| Poster | Time | Map | Comment |
| Hinkkanen | 2007-03-11 09:08:29 | Pitcairn Islands | The island in the thumbnail is Henderson Island which is part of Pitcairn Island Colony but Pitcairn itself is further southwest even if Google's map view calls it Pitcairn. There's no useful... |
| Hinkkanen | 2007-03-10 13:20:04 | de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk over Enfield | de Havilland Canada DHC-1 Chipmunk
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| Hinkkanen | 2007-03-04 06:29:24 | Big offshore platform | This probably one of the up to 20 mothballed oil and gas rigs that have been parked up in the Cromarty Firth.
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| Hinkkanen | 2007-02-17 16:25:03 | Small sub ? | I think it is a sailboat, possible with masts taken down and most of the deck covered with some kind of protective awning. |
| Hinkkanen | 2007-02-14 16:08:45 | Shipbreaking at Alang beach | Fine article with pictures:
http://www.maritimematters.com/mall_alang_pk.html |
| Hinkkanen | 2007-02-14 12:56:42 | Sunk and sinking ships | This is the wreck of cruise liner "Rasa Sayang". She was originally Bergensfjord of the Norwegian America Line completed in 1956. She was sold to the French line in 1971 and renamed "De Grasse". In... |
| Hinkkanen | 2007-02-14 12:14:15 | Kortenaer class frigate | Sailed away... |
| Hinkkanen | 2007-02-14 10:59:58 | Cruise ships in Marseille | These were probably the ships of Renaissance Cruises which went bankrupt in 2001 and were laid up in Merseilles until sold.
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| Hinkkanen | 2007-02-14 10:58:26 | Cruise ships in Marseille | Sailed away since, These were probably the ships of Renaissance Cruises which went bankrupt in 2001 and were laid up in Merseilles until sold.
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| Hinkkanen | 2007-02-13 15:36:17 | Sunken Ship Off Iranian Coast | Perhaps (and this is just perhaps) this is the wreck of Iranian coastal minesweeper Shahbaz (US pennant number MCS 275 though built for Iran) which according to some sources was lost by fire in 1975... |
| Hinkkanen | 2007-02-13 14:48:13 | Wreck of the liner Raffaello | This the wreck of the former Italian Atlantic liner Raffaello, information here:
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| Hinkkanen | 2007-02-13 13:09:08 | Container Ship Departing From Rotterdam | Departed... |
| Hinkkanen | 2007-02-09 06:22:46 | North American T-6A Texan at the Robert J Miller Airpark | Looks like North American AT-6 Texan to me. They were often converted to represent various WWII aircraft for movies because they were (and are) easily and more cheaply available than the real thing. |
| Hinkkanen | 2007-02-08 08:44:36 | Beef It Up | No longer there |
| Hinkkanen | 2007-02-06 08:12:58 | Wave class fast fleet tanker | It's a Wave class fast fleet tanker, either RFA Wave Ruler or RFA Wave Knight
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-11-27 13:40:46 | City of Truva | This is the modern city of Truva. The ruins of ancient Troy lie west of it, here:
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-11-24 16:22:50 | FS Clemenceau (R 98) | I'm sorry but it most certainly is the Clemenceau, picture here:
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-10-20 14:43:19 | Odd Chinese aircraft facility | Looks like Antonov AN-12 although I'm not really sure |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-10-16 13:00:33 | Empty piece of Wales | Filled up, no longer there, or should it in this case be: there at last? |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-10-15 12:25:34 | Grumman S2F Tracker at Glendale Municipal | It's Tracker alright or possibly its transport version called Trader.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-2_Tracker
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-10-15 12:14:30 | China Aviation Museum | It's Tupolev TU-4, Wikipedia has more info, also about this particular plane:
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-10-15 07:09:17 | China Aviation Museum | Some of the exhibits are quite interesting:
http://www.ruudleeuw.com/images/chandler/01.jpg |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-10-13 16:21:03 | Airbus Beluga being loaded with another airplane at Airbus Plant | I think it is being unloaded. I have a map from the other end of the line:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/19560/ |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-10-10 16:03:53 | Pontcysyllte Aqueduct | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_east/6037203.stm |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-10-08 13:40:12 | Nuraghe Barumini | This is really an answer to private message but I put it in here since you are not yourself accepting them: You can't edit your own submission. Only moderators can do that. If you want corrections... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-10-08 03:54:45 | Bridge & road building | The bridge has since been finished. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-10-06 12:17:55 | French AWACS aircraft | Avord Air Base
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avord_Air_Base |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-10-03 03:02:26 | Osumi class landing ship | It's an Osumi class landing ship. I posted an another one earlier here:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/15617/ |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-10-02 14:18:36 | Welcome Aboard | Try here:
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/NNum_inquiry.asp |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-10-01 05:03:57 | Airplane on the roof of Bremen Airport | See my comment to http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/19482/ |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-09-27 10:27:18 | Landlocked Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier in China | Perhaps the intention was not to built an exact replica of anything but just to make a "generic" aircraft carrier look-a-like. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-09-27 05:22:08 | Landlocked Kuznetsov-class aircraft carrier in China | It is a replica of Nimitz-class carrier, info and pictures here:
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-09-17 10:29:43 | Aircraft Carrier USS Oriskany (CV-34) | Good job! |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-09-12 12:35:03 | Sailplanes pulled by cars | I think they are not being launched but just being moved around. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-07-22 14:00:54 | Boeing 707-320B at Thebephatshwa / Molepolole Air Force Base (FBTP) | I think it's just a Boeing 747 |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-07-09 13:19:06 | RAF Woodvale | What is it with this particular map that invites spam? I have already deleted a few earlier today. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-06-25 14:30:30 | FPSO Cuulong | More info and some pictures of FPSOs:
