Airplane loading and taking off with pilot in front cockpit and Lowell Thomas operating a Graphlex camera in the rear cockpit

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“On our journey tonight we are going to travel over the oldest road in the world, which leads here from Cairo across the desert wilderness of Sinai to the Holy Land, the road over which the Children of Israel journeyed four thousand years ago. Although it took Moses and the Israelites forty years to make the trip, it takes us in our airplane just forty minutes.”

-Lowell Thomas
“With Allenby in Palestine” (1919)

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