PPRuNe Forums - Which Aerodrome Mk III

In a point you cannot measure distance.
I have checked some factory airfields I have found on the web.
But no succes.

I take it that there is an airfield around those garden tables?

Asturias56

30th Dec 2019 09:03

The distance/time measurement is precise with regard to time but very woolly on distance - but it's quite well known to even the average man-in-the -street

The airport is quite substantial - but has a wide range of users - its not just a factory airport and in fact , as I said, I'm not sure they currently produce whole air-frames any more

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....7c701d36fc.jpg

Asturias56

30th Dec 2019 14:07

Three main runways - up to 10,000ft long (not all three)

chevvron

30th Dec 2019 17:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by Asturias56 (Post 10650123)

International Date line near Hawaii?

Self loading bear

30th Dec 2019 23:22

Finally,
looking at Locations of Spirit aerosystems
Tulsa Oklahoma
No idea about time and distance though.

I am out tomorrow
Somebody else can do the fireworks.
OH.

Self loading bear

30th Dec 2019 23:44

Now I see
Tulsa Time
by Don Williams and also Eric Clapton
1978 that’s only 42 years.
You said over 50 years
They are not so much backwards over there.

Asturias56

31st Dec 2019 07:41

Gene Pitney - "24 hours from Tulsa"

But correct - once a monster aircraft factory as well .................. Someone else can have a go..................

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....abe538b10b.jpg
https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....1925f3c85d.jpg

India Four Two

31st Dec 2019 09:05

Happy New Year everyone.

Where’s this? From a time when helicopters were thought to be the buses of the future.

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....5bb434fd1.jpeg

Asturias56

31st Dec 2019 11:40

That looks horribly like the British countryside - if so perhaps it's a civvie Westland WS51 Dragonfly

I found this clip from the Dark Ages................

India Four Two

31st Dec 2019 14:25

Yes, we’re in Britain and it’s a Dragonfly.

I note they didn’t mention any of the drawbacks of helicopter travel in the documentary!

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....43be13f6e.jpeg

Asturias56

31st Dec 2019 16:00

http://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/610692/2/Dr...iety_paper.pdf has a lot on Urban plans in the '50's

but search on UK eventually brought up Birmingham https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay_Mills_Rotor_Station which was apparenly in use 1951-54 -ish.................

https://birminghamhistory.co.uk/foru...station.21825/

Lets wait until 2020 for the next challenge!!!

India Four Two

1st Jan 2020 02:03

Well done, Sherlock!

I love the name Rotor Station. Here's a bigger picture and the equivalent GE view. The bridge carries Yardley Green Road over the River Cole:

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....c8c72ea1b1.jpg

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....bde8d51885.png

I'm not sure if Asturias has declared Open House.

Asturias56

1st Jan 2020 08:35

Lets start 2020 with a relatively new airport......................

https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....0987cd258f.jpg

chevvron

1st Jan 2020 09:41

St Helena?
Well you said 'relatively new'; it looks more like Cancun though!

chevvron

1st Jan 2020 09:42

Quote:

Originally Posted by India Four Two (Post 10651282)

Just look at all those NIMBYs!
The name could be confusing though; in the same period, the name 'ROTOR Station' referred to a chain of supposedly secret RAF air defence radar stations.

Self loading bear

1st Jan 2020 10:16

Berlin Brandenburg which is set to open this year?

Asturias56

1st Jan 2020 10:26

Long way south of Berlin - sunnier climes...... here's the welcoming committee

https://cimg9.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....f870f6adc4.jpg

Self loading bear

1st Jan 2020 11:57

Same red carpet is used in Cameroon,
I will go for Nsimalen Yaounde, although no matching terminal building found.

Asturias56

1st Jan 2020 15:14

yes its Yaonde - over to Bear