My first encounter with a Sycamore was in 1956 when this one parked in front of the officers mess. Don't know who the VIP passenger was as I was only a lowly student on a Provost course. Later, in 1959, I escorted an Aden based Sycamore from Sharjah to Bahrain with a Twin Pioneer and then had to suffer being winched from a dinghy two miles off Muharraq Island. I never have trusted choppers!
