assuming that your photo is in colour and so this is england?

Dora you cunning bugger.
The use of false colour nearly had me.
that is Maylands Aerodrome in Perth. Once the home airfield of the Royal Aero Club then phased out as an airfield and used as The police advanced driving school.

while we are waiting for evidence of english life....

let me introduce the GAFA. this the name given to the cultural intrigues and stunning landscape of the large interior of our continent. Gafa is said as a word but is in fact an acronym of a fairly frustrated description. It in fact translates as "the great australian F**k all", testimony to the fact that the greatest navigational landmark out near the horizon is bound to be the shadow of a cloud.

this airfield is somewhere in the gafa.

http://i1274.photobucket.com/albums/...ps607398b8.jpg

Top o' the morning to you fellas. Ya ...wwwww ... nnnnn ....
Cricket going to your colonial heads is it ? Plenty time left ...

Forrest WA 31S 128E. How very appropriately named.;)

LFH

That would be one of those 'IFR' fields.


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