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first things first
Sig - the "spirits of the night" clue,
the hit was on google page NINE, 180 pages of drivel to wade through.
dissapointing.
Louis,
it's a coal port, shocking EPA reg's, so most likely ex sov bloc.
housing style also hints at sov bloc too.
(edit) it is unusal for merchant ships other than tugs and trawlers to tie up two abeam,
and those two dont look like either,
so possibly a small naval facility too.
how about a clue(just not a 10 pager please)
A clue? A CLUE!? You pretty much nailed it mate... :2thumbsup:Quote:
Originally Posted by barocca
...I think, I haven't got a clue what your talking about. What's an 'EPA reg' ?
A Soviet naval base it is though.
The filename I chose for my last city was: spirits of the night 9th hit.jpgQuote:
Originally Posted by barocca
ImageShack added some more random letters to the picture and if I am not mistaken they add 3 random letters as someone mentioned earlier in this thread. They also remove the spaces (got to remember this).
I thought 9th page would be too easy and went for 9th hit as a additional clue.
aw, dont worry muchly about it,Quote:
Originally Posted by Sigurd Fafnesbane
i only grumble on the day,
next day i've forgotten all about it,
honestly if i didn't have name tags sewn in my undies i'd forget who i was...
(sorry Louis, no time to search, jamcrammin' for monday,,,,, buuuuuuusssssyyyy day)
Environmental Protection Agency RegulationsQuote:
Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
- all that coal dust with no barriers between it and the water - POLLution to the max...:blank: :daisy: :blank:
3 days no joy
time for a clue
Googled on Russian naval yards and after looking at a few, I went back to one of the first ones and recognized the right features (it always goes like that...). Could have guessed that Louis went for a famous one: Мурманск (Murmansk), Russia.
Not technically a city, so I would like to hear the name of this odd community:
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Well... I guess we are looking at a brand new tarmac on runway no. 18.
There is a 4 engine plane at the small "terminal"? The "terminal" seems to have a roundabout at its entrance.
Is that a railroad track to the right in the picture?
Many shades of green in the picture makes me think this is a dry place where they need to water the grass to have it bright green.
Zuko in the picture path. A clue?
Odd indeed...
Zuko is a clue, but googling for it I noticed that the reference isn't showing up. To avoid the wrath of barocca (:wink:), I'll add another hint: It is the last name of a certain "slick" personage.
too easy anyway - how many houses have parking for passenger jets?
Jumbolair, near Ocala. :laugh4:
There seem to be quite a few airparks around, where rich people can taxi their private airplane from their garage to the runway. But there are few where a Boeing 707 takes off everyday, which apparently happened when John Travolta was shooting a movie and wanted to be home before dinner.
Your turn, Makanyane!
Ah must remember to read the rules before joining in things :embarassed:Quote:
Originally Posted by Duke John
hopefully this will work - has location picture as well as it might be a bit too hard from the zoomed in one!
It keeps with airport theme, and yes it is a city :beam:
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(yell at me quickly if that's wrong sort of things to post!)
I guess it is up to the poster how easy the assignment will be.Quote:
Originally Posted by Makanyane
I think your choice of adding the overview is a good clue since it would have been difficult to find this city just by the picture of the actual city.
However it could probably be done. I recognized the layout of the airport from one found in Dafur and I thought; this is in Africa.
I might have spent some time in africa finding this city but the overview picture took me to a location in Erwvzdqd*
Activating the Transports tick in the Google Earth application displayed an airplane over Pdxq*
* encrypted in an old but famous encryption...
Uu-wee! A crypto-puzzle within a find-it puzzle! :thumbsup:
This reminds me of the Churchill quip about Russia: "...It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma..."
I must say: Wow!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Duke John
So this Travolta aka Danny Zuko has a B707 parked in his back yard? He expanded the Graystone airport with the 36 - 18 (North-south) 2.29k runway? (it has a turf runway 27 - 9)
Damn... some people just like to travel.
ah, airport and overview was too much of a give away then on my effort, oops.... It would appear to be Sigurd Fafnesbane's turn.
though I suppose everyone else can solve the encryption meanwhile.....:yes:
Ok...
Its Airport time for this assignment too.
One of the big ones.
Imageshack is failing on me, both Makanyane's and SG's submissions are invisible to me. I can't go the imageshack website either.
Anyone else having trouble?
I reposted using photobucket. Still having problems?Quote:
Originally Posted by Duke John
No, thanks :bow:
The image is named 14L, which is a way of telling the direction of approach of a runway. Since this is supposed to be a large airport I would think that there would be more runways.
Edit: ah, that should be 140 degrees Left, which means that there is a second parellel runway
Ha! I've found the place! It is qrtypetroswski in Cbtymanrd Gghxishan*
* encrypted in an old but famous encryption...
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Haha, I hear Cbtymanrd Gghxishan is nice this time of year....
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I am not going to give any more clues to the latest assignment.
Duke John is so close with his reasoning that I believe he has found it already.
I don't know the answer (yet). Chicago O'hare pops as the first one with 14L but it doesn't match. Another one is the airport of Frankfurt, which is worth to look up. At the end of the runway you will see 3 airplanes in the close behind each other. Could it be that it is the same one as it moved with about the same speed as the satellite and was thus shot multiple times? Although I would think that the satellite would take larger pictures than the distance between the airplanes. Or do airplanes really take off that close behind (, Sigurd)?
Oh you are on the right track alright... There are not many Airports with a 14L runway.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duke John
Frankfurt has not a 14L as far as I can see. They have two parallell 07 - 25 and a 18 (I can't see markings for 36 on that north-south runway and hence it is a one way street).
The close planes I believe is in traffic. They circle around the airport on few minuttes legs. They are close though.
Having a closer look the three planes are in fact identical : B747 from Lufthansa. Your theory about the satelitte taking several shots with a second in between is strengthened but at the same time weakened as you can see a smaller plane (DC-9 ?) flying parallell to Runway 18... there are not 2 other ghosts from that plane.
I don't understand what Sigurd are DJ are talking about. ~:mecry:
I want old churches and medieval street patterns and Hausmannised African villages so I can follow what's going on.... ~:mecry:
I did manage to crack the previous one: it is Maun in Botswana.
If Louis isn't joking (and in case it helps anyone else) Sigurd and DJ are on about runway numbers at airports. Add a zero and you get the compass bearing for the runway (in the direction of travel). If there are two parallel runways, they are normally designated Left and Right E.g. Heathrow has 2 main runwways aligned East-West named 9L and 9R (aligned along 90 or 270 degrees depending which direction you are coming from). The other common layout is the x shape allowing ttake off into wind for most wind directions, or Chicago O'Hare (used to be the busiest national airport - Heathrow was the busiest international, not sure if this is still true) which has 3 pairs of runways!
Anyway, not that they were needed, but Osaka clues were going to be 'Large Hill' and something to do with the castle at the top of the pic.
It's Kuala Lumpur International Airport, rotated 180 degrees. Is it actually pink, or is that just the satellite pic messing up the colors?
Edit-> Props to Duke John on the runway clue.
Next one:
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North is up. More clues are available, assuming Louis doesn't name it immediately. :medievalcheers:
Hah! I've long progressed beyond the stage of merely identifying cities.Quote:
Originally Posted by drone
I now name the clues that people have in their minds but haven't even posted yet. The clue in your head is: this city is a predecessor of Kuala Lumpur. :fortune: