Author: Paul

(Image Credit: 36echo.co.uk)

The Filton Aerodrome has a history that dates back to the first aircraft production facility in England at the beginning of World War I, includes major participation in World War II and the development of the British airline industry.

Filton is very important in the creation, maintenance, and eventual demise of the British side of the Concorde. The first British Concorde to fly left Filton on 9 April 1969, and the last Concorde to fly landed at Filton on 26 November 2003. It is this last plane (G-BOAF) which was the “white triangular object” from the hint.

(Image Credit: Bristol Aerospace Centre)

The airport closed at the end of 2012, and the runway was broken up in January of 2013. The land has been sold to a development company who wants to turn it into a housing complex and aviation museum (which will house the G-BOAF Concorde).

Those who witnessed the flyover included:

• Garfield
• Paul Voestermans
• Eloy Cano
• rob de wolff
• krenek
• Phil Ower
• Walter_V_R
• Luís Filipe Miguel
• steve willis
• hhgygy
• Lighthouse

And after that pesky hint:

• Andy McConnell

The little white triangular thing south of the runway near the middle is your friend here.

The Trift Bridge is a very long pedestrian suspension bridge that provides spectactular views of the Triftsee, a glacial lake that forms the end of the Trift Glacier.

Those who walked the line included:

• Garfield
• hhgygy
• Walter_V_R
• Eloy Cano
• Cloudspotter
• Lighthouse
• Phil Ower
• mehmet durmus
• steven simmons
• steve willis
• krenek
• Chris Nason
• Marcel
• Paul Voestermans
• Dennis S.
• Marisa Boraas
• rob de wolff

After the hint:

• Bill Close

And this concludes Andrew and Paul’s first series. Hearty congratulations to our series champs Garfield, Lighthouse, and Phil Ower.

That milky blue water is significant,  as is that bridge.

Between 1923 and 1937, a group of fossils were unearthed at a site near Bejing (which, at the time, was referred to in the west as “Peking”) that belonged to Homo erectus pekinensis, is an example of Homo erectus. As war approached in 1941, the fossils were spirited away to protect them. The problem is, they disappeared along the way.

Today, the site is run under the auspices of the Beijing People’s Municipal Government. The local government has built a new museum, which can be seen in the lower right hand of the contest image.

Those who dug up the answer were:

• Garfield
• Phil Ower
• Lighthouse

After the hint:

• Mehmet DURMUS
• steve willis
• krenek
• hhgygy
• Walter_V_R
• Eloy Cano

UNESCO World Heritage Site. What was found here has been missing since 1941.

This week’s contest was an attempt to drive our contestants to “think outside of the box” (or, more appropriately, at the corners of the coordinate box). The site was chosen entirely based on the interesting coordinate sequence. The inspiration for chosing this location came from a recent perusal of a website called confluence.org dedicated to documenting and photographing points on the earth where integer coordinates meet (like, for example, 47°N 9°E)

The site, interestingly enough since it is in the north western quadrasphere, is in Senegal Africa. Specifically, the area just south of the Nikolo Koba national park.

Those who found it (all before the Wednesday hint):

• Lighthouse
• Garfield