RAF Sharjah 'Gliding Club' - Coo after all these years- i find out why the T.21 (i flew) was called '404' an ex-Aden number. The Olympia 2b was BGA1036 and the K-8b c/n8797. None carried any external marks i flew with various instuctors Beck/Stockwell/Wilkinson/Carpenter/ Slater, in 1970. When the ex-kenyan wire wore out-more fence wire arrived in a Shackleton.
My then-wife started to learn and my 4 year old son was flown on her lap in the T-21. A trip to Manama wth the 'thames trader+ballon winch' towing the T-21 in a trailer.
The reason no Britannias came to Sharjah was that the runway lights were on tall stalks and might have hit the props.
Very happy times.