Hinkkanen: Comments

It is a fire training rig, similar to one at Luton

Three Fokker F27s and a Handley Page Herald

Fine work, I was intending to attack this line of forts soon but the first to attack is the first to conquer.

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 angular, they seem in fact to follow the dotted line shown in that view.
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0995331/M/

...and according to Wikipedia, those Islanders are based in Northolt, so that about clicks it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 and wings look about right and RAF and British Army have been using Islanders, so it's a distinct possibility.

Just noticed that pictures show the name Galle in the bow. Possibly the ship was given new name when sold to Pounds?

Pictures from the site here:
http://community.livejournal.com/abandonedplaces/532762.html

BAC Lightning on the left is likely to be Lightning T.5, XS458:
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/lightning/survivorspics3.html#XS458

The area is leased from Harewood Estate and also used for other series like Heartbeat & A Touch of Frost.
http://www.harewood.org/est-filming.shtml

This one is outside the Humbrol factories, producers of aircraft models (Airfix) and modellers paints. Wonder if they used those little tins of paint on this one...

On the other hand color scheme does remind me of A-7...

I think he fuselage of the aircraft is too thin to be A-7. This becames noticeable when you take the original Google Map and enlarge it 200 or even 400 % of the original size. Then that blunt nose also starts look like an illusion. In enlargement the nose looks longer although it's really hard to be sure given the small original size of the picture. Still my money is not on A-7 although it might not be a Gnat either.

Likely to be Folland Gnat T.1 N998XR (ex RAF XR998) owned by Astre Air International and based at Front Range Airport:
http://www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk/gnat/survivors.html

Thanks, I have been trying to find interesting static targets lately although I can't resist good ship or an aeroplane now and then even if it might fly or sail away in the next Google Maps update. You might also have noticed that I'm somewhat anglophile...

Douglas B-66?

I'm not sure about the trailer. Where is its shadow? Perhaps the copter is just landing on the reddish square on the ground.

Just after posting I came across some more info, here:
http://www.berkshirehistory.com/villages/littlewittenham.html

DC-10

There was a Meteor T.7 (WA591) in the 1980s which has since been under restoration to airworthy condition by The Meteor Flight at Yatesbury:
http://www.meteorflight.com/histories/wa591.htm
The map shows Phantom FGR.2 at the gate (XV468):
http://www.pbase.com/stevieb/image/15624307
...but according to discussion linked...

Its probably Canberra T.17 (WH665), pictures here:
http://www.bywat.co.uk/wh665.html
Small aircraft fuselage near might be BAC Jet Provost although I have not found any information on surviving examples at Filton.

Yes, it is the same one.

Looks like Bristol Blenheim to me or in fact Canadian built version called Bristol Bolingbroke (the only complete Blenheim is in Finland, all other survivors are Bolingbrokes, excluding a few wrecks).

ShinMaywa US-1 or PS-1?

Looks like Antonov AN-12

Found more info, here:
http://www.theaviationzone.com/factsheets/amst.asp
Two YC-15s were built and one was returned into service in 1996 to be used as an Advanced Technology Demonstrator (ATD).

Looks like McDonnell Douglas YC-15:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_Douglas_YC-15

This is the general area where BBC series "Monarch of the Glen" was filmed

These are mostly DC-9s and Boeing 727s of Avensa which went bankrupt due to poor management in 2002. It has since been financially restructured and continues with a much smaller fleet. Picture here:
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0489521/M/

My money is on Sarmiento, fine picture here:
http://www.iberosaatio.fi/Presidente%20Sarmiento.jpg

This might in fact be corvette Uruguay from 1877. Both Uruguay and Sarmiento should be around here but this is the only one I have found.

It's not a play structure but real aeroplane, a Douglas F3D Skyknight (later redesignated F-10) nightfighter.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-10_Skyknight
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/f-10.htm

RAF serial XS928

That's Lightning F.6 RAF serial XS936 at the Castle Motors garage:
http://www.aviation-picture-hangar.co.uk/xs936.html

There are at least four other derelict 707's in Cairo. Three are ex-Egypt Air and one from small airline called Air Memphis, this last one without wings.
One of them is possibly here:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/6200/
...and another one here:
http://virtualglobetrotting.com/map/14673/
There also should be a 707...

And even more info and photos here:
http://www.ruudleeuw.com/greybull-rp-may03.htm

McDonnell F-101 Voodoo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-101_Voodoo

Today this airfield is a manufacturing and testing facility of the BAE Systems, more info here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warton

More about the Connie:
http://www.conniesurvivors.com/N9412H.htm

That's not B-36 but Convair XC-99, the only prototype of the transport version of B-36, more here:
http://www.air-and-space.com/xc99.htm

It is Ingolstadt Manching airport (ZNQ) which doubles as Luftwaffe base.

In fact one of the four, three are at Dübendorf and fourth often at Mönchengladbach, Germany.

Information about P.S. Wingfield Castle here:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/tramways/WingfieldCastle.htm

North American F-86 Sabre

A pigfarm... Nice, must be the first one posted here...

