was a Royal Air Force machine with the Hon'ble Sir Denys Bray, K.C.I.E., C.S.I., C.B.E., Foreign Secretary, India, on board, who was flying from BAGHDAD to India. The Royal Dutch Air Mail Company sent out five Fokker monoplanes from AMSTERDAM on experimental flights carrying mails to BATAVIA. One of these made a return flight homewards. The Royal Air Force Flying Boat IRIS" with Major SIR PHILIP SASSOON, Bt., M.P., UnderSecretary of State for Air, called at HENJAM both on her outward and homeward flights from England to India. Lingah --A Junker aeroplane brought one passenger from BUSHIRE in September.” Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [459v] (923/1028) | Qatar Digital Library (qdl.qa) Extracts from Administration Report of the Mekran Coast for the year 1928: “Aviation. A considerable number of aeroplanes landed at Jask during the year. The movements of aeroplanes in the Gulf are being telegraphically reported to Karachi free of charge by the IndoEuropean Telegraph Department. In the event of forced landings every assistance is being afforded and such measures as are possible are taken to ensure that planes are not molested. As a rule the subsidised chiefs are requested to supply guards. The Persian officials at Jask have put every kind of obstacle in the way of aeroplanes alighting there. This was most marked in the case of the "Iris" which made a forced landing at Jask on the 24th October, the Under Secretary of State for Air, Sir Philip Sassoon and the Secretary of the Foreign and Political Department, India, Sir Denys Bray being passengers.” “Aviation. A considerable number of aeroplanes landed at Charbar during the year.” “Aviation. A considerable number of planes landed at Gwadur during the year including the “Iris” with the Under Secretary of State for Air as a passenger.” Coll 30/9 'Persian Gulf: Administration Reports 1926-1938' [468v] (941/1028) | Qatar Digital Library (qdl.qa) 1929 1 February 1929
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