Working fine a few seconds ago. The main problem is the mods have taken away it's "Sticky" feature for some reason so one has to go searching for it.
Mel

Perhaps someone should post something like "to the top" so that it comes back to the top.

What's the point of all this??

Simply copy and paste into Google images - not particularly imaginative!

You won't find this on GI, Q-fay -

I was saving it as being perhaps a bit too difficult, (and a list of jobs as long as yer **** too) but if you want a challenge - albeit Transport not FJ ;) - Yer tez Master.

A modestly significant event was taking place on this day in 1965. LFH


http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1366960543

Labuan perhaps?

Not Labuan, Mel, but a nice day out from Changi. LFH

Day out from Changi! RAF Kuching perhaps?

Mel - not Kuching either. This was not on their regular beat, nor on anyone's up until this occasion. Nor is it on an island. According to the snapper, there is a Buddhist priest somewhere in the snap, saying a prayer or a blessing for the airfield (or perhaps for the aeroplane ?) :ooh:

Jenks - 18th June 1965

LFH

Yes works fine for me too now. Some sort of hole in the Space Time Continuum when I tried before I suppose.

As always thanks for your efforts.

New laid asphalt,so,commissioning a new runway somewhere in Malaysia/Burma/Thailand,as the first `new` arrival....but there may be Brits on the ground there already....(3-tonner)

ed; LFH.it may be that the priest `foresaw` another event on that day,on a similar aircraft....(with ackdgnts to OD)

Jenks - last I heard Guam was on an island somewhere ;). this is mainland stuff.

Sycamore - Very good thinking. "commissioning a new runway somewhere in Malaysia/Burma/Thailand,as the first `new` arrival."

Not sure I'm quite with you on the "foresaw" bit though.Actually the snapper claimed it was the very last (RAF) departure after the handover ceremonythe previous day. This was a very big Commonwealth/Crown foreign aid effort, but there were immediate problems of the NHBC kind which had to be rectified. It now looks pretty much abandoned

The next pic was he claimed - the last but one departure - viz

http://i1271.photobucket.com/albums/...g?t=1366874202 It probably won't help but its a nice pic. JW - thanks. I will reply.LFH

This is more enjoyable LFH! Even though I'm at a loss, and was roughly in-theatre at the time!

No doubt LM is lurking, and will pitch in once enough real stears have been provided!

18 June 1965 was the opening day of Arc Light. Hence where Jenkins is heading with his suggestion, I'll wager.

But also the Indonesia/Malaysia confrontation.

How about Loeng Nok Tha airfield - which was built and then handed over to the Thai government by Commonwealth troops at that time - Operation Crown?

Also, just spotted this - coincidence?

http://www.creopcrown.co.uk/News/Lat...s/beverley.jpg

The NHBC-style problems were, presumably, related to the tarmac runway which had to be dug up (due to ground water/cracking) and concrete put down to replace it?

Like Double Wow !! Vulcan. :ok: That's what I call a comprehensive win. Loeng Nok Tha - northeast Thailand it is. Couple of palm trees, a bit of tarmac and an old kite, and he's got the whole story.

The 'day out from Changi' was via Bangkok (to top up the tan) and return direct to Changi. Op Crown is all on t'net (and so is the sad story from Guam)

Nacluv - you have control. LFH

Thanks, M'Lud! :) I put some effort into this one. What an excellent challenge - I really enjoyed that. I apologise for getting it sooner than perhaps it really deserved.

I can't claim any visionary status in divining the answer from the photos though. Your subtle trail of breadcrumbs was what did the damage - the date being the most significant. Arc Light was an excellent foil, and took me off in the wrong direction to start with! But you said the day before - so I had a look at what handovers took place in the region on the 17th rather than the 18th... :ok: And it wasn't until I found a story about the problems with ground water drainage (or lack thereof) which was lifting the tarmac that I knew I'd got my man.

Here is my challenge in response. I don't think it will last long, and it does appear on the list as a previous contestant, but not in a long time. And as it's one of my own, it should fail the GI test. :p

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...ps71ed10ec.jpg

Cambridge!

Naturally... :ok: Didn't think it would last long!

My travels aren't extensive or exotic as others, and I like to try something which can't be GI'd easily (as has been my failing in the past). I will have to dig through my old photos and see if I can find something a bit more obscure for next time. :)

Over to you, Chevvron! Let's have a good one to get us into the weekend.

Open house!! Why not try again?
NB; I did my PPL course with Marshalls so I know that view very well!

OK, try this.

http://i282.photobucket.com/albums/k...pse731c9cc.jpg

Siguanea, Isla de la Juventud, Cuba ?

Not a million miles off, but no.

That bush in the background seems to have an African look to it. So Mozambique or Angola?

Not the African continent, I'm afraid. I have never been there.

Evansb was closer. (Clue - the flag behind the cockpit window ;))

So it is Cuba then ? Or on reflection, perhaps a Cuban aeroplane on a "landaway" ;) ? LFH

It is on home turf...

Holiday snaps ? Skydiving ??

Yes, a holiday snap, but not skydiving. It felt a bit like skydiving when the taxi driver drove through rather than round an electrical storm on the way back to here.

Maybe stunts like that contributed to this service being shut down a few years after this pic was taken. Well, that and a series of rather more fatal incidents sadly.

Varadero Airport, Matanzas, Cuba - I think?

Closer - but still no cigar. :)

I've been waiting to use that line!

It was a scheduled service from this airfield to a much larger concern across the island - and back again in the evening.

Cayo Largo perhaps?

"Go east, young man!"

Santiago de Cuba?

Too far east!

Santiago was actually the destination for this trip; the much larger concern alluded to in a previous post.

With those trees - Trinidad?

Wrong coast - east of here...

But there's a Trinidad airport in Cuba - so presumably it's not that!

We crossed :)

We did - sorry. I was trying to be funny but thought better of it!

Last before bed - Maximo Gomez?

No, but you are getting warmer!