Following on from the 'Interesting places ' theme;
On finals into Quito to visit the Ex-Staish,JB.
Sadly the name of this strip has long leaked away - Mekele ? anyway, the morning wave about to launch delivering Bob Geldof's grain.
First time I ever landed on a red and white runway-quick gas & go at Thule before heading north to Alert
Minsk during one of the Stockholm ? treaty flights-fascinating trip as this was before glasnost and the wall coming down. Couldn't work out why the boss wanted to have his picture taken outside a government building downtown until he told us it was his V-force days target. Sobering stuff. What was less sober was the evening out drinking with our Soviet AF hosts-copious amounts of Vodka and very dubious champagne and some hilarious shenanigans with some KGB ladies.
