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nvubu 27th Aug 2019 18:56

When I have problems posing images I press the "Source" button above and then paste the link inbetween [img] & [/img] tags. Works fine for me.
I only had a 1.6L Mk I Capri. No airfield photos though. I was going to post the Cortina photo as a reply to your previous, when I realised it had an aircraft visible behind it. I do have 4 more airfields with Lotus cars in them :)

dook 27th Aug 2019 18:57

Oh no - don't do it...….!

dook 27th Aug 2019 19:03

Somewhere I have a photo of self and missus in an American WW2 bomber with a part of the airfield in the windscreen.

chevvron 27th Aug 2019 19:59


Originally Posted by JENKINS (Post 10555425)
My next guess was to be Bruntingthorpe, but is it any longer an airfield?

It's still very much an airfield presently I believe full of ex RAF Tri Stars.
A few years ago their resident Victor was taken out for a 'fast taxy run' on the 10.000ft runway and 'inadvertantly' got airborne!!
Yeah I believe that don't you?

dook 27th Aug 2019 20:09

Its also got a couple of very fast aeroplanes and a QRA shed in which I have spent many a night.

ExAscoteer 27th Aug 2019 20:20

3 Litre Essex engine. I always reckoned the 2.8 Litre Cologne engine was better.

dook 27th Aug 2019 20:36

But it wasn't around when I bought mine.

jensdad 28th Aug 2019 00:03

Good morning folks. Seeing as it's Open Hoose...
https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....4bc63a5eeb.jpg

chevvron 28th Aug 2019 01:43

Martinique?

jensdad 28th Aug 2019 05:34

Hi Chevvron. No, nowhere quite as tropical as Martinique. This place is closer to the Arctic Circle than it is to the Equator. Photograph was taken on descent into the attic.
I will duck into PPRuNeland every now and again during the day to check on progress...

dook 28th Aug 2019 07:49

Good morning jensdad.

Perhaps Canada ?

I note what seems to be the absence of a terminal building etc.

I see what might be aircraft shelters so looks military.

vulcanite 28th Aug 2019 08:44

Caution: thread drift. Many years ago I too had a Mk 1 3 litre Capri. Went very well in a straight line, but didn't like corners or stopping. as a glutton for punishment I then had a Mk 2 Scimitar, also with aforesaid 3 litre Essex engine - same problems...

dook 28th Aug 2019 08:47

More thread drift. I fitted mine with a Panhard rod which gave a marked improvement in handling.

chevvron 28th Aug 2019 10:02


Originally Posted by vulcanite (Post 10555958)
Caution: thread drift. Many years ago I too had a Mk 1 3 litre Capri. Went very well in a straight line, but didn't like corners or stopping. as a glutton for punishment I then had a Mk 2 Scimitar, also with aforesaid 3 litre Essex engine - same problems...

Years ago I tried to hire a Fiat 124 but when I arrived to collect it, there wasn't one available so initially they gave me a Crapi 1.6. The windows didn't wind up to the top of the door, there was a constant one inch gap at the top and when I opened the boot, there was a couple of inches of water in there (about 5,000 miles o the clock). I finally got my Fiat after a couple of days and apart from the superior build quality (although I realise now the body would have rotted away after about 5 years) was amazed at the superior performance of its 1.2 l engine over the 1.6 l Crapi.

dook 28th Aug 2019 11:31

No luck with Canada.

Scandinavia ?

dook 28th Aug 2019 12:20

I do not understand "descent into the attic".

Surely not the Attica peninsula..

jensdad 28th Aug 2019 12:30

It is indeed a military airfield that was photographed from an aircraft heading to Athens that had left cruising altitude :)

dook 28th Aug 2019 12:32

Turkey maybe ?

The aeroplane does not seen that high.

jensdad 28th Aug 2019 12:37

Not Turkey I'm afraid.

dook 28th Aug 2019 12:43

In Greece then ?


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