Hi Reg.

"Depot ships"

Two stabs...

MS Schwabenland?
MS Friesenland?

Graeme, it is the ship where the Wal is being catapulted in your picture, but not MS Schwabenland or MS Friesenland.

I have a film (rendered to a video) most likely from the same catapulting event and process, including picture of the ship; I will post a link once this has been sorted out.

There are some special things about this aerodrome.

G'day Reg.

Miserable Saturday here mate. Wet and cold so I've been indoors trying to solve/create challenges (plus some housework :)). No luck with yours.
Care to elaborate? :)

Just a query for players. Do we now consider aircraft carriers as aerodromes?

Opens up a world of possibilities.

She was the first of its kind and probably the only of her kind.

I'd say no, and I'll justify my post: This is not an aircraft carrier. There was a small joke involved here, too. The caption specifically called it "aérodrome flottant", so I thought it must be legitimate, because this is "Which Aerodrome" thread.

PS. It is not French.

Found a photo in a book of a Wal about to be catapulted from....SS(?) Westfalen...?

Google shows it with BV-139s...

http://img651.imageshack.us/img651/6813/westfalen.jpg

I'll log off and keep looking. Cheers!

Yes Graeme, it is SS Westfalen.

She was originally a 1906 built freighter and became Lufthansa's first catapult ship. In the early 1930s the she was converted into a seaplane tender to serve as both weather reporting and refueling station for Dornier Wal flying boats of Lufthansa carrying mail trans-Atlantic between Europe and South America.

Popular Science - Google Books

Promised the film/video: Katapultschiff Westfalen

Over to you :ok:

Well how about that. Bit of a fluke mate. :)

Make it open house. I'll file my carrier pictures for maybe another day.

Not to hog the thread but to keep things rolling

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/...um190349-1.png

Rutbah Wells?

Correct!

Over to Rugged/Craggy Island :ok:

Thank you!

Try this (in keeping with another recent theme)...

http://i1113.photobucket.com/albums/...utbahWells.jpg

There is one Dornier Do-27 in Fundació Parc Aeronàutic de Catalunya, but its stand is different….

And that even may be a CASA 127…..

Hmm….

Can I assume that the location is not an aerodrome but a fire station, and that the aeroplane has been used for forest fire monitoring and hence is located there?

...You can ;-)

Did I shoot my own foot? Yes, I did :(.

Reg,

I feel a little bad about my reply to you...

It may help you to perceive it to be precisely true.

Happy days,

Father Dick

That's all right Father, I was joking myself :).

Has the world gone mad and does any site, yard, plinth where an aircraft may have been retired to now constitute an 'aerodrome'?

i.e. This knackers yard is now an aerodrome?

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6144/...2b63c2896f.jpg

Hmm. That picture seems a bit controversial. Would it be best to declare and Open House, and be done with it?