This should help you Max Tow. Just walk westwards along the South Coast - perhaps starting in Kent ? Should the soles of your boots become a little worn, try taking the train....


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Dated 1917. Note the twin hangars not yet constructed. Also the Horse Trough between the Railway Station and the Hotel.

Photo credit: Maritime Archaeology Trust.

Bembridge from your last picture

Whot? Not East Anglia?
How deviously!

Well done ! ea200 is correct. RNAS/RAF Bembridge it is. Closed in 1919. Hotel was The Royal Spithead Hotel demolished 1989. The 'Chippy' is part of a complex in Shanklin IOW . It was originally The Summer Theatre constructed from the Air Station Flight Shed and Hangars in 1921.

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Now a Car Park.

What strikes me about the images is how much more cared for, and dare I say ordered, the old Bembridge looks. Here is a rather sad link with some nostalgic snaps - rather small I fear .....https://rshg.org.uk/graves/mr-goodwi...howard-barnes/

All yours ea200 !

Thanks. I see the horse trough/drinking fountain is still there.
Very busy so OH I'm afraid.

here's a one to try

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https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....62258888f9.jpg
Its a rather strangely named spot - if you knew it it would lead you wrong by about as far as you could ever imagine

Truely depends on one’s imagination.
I just found a new challenge out of this clue.

Thanks for the clue! I guess we're considered in Oz to be "as far as you could imagine" so Walla Walla is indeed strange & Antipodean on the list of WW2 USAAF bases (having discarded "Venice" & "Lowcountry" airfields) in the U.S. (as the Cessna has a N reg)....
If correct, OH as late night here - I think SLB has a challenge ready?

Some further info if you are correct
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walla_...gional_Airport

Sorry - had to wait for the 24 hr rule - I'm off out so I think its the 23 hr rule right now

MaxTow has a palpable hit.............. Walla Walla in Washington State . Only knew of it as I knew someone from thereabouts - thought he had a strange accent for an Australian at first!!

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Tks. OH as per yesterday's post.

Yes I found one based on the last clue of Asturias:
Its a rather strangely named spot - if you knew it it would lead you wrong by about as far as you could ever imagine.

We are looking for the name of the encircled strip.
The other strip in the left upper corner is perhaps easier to find but I do not have a clue for that one.

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Are we in the USA Bear??/

Yes we are!

And every immigrant named his place after his place of origin in the Old Country. :(

Is that a lake on the right?

It is not Harlem
or any other Dutch town.

to the right is tidal water

I did a lot of searching but could not locate any picture of an aircraft that has landed here but the strip is at least in existence since 1976 and has an FAA code. Must be a very quiet place, just like it’s namesake as far away as you could imagine.

can't find a suitable Hell, Heaven or Paradise. ..............

more clues please!

You are looking in a too esoteric direction.
Distance to hell cannot be measured
Distance to heaven: It might be right at your doorstep.
At the namesake an actual landing and take-off did take place.

And to the right of this strip it are probably mangroves

I had a look around Florida and noticed St Petersburg but couldn't see the challenge - should I look harder - or elsewhere?

You are on the right coast of the right state. Just a small step for men further south.

I guess from your clues, it's Tranquility Bay Strip (4FA3)

Tranquility Bay Strip Airport on Pine Island, FL

Bob has it with Tranquility bay airstrip.
Tranquility Base is on average equally fartedt away from all Prunners around the world.

If anybody has more info or pictures of the Tranquility bay airstrip (with aircraft?)
please feel free to share.

Bob has control.

Thanks Bear, unfortunately I haven't got any really old pictures but here's one I took after landing in 2005. Hope that's ok

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....860ead27dd.jpg

I definitely prefer own photos above Google maps/Earth shots.
The challenge is usually more difficult as own photos are usually not on the internet.
The historic context can follow later in clues or other photos.

I just appeared to me that the red X lines in the Union Jack are not centered in the white X.
That shows to be common.
Does anybody know how that came along?

Re the flag on the RAF Tristar - it's meant to be asymetric. The red saltire of St Patrick (N.Ireland) is offset so that it does not relegate the white saltire of St Andrew (Scotland) to just a thin border.

Of all the years I spent walking up the stairs and past that flag, I never noticed that lol

The flag is the correct way up if the flag pole was on the left, so is the one on the other side mirror image, ie still flying back from the fwd flagpole? (if that makes sense).
I can't find many images with the flag. Was that when carrying Royals or Blair Force One?

Is it Ascension Island?

Hi dixi188, no it was the standard paint scheme at the time. We were on a freight run so the aircraft would have been one of the KC1s (ZD948, ZD950, ZD952, or ZD953), without digging out my logbook, I'm not sure which one. I only know it was a freight run as we had stopped doing South Atlantic runs in 2001 (due to other demands) but the civil 747 which took over had been hit be a ground handling truck in the Falklands so we had to pick up the flex for a few weeks.

I was just about to post a clue about not being asleep when you arrive but it looks like OUAQUKGF Ops has already hit the nail on the head; Wideawake Airfield it is. It's one of the easiest airfields to find, you can see the solitary cloud over the Island from Top of Drop! Only problem is diversion; the nearest used to be over 1000miles away, now there's a runway on St Helena, it's only 800 miles (providing you can land at St Helena).

Over to you OUAQUKGF

Thanks Bob. I have a huge soft spot for The Tristar having worked for an airline that operated them. Back in time now............





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Hi OUAQUKGF are we in East Anglia?

Yes East Anglia. Big place - Four Counties - No lack of aerodromes fortunately.........

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1949 .You could say that the wood (middle distance right) was really the heart of the airfield.
Photo credit; Britain from Above.

also an amazing number of railway lines there pre- Beeching

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If needed will supply clue this evening......

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Somewhere like North Pickenham?

Not really like North Pickenham or similar. Certainly no Thor Missiles or, as far as I know, Turkeys.