Ok, it's went a bit quiet, so here's a quiz to get us going again, 10 pics of 10 different airfields/airfield infrastructure in the UK, past and present -

I won't answer the airborne ones and the ground ones are tricky.

East Fortune for #9 ??

Thank goodness for that... ; - )



Not East Fortune.

Number 7 is Old Warden.

I thought you would get that one : - )

Great post DJ. Here are some very uninspired (ie major guesses!) answers.

1. Findo Gask
2. Evanton
3. Linton On Ouse
4. Bruntingthorpe
5. No idea
6. Stornoway
7. Old Warden
8. Warton
9. No idea
10. No idea

Number 7 is indeed Old Warden and I can see where you're coming from with Bruntingthorpe (No4) and Stornoway (No6) but neither are correct, the Vulcan is in taxyable condition though.

Hi DJ, most have me stumped, but I will suggest Machrihanish for No.6.

Alan.

You guessed right Alan, and that's the Aurora Hangar we're looking down on I'm told..

Is number 5 Kirknewton?
Number 8 is Hawarden
Number 10 is Barrow/Walney Island

Ok, so far we have correct -

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6. Campbeltown Machrihanish
7. Old Warden
8. Chester Hawarden
9.
10. Barrow Walney Island

Is 4 Wellesborough Mountford?

Correct Allan, I believe the crew that fly the Vulcan XH558 used that aircraft for taxy practice etc before XH558 took to the air again, -


1.
2.
3.
4. Wellesbourne Mountford
5.
6. Campbeltown Machrihanish
7. Old Warden
8. Chester Hawarden
9.
10. Barrow Walney Island

3. RAF Shawbury

Correct -

1.
2.
3. RAF Shawbury
4. Wellesbourne Mountford
5.
6. Campbeltown Machrihanish
7. Old Warden
8. Chester Hawarden
9.
10. Barrow Walney Island

1. Satellite airfield near Brechin.
2. (Was) The oldest of its kind not only in Scotland but in the UK.
3. RAF Shawbury
4. Wellesbourne Mountford
5. A Trident Crew had a similar view.
6. Campbeltown Machrihanish
7. Old Warden
8. Chester Hawarden
9. Half a swashbuckler.
10. Barrow Walney Island

1. Stracathro ?

5. Perth (Scone) ?

1. Kinnell
2. Wigtown
9. Tain

??

Well done Alex and well done Radar, one each, still #2 and #9 to get, seems hard to believe a Trident landed on that short strip of tarmac at Perth,

1. RAF Kinnell, a satellite for RAF Tealing near Dundee.
2. (Was) The oldest of its kind not only in Scotland but in the UK.
3. RAF Shawbury
4. Wellesbourne Mountford
5. Perth Scone
6. Campbeltown Machrihanish
7. Old Warden
8. Chester Hawarden
9. Half a swashbuckler.
10. Barrow Walney Island

And if I look over my right shoulder from where I took the pic -

OK, now that you've given some clues I'll jump in with:-
2) Montrose - 1st operational airfield in UK
9) RAF Buchan [-neer]

Well almost, #2 is Montrose, Britain’s first operational military airfield, #9 still to identify -

1. RAF Kinnell, a satellite for RAF Tealing near Dundee.
2. Montrose Air Station.
3. RAF Shawbury.
4. Wellesbourne Mountford.
5. Perth Scone.
6. Campbeltown Machrihanish.
7. Old Warden.
8. Chester Hawarden.
9. Half a swashbuckler.
10. Barrow Walney Island.

9) Ah, wasn't sure that was the Peterhead skyline - must be Dundee's highrises and ERROL airfield

Nice quiz

Correct - Half a swashbuckler = 'Errol' Flynn - I'll give the cryptic clues a miss next time ; - )

1. RAF Kinnell, a satellite for RAF Tealing near Dundee.
2. Montrose Air Station.
3. RAF Shawbury.
4. Wellesbourne Mountford.
5. Perth Scone.
6. Campbeltown Machrihanish.
7. Old Warden.
8. Chester Hawarden.
9. RAF Errol
10. Barrow Walney Island.

Nice ones

I'll dig some more out and do another one soon.

Enjoyed that DJ even though it was quite frustrating at times! More of the same please!

Thanks David for an interesting quiz.
I was amazed by the similarity of number 3 Shawbury to Linton-on-Ouse, obviously a standard RAF layout. Alan Mack had suggested Linton-on-Ouse for this one, and I was inclined to agree with him apart from the short runway being shown as 05/23 where Linton's is 04/22, and the absence of a flight line of Tocanos. The angle between the runways and the relationship of houses to the crescent of hangars are also similar to Linton. Just as well they are many miles apart or this could be confusing to pilots!