"Aeroflot** M*****, yes, one of my crew has served in Aden".
"M*****, now we know why you left!"
Fantomzorbin,
I visited Aden in the early 90s, "between the first two civil wars". An interesting experience for me, because my grandfather had been there for a few years with "Bricks and Works", in the early 30s. It was fascinating to see places that had not changed much from the B&W photos in our family albums.
What prompted me to post was that prior to visiting Yemen, I had made a couple of trips to Russia. Some of the architecture in Aden and particularly around Khormaksar was a bizarre mixture of RAF architecture and concrete Russian apartment blocks, that looked exactly the same as ones I had seen in the Arctic!
I noticed that the ex-RAF hangars had been extensively shot-up in the first civil war.