Could be Norfolk - no hills and there's definitely an accent :)

Russ,
Not Scotland - I can cope with most Scottish accents, with the possible exception of Aberdonian. ;) I don't expect there is that much flat land anywhere north of the border.

Nvubu,
I am sure the Singing Postman never delivered around here. Sad to see he's no longer with us.

Norfolk thread drift. I flew out of Marham a long time ago. There's a joke along the lines of "They had miles and miles of flat land, but they chose to build an airfield on the only hill in Norfolk!"

Does that mean we are looking around Norfolk, just not near Grimsby?

Terry,

Since Grimsby is YMEN 303/9077, I'll forgive you for not knowing that it is in Lincolnshire. ;)

However, "for the avoidance of doubt", I should advise you that this aerodrome is not in Lincolnshire or Norfolk.

Ahh. Thanks.
Wikipedia said that the 'singing postman' grew up in Norfolk and later became a postman in Grimsby, so I took it to be in the same county.
You have just saved me checking the list of 90 odd airfileds in Norfolk.:)
Perhaps I should be looking in Canada?

Canada eh? Now there's a thought! ;)

OK.
Looks like it will be the Canadian prarie then.
Were you enroute to or from Calgary?
(I've now gotta find out the max range of a Motorfalke).

Strictly speaking. No.

If you had trouble with the accent, that would suggest Quebec or possibly the Maritimes.

Dave,

That's the obvious thought, but the radio operator was not speaking "Joual"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joual

nor "Quebec English".

Also not any Maritime accent.

I thought at first the rubber marks were from landing aircraft, but they're so even, spaced well apart and start right at the beginning of the runway so I would guess it's used as a dragstrip too.

Great Plains - now to folow all the rivers on GE........................

More thoughts.... Plains but not the sort of drumlin country of N Minnesota, looks really flat out there.... possibly used by a flight school shooting apporaches over and over again.

Shadows on hangars looks like mid-morning if that Runway is 21 with small shadows so possibly south of the border...............

But he did say "strictly speaking not en-route to Calgary" but maybe somewhere close (where "close" has a Canadian value) like Edmonton..................

and in a Motorfalke he'd be well away from any major airport (and I suspect any large mountains)

Accent tho'.... not French, not Atlantic, possibly Texecan? or similar

No Scandi tones.

In the Palliser Triangle.

My destination was closer to Calgary than Edmonton, but not CYYC or CYBW.

The day before, I was getting checked-out in the Motorfalke at my departure airfield. I was sharing the circuit with an aircraft with a 150 kt overtake on the downwind leg!:eek:

JENKINS,

Well done. Vegreville, Alberta (CEV3). A correct if somewhat cryptic reply. Now to the 'why'.

My gliding club was leasing a Motorfalke. I went to Cold Lake (CYOD) where it was based, to get checked out by the owner and then fly 230 nm home to Airdrie (CEF4). I did my checkout using a taxiway for touch and goes, while a CF-104 was doing circuits on the runway to my right. An impressive sight!

My flight home was on a Sunday and back in those days, there was no self-serve Avgas available, so I was advised the only option for refueling was Vegreville.

Vegreville is one of the larger communities in an area east of Edmonton that has a significant Ukrainian population. Driving in that area, you could be forgiven for thinking you were in Ukraine. Every small town has an onion-domed Ukrainian church. My next clue was going to be this:

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...psvyc766cn.jpg

Vegreville has the world's largest Ukrainian Easter Egg (Pysanka).

The fellow on the radio had an extremely strong Ukrainian accent and his English was extremely difficult to understand, even face to face, as I discovered when he came to the fuel pump!

An interesting flight for lots of reasons. Being a good thermal day, I dolphined under the good clouds and managed to increase my ground speed to a blistering 80 kts!

http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...psb5lnqo4h.png

JENKINS has control and needs to tell us more about his 'chum in the cockpit'. ;)

Snowbirds. A great team doing high-precision close-formation work in antique jets. Imagine the Red Arrows with JPs.

http://tinyurl.com/zruk8e2http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/...psxbfxibzk.jpg
http://www.rcaf-arc.forces.gc.ca/ass...mjc75-1144.jpg

I bet Sir Humphrey was not happy with that!

I often wonder about that.

Dora-9,

There were several JP aerobatic teams in the late 60s, but I don't think I ever saw more than a four-ship.

PS I've always had a great deal of respect for pilots flying formation aerobatics in low-powered aircraft, doubly so since I put a couple of hours on a Vampire T11 a few years ago, which is a positive rocket-ship (another 1000 lb of thrust, but admittedly heavier) compared to a Tutor or JP 4.

I was more wondering how they must feel representing their service in a 50 year-old aeroplane.

Well, they don't really have any option. It's Hobson's choice - the Tutor or nothing. And just like the Arrows, there are rumours every year of the team being shut down.

Having said that, the Tutors are very well looked after. I saw one close-up at Oshkosh last year - it was immaculate - and in true Oshkosh tradition, there was a tent in front of the wing. :)

http://i1149.photobucket.com/albums/...psm6wria9o.jpg


https://www.eaa.org/en/airventure/ea...-the-snowbirds