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Which Aerodrome Mk III
So kind with your clues, LFH.
Palikulo Field, Espiritu Santo?
Palikulo Field, Espiritu Santo?
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Sorry Simon, been in the garden. Not Espiritu Santu. Hope this helps - Same field, same photographer, same day in mid- 60s.
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PS. This'll get the WIWOH brigade going (not me or you I think.)
Say when you want more clues. LFH
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PS. This'll get the WIWOH brigade going (not me or you I think.)
Say when you want more clues. LFH
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A Hastings in the South Pacific; how about Christmas Island?
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Good guess Chevy, but it's not any of the several Christmas Islands. I think the Christmas you mean ?? is now Kiritimati. Where the
tests took place - that one happens to be just north of the equator anyway. I saw a pic on wiki of a Hastings flying overhead -
This challenge was built by Japanese forces in WWII - captured by the allies and featured ops by USAAF, RAAF and RNZAF while based there. Still operating civil in much the same layout.
I will dig out the precise date and see if it says why they were there. Post more clue later. LFH
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This challenge was built by Japanese forces in WWII - captured by the allies and featured ops by USAAF, RAAF and RNZAF while based there. Still operating civil in much the same layout.
I will dig out the precise date and see if it says why they were there. Post more clue later. LFH
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Correct JW.
But it was a landaway
June 1966.
Runway is about 16. The two-tone is explained on the back of the snap as
"Rolled coral surface. Bitumen surfacing taking place. R/W half done."
Bet it din' 'arf complicate the roundout. LFH
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Runway is about 16. The two-tone is explained on the back of the snap as
"Rolled coral surface. Bitumen surfacing taking place. R/W half done."
Bet it din' 'arf complicate the roundout. LFH
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mo' clue ?
The several day round trip appears to have included in this order -
Changi - Jesselton - Challenge - Tontouta - Rarotonga - Nandi - Port Moresby - Zamboanga - Changi.
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The several day round trip appears to have included in this order -
Changi - Jesselton - Challenge - Tontouta - Rarotonga - Nandi - Port Moresby - Zamboanga - Changi.
LFH
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Well done Flaps,
Momote it is. Apparently the only operating field left in the Admiralty Is archipelago, from about half a dozen all now overgrown. The Brits used two (Ponam and Pitilyu) quite heavily in 1945 in connection with the British Pacific Fleet's "forward" anchorage at Manus - Seeadler Harbour, from their Sydney base, en route to the campaigns off Okinawa, Sakishima and mainland Japan. LFH
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Nice try Sid, but not Jesselton-on-the-beach. No 'oggin, and some distance from the 'oggin. This place was undergoing significant enlargement at the time and saw some "interesting times." Lets say it was within a Hastings range of Changi. A second photo clue available when you are ready. LFH
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