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Old 18th Sep 2007, 20:02
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JW411
 
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I didn't get to Buraimi until the end of 1967 after we had pulled out of Aden. The strip we used to use was referred to as Daudi. It was indeed orientated 30/12 and was in pretty good shape apart from a few soft patches. It was quite long as I recall and it was situated about half a mile south of the TOS HQ.

A couple of years later, the Army built another strip about five miles to the east called Tawi Hammad as part of an exercise. I landed there a couple of times but it would be fair to say that "it didn't catch on"!

I gave up bashing the bundu at the end of 1971. By then, they were building a multi-story hotel on short finals to 12 at Daudi right on the centreline. I could not imagine a more stupid place to build an hotel short of putting it right on the threshold.
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