RAF Transport Command Route to the Far East mid-1950's

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I was on 99 squadron Hastings at Lyneham in 1957/9. The USH (UK-Singapore-Hastings route varied, but a typical example was Lyneham, Luqa, El Adem, Habbaniya, Mauripur (Karachi), Negombo (Ceylon), Changi. Westbound from Luqa we sometimes staged through Orange in the Rhone Valley when the headwinds were too strong to make a direct flight.