RAF sharjah
Just caught up with this thread. I visited RAF Sharjah on a Friday late 1969. It was deserted . I worked on a field geophysical crew which surveyed in Sharjah, Umm al Quwain and Ras al Khaimah from Sept 1969 to Jan 1970.
The black top from Dubai to Ras al Khaimah was not finished until after I left. I also did the drive along the beach North towards Oman until there was no longer any beach. And it was possible that Wendell Phillips had also driven along the beach as he was a consultant to many oil companies. Shell Oil had the onshore oil exploration licences and Union Oil Company of California operated offshore. Mearns Loon.