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Lightning Mate 26th Jul 2013 13:40

Rename the image once you have it on your hard drive.

Dora-9 27th Jul 2013 20:31

Nothing new for a few days?

OK, here's one from me - I'm not sure of the etiquette here, as this airfield has featured before, but it's a lovely photo anyway!

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...psc8684f84.jpg

chevvron 29th Jul 2013 14:51

As your address is Queensland, I presume it's somewhere in Oz?

Lightning Mate 29th Jul 2013 15:19

Watts Bridge ?

Lordflasheart 29th Jul 2013 19:07

With all those parking spaces - western US ? nb - I can't see the anti spin strakes -is it a CGI ? ;) LFH

Dora-9 29th Jul 2013 20:20

Chevvron - Yes, Australia.

Lightning mate - NOT Watts Bridge (they'd wet themselves if they ended up with a sealed tarmac that size!).

Your lordship - Not CGI, the photo taken on a weekend fly-in (clue). The Chipmunk does have strakes btw, it's exactly as it came out of the RAF in 1975.

Crusher1 30th Jul 2013 07:33

Parafield?

Lordflasheart 30th Jul 2013 08:20

Oakey Qld Army airbase ? Looking west. LFH

Lightning Mate 30th Jul 2013 09:04

The Chipmunk registration is VH-SSJ.

Anything to do with its' 60th birthday?

edit: somewhere near Brisbane?

emeritus 30th Jul 2013 09:16

Tricky one that. With that amount of tarmac it had to be a service airfield. We could probably park our entire Airforce fleet on that tarmac !

Not airforce tho. It's Oakey which is Army.

Not able to post pics yet so OH

Emeritus

OOPS...too late!!

Dora-9 30th Jul 2013 10:28

LFH - correct, it is Oakey.

Lordflasheart 30th Jul 2013 11:28

Thankyou Dora. Apologies for the CGI remark - Place looked so smart I wondered if it was for real- now I understand - Army Rule No 1 - I hope they saluted you ..... and trust you didn't leave the Chippy stationary for too long ...

Now for something rather cooler -

Edited - the C-123 was too easy - try this instead. LFH

http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...psd942f55c.jpg

dubbleyew eight 30th Jul 2013 15:13

is the lake Bewl Water in east sussex?

Lordflasheart 30th Jul 2013 15:36

Not Bewl Water W8. Not fresh water either. This was taken some years before Bewl was even thought of. Not England.

chevvron 30th Jul 2013 19:27

Would it be one of the strips on Iwo Jima?

Dora-9 30th Jul 2013 20:33

LFH - if I may distract from your current poser for a minute, no offence taken at your CGI suggestion.

LM - well identified, the Chipmunk is indeed VH-SSJ (exWK507), .

The event was a fly-in to support the Museum of Army Aviation (located off to the left of frame). It was held on a Sunday, hence the empty tarmac. It was a stunning clear day, here is part of the gaggle on their way home later in the day:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a1...ering/OK-1.jpg

Lordflasheart 30th Jul 2013 23:00

Dora - any time. I got my first "air experiences" on Chipmunk, Anson and Auster. Always pleased to see them still flying.

Chevy - Not Iwo Jima - wrong hemisphere. This field opened in the late 30s and was closed by the 80s.

LFH

Krakatoa 31st Jul 2013 04:55

Is this Northern Ireland

India Four Two 31st Jul 2013 05:40

Hey Krakatoa, last time I looked Iwo Jima and Northern Ireland were in the "same hemisphere". ;)

LFH,
The topography looks tropical. Is this in the Bismarck/Solomon Sea area?

PS Lovely pictures, Dora 9

Lordflasheart 31st Jul 2013 07:12

:uhoh: Oops fellas, my mistake - slack language - that's the problem with knowing where it is. How many hemispheres have you got ?

I meant Western rather than Eastern - as opposed to Northern rather than Southern.

So - Western hemisphere but not Northern Ireland.

Northern hemisphere so not Bismarck/Solomon Sea (and not tropical.)

That should narrow it down. Apologies to all.

ps I'd better go and check the defo of Western hemisphere. ****

Okay, further edit after 5 mins - I've found four definitions already so let's just say this is somewhere between 90 deg West and 90 deg East and I am not claiming that as a hemisphere - before this gets me into any more trouble.
LFH


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