Air Transport Command (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. nice copy.

Condition: New.

Condition: Very Good. 22 pages, several photographs. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 16 x 24 cms. Category: National Geographic Magazine; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Card Covers. Condition: Very Good+. 94 p. 20 cm. A bit of light edge wear. Spine area of staple bound covers lightly faded. Clean and unmarked inside. A government publication to teach defensive flying techniques, intended for Search and Rescue pilots of the Air Transport Command of the Canadian Department of Defence. B&W Illustrations.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Original staple-bound RAF blue printed wraps 11 x 14cm. 8pp + (2)pp back wrap marked for notes. Very good, lightly creased. Rare - copies held at the Polish Aviation Museum, and the Nordic-American Digital Catalog (Papers of Rolf Brandt Preus). Worldcat has an entry, but records no holdings. None on Copac. Transport Command succeeded Ferry Command as the backbone of the RAF's wartime logistical effort, moving aircraft from factories to front lines in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Immediately after WW2, it supported the reorganisation of overseas forces, reconstruction of Western Europe, and the Berlin Airlift. It was radically reduced in the 1950s. This booklet, dated Nov 1945, was written for civilians performing functions deemed to be in the national interest immediately after WW2, when many travel restrictions were still in place: "Your air passage has been approved by an Air Priorities Board, and a seat has been booked for you on a transport aircraft of the Royal Air Force. (it) cannot be furnished to the standard of a civil aircraft. Nevertheless every effort will be made to make your journey as comfortable as possible. All the preliminary arrangements. have been made by the Air Booking Centre. (p1) Your rests on the ground. may not be as long as you would choose for your comfort's sake, but the purpose of travelling with Transport Command is to get to your destination in the shortest possible time." (p8). Contents include Foreword; Air ticket; Documents; Currency regulations; Medical; Baggage; Passenger and freight sections; Safety; Authority of the Captain; and Conclusion.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Mimeo in original b/w wraps 21x27cm. Good, foxed, with several annotations to the Pilot's Radio Information tables pp(1)-(4) and a few others elsewhere. Extremely rare, with a copy traced to the Imperial War Museum. Not recorded on Worldcat or Library Hub. The North African Division was formed in June 1943 from a split of the Africa-Middle East Wing. It moved aircraft, supplies and cargo from West Africa, was part of the South Atlantic Route transport extension via West Africa to Casablanca and Britain, operated the Mediterranean Air Transport Service from Casablanca to Cairo (Egypt), and from Algiers to Naples (Italy) from 1944. For joint use by US and British forces, this contains numerous sections variously dated during 1945, last corrected on 22 May 1945 as stated to the table on the front cover. Contents include: Radio information tables updated to 1 July 1945 with the instruction to ignore other radio data on the airport pages (4)pp; Casablanca to Cairo (62)pp; and Mediterranean (42)pp. Each of these regional sections contains an index of the airports covered; full-page route and radio facilities maps; sunrise and sunset tables. The Casablanca - Cairo section also includes route information, and visual aids. CASABLANCA TO CAIRO: airport pages mostly 2pp per airport contain plans, approach charts and details for: Morocco (Marrakech, Casablanca, Rabat Sale, Port Lyautey, Gibraltar, Meknes, Oujda), Algeria (Oran, Algiers, Biskra, Bone), Tunisia (Bizerte, Tunis), Libya (Tripoli, Marble Arch, Benghazi, El Adem), Egypt (Mersa Matruh, Cairo West, Heliopolis, Almaza, Payne Field, Luxor), and Palestine (Lydda). MEDITERRANEAN airport pages: Egypt (Alexandria), Greece (Araxos, Eleusis, Hassani), Italy (Alghero with ms note "abandone", Bari, Cagliari, Catania, Foggia, Gioia, Manduria, Naples, Pisa, Rome), Malta, Spain (Mallorca), and France (Istres, Marseilles).…

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. Pages: 52. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1943 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English Pages: 52.…