Links & References
 
1) www.imperial-airways.com
2) Wings Across the World, Harald Penrose, Cassell Ltd, 1980
3) www.planecrashinfo.com/1940/1940-4.htm
4) Frank Anderson, Croydon Airport Society 
5) http://www.baaa-acro.com/1940/archives/crash-of-a-handley-page-h-p-42-in-persian-gulf-8-killed/
6) "The Hannibal Files", Brian Bisley, Innisfree Publishing Co. 2001 (A novel) www.members.shaw.ca/hannibalfiles
7) www.dataxinfo.com/hormuz/vessels1.htm  " H.M.S. Cyclamen, together with H.M.S. Lupin and Al Sa'idi were involved in the naval bombardment of Khasab and Qidah on 21 April 1930"
http://web.telia.com/~u90113819/hp42.pdf
8) The Second Oldest Profession, Phillip Knightley.
9) Spycatcher, Peter Wright.
10) http://freespace.virgin.net/old.whig/angloger.htm (broken link)
11) http://www.aeroplanemonthly.com/#index_pic  (Sep02)
http://www.hannibal-ii.co.uk (April04). See also(1)
12) Aeroplane Monthly, Jan 2002
13) E mail correspondence, Jeff Cohen, based on review of PRO record AVIA 2/2311, AVIA 2/892, AVIA 5/13(section18). 
13a) Review of records above.
14)
 
E mail correspondence, Ken Sanford, "Air Crash Mail Of Imperial Airways & Predecessor Airlines", published by the Rossiter Trust in England.
15) E mail correspondence, Peter Wingent, "Aircraft movements on Imperial Airways eastern services from 1927 to 1937. Volume 1" 
16) E-mail correspondence, the late Mike Morton, geologist and deputy leader of the RGS expedition
17) www.timeanddate.com/calendar/?country=9&year=1940
18) World War Two plane crashes in the UAE  P.Hellyer L.Garey Tribulus Vol 14.1 
19) www.mainstreamweekly.com/annual_issue/32.asp (broken Link)
20) www.theaerodrome.com/aces/england/whistler.html 
21)  Wings over the Gulf,  Shirley Kay. Motivate1995
22) Understanding Meteorology in the UAE (Part II -- The Low-level Jet and 40-day Shamal), Best,  www.enhg.org/bulletin/b32/32_21.htm 
23) www.ams.confex.com/ams/pdfpapers/84966.pdf (Broken link)
23) Understanding Meteorology in the UAE Part 1: Fog, Best, http://www.enhg.org/bulletin/b29/29_15.htm
25)  "Beyond the Blue Horizon", Alexander Frater,  Heineman 1986 HE 9787-F7-1986
26)  E-mail correspondence, Claude Whistler family.
27) "Bones of Hannibal", Charles R Butt
28)  www.archiveeditions.co.uk 
29)  Aviation Safety Network
30)  British Aide Lost on Airliner'. The New York Times, Wednesday, March 6, 1940 13:3
31)  Persian Gulf and Red Sea Naval Reports'  volume 14, 1936 to 1941 page 623
32)  Who was Who 1940.  see Supplement to the London Gazette 1 January 1938.
33)  web site  https://zulu.ssc.nasa.gov/mrsid/ 
34)  The Times, London, coverage during March 1940.
35)  A Short Fairey Tale. ...still-born airliners of the 'thirties. Air Enthusiast Sep.1972 p144
36)  Political Agent Persian Gulf 1940, Trucial Coast Report for period March 1st. - 21st. 
37)  Administration Report of the Trucial Coast for the Year 1940, Political Agent Bahrein.
38)  Defending Arabia, J.E. Peterson  www.jepeterson.net/Publications.html
39)

 Jeremy Rifkin, CBC radio interview Nov2005.

40)  Associated Press, March 3, 1940. Syracuse Herald Journal, Oshkosh Northwestern.
41)  Masirah: Tales from a Desert Island  Colin Richardson, 2001 Scotforth books
42)  E-mail correspondence, Tony Tubbenhauer ex-RAF Bristol Blenheim Pilot.
43)  www.gulfnexus.org/articles/geo/1973%20Falcon.pdf
44)  Oman, The True-Life Drama and Intrigue of an Arab State. John Beasant 2002
45)  E-mail correspondence, Science Museum 2007
46)  Article  "Scene Magazine" June 15th 2002 
47)  The Sand Kings of Oman: Being the Experiences of an R.A.F. Officer in the Little Known Regions of Trucial Oman,Arabia, Raymond O'Shea
48)  Timeanddate.com, with Starrynight (an astronomical calculator software) 
49)  Looking For Trouble Gen.Sir Peter de la Billiere, 1994
50)  Norwegian Family records research.   www.familysearch.org   http://untreaty.un.org ftp.rootsweb.ancestry.com   www.rhd.uit.no   www.ellisisland.org
51)  Britain and the Sino-Japanese War 1937-1939, B. Lee 1970
52)  Britain's Secret war against Japan, 1937-1945, Douglas Ford, Routledge, 2006
53)  British Foreign Policy in the Second World War. HMSO 1970
54)  E-mail correspondence Brenda Allen 2009
55)  Imperial Airways 1939 timetable, shows GMT and LST arr. and dep. times.
56)  'The Log of the Astraea', Hudson Fysh, Flight 1933
57)  E-mail correspondence Townsend family 2009
58)  E-mail correspondence Bryn family 2010
59)  Military Intelligence Blunders and Cover-ups, Colonel John Hughes-Wilson, Constable and Robinson 2004
60) E-mail correspondence Townsend family 2011
61) E-mail correspondence R. Antony 2011
62) Ellerman Wilson Lines SS Kyno crew Manifest filed New York 18 July 1938
63) The Indian Express, 3 March 1940 p6, Imperial Airways Plane Missing in Persian Gulf.

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