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From: Frank Reed
Date: 2022 Dec 24, 10:01 -0800
Ha ha. :) David, I think your earlier hint was sufficient, but I do like your video "amplification" of the hint. This light "puzzle" has no celestial component so I'm not surprised no one else was interested. And it is (mostly) off-topic.
I thought the lettering on the tarmac in the second photo "B747 STOP" might draw some attention. I also assumed that anyone with sufficient aviation interest would recognize that the Canberra bomber in the first photo has the wide two-person side-by-side cockpit dome of the original British "EE" design rather than the inline canopy of the later Martin variant built under license for the USAF as the B-57. That, plus a few other clues, should have been enough to place the airport in the UK.
So then it comes down to one question: why does some random airport in the UK have taxi and parking directions for a 747? And I will answer with an image and an article link: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-64049483. It's the decades-delayed dream of orbital satellite launch from the UK coming soon!
Frank Reed
