Thank you. I found it by investigating Valiants in Ceylon 1955.

http://i63.tinypic.com/347w6rb.jpg

Rather grim strip but looks as if a lot of buildings have been removed - and a lovely looking road around it .... are we in S E Asia again?

There never were many buildings there.

We're a long way from SE Asia and it is occasionally still in use by certain aircraft types.

not much in the way of rubber or landing marks ... so light aircraft? And that loop off the road is v interesting......... some small ?craters? off the right end of the runway center line??

Assume north is to the top the picture was taken at 15:00 ish N hemisphere with quite long shadows - so middling to north-ish latitudes??

Is that a river or the sea bottom left?

It is orientated to true north.

There are no craters there as far as I know.

To the bottom left is a small inlet and we are less than a mile from the sea.

Not light aircraft - purely military.

The absence of rubber or landing marks is because of helicopter and VTOL jets.

Who still operates VTOL jets ?

Latitude south of the 40th parallel and I think the road loop is for access by vehicles such as fuel bowsers.

I'm starting to think of the USMC at Cherry Point, N Carolina, as the base and this as an outlier...................

You are thinking extremely well - we are 54 km away...……

And it is USMC.

Not sure of its actual name but it's on Mile Hammock Bay in Camp Lejeune east of Sneads ferry?

34 deg 33 min 11sec N
077 deg 18 min 05 sec W

:D:D

Blue Bird Marine Corps Expeditionary Airfield, Duck Creek.

New balls please - next service.

Wow!!!!!! Good challenge..................

Try this........

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....f7a79bdc23.jpg

OK

wingtip ECM pod
two hardpoints outboard of drop tanks

= Typhoon

Now, where......

checked your copy of jane's......:E

yes a Typhoon..................... not too far from the sea side.............

I don't have a copy of Janes.

UK ?

Europe

I'm going out for a few hours

Best quick guess: RAF Sculthorpe

IG

Happy chappy getting ready to go fly the mach loop?

EGOV ?

Scrub that - it looks like somewhere warm and pleasant.

Italy?

T-bird, perhaps at Rota? Not too far from the sea.

Well... no.........

NATO tho' - off to bed.......

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....346eb276d0.jpg

Possibly Trapani-Birgi air base Sicily.