RAF KHORMAKSAR
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Dubai 67
An airborne shot of Dubai creek where Sheikh "Robbie" used to ply his trade in gold Khunjas. If I had married his daughter as he suggested I would have been a millionaire today!
Lordflasheart
Do you think your excellent pic of the Habbaniya parking lot (post 65 above) might be back to front ? Shouldn't the hangars be on the right ?
Dougie,
you may equally as well have become a counter tenor !
you may equally as well have become a counter tenor !
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Never was there, but:
"A little bit of 'mutti' fell down from the sky one day
- and it landed in the desert not so very far away .
- and when the Air Force saw it, it looked so bare and grim
- They said 'that's what we're looking for, we'll put our Station there' ".
(Aplologies to "The Shaibah Blues")
"A little bit of 'mutti' fell down from the sky one day
- and it landed in the desert not so very far away .
- and when the Air Force saw it, it looked so bare and grim
- They said 'that's what we're looking for, we'll put our Station there' ".
(Aplologies to "The Shaibah Blues")
fr
Spent a couple of nights in the mess in Sharjah around 1972. As we'd just spent 2 weeks in Masirah with its salt water showers it seemed like luxury.
Like Khormaksar, Sharjah was not officially an "air conditioned" station, which was why I spent so much time there with a Twin Pioneer. As the only single pilot on 152 for a high proportion of my two year tour I did most of the Twin Pin flying out of Sharjah as my LOA only dropped from three shillings to one and sixpence, whereas married crew members dropped from seven pounds fifteen shillings to one and sixpence as they and their families were entitled to a much higher LOA due to air conditioning costs, but only when they were present in Bahrain!
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Also in and out Sharjah 59-61 on 37 Det. I remember we bought large
plastic bottles of cheap Indian shampoo to use in the shower. Better than nothing with salt water showers.
plastic bottles of cheap Indian shampoo to use in the shower. Better than nothing with salt water showers.
Thank you Brakedwell. I knew I'd seen that memorable photo somewhere before – I just tracked it down to your own "which aerodrome" challenge from 2009 
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I gather Habbaniya is back in the wars again as an assembly area for the glorious re-taking of Ramadi etc.
LFH
. I gather Habbaniya is back in the wars again as an assembly area for the glorious re-taking of Ramadi etc.
LFH
"Mildly" Eccentric Stardriver
For the last 2 days, a group of pilots from 78 Squadron in Khormaksar have been holding their first reunion since those memorable (in many different ways) days. We managed nine of us; not bad after some forty-eight years.
Well, it's taken me a long time but I now have a new slide converter and I have been making some inroads into my collection. There was some mention of the RAF Dakota at Khormaksar on this (or a similar thread) many moons ago and I have just found a shot of 21 Squadron's KN452.
And here is their famous leaking Andover CC.2 XS793. It was plagued with fuel leaks and as often as not we had to back up its VIP departures with a 105 Sqn Argosy (in semi-VIP fit).
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Khormaksar
233 Sqn Valettas South of Crater and Little Aden. Pics taken 1963. Loads of formation practice prior to disbandment.
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