Shack Trip
RAF Sharjah 1970. As a young DFGA Hunter pilot I thought it would be amusing to see how the other half lived, i.e. a trip in one of the Mk2s of the resident 210 Sqn. They still had the 20mm front guns, sadly left unloaded.
Surprisingly, the captain was an AEO, and we spent most of the 8hr sortie at 250ft, cruising all the way round the coast of Oman, looking for smugglers and drug-runners.
The noise was appalling. Wherever you sat you could not escape it. I ended up lying down at the extremity of the tail observation boom to get away from it. We eventually climbed to 1500 ft to fly a practice GCA at Sharjah.