http://www.ukooa.co.uk/issues/fpso/faq.htm |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-06-24 13:12:52 | Japanese writing at Okinawa | Thanks |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-06-24 11:37:11 | Sand dunes in interesting shapes | Keep looking... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-06-24 07:53:46 | Football | Your American football should really be called handball but then again that's another ballgame... ;=) |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-06-24 07:49:31 | Aden International Airport (ADE) | This is the former RAF Khormaksar |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-06-24 03:59:00 | Football | In most parts of the world this is called football |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-06-23 12:09:30 | MiG-29s(?) at Yelizovo Air Base | These are Mig-31s, according to Wikipedia they are deployed at Yelizovo.
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-06-23 09:29:56 | Engels Air Base | It seems to be about three kilometers long, isn't that enough? |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-06-23 05:34:16 | Unknown Aircraft at Sondok | Might also be Lisunov Li-2, Soviet built version of DC-3 (NATO reporting name Cab, had loading door on the other side of fuselage and different engines) of which over 2000 were built. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-06-21 15:31:23 | Cruise Ship Docked in Victoria Canada | To me they look like Canadian naval vessels at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-06-07 07:10:43 | "Special Delivery" B-25 and SBD-5 (A-24B) at the Lone Star Flight Museum | It's Douglas SBD-5 (A-24B) according to info link. It also has USAAF serial and that means it is really army version (A-24B) just painted with the Navy colours. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-06-05 14:07:19 | Jyväskylä Airport (JYV/EFJY) | This airport is also a military base, the home of Finnish Air Force Headquarters and Support Squadron and various other installations. There is a also Central Finland Aviation Museum located here but... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-06-05 13:31:44 | Corsair or Hellcat | It looks too small to be either one compared to other aircraft around. Perhaps it is a homebuilt replica. These are usually smaller than the fullsize originals and are often sold in kit form from the... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-06-05 06:06:31 | Strange Airplane | I thought about Mistral at first but the horizontal tailplane is of a type used only on two-seaters and the French did not built two-seaters. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-06-04 10:36:27 | Puttgarden hafen | Welcome but please be careful with those URL's (check that they work right before you post). |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-06-03 05:15:36 | Three submarines at Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft | Left one looks like Type 206 boat (they have the distinctive dome at the bow), other two are 212's or 214's |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-06-01 14:50:18 | Strange Airplane | There might be a covering over the cockpit. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-06-01 11:32:36 | Strange Airplane | Looks like a two-seater Vampire. Tail fits and here is one (es Swiss Air Force) flying in France
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-31 08:52:45 | Stampe S.V.4 | I think this is also Morane Saulnier MS 317 |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-31 08:12:12 | Corsair F4U-5NL | Grumman F6F Hellcat? |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-31 08:05:43 | Military airplanes | I would say T-33, Mirage III and Dassault Mystere or Super Mystere. I looked here a few weeks ago when I posted the Vautour nearby but had no time to search references to positively identify the... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-30 10:53:05 | Castle Howard | Castle Howard was used as Brideshead in Granada Television's excellent 1981 TV adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's 1945 novel Brideshead Revisited.
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-29 12:47:14 | A Destroyed Transport | Antonov An-12 |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-29 12:46:25 | A destroyed An-12 Transport | It's Antonov An-12 |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-29 12:42:17 | Iraqi Transports (An-12's) on Airstrip | More likely Antonov An-12 |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-28 07:22:57 | Cuxhaven/Nordholz Sea Airport (FCN/ETMN) | Thumbnail shows one of Breguet Atlantics of the Deutsche Marine based here. They are being replaced by Locheed P-3 Orions. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-28 07:19:10 | Bremen Airport - Flughafen Bremen (BRE/EDDW) | Aircraft in the thumbnail would have been worth posting separately. It is VFW-614 nineteen of which were built by Fokker VFW consortium in early 1970's. Its engines were mounted on pylons above the... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-28 06:20:41 | Aeropark at East Midlands Airport | In Live Local the aircraft are on the other side of runway. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-27 09:18:11 | Ships on River Fal | Live Local shows many more, wonder which one is older... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-26 08:37:21 | Kigali International Airport (KGL/HRYR) | Plane in the thumbnail is Douglas DC-8 |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-22 14:43:16 | Pink Rabbit | Doesn't really matter, everyone does it, and it most certainly works the other way around, too. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-22 13:17:53 | Montenegro (New country) | They voted to end the union with Serbia but it has not officially been dissolved yet. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-20 12:43:25 | Canal crosses river on a bridge | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdeburg_Water_Bridge |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-18 16:04:57 | Hurel-Dubois HD-34 | French elegance... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-18 12:11:11 | FS Clemenceau (R 98) | Clemenceau arrived to Brest yesterday 17th May 2006 and her fate is still undecided.
