Airfields, Air Bases, Airports all from the air

[kpu]

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Love the Camo over the factory buildings

[JDK]

Something* tells me this one's OSLO, April 1940...

.. therefore on the German invasion of Norway. Aircraft are mostly Junkers Ju 52/3ms, but in the centre the silver /white looking aircraft are (nearer) a Junkers Ju 90, fresh into Luftwaffe service, the other behind being the Junkers G 38, which survived until destroyed by the RAF at Athens.

Regards,

*Airfields used to be identified with a white circle in the middle of the field, and the name nearby. Obviously if you flew from the right of the pic, you'd be arriving at 'O75O' instead.

[The Inspector]

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Canvas, burlap, wood veneers, shredded foam, chicken wire, right down to 'laundry' hung out to dry. Tucked away were a few anti aircraft gun emplacements on the roof. The runways run left-right in the picture (North-South with Seattle out the far left side) even the 'streets' painted across the runways worked pretty well until some Army pencil neck bean massager decided what the field REALLY needed was barrage ballons. As soon as they were put up the airfield stuck out like the Groom at a nudist camp wedding.
The small hanger on the East side with the B-29 nosed in is still there as the storage facility for UPS' igloo carts and tractors.
B-29's were built in Renton (out the far upper right side corner of the pictures) but delivered from KBFI along with the B-17's coming from the subject of the photos, longer runways and more direct to-from downtown Seattle and closer to Harbor Island where the fuel tank farms were.

[billtate]

Could this be Lajes Air Base in the Azores?

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[warbirdfinder]

The Connies and DC-6's are parked at Las Vegas McCarran Airport

[Mark Allen M]

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[The Inspector]

Plant 2 @ Boeing again, East (field) side of the buildings, late in G production now sadly all gone to the scrapper but it shows off the burlap and chicken wire trees.

Photo #4 don't know where (Santa Monica maybe since all the examples in the photo were built there), but must have been a 'show and tell' for Douglas- 'Fat Face' AD, AD-4 (?), early (maybe XA4D-1) Sky Hawk, early A3D Whale, early F4D (Ford), F3D Sky Knight night fighter, A2D turboprop version of the AD 'SPAD', one still exists in Idaho, and is/isn't maybe for sale and good luck with the engine. In the hanger might be a BTD or two.

[Flat 12x2]

Second of three British airshow ramp has some very, very rare types holding the cement down, An H.P. HERMES, H.P. HPR 3/7 HERALD, Vickers-Armstrong VIKING, AVRO Tudor 8 tail dragger airliner,

I think behind the Hermes is an Airspeed Ambassador and the Avro Tudor is an experimental jet powered version, the Tudor normally having piston power.

[Flat 12x2]

Great pics Mark, love the theme.

[jdvoss]

Regarding the 3rd and 4th photo down from the top (RAF Castle Archdale) I've attached a earth.google image of the facility as it exists today. Unfortunatley the 2 dozen+ Sunderlands and Catalinas are long gone and have been replaced with what appears to be a mobile home park and boat launch area.

[jdvoss]

The Douglas Aircraft Navy display photo location is that of the El Segundo Plant site located at LAX. El Segundo exclusively constructed naval combat aircraft starting with the SBD in 1939. The Santa Monica plant (located about a dozen miles north) was constructing only commercial prop airliners post WWII until the last DC-7C rolled out in 1959.

[Mark Allen M]

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[Flat 12x2]

RAF Banff then and now

[Flat 12x2]

Part of Hawkers Langley airfield, used for post war airliner servicing, this part is now a golf course.


BoB aircraft

[Wildchild]

Could this be Lajes Air Base in the Azores?

Russian war prizes

That really makes me wonder how many 109's are still in russia