[Egypt, Libya, Mediterranean] Routes Airfields and Navigation Aids Documents RANAD Route Brief Area C (Restricted)

Several loose unnumbered sheets (maps, notes, tables etc) variously dated 1947-48, bound inside RANAD tan covers 23x30cm. Fair with annotations. The RANAD (Route Airfields and Navigation Aid Documents) Route Briefs succeeded the Air Route Books issued by No. 216 Group of the Transport Command during WW2. The were made up of loose sheets (maps, airfield profiles, notes etc) as and when required, to help pilots execute specifically defined flights. Sometimes marked confidential, they were to be returned to the Briefing Officer on completion of the flight (in wartime, they were to be destroyed in the event of a forced landing in enemy or neutral territory). This particular example includes: Contents (1pp); Frequency changeover times (1pp); Legend (index map 2pp), abbreviations and terms (1pp); Area C Charts for Sections C1, 2 and 4 (1pp each); Section C typed notes and details for C4 (2, 3pp), C2 (2, 2pp), C1 (2, 8pp); Airfield sheets 2pp each for Egypt (Abu Sueir, Kabrit, Fayid, Shallufa, Kasfareet), Libya / Cyrenaica / Tripolitania (El Adem, Benina, Castel Benito), Malta (Luqa) with Area C Air Approaches to Malta), Greece (Hassani-Athens), Cyprus (Nicosia); Conversion tables (2pp), Hints and Tips for what to do after a Forced Landing 'in the Blue'" (2pp); Use of Combined Panel Code for Distress Signals after Forced Landing in Isolated Territory (1pp); Supplementary - Airfields and ELGs (Emergency Landing Grounds - Egypt (2pp with plans); Supplementary - Airfields and ELGs Egypt - Cyrenaica (2pp with plans); Emergency Airfields in Algeria - Tunisia - Tripolitania (2pp with plans); Marine Lights Mediterranean (4pp + folding map); Tracks and Distances Mediterranean Area (folding map). …