Tony,
Here is the actual route and timings from my logbook:-
1953
May 29th Wunstorf to Istres 578nms 1hr 25mins nightstop
May 30th Istres to Luqa 614nms 1hr 35mins nightstop
June 1st Luqa to El Adem 522nms 1hr 15mins
June 1st El Adem to Fayid 437nms 1hr 15mins nightstopx2
June 3rd Fayid to Wadi Halfa 508nms 1hr 20mins
June 3rd Wadi Halfa to Khartoum 381nms 1hr nightstop
June 4th Khartoum to Juba 640nms 1hr 30mins
June 4th Juba to Entebbe 290nms 55mins nightstop
June 5th Entebbe to Tabora 305nms 55mins
June 5th Tabora to Lusaka 668nms 1hr 50mins nightstopx3 including an Air Demonstration Lusaka on 6th June
June 8th Lusaka to New Salisbury 210nms 1hr 5mins
Seven Formation Aerobatics displays were flown in connection with the Rhodes Centenary Air Rally and we left on 17th June to return to Wunstorf by the same route, arriving back on 25th June...Twelve Venoms there and Twelve Venoms back.
The aircraft were Venom FB1s and had tip tanks only (pylon tanks were not yet ready). All Formation Aerobatics were in clean aircraft. I flew "S" WE330 all the way there and back and the fuel gauge read Zero for the entire time as they were unable to fix it
