Ah the good old days!

I think Vic, Bracken OE's dad, might appreciate this one.
I run two websites, nothing clever as I do it with Weebly.com. It's all very simple to do in creating pages, dropping photos and text in and publishing etc.
One is for RAF Luqa (Malta) http://raf-luqa.weebly.com
the other is RAF Masirah (Oman) http://raf-masirah.weebly.com
People have swamped me with photos, stories and information in the first few years but it has slowed down a lot of course but ocassionaly a new bit of information comes up, some of it quite amusing.

Some of us of a certain age might remember the days before digital technology when aircraft announcements were only made over the audio system from the cabin. Some aircraft didn't even have that of course and every so often a sheet of paper would come around informing you of where we were. By the time it reached the rear you were a couple of hundred miles on but you couldn't really tell looking out of the window. You knew where you were by reading the road signs as you passed over traffic (didn't fly at 36,000 feet in those days!).

This blip entry was sent to me by a chap called Barry Osborne. It's from an Argosy flight (see extra, taken by in in 1969). The Argosy aircraft of RAF Transport Command took us up and down the Arabian Gulf from Muharraq (Bahrain) to Sharjah (UAE) to Masirah (Oman) and Salalah (also Oman).
They weren't always very accurate as you can see from this sheet but they were often amusing.
The Argosy fleet were often referred to as 'Yimkin Airways', anyone with a smattering of Arabic will know that Yimkin loosely means Maybe or Probability!