2
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Hotel
Evening entertainment (tbn)
Al Bhustan Palace, Muscat (whole party)
WEDNESDAY 26 NOVEMBER (OMAN)
0415
0600
0815
1030
1300
Hotel
(This is not
not a misprint: hotel.
Travel by Omani
a quarter past four): Leave Hercules to an airstrip constructed in the desert. Fly by helicopter to watch beach assault in the Gulf of Masirah area.
Beach assault
Fly by helicopter to watch parachute drop
Parachute drop
Move to Field Exercise Control HO
Breakfast
Landing of more troops
troops by Hercules into area secured by parachute drop
Fly by Hercules back to Muscat
UK/Omani Press Conference at the Al Bhustan Palace Hotel
Afternoon free
Entertainment in the evening (tbn)
Al Bhustan Palace, Muscat (whole party)
THURSDAY 27 NOVEMBER (OMAN)
[09.00
Morning
VC 10 returns to UK]
Meetings
with
Deputy Prime
Minister
for
Defence
and
Afternoon
Hotel
Minister for Foreign Affairs
Visit to Omani Naval Command, Muscat
Al Bhustan Palace, Muscat (whole party)
FRIDAY 28 NOVEMBER (OMAN)
Morning
Fly to Straits of Hormuz
Briefing and lunch at the Straits
Mid-afternoon Fly back to Muscat
Evening
Hotel
?Free
Al Bhustan Palace, Muscat