A few family ties with Blackpool. Vickers, Lancashire Aircraft Corporation, Hawker, Silver City, Autair, Britannia, BIA, Monarch plus a few more. If you turn the camera round you will see Abbey Road, where I used to live. Seafire VP441 now in Montana with Jim Smith?
Open House folks
Temps

Seafang
 

I think it's a Seafang - (edit - :uhoh: no it's not.)

Sorry chaps, belay me last pipe - it's likely Seafire FR47 VP441. - like wot Temps said above - should have looked more closely and read his post properly too - now apparently beautifully restored and flying.
LFH

Could it have caught the arrestor cable a bit too fast? Happened to 'Winkle' at Farnborough when he was testing a Sea Fury, and the bit he was in not only got airborne, but he managed to land it!
One of the old assistants at Farnborough was a 'radio operator' when it happened, and he told me 'Winkle' said 'oh dear how annoying'!

In the meantime - an alcohol inspired challenge...

http://imgbin.me/image/FDRQCCHL.jpg

Cuba? I don't know what airport.

C2j

We're in Colombia mate, one of the locations illustrated below....

http://imgbin.me/image/JZLXORJI.jpg

Here's the sober image....

http://imgbin.me/image/USALFGFM.jpg

The airfield was located at Palanquero.

Open House.

As it is open house:

http://imageshack.us/a/img20/6541/go7x.png

That building on the left looks German/Austrian.

Edit......but on the other hand, the topography looks Danish.

Dave

Dave, it is not danish

Isn't it between Hundsheim and Prellenkirchen?

Spitzerberg, Austria?

If correct then Pali has the floor as all I did was look at a map between Hundsheim and Prellenkirchen.

Dave

Yes, Spitzerberg 1959. View from a Grunau Baby II. Over to Pali

Isn't it funny? Probably only airport in Austria I stood by and observed departing and landing a/c and here it is…

Anyway…

http://www.prieskumy.net/blog/wp-con...port-radar.jpg

One of the hills behind is a place where an airliner crashed around 50 years ago.

KIAD Dulles International Airport?

C2j

Which Aerodrome Mk III
 

Not western hemisphere...

There are much higher mountains around Innsbruck.

Hint: 1966

Bratislava? OH if correct.

Dave

Correct, OH then...

To keep the thread going..

http://imageshack.us/a/img849/4408/pqdr.jpg

Well the aircraft is an Embraer 135/140/145. The terrain looks North American as does the red/white water tower this side of the field. The size of the terminal does not seem to match the size and number of runways and there appears to be a large freight hub (maybe disused) on this side of the field. There also seems to be a lack of aircraft in view.

That's as far as I have got.


Edit: Dayton Ohio James M Cox. OH if correct.

Dayton, Ohio is correct. OH

Tacloban, Philippines?

Cgb,

Yes, Tacloban. I snapped the picture from a BBC World News bulletin.

Such a devastating event. Just before landfall, the winds were 170 kts, gusting to 200 kts. The central pressure was 858 mb!

Here in Vietnam, we were lucky. The typhoon intensity decayed very rapidly over the South China Sea and it then tracked further north than predicted and by the time it made landfall, it was a tropical storm. Still a lot of damage though, but not on the same scale as Leyte.

One of our frequent posters on AH&N, Phileas Fogg, lives on an island southeast of Leyte. I sent him a PM the day after the typhoon struck to see if he was OK and much to my surprise, got an almost immediate response. He and his resort had survived, but one of the words he used to describe the experience was "frightening".

Cgb has control.

OH I'm afraid.

Try this one to keep the thread going:

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/f...ps754bd20d.jpg

Sorry for the thread drift but indeed I did describe it as "frightening" ...

So many have perished or suffered far worse however our electricity "browned out" before midnight and there was I in the horizontal rain repeatedly trying to 'rip cord' start the generator before I finally got it going and I spent much of the night up, to the effect, "If this ship is going down then I'm going to be there at the helm".

Alas all we suffered were damages to our fences, indeed we took in two additional French guests at the 11th hour (they were frightened where they were staying) and one of these guys actually slept through the super typhoon so well constructed are our accommodations of my design. :)

But, hey, Leyte is the place that has been f*cked, this super typhoon just gave me/us one hell of a lovebite as it went past, please concentrate on Leyte, we're already back up and running again.

God bless

Has everyone fallen off the edge of the world? :p



http://beyondmorale.com/blog/wp-cont...08/Waiting.jpg

(this self-portrait is in Wickford, Connecticut, and is NOT part of the challenge, since even the rickets-ridden legs or bony spine cannot be assumed to be any part of a runway). If no response in a further 3 days, can someone please tell my Mum?

Russ

Kazakstan?

No, but it is north of the equator.

Clue time:

Formerly an airfield to do with Uranium exploration; now disused.

Not Alaska, but correct country.

If I said further south, that wouldn't be any help at all :)

Clue2: It was built after the 41-45 war (sic). After it became initially disused in the '70s, the runway was used for drag racing.

Russ.

Clue 3:

It's in a State beginning with U and near a town beginning with M and ending in oab.

The field was constructed immediately after the war to assist with uranium exploration & extraction. This was on requisitioned Bureau of Land Management land (so one Govt department requisitioned it from another....the Yanks are good at that type of thing.)

In the 70's the jurisdiction was returned to BLM, but the field still exists as you see; almost usable. All buildings have gone, leaving just their foundations. My understanding is that the land rights are now passed to a local college, so there might be some educational benefit to someone.


The town has now expanded to almost encompass the airfield.

:)

So let someone else post an Aerodrome:

OH

Russell,

I've been offline for the weekend, but after your generous clue of Moab Utah, I had to have a go, but it was still surprisingly difficult.

When you first posted, like JENKINS, I thought it might be Alaska or possibly the Yukon.

However, after a Google Earth search, I'll go for a view of the La Sal mountains from the old runway, north of Spanish Fork Airport, southeast of Moab

According Russel ist OH:

http://imageshack.us/a/img546/9646/file0076.jpg

Frankfurt?

Russ

dash7fan,

An Austrian Metro but with a Swiss Venom in the background. Are we in Switzerland?

No, we are not in Switzerland or Germany