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Old 1st November 2009 | 21:10
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Oldpilot55
 
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This is absolutely irrelevant but 26 years ago I did a hydrographic survey in the delta and there were (Polish, I think) crop sprayers working in the area. We had mega problems getting up and down the river due to water hyacinth. The sprayers did their biz ( I watched them spraying, fortunately from the bank, they were ultra low, 5 feet or less) and within a couple of days night had become day, what had taken us days to criss cross could now be done in a few hours.
On an even more irrelevant note I remember seeing an airstrip full of abandoned small planes but I was unable to identify what they were. No one throws anything away in Egypt. They are probably still there although I can't find the strip on Google.
I would be very, very surprised if there was anything GA in Egypt but its always nice to be proved wrong.
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