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Can anyone make something of this web-page?

It's a Japanese site and appears to be related to travel and culture in Indonesia and not flight sim related. The photo captions translate to English pretty well using Babel Fish: http://babelfish.yahoo.com/
The pics are from Google Earth, some have been adjusted for a low-altitude airplane view perspective (the ones with the blue/lavender looking sky, kinda like CFS1).
Pitu Airport (below) dates to WWII, looks like one of MaskRider's airfields. :icon_lol:

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Wow- this could be my own travel guide to the area-

Yep, Tarps, probably not a simmer but obviously a guy with a great interest in the lost and still in use WWII airfields in Indonesia. The main thing he zooms in on are the airfields- all of which are the sites of abandoned and/or still in use DEI airfields.

His maps are annotated and marked up just like my Google Earth and Encarta maps are marked up- airfields and links to images of airfields- just in another language.

I have every one of those closer up overhead images of abandoned/still in use airstrips in my collection, too- every one of them.

Hadn't every tried that low level perspective angle before- must do so. At first I thought those were some sort of screenies of photo real scenery.

Danged interesting site, Arndt! Thanks.
Chris

PS and yes, Tarps, if I were a betting man I would say that the screenie you posted is Morotai-Pitoe Drome looking down runway 9L with Morotai-Wama off to the right along the shore- pretty sure.:icon_lol:
 
MaskRider said:
PS and yes, Tarps, if I were a betting man I would say that the screenie you posted is Morotai-Pitoe Drome looking down runway 9L with Morotai-Wama off to the right along the shore- pretty sure.:icon_lol:
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Chris, no need to bet on a sure thing, see below. With all those parking spots, this must have been a busy place back in WWII. The link in my other post must have been messed up so here is the oblique view again.
 
TARPSBird said:
Chris, no need to bet on a sure thing, see below. With all those parking spots, this must have been a busy place back in WWII. The link in my other post must have been messed up so here is the oblique view again.
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Hehe- yep- There no mistaken that one- penciling in all those hardstands get a tad tedious!:d

BTW: I think it was also busy during the Indonesian War of Independence (Indonesia v Netherlands) 1945-1949.
 
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