PN:-
I didn't think they had waafs there
Well if they ever did it would have been before Feb 1949.
My memories of El Adem are restricted to brief night flying detachments on 242OCU, both on Hastings and Hercules. Lots of night, little light, other than from the airfield lighting itself.
One night we ended up sharing the circuit with a Hunter. As a result of the difference in the finals distance that we each required, the Hunter ended up on extended finals, presumably then losing spatial orientation, and managed to do a touch and go on a sand dune some 2 miles out (as was subsequently confirmed the following day). He wisely decided on making his intended roller a full stop, and packed it in for the night. We however had to stumble on...
As others have said El Adem had little to commend it. Idris on the other hand did, and it was a sad day when the RAF (and hence the OCU detachment) was obliged to quit it.