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Letter Published in The National UAE on 30 Oct 19 Sharjah airport photos taken in 1930s gives us idea of UAE progress I write in reference to Emma Day’s article The first plane to touch down in Sharjah 87 years ago: historic images of the UAE’s earliest airport (October 27): it is always fun to look at grainy old black-and-white photographs as they take us back in time and give us an idea of what life must have been like.I had the same warm fuzzy feeling looking at images taken eight-and-a-half decades ago, and preserved all these years, of Sharjah Air Station – especially because I lived in the emirate for about 15 years. The UAE did not exist in 1932 but looking at how sparse the land around the station was gives us an idea of the extent of progress the nation has made, thanks to its visionary leaders. One need only visit Sharjah International Airport today for evidence of the country’s remarkable development.K Ragavan, Bengaluru