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Self loading bear 19th Mar 2019 18:22

I then assume an English name?

JENKINS 19th Mar 2019 18:28

In a form of English, and totally made-up to create some relevance with reference to a nearby boundary. That should confuse even a Limburger!

Self loading bear 19th Mar 2019 18:43

Like scottish. Irish or pidgin ( no offence meant by putting them together)
and boundary is not a border
but something like Great barrier reef ?

JENKINS 19th Mar 2019 20:09

Boundary, not a border, I can certainly state that, and the made-up feature rather like a British habit of creating a house name from such detail as surnames.

JENKINS 19th Mar 2019 20:29

Omitted to clarify the language matter, but perhaps that may be left, by attribution, to George Bernard Shaw.

India Four Two 19th Mar 2019 21:09


totally made-up to create some relevance with reference to a nearby boundary. That should confuse even a Limburger!
... but not someone who used to live in Texas!

Texarkana Regional Airport KTXK

JENKINS 19th Mar 2019 21:29

Nice one - Tex-Ark-Ana. Texarkana, on the Texas/Arkansas border, with two towns ( cities? ) of the same name either side of the state line, with the airfield in Arkansas. The GBS attribution comes to the fore so often, lovely.

All yours.


India Four Two 19th Mar 2019 21:52

Thanks JENKINS. Your comment about boundaries rather than borders, combined with the made-up name reference immediately brought Texarkana to mind. It's geographically one city, but politically two. The "ana" in the name comes from Louisiana which is only 30 miles to the south.


State Line Avenue follows the Texas-Arkansas state line throughout much of Texarkana. The two "sides" of Texarkana are separate only from a political standpoint. Thousands of locals actually live in one state and work in the other.

Owing to its divided political nature, Texarkana has two mayors and two sets of city officials; however, the two sides share a federal building, courthouse, jail, post office, labor office, chamber of commerce, water utility, and several other offices.
I've never been there but was aware of it from my time in Houston. What is interesting from a non-US perspective, when I looked it up on GE is that there are three other airports, six miles or less from the centre of twin cities with a population of only 70,000. Not very unusual in the US.

This challenge shouldn't last long. I took these pictures last Sunday and post them mainly because of the interesting aircraft.

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....44dc6ab2d6.jpg

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....10f8b064bf.jpg

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....4861d752af.jpg

dook 19th Mar 2019 22:07

RCAF Dunnville museum possibly.

err.....no.

evansb 19th Mar 2019 22:20

Red Deer Regional Airport, (CYQF) Alberta, Canada. Formerly CFB Penhold.

dixi188 19th Mar 2019 22:46

Nice to see the Buffalo Electra still in "Atlantic" colours.

evansb 19th Mar 2019 23:54

Yes, Buffalo Airways have 4 active Electra's and 4 inactive Electra's. Red Deer is Buffalo's maintenance and storage base. Their operations bases are Yellowknife NWT, and Hay River, NWT.

Here is the next challenge:

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....09c1160bdf.jpg

India Four Two 20th Mar 2019 00:03

Yes, Red Deer. I was there for the AGM of the Alberta Soaring Council.

Note the DC-4 in the background of the Beaver picture. It hasn’t moved since at least last June.

dixi188, does that explain the British flag on the Electra?

sycamore 20th Mar 2019 00:05

Still got `FE` on the nose gear doors,was G-LOFE at AA in Coventry ,when I spent several hours in it testing the `crop-spray ``boom fitted for pollution control..Flutter,asymmetric,,Vno,and stalling...the upper windows in the cockpit help greatly in recovery from the stall if one really persists...then the spraying tests at~50ft over Holyhead harbour,or watering the grass at Coventry..Such fun with your trousers on.....

lauriebe 20th Mar 2019 01:11

Caernarfon I think. OH if correct.

evansb 20th Mar 2019 06:43

Caernarfon, Wales, is correct. lauriebe has control.

oldpax 20th Mar 2019 07:59

OH?
 
http://i66.tinypic.com/1gge87.jpg
OH ?Large clue right there in the photo!Sorry for the quality.

JENKINS 20th Mar 2019 10:22

Start with Chattis Hill?

oldpax 20th Mar 2019 11:00

No its not chattis hill.there is a small aviation museum nearbye!Looking to the north by east.

dook 20th Mar 2019 11:37

Good evening oldpax.

Is it Beacon Hill, Morpeth ?


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