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[[underlined]] CHRONOLOGICAL [[/underlined]]

The following is a brief chronological account of the entire exploration program. Details of the aeronautical flights, the prospects discovered, photographs made, etc. will be found in the relative appendices.

After purchasing, testing, inspecting, and packing of the equipment was completed, personnel of the Unit sailed aboard the S.S. Exochorda from New York on March 31, 1936, and  arrived in Alexandria, Egypt, on April 16. The airplane which had been shipped on the same boat, was immediately transshipped by rail to Cairo, where it was unpacked and assembled by Max Distel with the help of mechanics and laborers from the Imperial Airways, in a hanger of the Imperial Airways, on the R.A.F Airdrome, Heliopolis. Transshipment, customs formalities, and assembly work were facilitated by a prior arrangement with Imperial Airways. Permission to fly out of Egypt had been obtained from the Egyptian Consul, New York.