Pilot's Handbook of the Cairo - Baghdad Route (Revised) May 1929

Langue : anglais

Edité par His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO), London, 1929

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Original black-titled RAF-blue cloth with flap 15x23cm. 94, (1)pp + 12 double-page colour sectional maps + Appendices I and II inserted loose in the back pocket, consecutively numbered pp82-89, complete as called for. The covers are very good, dulled to spine, and the interiors fine. This is the third of 3 known editions, the others published in 1923 and 1926. The printers code indicates 375 copies printed in July 1929 (p3). All 3 editions are extremely rare, not recorded on Worldcat, with Library Hub locating only the National Aerospace Library for this edition. This describes the difficult desert route, which had originally been conceived at the Middle East Conference in 1921 to accelerate the transport of people and mail to India and beyond, reinforcements from Palestine and Egypt to Iraq, and to train pilots in flying long distances. As the stretch between Amman and Baghdad was largely featureless, Chief of Staff Sir Hugh Trenchard initiated an innovative system to assist navigation and search for lost planes. Over an 8 week period, two teams, one starting from Cairo the other from Baghdad, painted a white line from Amman across the black lava of the Syrian Desert, which joined with a ploughed 470 mile furrow from Baghdad. They placed emergency landing strips every 25 miles (marked with whitewashed arrows these were labelled A-R in the Cairo Zone, I-X in the Baghdad Zone). (The furrow also unexpectedly increased ground freight). They made arrangements to hide fuel under the sand to prevent Bedouin herders from emptying the drums and taking the metal to fashion useful items such as knives, cups, mirrors and water bottles. Another team set up meteorological stations and rest houses, including at Rutbah Wells. The aircraft were suitably adapted with fabric covered wood frames, spare wheel, spare tropical radiator, 2 auxiliary fuel tanks, and 5 gallon drums of drinking water on the bomb rack. This guide assisted the pilots "in every way (on) the great length of the track, the severity of climatic conditions, the lack of water, the enormous extent and uniform appearance of the desert and the uncertainty of the weather in this area" (p3). It describes the route and its origins, ground characteristics, desert equipment, meteorology, wireless, forced landings, pilotage in bad weather when the Track has been lost, refuelling bases with illustrated instructions for the tanks, signals, and notes and precautions. The latter covers treatment of natives, noting Arabs "generally display a friendly attitude, especially to British personnel". There is a sample Log, useful Arab phrases, route report, distance and speed tables. The maps cover 12 sections on a 1 inch to 8 miles scale with notes for Heliopolis, Kantara, Moseifig, Rafa, Jericho, C, H, O, 8, V, II, Falujah, and Ramidi to Baghdad. Appendices list equipment for the DH9a light bomber used for policing and reconnaissance, and Vickers Victoria used as a troop and freight carrier.…

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Titre
Pilot's Handbook of the Cairo - Baghdad Route (Revised) May 1929
Auteur
Royal Air Force (RAF)
Éditeur
His Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO), London
Année de publication
1929
État de l'article
Very Good
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
Édition
3rd Edition

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