Morning/afternoon all.

I'm intrigued by the word "influential".

Looks very like Defford to me - home of TRE (Radar and Research Establishment during WWII)

Pershore - only for a few days whilst the boffins did some polar diagrams for the (radio) aerial fit on the AEW Shack (repeated a couple of years later at Boscombe when they added more radios!). Of note a relative died when flying out of Defford when his Halifax suffered what became known as rudder reversal and spun in during a radar trial.

Talking of Shackletons, here's a Flight Lieutenant's landing (see SLB's post #9470 re the Colonel's landing) - only two (ish) stripes.

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....0d72097b2a.jpg
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Looks pretty flat.

Was that landing at it's operating base ?

Was/is flat.
Not a usual operating base.
Not very popular (with the locals)!

A remote part of Scotland maybe.

Go South young man.

(And I should have said not very popular with the resident Squadrons)

There were several places like that back in my flying days.

Perhaps the Welsh coast.

Not the Welsh side either.

(And it was the landing that wasn't popular!)

Must be for a good reason then.

We could put our jets down anywhere, including grass if the need arose.

Another shot - East Anglia ?

Very nearly.

Still active, still noisy.

I'm now looking towards Lincolnshire.

The final clue - it still has a lot of 'proper' noise as well

I can only think of Coningsby, with noisy jets and some Merlins.

Correct on all counts but it could have been any airfield anywhere. Not popular because it was late on a Friday afternoon, a Taceval scramble has just occurred and the only diversion was Leeming - and there was a VVIP Dining In night. We had to go and hide in the local pub!

All yours

Cheers. Indeed it could have been anywhere, but you stayed around and answered questions.

I forgot to say there's the odd Griffon there as well. My wife's first tour as a controller.

How about this one.

http://i64.tinypic.com/2q3dld0.jpg

Switzerland?

Bournemouth?

Not Switzerland and not UK.

Sweden...?