Don't take it to heart Charlie, it was just a little game Nvubu and me were playing hoping to lead to a bit of mild p**s taking of another regular.

As OH has been declared I'll post this one:

http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b2...ler/Puzz83.jpg

Sorry to spoil the fun guys! Your ploy had gone over my head.

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Okay, I am asking the question - "... what is the "optical illusion" which makes it so hard to find nowadays?"

Here is Coquelles today:

http://img717.imageshack.us/img717/4...uelles2012.jpg

As you can see you have here the biggest (and the most English) "Carrefour" shopping center in North of France together with the Shuttle (under-the-Channel train to London) marshalling and docking yards...
They are covering so neatly the area of former Coquelles airfield that it is quite difficult to find it if you do not already know the place...the eyes are terribly attracted to these big features and this makes easy to miss the clues.

Strangely enough you still have remnants of former use of the place: two single fighter hangars lost in the vegetation of the small copse within what is now a Holiday Inn hotel garden (but was an old abbey before) straight down from the "Coquelles" marker in the Google extract west of the highway entrance; and a bit of the peripheral alley (easy to find by comparing with the 1943 photo).

I will show later a still more spectacular example of "optical illusion"...;)

Amically

JVM

Going back to my challenge, the actual location of the airfield is the best part of 6,000 miles from city of the same name.

Err... optical illusion? Don't tell the passengers who're waiting for the next train to London that this is only an optical illusion!

Doesn't anybody 'cop' the aircraft type?

I think that radial engine, air-cooled, is a bit of a giveaway

Two of those engines per airplane in picture.

Keystone B-4As perhaps?

Certainly Keystone bombers, I do not know which model.

My apologies for bringing this thread back to "which aerodrome?" instead of "which aeroplane?" :suspect:

but in response to Duckbutt's challenge I suggest Rendcomb.

Russ.

To my embarrassment I had to look up details of Rendcomb. As someone said before you need to go west young man (by about 7 - 8 hours in an airliner).

Duckbutt: it's because Russell spelt it wrong; it's spelt 'Rendcombe'!!
7-8 hours west puts it either southern Canada or maybe in the Carolinas?

Not the Carolinas but thats the general area.

Hebron Airport, Spring Hill, Maryland, U.S.A. ?

Any chance we are looking at Pennsylvania - Just a thought - more airports there than you can shake a stick at on GEarth.

You may well be correct EvansB

EvansB has it, Hebron, Maryland. Keystone bombers and a tented camp of the Army Air Corps 59th Bomb Group in 1932.

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