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- OBJECT TYPE
- Air Route
- DATE
- 1945
- ARTIFACT NUMBER
- 1994.0804.001
- MANUFACTURER
- Royal Air Force
- MODEL
- Cairo West to U.K.
- LOCATION
- Unknown
More Information
General Information
- Serial #
- N/A
- Part Number
- 1
- Total Parts
- 1
- AKA
- N/A
- Patents
- N/A
- General Description
- paper; card stock cover; steel spikes
Dimensions
Note: These reflect the general size for storage and are not necessarily representative of the object's true dimensions.
- Length
- 33.0 cm
- Width
- 24.0 cm
- Height
- N/A
- Thickness
- 3.0 cm
- Weight
- N/A
- Diameter
- N/A
- Volume
- N/A
Lexicon
- Group
- Aviation
- Category
- Navigation instruments & equipment
- Sub-Category
- N/A
Manufacturer
- AKA
- Defence UK
- Country
- Unknown
- State/Province
- Unknown
- City
- Unknown
Context
- Country
- Europe
- State/Province
- Unknown
- Period
- WWII (1939-1945); hand written notation on cover includes the date April 21, 1945
- Canada
-
Unknown - Function
-
contains navigational and communications information, including maps, for flight from Cairo to Great Britain/ likely issued to Pilot for duration of flight - Technical
-
Unknown - Area Notes
-
Unknown
Details
- Markings
- lettering on front cover reads: "Route No 1./CONFIDENTIAL/AIR ROUTE BOOK/From CAIRO WEST/To U.K./NAVIGATION BRANCH/H.Q. 216 GROUP/HAND IN TO BRIEFING OFFICER/ON COMLETION OF/FLIGHT/No. 10 STAGING POST/R.A.F., M.E.F./Please return to BRIEFING/Recommended 21/4/45/9(?)62/PMEJ/1 - 9/44"
- Missing
- back cover
- Finish
- predom black printed text, b + w tables & images, b + w & colour maps on white pages; cover has black printed, blue hand written & purple ink stamped lettering on tan background
- Decoration
- maps & photgraphic images inslde
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Royal Air Force, Book, circa 1945, Artifact no. 1994.0804, Ingenium – Canada’s Museums of Science and Innovation, http://collection.ingeniumcanada.org/en/id/1994.0804.001/
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