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Self loading bear 30th May 2019 11:34

Woburn Abbey Gardens?

dook 30th May 2019 11:35

I looked at that but it doesn't have a hard runway.

nvubu 30th May 2019 11:41

None of the suggested airfields are correct.
It isn't a Fly-in or rally.
You have got the correct country though with one of the guesses.

Have another couple of views
https://mqklnq.ch.files.1drv.com/y4m...&cropmode=none

https://k1tgca.ch.files.1drv.com/y4m...&cropmode=none

Ripton 30th May 2019 11:44

I looked at Scone but it doesn't appear to have trees so close to the apron and from memory the ground doesn't rise away from the runway.

My guess is that it's Scottish though.

Ripton 30th May 2019 11:51

Cumbernauld?

Self loading bear 30th May 2019 11:59

No water near cumbernauld

Ripton 30th May 2019 12:08

Which one of those photos has water in it?

Self loading bear 30th May 2019 12:11

Last one upper right
out of the glare?
to flat for grass I thought but what do I know?
I am wrong here all the time

nvubu 30th May 2019 12:11

SLB - I think that you are seeing clouds as water as it is Cumbernauld, so Ripton has it.

Screen captures from the BBC series Scotland from the sky - link - Here are my last 2 images
https://oenqyg.ch.files.1drv.com/y4m...&cropmode=none

https://qy3ppg.ch.files.1drv.com/y4m...&cropmode=none

Ripton 30th May 2019 12:32

Thanks, great photos.

I'm afraid I'm out and about for the day so OH.

dook 30th May 2019 15:43

Another then.

http://i66.tinypic.com/2vx3edc.jpg

kenparry 30th May 2019 17:21

Waterbeach?

dook 30th May 2019 17:27

It is indeed Waterbeach.

Your service.

kenparry 30th May 2019 19:15

I must admit to local knowledge - Waterbeach is only 10 miles or so from home. It still looks broadly the same from above, though if you look carefully it is rather derelict. The Army moved out some years (10?) ago, the site has been sold for housing, and some 3500 dwellings will cover the area within a few years.

Your photo is interesting; it must date from the field's years as a fighter base, 1950-63, as it shows an ORP at each end of the main runway. I understand these date from sometime in the 1950s, and were eventually replaced (where needed) by QRA sheds.

Standby for the next...………………….

kenparry 30th May 2019 19:19

And now for something completely different:



https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....5bb7af4f1e.jpg

dook 30th May 2019 19:39

My Waterbeach photo is early fifties, just after the construction of the two ORPs.

Just my luck to choose one near you !

dook 30th May 2019 19:44

I'll take a large bet on the USA.

kenparry 30th May 2019 20:09

dook,

your large bet is a winner

JENKINS 30th May 2019 20:39

Boca Raton, in my logbook. OH if correct

kenparry 30th May 2019 20:46

Jenkins, DH.

In my logbook, too. I remember a really crap landing there when being checked out on a C172. At the flare I gave the wheel the slight backwards tweak that suffices on a B767, which then produced an arrival like a sack of spuds. I was severely embarrassed, but at least we could use the aeroplane again.

OH is declared.


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