Racing school is Bedford Autodrome, their website here:
http://www.bedfordautodrome.com/

RAE Bedford is the former RAF Thurleigh

It's not the only one in Baltic as there is Vesikko in Helsinki:
[http://googleglobetrotting.com/info.php/mid/13848]

This so called Maiden's Tower was built 1n the 12th century by the Byzantine emperor Manuel Komnenos. It has served as a prison and a lighthouse and is a source of many legends. The tower was featured in the James Bond film The World Is Not Enough.

Yes, there are over 700,000 of them. Most of them are like these, little more than pillboxes, see some of the pictures here:
http://noel.feld.cvut.cz/~horcik/albania/
...and do some googling.

And even more pictures here:
http://noel.feld.cvut.cz/~horcik/albania/

Albanian bunkers are quite small. See the link on my other bunker post.

Very interesting but I'm on Linux, so no Google Earth for me...

This is incredible. How did you find this spot? It is so small it is almost impossible to find by random search. Or did you know it was there?

I just noticed there's an other one in the covered building dock. You can just see its bow sticking out.

...and the sleek vessel behind this one is a fast ferry running between Helsinki and Tallinn.

Correct. Only cruiseship in Helsinki at the time these pictures were taken seem to be the one in the shipyard.

That's a cruiseship all right but it's not really a dock but shipyard where they are built.

It's not a cruise ship. It's a Baltic ferry. Note the square stern and car loading pier at the back of the ship.

Some of these ships are likely the ones damaged by Katrina.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina_effects_by_region#Mississippi

Worth a closer look. They have found some interesting new uses fo those runways,

You are right. I have Sovremenny elsewhere (two in fact) and they differ from this one. Should have taken closer look at my references.

I wouldn't use the word "Indian" here... ;=)

Water tower and probably stables. I intended to post them separately.

Fascinating...

More history here:
http://www.hamradio-online.com/1996/sep/iotaeu150.html

Some interesting planes here, too, at least three Nord Noratlas transport planes, two DC-6's and possibly two DC-3's.

Should be in Argentina...

Taszár was intensively used by US forces during the war in the former Yugoslavia. After the base was abandoned by the Americans Taszár was closed.

Was Soviet base during the cold war with the 515. Fighter Regiment with MiG-29S, MiG-29UB, one of its three squadrons was a special nuclear-bomber one, and an Army helicopter regiment with Mi-8/24, and a transport regiment.

It's Istrana-Treviso air force base

No road merges onto it because it's a railroad. If you follow it south, you'll se that it joins the main railroad line here in Sacile:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=45.950538,12.508407&spn=0.004897,0.006350&t=k&hl=en

And my road atlas of Italy (1:400 000) has also helped here ;-)

This is Safdarjang Airport, formerly known as Willingdon Airfield, and used by light aviation and helicopters. There have been plans to redevelop the site.

Plant is not really in Oskarshamn but 30 km north in Simpevarp.

That's Landskrona citadel in the town of Landskrona

That's not Berlin Cathedral. It's Staatsoper and behind it St. Hedwig's Cathedral.

Correction: The lake is Teutjärvi, not Särkijärvi (got a better map...)

More history here:
http://www.takeoffitaly.com/umbria.castiglione_sights.html

Some photos of the sinking of Blücher here:
http://www.maritimequest.com/warship_directory/germany/pages/cruisers/blucher.htm

It is Sable Island, more here:
http://collections.ic.gc.ca/sableisland/english_en/index_en.htm

There are now a plan torebuild the palace as a symbol of democratization in Afghanishtan:
http://en.darul-aman.net/

That's Kikai, info here:
http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vwdocs/volc_images/north_asia/kikai/kikai.html
here:
http://www.volcano.si.edu/world/volcano.cfm?vnum=0802-06=
and here:
...

It's French Frigate Shoals:
http://www.radiojerry.com/frigate/

Info on old dam and catastrophe here (in German):
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tous-Talsperre

It's the light aircraft carrier "Principe de Asturias", the flag ship of the Spanish Navy, information & picture here:
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/europe/principe-de-asturias.htm

Being also the site of Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace means that there many interesting old aircraft to be seen around the field

Is it really worthwhile to post geographical features this large?

It most likely is USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) as its homeport is Everett, Washington and homeport is the most likely place to find certain ship when it is not on active deployment somewhere.

http://www.nvr.navy.mil/nvrships/s_hp_EV.htm

It is America, see the fine picture here:
http://www.navsource.org/archives/02/026639.jpg

Palma is a dangerous island:
http://www.rense.com/general56/tsu.htm

There are more similar groups of vessels all around the bay

http://www.newsday.com/sports/ny-pris2-side1,0,2969588.story

Most interesting vessels here are the world's first nuclear powered cargo ship Savannah (left one of the pair of ships northernmost) and amphibious assault ship USS Guadalcanal (LPH-7, single southermost ship).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NS_Savannah
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Guadalcanal_(LPH-7)

That mystery aircraft is HFB-20 Hansa Jet, more info here:
http://www.hansajet.de/indexeng.htm

Silverstone was originally RAF WW2 airfield, one runway is still in use.

In the UK, of course. Sorry!

... at Hyvinkää airport

This is Hyvinkää airport which served as main international airport of Finland 1944-47 when Helsinki-Malmi was reserved for exclusive use of the Allied Control Commission.

What is this doing in Brazil?

I have found varying information about the exact test site. Some references locate it here:
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.313400,88.601990&spn=0.452705,0.380299&t=k&hl=en