8,000 feet was the optimum height for endurance & maintenace of fuel pressure I recall. Somewhere I still have the hourly log I kept for the whole trip after nearly running out of fuel on the first leg due to uncalibrated fuel gauges and flow meters.
We had a sandstorm to contend with after an eight hour leg to Khartoum, most other aircraft had diverted but a 707 made it after he heard we had landed. The longest leg was nine hours from Alexandria to Palermo.
The five hour forty leg from Marignane to Manston was cold, to keep Keith Sissons warm we put his feet in plastic bags and he wore his raincoat and airline hat. A good eight day adventure.
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