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dook 11th Feb 2019 20:27

Knowing your posts, is it in the Netherlands ?

dook 11th Feb 2019 20:34

Found this very similar one.

http://i63.tinypic.com/u1v9i.png

broadreach 11th Feb 2019 20:35

Ahh, that has to be Dutch! It all started with the fly printed on the inside of the public urinals. Same in Changi?

dook 11th Feb 2019 20:46

Unfortunately the place where I found it doesn't say where it is.

I have just found it again and it says Eindhoven.

SLB likes his home-grown stuff doesn't he.

Self loading bear 12th Feb 2019 05:35

Eindhoven indeed.
I also like Stairway to heaven

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....b3972a6b0.jpeg

and also Economy seat

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....bd7dabffd.jpeg

Dook has control

Asturias56 12th Feb 2019 07:27

I had that seat the last time I flew BA.......................... :sad:

dook 12th Feb 2019 11:14

SLB described his toilet as the stairway to heaven.

No - this is a stairway to heaven.
http://i64.tinypic.com/2qsqz9u.jpg

Challenge follows.

dook 12th Feb 2019 11:16

I posted this before but withdrew it.

http://i63.tinypic.com/sqh6qu.jpg

Asturias56 12th Feb 2019 11:19

Algiers??

looks warm

dook 12th Feb 2019 11:28

We're not in Algeria.

sycamore 12th Feb 2019 12:45

Bizerte,Tunisia....

dook 12th Feb 2019 13:11

You need to get away from North Africa.

kenparry 12th Feb 2019 14:02

French territory in the Pacific?

chevvron 12th Feb 2019 14:27


Originally Posted by kenparry (Post 10387810)
French territory in the Pacific?

Would have been white colour scheme like 'SXX.

dook 12th Feb 2019 15:03

Not Pacific or French territory.

Checking on colour scheme.

dook 12th Feb 2019 15:24

I have found a couple of photographs of the aeroplane in bare metal finish but nothing of that era in white.

dook 12th Feb 2019 15:35

This was an RAF base.

evansb 12th Feb 2019 15:56

RAF Mauripur, Pakistan ? from John Holloway, RAF Retired: "The French occasionally had flights passing through. Once a month a lone DC-4 would arrive from Saigon, usually landing in the early hours of the morning when we should have all been fast asleep – so they were very unpopular. We also had a flight of Privateers arrive and the odd Nordatlas. They were on their way home as the days of the French in Indo China were rapidly coming to an end."

dook 12th Feb 2019 16:49

A cigar and a large malt to the man. :D

All yours e.

evansb 12th Feb 2019 17:45

Thanks dook! Here is the next mystery aerodrome:
https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....4b7ce85eab.jpg

dook 12th Feb 2019 18:22

Doesn't look used very much.

evansb 12th Feb 2019 18:33

Not so much as of late, but still open. Actually had HS-125 corporate jet service back in the day. Photo was taken in 2005. Current image on Google Earth looks even less cared for.

broadreach 12th Feb 2019 18:34

Lots of silica sand around, and a hint of rapids in that dark stream. I'll guessing Africa, Angola perhaps.

dook 12th Feb 2019 18:36

I'm thinking outbackish.

evansb 12th Feb 2019 18:45

Not Angola nor Australia.

kcockayne 12th Feb 2019 19:43

Would this be the south east of France, by any chance ?

evansb 12th Feb 2019 20:59

Not on the European Continent.

Self loading bear 12th Feb 2019 22:04

In Canada?

evansb 12th Feb 2019 22:10

Not Canada, but the locale had a Canadian connection.

Self loading bear 12th Feb 2019 22:29

CHC or Okanagan helicopter operation?

evansb 13th Feb 2019 00:03

No, but I did find this gem of a photo taken at the mystery aerodrome:

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....e76f1c6385.jpg

Please note I'll be back around 1400 UTC.

broadreach 13th Feb 2019 08:24

Gave it away there, evansb. Canadian connection = Alcan; Alcan = British Guiana/Guyana. Mackenzie Airstrip. I knew there was something about that sand! Open House if correct.

dook 13th Feb 2019 08:24

Maybe you should have airbrushed out serial number 34322.

A Google search brings up Watooka, Guyana.

chevvron 13th Feb 2019 09:37


Originally Posted by dook (Post 10387864)
Not Pacific or French territory.

Checking on colour scheme.

I only suggested that because when Lancaster G-ASXX (now at East Kirkby) arrived in the UK from New Caledonia in about 1966, it was in all white 'Aeronavale' colour scheme.

dook 13th Feb 2019 09:58

Thanks - now I'm with you.

evansb 13th Feb 2019 13:21

broadreach is correct. Linden-Mackenzie, Guyana. Linden Airport (ICAO: SYLD) is an airport serving Linden, the capital of the Upper Demerara-Berbice region of Guyana.

As requested, OPEN HOUSE.

dook 13th Feb 2019 13:30

My suggestion just shows how unreliable the web can be. :(

evansb 13th Feb 2019 13:39

Re the USAF Piasecki H-21, my source says Mackenzie, British Guiana. Watooka, Linden and Mackenzie are served by the Linden-Mackenzie airport. It is now just the Linden airport. It was once known as just the Mackenzie airport. What was the USAF "flying Banana" doing in British Guiana anyway? I can speculate, but I have no facts to back me up.

FYI Watooka was a residential area of MacKenzie Guyana, named after Watooka Creek (an Amerindian name).

dook 13th Feb 2019 13:48

It does seem to be a strange place for the USAF to have been.

Maybe it had something to do with the "constitutional coup".

dook 13th Feb 2019 15:28

I'm waiting for a "non-regular" to post something.


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