|
Hokitika New Zealand? OH if correct |
dook,
Thanks. I had not heard of Maude. I shall look her up. SLB, Right country, but not Hokitika. My accidental clue is the very faint ZK at the bottom right of the picture. |
Thanks I42. I couldn’t find much hangars with knuckled roof in Oz or NZ. dook’s mascot was 1, Hokitika another. Perhaps somebody in the night shift or in Oz and NZ will find it. I am leveling-off. |
Could it be Ardmore possibly?
|
Not Ardmore but getting warmer.
|
|
Mission Bay. Open House if correct. |
I'll have a go at Hobby, or Hobsonville as it was known to visiting pilots. OH also, if correct |
siftydog gets the bone! Hobsonville, now closed. Here’s the original unedited photo: https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....32d01e0e5.jpeg Douglas Mill’s house is one of 15 houses at Hobsonville Airbase classified as a heritage building. These built heritage landmarks are being retained during the transformation of the former RNZAF base into a new housing estate. One of the reasons the house is being preserved is due the significance of Douglas Mill; one of New Zealand’s pioneer aviators. Mill was one of the first fliers to see the potential for commercial aviation in New Zealand. In 1927 he established the Air Survey and Transport Company at Hobsonville. One of its specialities was aerial surveying and photography, but the company was also the New Zealand agent for Britain’s De Havilland Aircraft Company. As De Havilland’s agent the company imported and assembled De Havilland Moths and Tiger Moths, which Mill then sold to aero clubs throughout New Zealand. (Why does PPRuNe censor this website?) More information here: https://hobsonvillepoint.co.nz/about/history siftydog has declared Open House. I think it is jensdad’s turn at bat. |
That tiny url opened for me.
|
Yes, it’s the site behind the TinyURL, beginning with B, that PPRuNe hates. |
Oh I see. Thanks.
|
I42 said he thinks it's jensdads' turn to bat.
Nobody has pitched up for the OH though. |
Here goes. This grabbed the attention of two truly wonderful British wordsmiths, Noel Coward and Max Boyce.
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....820f594b2f.jpg |
Obviously USA.
|
Interestingly not, but it looks it doesn't it. Don't be put off by the rejection.
|
Hi team, Apologies for not picking up on the invitation to bat before...
The current challenge: Macau? |
Not Macau. My son remembers, I think, a hangover caused by a Macau trip.
|
A tropical airport? I had never heard of Max Boyce, but I do know of Noël Coward. Are we to look for places mentioned in Mad Dogs and Englishmen? A much longer song than I expected! |
Checking on Lat and Long, answer very soon.
|
Within the definition, yes.
|
Never heard of Max Boyce! Just found the extra about Mad Dogs, no I'm afraid.
|
I believe that Mad Dogs pre-dates the interest of the Master in this spot by several years.
Now bedtime, good night. |
Pago Pago (NSTU) in American Samoa. A place where waves sometimes crash over the runway.
Open house. |
That's the place. Coward set off by sea to spend time writing there, though I believe that he was distracted during the journey and failed to reach Pago Pago. Boyce, in 1991, while expressing the horror of his nation at defeat by Western Samoa, posited that Wales was lucky that only Western rather than the whole of Samoa was involved. Pago Pago is in the American part of Samoa, formerly ruled by the US Navy, and has only recently taken up rugby.
OH declared. |
Another one a long way from the S pacific https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....1a05b8b49a.jpg
|
And even further South perhaps than Pago Pago? I once worked alongside a wing like that, though it was in Liberia many years ago.
|
A C-130 probably civilian,just shutting down,somewhere in the `dark continent`....
|
It is a C-130 - but if the Dark Continent is Africa you're wrong....
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....2a350e392f.jpg |
OK ..Far East...?
|
No - not Far East - here it is in the dry season......
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....b9e31a70dc.jpg |
"dry season"
Does it get monsoons ? |
Not that I'm aware of - and Hurricanes hardly happen either........................
the local town was nothing until about 1960 onwards................ TBH its still bit of dump but prosperous (relatively) https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....e6284211e6.jpg |
By "dry season" I therefore assume you mean summer.
Since you mention hurricanes it must be northern hemisphere. |
Hurricanes or cyclones or typhoons happen world wide in both hemispheres - but not here - which is south of the equator
|
|
New Zealand ?
|
Or possibly South America.
|
Possibly Argentina...?
|
we are indeed in S America - but not the Argentine Republic - it's Ok (-ish) but occasionaly standards slip................
https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....dbe67b4ce7.jpg https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....3da0417341.jpg |
| All times are GMT. The time now is 15:21. |
Copyright © 2024 MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands. All rights reserved. Use of this site indicates your consent to the Terms of Use.