Thanks for the replies concerning the routing twixt Khormaksar and Mombasa. I can assure you we flew over pyramids, but certainly not the ones at Cairo. The chap in charge of Egypt at that time was not our best mate. I reckon they were in Ethiopia, which would fit with the dog leg route via Djibouti. Sudan also has pyramids, but I suspect we didn't overfly their territory. Ethiopia was in the Western sphere of influence at that time and Sudan may have been, but were soon to start buying Soviet weaponry as their political leanings changed. I suspect we weren't welcome over Somalia ? which would've been a more direct route. I may even have some photographs which were taken from the Argosy, but they will be 'archived' in the loft.