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I can remember clambering over the remains of a Javelin on the HalFar dump when I lived in Kalafrana in 1966/7.
Here’s a partner in crime on a home made catamaran cobbled up from a pair of drop tanks, in Kalafrana bay with Birzebugga in the background.
http://i1045.photobucket.com/albums/b459/ChXdoc/Untitled-2.jpg
And a very nice postcard of early Kalafrana, before the married quarters were built on the hill behind the Wrens quarters.
Looks like a Felixstowe on the ramp, so must be early 20’s I would guess.
http://i1045.photobucket.com/albums/b459/ChXdoc/KalafranaPostcard.jpg

I had the great pleasure of knowing Stan Hall BEM, last surviving member of the RAF High Speed Flight that won the Schneider Trophy in 1931. In the late 1920’s he served with 202 Sqdn at Kalafrana on Fairey IIIDs, and told me of the early morning flights he would take in the back seat to pick up fresh honey from the little island of Comino, in time for breakfast in the officers mess. It really was the world’s finest flying club in those days!