RAF Regiment Armored Cars in Canal Zone Desert. With an armored car of No. 4001 Armored Car Flight, RAF Regt. in the background, a camel struggles to its feet under a heavy load in the Canal Zone Desert. To reinforce the Army's desert patrols in the Canal Zone of Egypt, No. 4001 Armoured Car Flight of the RAF Regt. was recently flown from its normal station, RAF Amman, Jordan, to RAF Station, Fayid. In these photographs a troop of armoured cars and supporting land rovers are seen on their first patrol in the neighborhood of an important Army and RAF depot in Egypt. January 31, 1952. (Photo by Fox).