I'm surprised the Navy knew where Sharjah was :E

"Left hand down a bit number one"........

sheikh Robbie
 

Was named as a more acceptable name than the original "Robbin Bastard". Always plenty of cold soft drinks in Robbie's shop space, and quality gear. Still got two silver and one hold Khunjah.

French A/F visitor.
 

Well I never, a similar thing happened in Sept. 66 when a Breguet Provence(one of those 4 engined double deckered thingy's) diverted in with a split exhaust manifold. I did have a look around the lower cargo deck, but the only thing of any interest was a nice sailing dinghy. It night stopped after repair and departed early morning en-route Tahiti. I don't think there were any "women of pleasure" on board or else one of you lot would be bragging about it now!!

Thankyou savio for posting those photo's.

Here is a 'dodgy' photo' of two AAC Sioux(XT173 & 174) that were delivered in from Aden on the 5th Feb '66. I left for the UK in early May and I never ever saw them fly. Any idea as to what Regt/Flight/Sqdn they belonged to and what happened to them? Can anyone confirm that they did eventually get airborne?


http://i1297.photobucket.com/albums/...psb838a8bc.jpg

They were certainly operating in May 67 - I had a flight in one of them. From memory they were operated by AAC in support of the TOS. Both aircraft were serviceable and operated out of the hangar in which I worked.

Saro:

XT173, shot down Aden 20/6/67
ASN Aircraft accident 20-JUN-1967 Westland Sioux AH.1 XT173

XT174, crashed Aldridge 18/4/73
ASN Aircraft accident 18-APR-1973 Westland Sioux AH.1 XT174

Laurence

So did I. The choppers beat the hell out of driving in the sands for a week to check out a well for dodgy activities, or even worse for a fortnight on a camel for the same purpose but with fewer reverberations.

Sioux
 

Thankyou sisemen, LG and onb for updating me on the Sioux. The accident reports makes interesting reading. Niether of them had much of a length of service!! Took me another 35+ years before I flew a pax flight in a 47 and that was a 'civvy' one(Alan Mann's at Fairoaks)

Some good shots there Savio! I am thinking of meeting up in coming days and visit there once again with some really detailed shots of the artifacts here for our respected veteran pilots back home. :)

By the way, has anyone photographed the Khalid Lake back then? It wasn't embanked in those days was wet sandy shores. And did anyone visited the Al Khan Village in Sharjah? it was a fishing village on the beach side north west of RAF Sharjah airfield :rolleyes:

Hello respected aviators!

Don't know if you've seen this video or not but still putting here for those who haven't seen it as a jolly good revival of old Sharjah days! It fascinates me to see 1958 Sharjah in colour!

Sharjah 1958 - YouTube

Merely "bumping" this up to the top to enable the Mods to consider merging with the other RAF Sharjah thread. :}

XT 173
 

Afternoon all,

Stumbled across this thread and photo's of the two Sioux helicopters... My Father, Sgt. Forde, then of The 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards, was the pilot of XT173 shot down during the Police Mutiny 20/06/67.

I have a photo of XT173 in her final resting place but am not allowed to post attachments.....:{

Cheers....

Pete...

Will be in Dubai 3 and 4 Sep 13. Hopefully I'll make it out to Sharjah this time.

A question about some exhibits in the Al Mahatta museum. Does anyone know what aircraft these seats are from?

http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/c...ps41f64782.jpg

Thanks, and greetings to our Sharjah friends.

Laurence

These are dhavilland seats either from a Dove or a Heron. As the heron in the museum was mine I know they aren't from that so I surmise it is from the Dove hanging from the roof.

As a side note his Heron was one of the nicest aircraft I have ever flown

Thanks for that quick reply dhpilot. They may well be from the Dove, then.
Did you see the notes I wrote up about the aircraft in the museum?

https://sites.google.com/site/lgarey...lmahattamuseum

The Heron VH-NJP came from you then?

Laurence

Don't know, but I had to stand all the way home. :\

today is 4th of sept. sir please let me know if you're heading towards Sharjah.... I am living behind RAF SHJ museum!! Will be waiting for your PM.

Bugger! We missed.

Went to the museum on Wednesday morning and marvelled at the changes that had taken place since 1968! Had an interesting time getting there as the taxi driver didn't know about the place and was most disbelieving that there had been an airport there and kept trying to tell me that I really should be at the airport outside the city. Once I get back to Oz in mid Oct I'll post up a few pics.