Hi Ian, here is a screenie I did a couple of years ago of a Beverley climbing out of Dhala, as I said absolutly no buildings, no tarmac or concrete anywhere.
There is only one way in and out as you can see, the strip was made by a RAF airfield construction unit and was used by RAF Beverleys, Aden Airways DC3's and RAF Twin Pioneers.
I spent 6 weeks in Sunny Dhala in 1966 my duties included a daily trip to the airstrip to collect mail off the Bev's or Twin Pin, size of load I think being the deciding factor as to which it was, the Aden Airways DC3 was 3 times a week I think and never use more than the first 2000 ft of runway, on a busy day we had a Bev and the DC3 on the strip at the same time.
The photo does not show the airstrip but it shows our camp location = blue box, the Federal Republic Army = yellow box, the green box is Temple hill which had a resident 120mm Wombat anti tank gun perched on it, it would have had to be lifted up there by heli.
The blue line from our camp was the route to the airstrip just off pic.
The red line was roughly the path of our almost daily airshow by a low level Hunter which often removed telephone wires and antenna.
what a differance, took a flight around the harbour, and i'll take some trips up country later tonite,