What a lovely piece of nostalgia this book is. Describing one of Imperial Airways's original desert 'rest house' forts on the long air route from Britain to India-a building that survives-it conveys perhaps the most detailed sense of how pioneering airport sites were designed, built, and used. Lumbering Handley Page H.P.42s- or other types would land late in the day so that passengers could dine and sleep overnight before an early takeoff the next morning, heading either east or west. There were many such stops along the route that took days to fly.
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