A few clues exist in the photo that are not immediately obvious at first look.
Plus my previous entry to this competition might give someone an idea as to it's location as well. http://i1213.photobucket.com/albums/...o/Airfield.jpg |
Full of immigrants now? Looks like Aussie earth. RAAF Scherger - way up North.
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Well done.
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Thanks 500N and it is Open House
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Are we looking for a waddy in a wadi ?
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Para-Frag bombs
I've found an even earlier reference to them - 1928 - here about half way down the page (turn your sound off before clicking the link :))
I've pasted the text so you can avoid the annoying music. When Air Chief General Hap Arnold called George Kenney to Washington, D.C., in the spring of 1942 to ask him to transfer to Australia and fix the mess that was the Far East Air Force, Kenney made two special requests. One was for fifty P-38 fighter aircraft and pilots (including Lieutenant Bong) to fly them. The other was for a shipment of 3,000 parachute-fragmentation bombs. Kenney advised Arnold that if he was to assume command of the Pacific air operations, he wanted total air superiority--"air control so supreme that the birds have to wear Air Force insignia." This could only be achieved by the destruction of Japanese airplanes, either in the air or on the ground. The P-38s would knock them out of the air, the para-frag bombs would destroy them before they ever became airborne. Para-frags were small small, ten-kilogram (23-pound), explosives that could be hand-thrown from aircraft to slowly descend to earth and explode on impact. They could be very quickly scattered across a wide area from a low-flying B-25 Mitchell or A-10 Boston, and would settle into the smallest opening behind the revetments enemy engineers had created to protect their planes while on the ground. Upon detonation they spewed out nearly 2,000 shards of white-hot metal to tear through wings and fuselages, rupture gas tanks and to set grounded planes on fire. Five thousand of these para-frags had originally been manufactured in 1928 for shipment to Australia, but only 2,000 had been delivered. The 3,000 requested by General Kenney was the remainder of a weapon stockpile that more than a decade later, no one else seemed interested in. Ken's Men put them go great use with their innovative minds, coupled with the creative genius of an aircraft engineer the men of the Fifth Air Force called "Pappy." |
aviate - France?
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aviate
An African bush strip ? Somewhere on the African continent ! |
500N warm
Were this a WW2 aviation crossword clue.... hope this isn't too confusing...... 3 across 'Insane and Cocky with it' 8 letters It is 23:20 and the Malbec is reaching the parts tha........... |
No go for me.
You lost me on that one, was never any good at crosswords anyway ! Someone else might get it ! It reminds me of a bush strip a mate took a photo of on coming into his Safari camp in Africa. |
Tanzania ?
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evansb - Tanzania is the country.......
500N - bush strip is the type |
aviate
So what are you wanting from here ? A name ? A location ? or are you going to award it to evansb for getting the country right ? |
The name of the strip is Madundas.
The WW2 crossword - Insane = mad, Cocky is after Cocky Dundas - Group Captain Sir Hugh Spencer Lisle Dundas CBE DSO and Bar DFC, (1920 — 1995), nicknamed "Cocky", was a World War II fighter pilot in the Royal Air Force I did mention the Malbec and I will avoid any obscure Tanzanian strips in future! evansb Tanzania was more than enough to get you Control. :) |
aviate
Do you have something to do with Mission Aviation Fellowship, "Flying for life" and providing remote medical services in Tanzania ? Reason I ask is I found the original photo in the article as I was looking to see exactly where Madundas was in relation to some Safari areas. |
I do have a Doctorate of Divinity [ULCC Calif.] but have no connection with anything religious.
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What heliport?
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r...f5b3675_b1.jpg |
MAF
I have had great experiences with MAF flying me all over Uganda when I had a contact to sort out Y2K computers. Although the pilot saying a prayer before taking off was a little disconcerting the first time it happened.
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"Although the pilot saying a prayer before taking off was a little disconcerting the first time it happened."
Sudden prayers make God jump! |
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