The Beverley may have had all the aerodynamic qualities of a brick, but it did some sterling service in its time. They were very rugged and stood up well to operating out of dusty strips in up-country Aden, where I sometimes flew in them with 84 Sqn from Khormaksar. At Seletar I shared a room in the mess with a Beverley captain on 34 Sqn , and often went flying in in them, either on the jump seat in the very spacious flight deck, or down below watching army dispatchers pushing one-ton containers out of the back at low level. Never had the dubious "pleasure" of flying as pax in the boom, though!