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TEEEJ 24th Mar 2020 10:32

No problem, Steffi.

I do hope that you are keeping well! Please feel free to post further photos.

Regards, Tom :ok:

RAFG 26th Mar 2020 09:22

Good morning together.
now there is a Canberra of 16Sqn maybe around end 60s / beginning 70s at an unknown location. Any ideas welcome!
Stay safe guys!

regards Steffi

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https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....05b25a83f8.jpg

Self loading bear 26th Mar 2020 12:19

I found this picture with same building to be Wildenrath?

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....bc7b931008.png

RAFG 29th Mar 2020 06:31

@Self loading bear

But there seem to be hills on the left side of the B(I)8.
No hills at Wildenrath if I remember right ...

Self loading bear 29th Mar 2020 09:19

I don’t know about hills.
Perhaps somebody else can shed light on that?
Also possible that a built company had an order to build several of those buildings on various sites.
Or that the caption on the Wildenrath picture is wrong.

chevvron 29th Mar 2020 09:46

I wuz gonna say Gib as it looks a bit llike the building the Rocks inhabited on the southern apron but there's no hill or bungalow with a chimney behind it at Gib.

TEEEJ 31st Mar 2020 00:02


Originally Posted by chevvron (Post 10731876)
I wuz gonna say Gib as it looks a bit llike the building the Rocks inhabited on the southern apron but there's no hill or bungalow with a chimney behind it at Gib.

You are quite correct. It is Gibraltar. Not the southern apron but the northern. The hills are miles away in Spain. Thanks for your suggestion. I had a trawl through Gibraltar images and was able to match up the building with the chimney (ringed in yellow).

https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....d1fab8800c.jpg


DaveReidUK 31st Mar 2020 06:34

Nice bit of detective work. :O

chevvron 31st Mar 2020 08:14

Course; I never thought of the RAF 'movements' building northside which is the same design as the 'Rocks' building.
So is the bungalow with chimney over the border in La Linea?

treadigraph 31st Mar 2020 09:19

No it was on the Gib side - it's been demolished recently if you click out to map view...

Google Street View

TEEEJ 31st Mar 2020 19:32


Originally Posted by DaveReidUK (Post 10734126)
Nice bit of detective work. :O

Thanks, Dave. Too much time on my hands! Nothing like a bit of geo locating to keep yourself busy lol! :O

RAFG 3rd Apr 2020 09:01

TEEEJ,

thanks a lot! Geat job!

regards Steffi

RAFG 3rd Apr 2020 09:05

One more B(I)8 of 16Sqn in 1967

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....12ce1f0b39.jpg

Shackman 3rd Apr 2020 10:08

That looks like another wet day at Finningley.

DaveReidUK 3rd Apr 2020 11:19

Hangars don't look like Finningley's.

chevvron 3rd Apr 2020 11:23


Originally Posted by DaveReidUK (Post 10738085)
Hangars don't look like Finningley's.

Still has 5 hipped roof 'C' types, but was the tower in that position?

DaveReidUK 3rd Apr 2020 11:55


Originally Posted by chevvron (Post 10738092)
Still has 5 hipped roof 'C' types, but was the tower in that position?

Finningley's Type Cs are an earlier variation (see the original Canberra photo in post #23) and the tower is on the opposite side of the runway from the hangars.

chevvron 3rd Apr 2020 12:01

With a Hastings and a Varsity visible, what about Lindholme?

DaveReidUK 3rd Apr 2020 12:29


Originally Posted by chevvron (Post 10738126)
With a Hastings and a Varsity visible, what about Lindholme?

Yes, both tower and hangar fit.

Doesn't look like a display day, so maybe the ET 62 Noratlas was there for some other reason.

RAFG 3rd Apr 2020 13:13

Thanks guys! Next pic may show an open day with a Canberra PR.7 of 31Sqn showing in the Static. Must be ca. end of 60s ...

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....c22527cd64.jpg


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