REPOST: Co Ong Airport, Con Son Island
 

jindabyne,

Watch out - this is going to be really confusing. Here is a repost of my picture to replace the deleted one that came after RegDep's successful post about Port St. John's.


http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c3...AD20110828.png

Pop, if you deleted it, I'm not sure why. Photobucket shows it to be 799 x 530.

l'aérodrome de TONG (Tonkin) en 1936.
 

evansb and sabredog,

I'm fascinated by this 'aérodrome' in my own backyard and would like to track it down.

Do either of you have any more details? Tong/Tonkin/Tonking was the northernmost province in French Indochina which included the Red River delta and present day Hanoi (which used to be called Ton Kin or more correctly Đông Kinh). However, there are no hills anywhere near Hanoi which is on the Red River plain, so this photo must be somewhere else.

Jindabyne,

It does now but it was 1024 x ?.

Russell Gulch

Wouldn't that be good! But no, the size is controlled by 'you.' It would be great in fact. There is a size controller that someone told me about but I didn't get a chance to try it out.

It has always been a problem and you would not believe some of the sizes that are posted. One I recall was TWO pages wide and impossible to see and read without a full scroll right.

IndiaFourTwo,
Will send a P.M.later today reference Tonkin.

Good morning Gentlemen. I am reposting my challenge (and deleted it from previous page) to get it over the picture size discussion.

I42: Sometimes I resize my photo to make it 'legal' size, but forget to rename the file and it ends up posted too big.

"Thanks Flyingwing,

Your next

http://i1103.photobucket.com/albums/...30um212845.png"

Edit: Clue: There are three aerodromes within 15 kilometers of the challenge air base and another three within 60 kilometers.

Doshen-Tappeh, Tehran

Correct Spook!

Over to you :ok:

Thanks! I have nothing to submit at the moment so OH

Try this one

http://i997.photobucket.com/albums/a...y/IMG_3733.jpg

Luderitz Airport,Nambia?

Close, but no cigar.:)

It was worth a ranging shot!

Walvis Bay Airport, Namibia

You are cleared to land sabredog! :ok:

Many thanks,skwinty. Interesting photograph of the airfield.
Open House.

Was a nice place

http://www11.file-upload.net/01.09.11/xpsmffp3glda.jpg

OH, so here goes -

http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...e/45548905.jpg

I think we must have two challenges, or is that a Tyrolean Airways
De Havilland Canada DHC-7-102 Dash 7 visiting Walvis Bay Airport? If so it is a long way from home.

Damn your eyes Jindabyne, that's Floreni in Romania. How do I know? - I had the same place ready for my next challenge when the opportunity arose! Cunning move to crop out the distinctive tower.

Let's get back to dash7fan's.

Jindabyne, its a few flighthours away from Innsbruck, but of course not in Africa

dash7fan, was this a scheduled destination of Tyrolean? Cannot find it among current and discontinued Austrian destinations :(.

It was a charter destination years ago

Hezarfen??

Sorry Sir, no.

Chios Airport,Greece.

sabredog correct, Chios Airport Greece

over to you

Thank you,dash7fan.
Here is the next challenge;
http://i1089.photobucket.com/albums/...to633/Wa10.jpg

Mmm - N Carolina or Louisiana??

No, to both States

Mississippi or Alabama?

Negative to both States.

From sabredog's responses, can one assume it's in the States (of the United American type)?

It does look rather flat & waterlogged (mind you, that can apply to the Iowa flatlands occasionally!)

I'm tempted to say it's not in North America at all.

[edit: I retract that...I think it's Canada]. Am I close?

Twinkletown US? (seriously!)

No, not Canada. The terrain belies it's location in the U.S.A.
It operated under at least three names and the road/Highway featured is quite famous.
Not Twinkletown,although changing a few letters would place you geographically closer to this airfield,though not in the State of Mississippi!

Is that the way to Amarillo, Texas?

The Highway would be Route 66. The old Route 66 passed right through the modern runway at Amarillo. Could be Route 66 in the photo way before the modern runway was built.


Corsairoz

Sorry,Corsairoz,not Amarillo or Route 66.

Natchez Trace, but I can't find the aerodrome.

Not Natchez Trace. Much further west.

Crawford Airfield, Seal Beach, CA.

Correct,Spook,
YHC.