I was lucky enough to fly out to Cyprus from Wildenrath in the nose of a B(I)8 Canberra as ground crew support of 88 Sqdn. I got a good shot with my camera when we flew over Valetta harbour in Malta en-route at 47,000 ft. As the pilot forgot to tell me to strap myself in when we landed at Luqa I got a good shot of the runway (about 3 feet away) when we touched down. On landing at Akrotiri, a snoop saw my camera and asked if I had taken photos which of course I had. He confiscated the camera and when the photos were printed they removed the negatives of photos that apparently were security sensitive and then asked the pilot, a Sqdn Ldr when he was having his supper if it was OK for me to take photos I eventually received the contact prints of the film and my camera, the prints they had removed was over the island of Malta. What a waste of time.