Hope you'll permit an ex-Muppet to post some photos from Op Bushell taken during Nov 1985
En route between Assab and Mekele
Locals helping with the offload at Mekele
After offloading the grain, there was a dance led by a man with the loud hailer. The dance consisted of going round in circles and stamping a foot in time to the man on loud hailer. The stamping would be so fierce that the wing tips moved.
Tyre burst on taxi at Assab when loaded with grain. We had to offload the grain before the GEs could change the wheel. They found there was some damage to the undercarriage doors and the rest of the days tasks were cancelled and we flew back to Addis empty. It took a few days for the required spares to arrive before normal air landing ops could continue.
Edited to add - according to my notes, this was XV306 on the 4 Nov 1985