RAF Akrotiri

Royal Air Force Station Akrotiri has been on Cyprus since 1956 close to a salt lake in the Sovereign Base Area of Episkopi, your Newsletter editor was stationed there in the late fifties and early sixties. Your webmaster was a frequent visitor in the early sixties as part of the process of calibrating the F49 air survey cameras used by the photo-reconnaissance aircraft of 13 Squadron RAF and their Canberra bombers (his daughter was born there in December 1961). Nick Carter when with 47 GHQ Survey Squadron RE was a frequent visitor to collect mapping material for 42 Survey Engineer Regiment RE which had been flown from the UK to Cyprus. On several occasions the material was handed direct to him by the crew., such was the urgency!!!
He took the photographs shown below during that time.

An American "F86 Sabre Jet" or a Republic F84F Thunderstreak?

Line up shows DH Venom FB4s of 8 Squadron RAF.

Nick failed to ask this Frenchman's name!