Leg 11: Hadithah Airport IQ to Ali Base IQ 293 NM 02:36:00 ETE
It’s clear by now that during the Duchess of Bedford’s journey, navigation aids were few and far in-between. The heavy reliance on old-fashioned VFR would have been supplemented somewhat by wireless stations and far-flung outposts of the British Empire, especially in this area of SouthWest Asia. As we follow the Euphrates, it points like an arrow straight across ancient Iraq, and we pass well known cities such as Nasiriyah and Basrah. It is at the latter location, the Euphrates meets yet another famous river in history, the Tigris, as it winds it’s way down south from Turkey. The two great travel routes form the Shatt Al-Arab, before emptying into the the Persian Gulf.
