Guess The Airstrip

[Flightrite]

Ok you gurus who have no life, just came across this ugly thing, what is it! Got a Wildcat type U/C, I have no idea?

[red750]

Curtiss O-52 Owl observation plane.

 

Click here.

[onetrack]

I often wonder how those rear-facing machine guns work, to avoid shooting off your own tail. Does anyone know?

[Flightrite]

Amazing what the human brain can come up with regarding an ugly flying machine!😂

[facthunter]

So little prop outside of the cowl.. Makes a Lysander look pretty.  Nev

[Moneybox]

Looks like this thread got a bit rusty 🙃

 

 

 

I recently visited this flight training area in Queensland. All landing and take-offs are done from the same end of the airstrip. You obviously wouldn't want both events happening at the same time. I think those trees might be a little scary in a cross wind too.

[Reynard]

 

A rarely used strip less than 1km from a major QLD tourist attraction! 

 

[skippydiesel]

Without a ground inspection, might be okay in a STOL/big wheel/long travel suspension, job.

 

For my Sonex, I would need either an in person or trusted/knowledgeable other, to do a pre use/landing report😈

[Moneybox]

4 minutes ago, skippydiesel said:

Without a ground inspection, might be okay in a STOL/big wheel/long travel suspension, job.

 

For my Sonex, I would need either an in person or trusted/knowledgeable other, to do a pre use/landing report😈

Looks a bit like there could be a gully through the halfway point.

[skippydiesel]

And - Is that sand/earth drifting across the road - desert/coastal .

 

I visited Rainbow Beach (Qld) a few years back, in my Zephyr. 

 

The Z had tyres much like a wheel barrow and struggled with the sand/soft going.

 

There is no way my Sonex would get off the ground , assuming it survived the landing😈

[Reynard]

Here’s a close-up of the strip - it wasn’t too bad at all on std 4x6 tyres

They had done an inspection of it that morning, by driving along it.  I suggested they needed to drive along it at 110kph to get a proper feel of it. That’s spinifex under the windsock.

[Moneybox]

On 06/10/2024 at 9:06 PM, Moneybox said:

Looks like this thread got a bit rusty 🙃

 

 

 

I recently visited this flight training area in Queensland. All landing and take-offs are done from the same end of the airstrip. You obviously wouldn't want both events happening at the same time. I think those trees might be a little scary in a cross wind too.

No guesses so I'll tell you ☺️

 

It's a bit old for my memory to be accurate but I think it's called Kentville.

 

 

The name might not be accurate but the coordinates are.

[Kiwi]

10 hours ago, Moneybox said:

No guesses so I'll tell you ☺️

 

It's a bit old for my memory to be accurate but I think it's called Kentville.

Lynfield, In the Lockyer Valley.

Just to the east of YLWB (Breefield)

[Blueadventures]

What's the tourist attraction?

[Reynard]

40 minutes ago, Blueadventures said:

What's the tourist attraction?

Dinosaur footprints.

[onetrack]

It looks like an airstrip roughed in by the local earthmoving contractors, as a temporary strip for a project close by?

Like the ones across the Nullarbor, installed by the Eyre Hwy construction companies in the 1960's.

[Reynard]

4 hours ago, Reynard said:

Dinosaur footprints.

Located 110km south-west of Winton, in central Queensland, Lark Quarry is home to the only known evidence of a dinosaur stampede, with 3,300 fossilised footprints dating back 95 million years. Recent evidence suggests that the footprints were made over a number of days at a river crossing, which quickly succumbed to rising water levels and deposits of silt which eventually compressed into rock.

 

OZLKQ, 10/28 gravel 1000m long., The airstrip for light aircraft is located just outside Lark Quarry Conservation Park.