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1961
1961 - 0915.PDF
FLIGHT, 6 July 1961 14—15 g was made in the desert about 12 miles inland from Pasni, where the DH6 6 carry- ided. In dry weather the ground is baked mud; during the monsoon it is slime <t Turbat is just about adequate for Beavers in high temper- uire a new runway which is to be levelled out in the desert i survey flight over the routes was ie with a Government of Pakistan at Protection Beaver and this dis- led that the DC-3 services could not jperated until a considerable amount work had been done to improve ling-grounds and in some cases il new ones had been prepared, 'hese photographs were all taken by n Stroud during the survey flight. eadland at Gwadar is typical of the terrain of the Makram except that flat forced-landing areas are not normally provided Leaving Turbat, houses, huts and compounds passed beneath and then there was more desert and yet more mountains. The headquarters of the anti- smuggling unit is not visible in this picture At Gwadar the Beaver put down on the old Imperial Airways' landing-ground. Jabal-i-Medhi, better known as Cathedral Rock, forms the background—as it did for so many Hannibal pictures in the 1930s
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