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If it's at 4118 ft., it looks like Eastern Sierra Regional Airport.
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Yes, it is KBIH airport, in Bishop, California. Well done:ok:. Your turn.
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Barford St John?
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No, but you're in the right country.
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St Eval? If so OH.
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St. Eval it is flyingwing. :ok:
Open House has been called. |
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A clue - it's associated with another aerodrome in a different part of the same country:
The association being......?? |
Blake Hill Farm, Just to the west of Swindon. But I have no idea what the conection with the other airfield is or where it is.
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Cricklade, Glos is the first airfield, now the site of a tall radio/TV mast and not far from Blunsden Station on the Swindon and Cricklade Railway where you can book a course to drive a steam locomotive. Did you mean 'country' or 'county' for the other airfield? It looks a bit like High Ercall.
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Blakehill Farm was easy I have flown over it loads of times. I don't think the second airfield is in Wiltshire though. I wondered if the connection is that both airfields were used to launch gliders for the D Day and Arnhem attacks.
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Yes, Blakehill Farm it is!
The other aerodrome is in what used to be known as the Principality of Wales, but is now more properly a country following ISO / BSI reclassification last year. And the connection is post-WW2...... |
The association being......?? DEFENCE Radar Transmitter, Pembrokeshire Mr. Nicholas Bennett : To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what factors dictated the location of the proposed over-the-horizon radar transmitter on the site of the former St. David's airfield, Pembrokeshire. Mr. Alan Clark : The principal factors dictating the location of the proposed over-the-horizon radar transmitter were the need for it to be situated on broadly the same latitude as the receiver but separated by a substantial distance ; and the need to ensure that, together with the safety exclusion zone that surrounds it, it could be comfortably accommodated within the boundary of an existing MOD site without affecting other activities at that site. After a survey of 166 possible sites throughout the United Kingdom, St. David's airfield was selected as the only suitable location for the transmitter, in conjunction with the only suitable location for the receiver at Blakehill radio station, Wiltshire. |
Correct. The relocatable over-the-horizon radar was to have included a transmitter site at St. David's airfield and a receiver site at Blakehill Farm disused airfield. It was cancelled in 1991 due to pressure on the defence budget during GW1 and the post-Cold War dividend.
You have control, Lordflasheart, as your answer was the most complete! |
...... as your answer was the most complete! |
Blond genug!
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In any case ... he's a Prefect .... and .... I know my place.
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Gents, Sorry for the delay I have just got home from that awful MOD office complex near Filton. It made my day to get one I have looked at this thread hundreds of times and the only ones I have ever known the answe to somebody has beaten me to it.
Its certainly Open House from me. Once again sorry for the delay. |
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The Panther gave it away. ;)
Yonpo air base, North Korea. |
I shudda 'shopped the Panther out but it was such a nice picture ! Yonpo it is - Hamhung, North Korea. Mid 1951 and hostile (again.) Well done.
The field was in allied (UN) hands the previous December, supporting the 1st Marine Division (and the British 41 Commando, Royal Marines) at Chosin - QV. Followed soon after by a big sea evacuation (or rearward advance) from the local port. Little change today - littered with small (training ?) aeroplanes. Lightning Mate has control. |
The small airplanes are Antonov An-2 1000 HP biplanes (liaison, transport, courrier, ag spray you name it!).
You have also a large bunch of them at nearby Sondok airfield (7 km SW Yonpo, much more recent), along with some Li-2 (this at least I assume them to be; they are russian copies of C-47) slowly and forlornly disintegrating...:( |
Lightning Mate has control. Have you got something amazing for us sir, or would you like me to declare OH for you ? Cheers LFH. PS. Well done WE992. ASW22. Thanks for the aircraft ID - do you think they're ALL forlornly disintegrating ? LFH. |
My apologies gentlemen.http://i636.photobucket.com/albums/u...ps77f1e865.jpg
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To LFH: only the "Li-2" I think. The other ones vary in location and numbers with the dates and are still operational I think.
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To LM:
Could it be Italian? |
Not Italy.
Try the UK. ;) |
Maybe Scotland
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It looks like Longside otherwise known as Peterhead.
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It does indeed doesn't it.
Nicely done - your turn. :ok: |
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We're back in northern Scotland.
I was stationed not too far from there, but I'll keep quiet........ |
Good clue there, LM!
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Yes - we used to use a bombing range there.
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A clue for your bombing range I think:
And feeling now this dream so right That keeps on growing, night on night The key you've yearned for from the start To free this rose held in your heart. |
:ok:.........
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Rosehearty?
OH if correct |
No, Rosehearty is the name of LM's bombing range......the subject airfield is close by though!
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Never trust the Navy to know their way around! :E
Now it will get interesting....... |
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