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Forum: Military Aviation
21st Dec 2020, 14:09
Replies: 843
Views: 352,236
Posted By Geriaviator

More wonderful pictures Deano, those of us there...

More wonderful pictures Deano, those of us there in 1951 remember them as The Tanks of Sheba. So popular and safe that family parties would visit them.
Forum: Military Aviation
30th Oct 2020, 13:59
Replies: 843
Views: 352,236
Posted By Geriaviator

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/...

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/930x263/dunera_and_75_w_0187c733a219cc3ccb77ae55725c832356133fab.jpg

HMT Dunera dropped us off at Steamer Point and continued to Malaya with a...
Forum: Military Aviation
29th Oct 2020, 12:04
Replies: 843
Views: 352,236
Posted By Geriaviator

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/...

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/850x619/stingray_4e82d54dac57eb33b362dfd466251d5e56b528a1.jpg


Another look back to more peaceful times 70 years ago when young lads could go...
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Oct 2020, 12:23
Replies: 843
Views: 352,236
Posted By Geriaviator

Thanks Deano for the most atmospheric set of Aden...

Thanks Deano for the most atmospheric set of Aden photos I have seen, as I said earlier you have captured everything of that desolate place but the smells! Incidentally, during a stay in hospital a...
Forum: Military Aviation
27th Oct 2020, 12:55
Replies: 843
Views: 352,236
Posted By Geriaviator

T...

T (https://www.google.com/maps/@12.8207039,45.0308711,396m/data=!3m1!1e3)hanks Deano, your nav is better than mine, I had another look at my photo #775 which shows the OM quite clearly. The...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Oct 2020, 17:45
Replies: 843
Views: 352,236
Posted By Geriaviator

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/...

https://cimg2.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/930x535/khormaksar_2020_91bb28bb4a49f68b917b29700cd4f7b15d2fc337.jpg

Courtesy Google earth, here is Khormaksar ...
Forum: Military Aviation
25th Oct 2020, 15:24
Replies: 843
Views: 352,236
Posted By Geriaviator

Until I left home many years later an unfortunate...

Until I left home many years later an unfortunate downdraught would bring the word "Maala" bellowed up the stairs, the family code for 'open the bathroom window'. One day the minister was visiting...
Forum: Military Aviation
25th Oct 2020, 12:29
Replies: 843
Views: 352,236
Posted By Geriaviator

Great pics Deano, 10 years after my time. The...

Great pics Deano, 10 years after my time. The well drilling was fairly new I think, I remember the camels wearily plodding around a circular track pulling a heavy round stone for milling or powering...
Forum: Military Aviation
11th Oct 2020, 17:53
Replies: 843
Views: 352,236
Posted By Geriaviator

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/...

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/940x590/khormaksar_1951_e40b21a0791e55ca838f51d0409be10c9a6cca8d.jpg
...
Forum: Military Aviation
26th Nov 2017, 15:07
Replies: 843
Views: 352,236
Posted By Geriaviator

I think it's a South African Casspir anti-mine...

I think it's a South African Casspir anti-mine transport, or a copy of it built on a Bedford RL 4x4 truck chassis. The Casspir was based on Mercedes but this running gear looks very like the RL to me.
Forum: Military Aviation
28th Oct 2017, 11:31
Replies: 843
Views: 352,236
Posted By Geriaviator

KHORMAKSAR 1952 -- through the eyes of an 11-year-old

https://s1.postimg.org/2gw8ayymgv/camel.jpg


ABDULLAH the chowkidar guards the families’ gate from his little sentry box, leaving one section open for pedestrians and opening the other only for...
Forum: Military Aviation
19th Oct 2017, 10:50
Replies: 843
Views: 352,236
Posted By Geriaviator

https://s20.postimg.org/92s21sgbx/church.jpg ...

https://s20.postimg.org/92s21sgbx/church.jpg


Geriaviator has no doubt that the departure of the Kids from RAF Khormaksar 65 years ago (picture, #461 above) was welcomed by the long-suffering...
Forum: Military Aviation
13th Oct 2017, 16:00
Replies: 843
Views: 352,236
Posted By Geriaviator

https://s20.postimg.org/6tkftgwdp/Hastings_Khormak...

https://s20.postimg.org/6tkftgwdp/Hastings_Khormak.jpg

Early 1953 and Geriaviator checks over his Hastings for next day's long trip home. In fact it was two days, we night stopped at (I think)...
Forum: Military Aviation
13th Oct 2017, 13:04
Replies: 843
Views: 352,236
Posted By Geriaviator

Thanks Jenkins, Valetta it was, memory tricks...

Thanks Jenkins, Valetta it was, memory tricks again. In our time this chubby product of Vickers was always referred to as a Pig. :hmm:
Forum: Military Aviation
13th Oct 2017, 11:22
Replies: 843
Views: 352,236
Posted By Geriaviator

In the early 50s Khormaksar's roads, runways and...

In the early 50s Khormaksar's roads, runways and movement areas were packed gypsum. We had a rain shower one year and surfaces became slippery for all of 10 minutes until they dried out. Brigands,...
Forum: Military Aviation
9th Oct 2017, 10:46
Replies: 843
Views: 352,236
Posted By Geriaviator

https://s20.postimg.org/uqoqj0ve5/Jebel_and_barrac...

https://s20.postimg.org/uqoqj0ve5/Jebel_and_barrackblock.jpg

Phone calls home when we were there in 1952 were virtually unheard of, would have cost a week's wages and had to be booked a week or so...
Forum: Military Aviation
7th Oct 2017, 16:38
Replies: 843
Views: 352,236
Posted By Geriaviator

KHORMAKSAR IN 1951

https://s1.postimg.org/51fmupv4cf/Camelcart.jpg

Herod, the shopping area you visited with your mother was the Crescent in Steamer Point, pictured above. In faroff days before air travel the liners...
Forum: Military Aviation
31st Oct 2015, 18:56
Replies: 843
Views: 352,236
Posted By Geriaviator

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y503/Oldnotbol...

http://i1278.photobucket.com/albums/y503/Oldnotbold/Khormaksar%201950_zpsyunl2zbt.jpg

Khormaksar from the north-east in 1950.
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