WoW!! Three shots and not found! Tho no doubt India 42 will wake up soon

Cows is correct - it's not the Azores

Jensdad is closer than nvubu ... but not a lot...........

Porto Santo? (a few years ago)

Nope................... this is a bit closer to the sea and the orientation is slightly different

I've been hibernating - it was -26 when I woke up. The forecast high is a balmy -21!

So not the Azores or Caribbean, how about the Cape Verde Islands?

Quite a long way from Cape Verde................ and it's not in the Pacific or the Indian Ocean either

Not in the Pacific or Indian Oceans... Slightly closer to the Azores than to the Caribbean... Seasonal holiday traffic... I'm going to go out on a limb and say Yalta (because it's the only ex-Soviet Black Sea holiday resort I know of!)

Right Sea, wrong airport....................................

Gelendzhik West according to GE.

Never heard of it, but found it after following northern coastline of Black Sea.

Probably cheating doing it this way.

OH if correct I'm afraid.

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That's it - it's actually a new runway on the site of an old military/research/civil base - they test sea planes at Gelendzhik and there are several marine research institutes there Quite a nice spot but the beaches are very stony and clayey Main problem is that taking off or landing to/from the North you have an 2500 ft mountain 5 miles away....... dead ahead.....

Hence the normal arrival/departure to/from the South - I think the missed approach is a bit scary - max left or right hand turn INSTANTLY

There's a daily flight from Moscow and a lot of holiday flights from Siberia and N Russia

Yes, I went to the airshow there a few years ago, but the airport was closed at the time, which is probably why I didn't recognise it. Magnificent natural bay, which is perfect for seaplane operations, which were very spectacular.

Did you stay in the big Hotel (I think it's the Kempinski now) on the other side of the Bay? I was in there just after it opened a few years ago - a total of 7 guests in mid November....... every one on a different floor.....

OH anyway...............

Keeping with the seaside theme :ok:
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reefs? mangroves??? not much in the way of support structure.....

ex japanese??

Reefs and mangroves certainly. Not 100% sure about being ex-Japanese, but could well be. There is a lot more infrastructure now than there was in this photo.

No, the Kempinski wasn't there then. I stayed in the nearby Nadezhda at Kabardinka, So I could keep an eye on the shipping traffic in and out of Novorossiysk ;)

Well, I thought that would last a bit longer :)


Well done Jenkins, Tawi-Tawi or Sanga Sanga it is.


Your turn.

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We should form a MasterMind team................

An Easy One
 

I've landed here, but long before this occurred:

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Not too hard - Lethbridge Alberta - teh CAF Display F-18 CF188738 crashed on 23rd July 2013

"
During an air show practice at Lethbridge County Airport, CF188738 experienced a loss of thrust from its right engine while conducting a high angle of attack (AOA) pass at 300 feet (ft) above ground level (AGL). Unaware of the problem but feeling the aircraft sink slightly, the pilot selected maximum afterburner on both throttles in order to overshoot from the manoeuvre. The aircraft immediately started to yaw right and continued to rapidly yaw/roll right despite compensating control column and rudder pedal inputs.
With the aircraft at approximately 150 ft AGL and about 90 degrees of right bank, the pilot ejected from the aircraft. The aircraft continued in a tight descending corkscrew to the right prior to hitting the ground nose first.
The ejection system worked flawlessly, but the pilot was injured when he landed firmly under a fully inflated parachute.
The investigation revealed a number of factors that contributed to this occurrence. The engine malfunction was likely the result of a stuck ratio boost piston in the right engine main fuel control (MFC) that prevented the engine from advancing above flight idle when maximum afterburner was selected. The large thrust imbalance between the left and the right engines caused the aircraft to depart controlled flight and the aircraft was unrecoverable within the altitude available. The subtle nature of the engine malfunction that was not detected by the pilot when the overshoot was attempted.
In response to this occurrence, the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) expedited the implementation of a program to upgrade all CF188 MFCs. Additionally, the RCAF made changes to the conduct of the CF188 air show routine by increasing the high AOA pass altitude from 300 feet AGL to 500 feet AGL, improving the air show training program and ensuring that both engines of the CF188 air show aircraft have upgraded MFCs."

Indeed it did.