Looks like we can firm-up on a hard surface at the pre-1960 Wadi Halfa, then!
Yes WHBM, and YNE was replaced by YTE, if memory serves. Not sure it had slipper tanks, however. CAA (later Air Rhodesia) was a good outfit, I think, although the Viking problems got them off to a bad start.
As you know, those Airwork/Hunting-Clan Safari routes to West (coastal), East, and Central Africa formed the foundation of BUA's long-haul network from Gatwick in 1960. Fortunately, BUA's 300-series Brits (and later VC10s) to East and Central Africa didn't need Wadi Halfa! In fact, they normally flew Entebbe/Gatwick direct. Coincidentally, perhaps, CAA's one time boss, Max Stuart-Shaw, moved to BUA. He was later replaced as MD in 1968 by Alan Bristow, in an (unsuccessful) attempt to turn the airline to profitability.
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