Originally Posted by
breakscrew
Hobie,
It was mainly RAF Beverlys and Britannias, with the odd Hastings thrown in for good measure.
I believe the Comet may also have been on the route as they continued through Gan to Singapore.
The route would have been UK, possibly Malta, Libya, Sudan and into the Red Sea before following the coast to Aden. Not sure where they would have flagged, certainbly the Hastings went through El Adem and then possibly Khartoum.
In the 60s was it normal for the aircraft to slip crews and stream the aircraft down the route?
I have an idea that slipping only really started with the Britannia and the Comet. One time at Gan I do not recall the Comet crews slipping as the hop Aden-Gan-Changi could be done in one duty period. Not so the Brit whose crews used to bitch when the
Bomber Command aircon accommodation at Gan was being used by used by
Bomber Command.
Certainly the slipping practice serves to separate crew and pax.