I think I'll call you 'Ole Sharp Eyes".

Jenkins is correct - it is India - tho I suspect Bears "fish farms" may be partly correct . It's what they call a "tank"

It's one of these busy, successful places with a few million people that few tourists ever visit and people just get on with life - hundreds of them across Asia these days

Always seems to have been a trading spot but nothing important has ever happened here as far as I can tell tho' the town center was planned by the Brits

Air India, Jet Airways, SpiceJet and IndiGo seem to be the main operators here

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....b1b1c1b854.jpg

Just looking at IndiGo. Are we near New Delhi ?

Too far North......................

I'm off out until 17:00 local 16:00 Uk

Your sample operators suggest a domestic airport nearer central India.

Looking.

Mangaluru perhaps, do I see the old Terminal? Not millions, but still lots of people.

Fish pond, a stew pond in British Abbeys.

I will chance Indore...now known as Devi Ahilyabai Holkar International Airport.

(I see Asurias has stated he has gone out but omits to add "for a glass or two" - which given time of day is quite correct - although Monday is free for all as far as I'm concerned to get over the weekend.)

Well, I certainly can't find it.

Break in meeting - yes Indore - a busy 2++ million place full of light industry and hi-tech and nothing else - never heard of it until I had to visit a couple of years back

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....20c44e6104.jpg
https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....3675507731.jpg

Very busy growing itself in to a tech centre.

Came across this old photo the other day so here goes...

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....13044eaba4.jpg

Ah - aircraft ident. A Saro London I believe.

Now the difficult bit...

Well, that wasn't too difficult.

I do believe it's Mount Batten. I was born and brought up in Plymouth.

Indeed it is dook.

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....53069f14e4.jpg

Interesting history.

dook has control.

When I was young and at school I remember seeing many flying boats there, especially Sunderlands.

As an RAF pilot some years ago I did a survival course there and the sea survival part was done using RAF sea rescue launches. Remember those ?

Standby please.....

Here you go.

http://i66.tinypic.com/ogxqo7.jpg

Rangsdorf, Bücker Flugzeugwerft ?

OH if correct

Now there's another hit. Rangsdorf it is.

dash7fan has called OH.

Was a touch short of fuel one afternoon, this place very helpful. I was heading South, I returned but aircraft stayed, albeit in bits
https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....cc3d0797fd.jpg
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Are we near the Gulf Of California?

Not California.

Still looks like that neck of the woods - albeit with distinct lack of trees...

JENKINS,

You should have flown the Mk3 Lightning - we were short of fuel on start-up !!

That looks like a very long runway.

Why was your aeroplane in bits ?

@ dook

Well you're not going to get any sympathy from me for that - you lucky sod. :cool:

Are we somewhere which is not the USA ?

Yes, I've changed my mind - we are in tut sandpit somewhere.

Jenkins running out of fuel and this lot being useful, etc.

Yes, sandy area. My machine continued South with me on my planned journey. Months later I returned but machine in bits in a different country. Not pilot error, and the perpetrator has been spotted on Pprune. I loaded it but didn't fly it that day. Night stop on day of photograph in national capital, and I was surprised that ale was available.

Believe demise of machine due to power lever malfunction. Unable to check, local militia peppered the machine with bullets in double-quick time, and journey to strip by road somewhat difficult. And yes, this is not USA.

What an interesting story. I have also destroyed an aeroplane with gunfire.

Are we near the Caspian Sea somewhere ?

Not The Caspian.

Jindivik?

That vague piece of coast is an East coast, and the sea is a major ocean.

It wasn't a Jindi. It was on the ground.

Might we be in NE Africa ?

Not N E Africa, but you have reached the correct continent.

Maybe NE Africa was an inaccurate call. I was thinking Somalia.

Not Somalia.

So your major ocean isn't the Indian I assume.

You assume correctly.

Now trying to correlate that with the east coast of Africa. :eek:

Perhaps if I now reveal that a West coast was very close?

But you said east.

Yes, the East coast is seen, the West is very close but not seen, making a peninsula. Always devious but never untruthful.