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Thank you SLB.
Now let's try this one.
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Well Bear that wasn't easy - a lot of Swedish airports have very similar towers and the sun angle made any ID on the other buildings bloody hard - I thought I had it 4 times before trying Torsby!!

The challenge looks like our office! However that's a lot of lighting for a track like that- even in it's glory days. And relatively modern at that - note the light sensors on top of each lamp - so probably post 1980...... And the lights were put in before it fell upon hard times

I'd guess we are in Europe? I have a feeling this is a now abandoned part of a Cold War airfield

Not in Europe. And no connection to the Cold War.

The lights look North American and the festoons of overhead wiring point to the same area. Judging by the vegetation I’m going to say southeastern US.

But the log across the road to deter 'traveller' incursion says UK.:\

It is Eastcoast USA, but not the south.

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That is a massive building in the background.
But does not look like a hangar/aircraft factory?

Public Housing to me.......

I'd say public housing New York area

I'd say you're getting close descol.

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Is the airfield still in use as an airfield?

It could be Flushing in Queens?

Actually it IS Flushing Airport in Queens.......... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flushing_Airport

I think I'll go out and buy a lottery ticket.......

Actually it is Flushing Airport in Queens, New York City.
Asturias got it.

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Thanks Teusje it looked like a real challenge - I'd settled in for a long haul through every current and old airport in NE USA , fired up Google Earth and Zoomed in on one of the more "historic "parts of NY (I actually mean to start in New Jersey) and saw the name "Flushing" - which fired off an old memory of the airport closing. Street View and then Google took me home in style.

I know the Thread Gods will exact get vengeance in due time.

Here's one a long way away

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lets try a sunnier day...............
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Is it Chivenor? No it's not Chivenor. I now think it is Predannack.

can't comment....... for a while..........

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Air Cadets so more likely Perranporth.

OUAQUKGF Ops has it with Predanack - oddly only 25 kms from Flushing (see previous challenge..) I think 626 Gliding Squadron use Pendannack Chevron

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Interesting challenge Asturias. Looked pretty dreary in first image. The airmen depicted were from 304 (Polish) Squadron Coastal Command. An excellent book to read is ' No Place to Land ' by J.F. Jaworzyn of 304 Squadron .(pub William Kimber 1984).

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An Arena for The Flying Circus.......

My first thought was Rendcomb, but it looks a bit hilly for that.

More like Luxters Farm near Henley; you take off dowhill and land uphill.

Pendannack?
I'm a bit out of touch with which VGS are still operating; the three to which I used to supply cadets from Herts and Bucks Wing ATC (612 Abingdon, 613 Halton and 616 Henlow) have all been disbanded so there is a massive 'void' stretching from Oxfordshire through Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire to Bedfordshire.

are we in the UK ?

"Looked pretty dreary in first image." - Cornwall on a wet winters day............. wonderful!


Chevron - 626 have a fairly active Face book page - looks like they have quite a good time.

As to the challenge that hill look a bit high for Henley - I'd suggest it's further west in the Vale of the White Horse maybe?

Beautiful country-side - certainly in the United Kingdom....keep on searching......



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An early visitor.

how's about Cirencester ?

Cirencester a charming town but not the right location.

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This Artist celebrated The Green Green Grass of Home - In their confusion Women sometimes threw Undies at him........

Well thats Tom Jones I think which takes us to Pontypridd - but I don't think there was ever an airfield there so maybe Glamorgan?

Might be Llandow by the scenery but that only opened in 1940. Pengham Moors is the right age but the scenery doesn't look right...............

Tom Jones - a common name in Wales....... You are in the right country but you need to broaden your canvas to find him in the town where the 'aerodrome' is.

And no, his clothing is not from Carnaby Street but of the period. You might find paint on his fingers.

Final clue: Christian Name not shortened..............

Ahhh - Thomas Jones of Pencerrig, Llanelwedd in Powys in the late 18th Century

It's not Builth Wells as I can't find any pictures (or even a precise location) but it look like Llandrindod Wells just up the road to me

Llandridnod Wells it is. Not much to the aerodrome as you will see. You got there in the end Asturias well done! Incidentally Descol you had me worried when you picked up Hamel at Cirencester I thought you had rumbled me.

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Tom Norton. Llandridnod's Motor Entrepreneur who brought aviation to the town. Photo credit: Grace's Guide.


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Tom Norton's Automobile Palace. It is not known if he ever sold any aeroplanes but he appeared to show an interest in the sale of Kronfeld Drones.


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Gustav Hamel displayed at the invitation of Tom Norton in 1913.
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1933 Possibly a National Air Day Display. Photo credit: Radnorshire Museum.


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Alas this enterprise came to nothing. It is thought that the aerodrome closed towards the end of the 1930s. Photo credit County Times.

It is all yours Asturias.