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Experiences on the Cairo-Baghdad Air Mail

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2016

Extract

The Air Mail route from Cairo to Baghdad is now securely established. Seven years ago the major portion of it, from Transjordan to Iraq, was no more than a project in certain far-seeing minds. The maps of this region between Amman in Transjordan and Ramadi, a little market town on the Euphrates, 65 miles west of Baghdad, were until 1921 painfully reticent. The countries of Egypt, Palestine, and to some extent Transjordan, had been fairly accurately mapped for some time, and were flown over extensively during the war by ourselves and the Germans. The landmarks are generally speaking abundant, and from the navigational point of view they therefore present no outstanding difficulties.

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Proceedings
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Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1928

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