Anthony (Tony) Haig Thomas - a son of David Haig Thomas wrote a jolly good book about his (Tony's) RAF flying days. Not sure the title is repeatable here........

Using great circle mapper with a range from Rea point and a range from Sachs harbor on Banks Island. Then I found Isachsen but still had to correct for the difference between north eastern point of Banks Islands and south western Sachs harbour.


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But I couldn’t find anything on Haigh-Thomas which resembles an air strip?

Now this:
Not so much H&N
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(Church Parade;) `Fall Out R C`s and J**s.`
I did a `sort of` proof read of the original,which was going to be called,possibly,` Life and times of a 3* Flying Officer`.
The `3* `is a reference to what was/is.? the Officers Annual Confidential Report; A`star` annotation is made on the `cover` to higher Authority that `here comes `trouble`,probably in`red`,.so to get 3 may have been a record...
OTOH,with suitable `direction`,he could possibly have ended up as the `other` kind of 3 star...

St Helena I think - that rock outcrop behind the tower is pretty distinctive!

Yes pretty distinctive but you have to look at the right location first.
Over to Asturias.

It rang a bell - there was a long discussion with lots of photographs on ST Helena on here a few years back. And those of us who look art rocks know there are a limited number of places where you'll get that sort of outcrop. My first thought was the Faeroes TBH

Try this one - no trees, no lights no waste bins I'm afraid

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[QUOTE=Asturias56;11626790]Try this one - no trees, no lights no waste bins I'm afraidQUOTE]

Gee thanks, but are those thistles? Scotland? Got a photo with more weeds?

Grass looks too short to be a prairie. Too much poles/sticks planted. Therefore I guess Europe?

Its pretty dry Bear - its definitely not Europe. Don't believe there is any scheduled service

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Looks a bit like Nagambie - might this be in Australia?

It is not in Australia

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Flyover country in the US?

Well some people call it home but yes - it's in the USA -

Not a tourist spot.......................

Nebraska?
if not Nebraska then which way from there?

No - but getting warm - you're too far south

This place has been written about - although the airfield has a different name to the one you might recognise................

Is this the passenger terminal?
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Ricks'!!!

Stretching it a bit to call it a terminal but you've found it - name it and it's all yours!

A local historical person to fill in the time

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Somewhat busier days

Wounded Knee?

"This place has been written about - although the airfield has a different name to the one you might recognise................"

Is that Sitting Bull?
Pine Ridge Airport: KIEN or (dyslexically) XPR. The only other US airport I can think of that does that is PHOG/OGG.

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Pine Ridge it is - close to Wounded Knee. The gent in the snappy gear is Mahpiya Wakan ("Medicine Cloud") - an Oglala Sioux. Sitting Bull was a Hunkpapa Sioux. The place is a fully fledged dump - really appalling problems

The 2010 U.S. Census counted 18,834 individuals living on the Pine Ridge Reservation. The vast majority (16,906) identified as American Indian.

• 89% of residents are unemployed;
• 53.75% of the residents live below the Federal poverty level
• Average per capita income in Oglala Lakota County is $8,768 and ranks as the "poorest" county in the nation.
• The infant mortality rate is five times higher than the national average;
• Native American amputation rates due to diabetes are three to four times higher than the national average;
• Death rate due to diabetes is three times higher than the national average;
• Teen suicide is four times the national average; and
• Average life expectancy on Pine Ridge is 66.81 years, the lowest in the United States. Other statistics, attributed to the Pine Ridge hospital, cite an average life expectancy of just 47 years for men and 55 years for women.

I'd rather hoped Bear would get it - Frank Standing Bear aka Frank Grouard was a very interesting character around these parts in the late 19th Century..........

Apologies if I stepped on Bear’s paws, A56. Yeah the Lakota people have had a tough few centuries for various reasons. If wikipedia is reliable the current tribal council president’s name translates as Frank Star Comes Out.

It’s probably featured before but it’s Sunday afternoon and I can’t be arsed to check the spreadsheet:
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That building on the skyline looks slightly familiar - are we in Europe?

Not Europe
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Airbus A320 family window will not help us much. Perhaps Asian side of Russia?

Not there

Asia then?

Good morning everyone. Not Asia.

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Americas?

Yes it is

I’ll make it easy for you…

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too easy - Winnipeg I think?

OH if correct

Sometimes we need an easy one and not just sheds and trees, Asty. YWG it is, an airport not easy to spot from over the US border…

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Open house then.

India42 country ............................ but you have to admire the surveying................

Are there two airfields in the foreground? One in the middle and one on the left in the 2nd square up.

Lets guess the state, Iowa?

If I understand Thnarg correctly it is a picture from USA with Winnipeg airport in view.
Then the photo must have been taken from the direction of Badger Minnesota.
The diagonal feature is then the Whitney lake ditch.