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Correct . In the news for all the wrong reasons
The former Sheffield City Airport is about to be redeveloped and its runway destroyed. The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) is fighting to reverse that decision, gathering signatures to a petition that would force the city council to debate the issue - and the FSB is convinced that it has sufficient support amongst councillors to drive through the call for an independent review. In a new twist, a bidder for the airport has emerged, and he plans to kick-start GA at Sheffield Which may account for it being on another forum. You have control, Chevvron. |
Open House.
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There's a film clip often shown on programs about the era of airfield personnel watching a B29 flying very low just offshore and apparently about to ditch, this location and viewpoint appear very similar. However from memory I think that was at Tinian and as you say the field hasn't been posted before, that can't be it.
Is it a Pacific base in 1944 or 5 though? |
Correct so far!
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Duckbutt
The video you refer to is the first plane shown on this clip. |
Reduced to guessing now - Tarawa or Peleliu?
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Possibly Iwo Jima.
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Correct, Lightning Mate. Another of the islands captured at huge human expense in order to secure yet one more airstrip nearer Japan. You have control.
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Apologies, but I'm busy trying to solve multiple challenges elsewhere.
OH please. |
And there was I, thinking that Lightning drivers were multi-tasking chappies
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Not at my age anymore. :\
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'One more airstrip'
The feature article in After the Battle listed about 7 airstrips on Iwo Jima |
Indeed - as did several of the Pacific island 'toe-holds'. Apart from the hill (Suribachi) at one end of the island, the better part of the rest was devoted to aviation.
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Hello! Since it is OH, here I come again with something a bit different (we will come back to my favorite area later don't worry:)):
http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/7634/pprune5.jpg For now I will just say that's it is in France and that the Germans did not show any interest into it...yet someone did! |
Two days on...I request a clue from asw22 (is there a "polite rule" on the time between posting and the rest of us getting bored? :uhoh:)
Russ. |
is there a "polite rule" on the time between posting and the rest of us getting bored? |
Sorry I have been away for the last 36 hours...To my credit nobody having even posted an hypothesis I told myself everyone is busy with the end of the year preparations or just trying to escape the end of the world...or less interest if not Commonwealth related ;)?
As a clue I will say that this is still an airfield; actually, one of the most recent airports in Europe...As it may be too easy now please indicate the emplacement of this 1947 runway in the new entity... I am stable again an I will follow the thread closely... JV |
just trying to escape the end of the world... |
I'll start the guessing game with Charles de Gaulle.
Edit: Change that to Lyon Satolas/St Exupery. The pictured airfield is now under all the rubble to the SW corner. |
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