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Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. "THIS SHEET IS QUITE INACCURATE" U.S. HANDBOOK FOR FLYING OVER THE PERSIAN GULF. One folding two-tone map, numerous colour printed route maps and landing charts, small airport landing sketches, 4to, copious amount of m.s. ink corrections and notations throughout, occasional nicks to the leaves. In the original printed wrappers with red horizontal stripe, originally hand bound with cord (preserved with a black spine bar and archival covers); worn with some nicks, light staining and creases. In good condition overall. 33ff. [Mauripur] 229 Group - South East Asia Air Force, [c.1947] A confidential, post-war R.A.F. route book charting the route between Mauripur, Pakistan and Cairo, Egypt. An office copy, It shows revisions of numerous sheets taken from Cairo-Karachi Route Books printed in 1944. A critical resource for pilots flying in the region, it outlines all necessary information about the airports along the route. This includes individual charts for landing at Muharraq island, Bahrain, Sharjah, Baghdad and Habbanyia. The folder also includes supplementary smaller sketches of airports in Egypt, Palestine and Syria. Further pages include distress signals, instructions for descent through clouds, tables of sunrise and sunset and notes for the weather. Rare. …