Originally Posted by
Haven't a clue
Looks a bit like Lion Rock in the background. Kai Tak? But the perspective seems wrong.
Originally Posted by
dook
The hill profile is at RAF Kai Tak.
It is indeed, RAF Kai Tak where I went to pick up some stragglers when Eagle left for the last time on 27th October 1971. Honkers was a very different place then, and we had a fairly free rein flying around doing various jobs such as lifting equipment to a remote island for the RE to build a water purification plant for the village, same for a lighthouse on the edge of the New Territories with a Chinese gunboat tracking us with the AA to ensure we stayed on our side, landing on the Blue Star ferry pier, etc.
Line ball between
Haven't a clue as first in, refined by
dook with the actual strip. I hereby nominate
dook to carry the torch to the next location
ps this was the return to Eagle from HK, and a flypast for the Governor where we had half a dozen Sea Kings: 100% serviceability wasn't unusual!