It was an RAF station and closed in 1968.

Looks Germanic to me.

It's quite a long way from Germany too.

Think there`s a Baltimore/Maryland in the middle.....

Might it be Bassingbourn.

OH if correct.

We are not in the UK.

Took a bit of finding but I now think it is Ta Kali, Malta.

OH if correct.

The target was Ta Kali, Malta andlaurieb has hit it fair and square.

Sadly he has called OH.

Ok, Try this one.
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....1812a2553b.jpg

I assume the airfield is a grass strip just below centre and it looks UK.

It is UK. I can see hangars and a windsock.

Looks like a flying club airfield.

A fair comment. A speed record was set here in the 1950's.

Well. I don't think that would have been a jet.

Furthermore I think we're looking at a lake and not the coast.

It is not a lake but is a UK club run airfield where a speed record was set that did not involve a jet.

Edit for clarification.

I'm glad you edited to not a lake.

I'll start again.

Is it one of our islands ?

No. Mainland UK.

Anything to do with the Kings Cup ?

No. The record still stands to this day.

Very cunning, a loch rather than a lake. Scottish Gliding Centre. OH if correct.

Correct. On the 10th May 1959 Nick Goodhart got airborne from Lasham in A Slingsby Skylark 3 with a declared target of Portmoak on the banks Of Loch Leven. A Distance of 579.36km which was covered at a speed of 90.7kmh. The speed still stands as a UK Open 500km goal record and the distance as a 20m class record.

Surely a loch is a lake. Now I'm grumpy. :uhoh:

Incidentally, there is an account in Peter Scott's autobiography, The eye of the wind, of his flight in the same competition where he made it to the Scottish boarders only to find that he had been beaten by Nick.

There is only one Lake in Scotland and that is the Lake of Menteith. Allegedly that is only a lake due to a victorian cartographical error.

My daughter is a Scot.

"Loch is a Scottish Gaelic word for a lake or fjord"

Just as only one lake in The Lake District. Thanks, have flown past Portmoak and Balado Bridge many times at low level, without refuel - ho ho, and have a distant memory of the Goodhart escapade.

OH I fear.

Time to contribute something methinks....

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....c9515e0b5e.jpg

I've seen that on "Forgotten Airfields". It's very distinctive.

I bookmarked a very large site which I shall now look at.

Error - wrong site.

Trying the other one.

Leyburn, Queensland.

Well done that man! It is indeed Leyburn, and the circled aircraft are B-24's.

Thank you Dora.

http://i67.tinypic.com/14sidj5.jpg

Drag myself away from Swiss cycling and guess at Goose Bay.

Good evening JENKS.

Not Goose Bay I'm afraid.

In fact a long way from there.

Whenuapai, RNZAF Base Auckland, North Island, New Zealand, (NZWP) ?

I think we'll call you eagle eyes.

Whenuapai it is.

Take it away. :ok:

Thank you. Here is the next one:

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....de14fccf39.jpg

The aeroplane looks like a Saab Scandia.

If it is then we might be in Europe.

I've looked closely at the fin marking and it looks like this one.

http://i64.tinypic.com/2625h8i.jpg