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Old 14th Oct 2006, 11:18
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I saw a couple of Warriors or three on the ground at Batin airfield in Abu Dhabi in the summer (August/September) of 1990 in preparation for 50Deg C plus desert hot weather work up and trials (???) before the liberation of Kuwait in the February of 1991. Also met a motley crew of about 15 ITDU and GKN/Alvis ? personnel at the Gulf Hotel and the sober one who flew with it from UK told me they had squeezed all their kit into the Belfast at Stanstead a couple of days earlier. The civvy engineer also noted that the Belfast's ASI was calibrated in furlongs per fortnight.

He also told me that they fitted and flew a Warrior in a civvy C-130 which led me to question even his ex REME sobriety.
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