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Oldpilot55 27th Jan 2014 09:00

The field pattern looks Dutch to me

asw22 27th Jan 2014 21:59

If you consider the Dutch airfields targets of Bödenplatte you may notice those were large airbases with concrete runways so....

sidtheesexist 28th Jan 2014 08:16

Believe it's German. Maitzborn?

asw22 1st Feb 2014 13:43

Did Bodenplatte have any target in Germany? That would be surprising! You have all the elements to find rather easily the answer to the riddle...:cool:

sidtheesexist 1st Feb 2014 18:35

I believe not since it was the Luftwaffe's last fling and presumably launched from German airfields close to the Low Countries. Hence my suggestion......I hadn't seen a comment indicating that latest airfield was specifically a target! ;)

Have re read previous posts. Asw22, you are quite correct re target, targeting etc. My suggestion is retracted forthwith!!

asw22 1st Feb 2014 21:22

I have used the terms "target" and "targeted" already...This should narrow the field of search don't you think?:p:p:p

DIBO 1st Feb 2014 23:03

Excluding all the other targets, only Metz-Frescaty remains, but can't really match the photo

Oldpilot55 2nd Feb 2014 09:48

Somewhere in Belgium seems possible but I can't find a match

DIBO 2nd Feb 2014 11:26

None of the Belgian (and Dutch for that matter) targets have a wide riverbed nearby
But looking at the picture (and the shades on the ground) again, have to exclude Metz-Frescaty as otherwise the sun would have been shining from the north...

I throw the towel into the ring ...

Phileas Fogg 2nd Feb 2014 11:58

Not by any chance Findel?

Oldpilot55 2nd Feb 2014 15:09

There are 17 airfields listed in Wikipedia as being involved on the BotB but I cannot match them on Google Earth. I'm guessing others have done this but it might save someone else wasting their day!!

asw22 2nd Feb 2014 21:27

It is indeed mentioned in wikipedia...did you (at large) really check all of them:p?

So please have a look there: 50°56'49.92"N 4°23'03.98"E

The contours of the field and various landmarks around are still perfectly identifiable...From a photo interpretation standpoint, it is an easy one!

I will show you soon another one...it will not be easy even with an approximate position...and yet when you know where it is it becomes obvious!

In the mean time, OH please...

Oldpilot55 3rd Feb 2014 04:44

Agreed. The peri track, the river and the road pattern are unchanged. It was 14th on my list and I was getting jaded and not knowing Belgium airfields didn't help.

Russell Gulch 3rd Feb 2014 21:35

I must confess that I see no similarity between what those co-ordinates produce on my map and the original photo.

Perhaps the photo is not north-up?

Russ.

asw22 4th Feb 2014 09:22

Actually it is NE up...but that should not be such a hindrance in this case (yet it is sometimes, true!):

http://imageshack.com/a/img40/9391/62ky.jpg

Cheers!

asw

Oldpilot55 4th Feb 2014 14:13

It looks a lovely little strip but Belgium puts a fair number of obstacles to flying there that I doubt if I will ever visit.

DIBO 4th Feb 2014 21:41

wow, I was really mislead by the original picture. I was looking for a river in a rather wide river bed, so discarded all Belgian airfields, after having a close look on GE just to be sure. I never would have guessed it was Grimbergen (EBGB). And I've flown there, although as a passenger on the Goodyear blimp. It has 2 rather special hangars on the airfield (info in dutch: Vliegveld Grimbergen Loodsen). Some 20+ years ago it still had the original size with 3 grass runways, but environmentalists forced it to close, later opening again much smaller with one runway. The remainder of the former airfield was turned into a recreational/nature area, where the 2 old runways are still clearly visible. Some more history in dutch Recreatief Vliegveld Grimbergen - EBGB - Grimbergen Airfield (then click on 'Geschiedenis' button). The Sabena aeroclub is still based there.

Noyade 21st Feb 2014 10:04

Here's another....

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

chevvron 21st Feb 2014 10:33

Looks like a development aircraft so possibly Nicosia before it closed?

Noyade 21st Feb 2014 19:36

Not Cyprus, but it is on an island in the Mediterranean.


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