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-15 16:11:07 | Plan incline (ship lift) | This is Arzviller-Saint-Louis transverse incline on Marne-Rhine Canal opened in 1969 to bypass 17 old locks. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-15 06:50:25 | Old Navy trainer | North American T-28 Trojan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-28_Trojan |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-14 06:47:06 | Rinas Mother Teresa Airport | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinas_Mother_Teresa_Airport |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-13 09:49:35 | Submarine U-995 | It's the Laboe Naval Memorial (Das Marine-Ehrenmal), here:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/18356/ |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-11 15:45:25 | Eastham Refinery | This is probably Eastham Refinery at the beginning of Manchester Ship Canal
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-07 11:42:19 | European Archeological Park | I think it's on the German side of the border. German link here:
http://www.kulturpark-online.de/
Some info in English... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-07 07:19:24 | Fort V Włochy | This one seems to have gone back to the nature... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-03 08:50:19 | Dornier Do 27 | It's not WW1 aircraft. It's Dornier Do 27 from the fifties and as you can see from the shadow, it's not a biplane but a monoplane.
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-02 14:28:50 | World's first TV Tower made of concrete | I have already posted world's first TV tower. It's here:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/17200/ |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-02 10:23:48 | Dover Transmitter | Thanks, should have chosen more spectalurar one for number 1000 but lost count for the moment. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-01 10:15:08 | AMVD Museum | There's some reorganisation since, should be Republic RF-84 Thunderflash, Vickers Varsity & Fouga Magister. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-01 06:32:31 | 2004-12-26 - Lhok Nga, town destroyed by the tsunami | This is the town of Lhok Nga (or Lhoknga) |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-05-01 01:10:49 | Dornier Do 28 & Sikorsky S-58 | No, it's Dornier Do 27:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1033475/M/ |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-30 13:11:19 | Two icebreakers | The one on the right looks like one of the Nikitich class, sister ships of the Dobrynja Nikitich, now German Stephan Jantzen:
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-30 10:48:08 | Palinuro | Noticed that and there are three more elsewhere in the harbour, two which I have already posted. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-28 13:19:51 | Training airliner mockup | Fire training rig, there are others at least in Stansted and Luton |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-23 10:32:38 | Floating icepack or, possibly, clouds | Gone away, melted... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-23 08:05:56 | Clouds? Ice? Map Anomoly? Atlantis in the Gulf of Bothnia? | Ice have melted, it's gone now. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-17 14:28:31 | Short Belfast C.1 | Four-engined jet behind Belfast is Boeing 707-321C EL-AKJ (cn 19375/662)
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-17 14:06:59 | Airplane with its tail falling off | Boeing 727-251(F) OY-SES of TNT (Sterling European Airlines), it was used for spares
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-17 05:13:10 | Armoured river gunboat Humaita at Presidential Palace | Armoured river gunboat Humaita, laid down in Genoa, Italy April 1929, launched 1930 and completed May 1931, was originally named Capitan Cabral. Sister ship Paraguay (pennant number C1) is also... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-16 14:09:50 | Carnival Cruise Ship 'Ecstacy' | Nice, built in Helsinki, Finland |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-15 16:09:32 | Eddie Fuck | Of course this can be called "Eddie F**k" if American sensibilities can't take the F-word ;=) |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-15 15:28:24 | Fire Training Rig at London Stansted | It is a fire training rig, similar to one at Luton |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-15 13:50:51 | Three Fokker F27s and a Handley Page Herald | Three Fokker F27s and a Handley Page Herald |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-15 07:03:03 | Fort Purbrook | Fine work, I was intending to attack this line of forts soon but the first to attack is the first to conquer. |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-12 18:03:55 | Unidentified airplane at RAF Northolt | I looked at Islander photos at airliners.net and there seems to be two variants of the shape of wingtips. Some seem to correspondent to the threesides view you linked and some look a little more... |
| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-12 16:43:24 | Unidentified airplane at RAF Northolt | ...and according to Wikipedia, those Islanders are based in Northolt, so that about clicks it.
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| Hinkkanen | 2006-04-12 16:39:10 | Unidentified airplane at RAF Northolt | Helio Courier is a rare bird in Europe. Shape and size is about right for Britten-Norman Islander but I'm not sure if I can make out two engines and shape of nose is somewhat unclear too. Anyway tail... |
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