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Aviation History
1950
1950 - 0721.PDF
13 April 1950 £i*p On the shores of Lake Ontario : A Ken ting Aviation Canso amphibian carrying an airborne magnetometer. Above : a close-up of the detec- tor head as mounted in the tail of the Canso to get it as far away as possible from the engines. by F. L. Wills (the present managing director of Hunting Aerosurveys, Ltd.) and Claude Grahame-White, the pioneer airman. Headquarters were at the old London Aerodrome, Hendon. The concern originally specialized in low-level oblique photography but, starting with air surveys of local boroughs in 1921, their field of activity soon extended throughout the British Isles and expeditions were set up to undertake work abroad. Alan Butler (chairman of the de Havilland Enterprise) and Major H. Hemming of the Aircraft Operating Co., Ltd., became interested and the two companies came to- gether in 1923. A party from this concern under the late Cochran Patrick went out to Johannesburg, in 1931, and formed the Aircraft Operating Co. of Africa (Pty.), Ltd., and in 1935 Aerofilms trained a young New Zealander, H. P. D. van Asch, whq_then returned to his own country to start N.Z. Aerial Mapping, Ltd. Just before the war a financial interest was acquired in Adastra Airways (Pty.), Ltd., of Sydney, Australia, who are now actively engaged in large surveys and government work in the northern, southern and eastern territories. Early in the war, appreciating the extreme value of photographic reconnaissance and realizing how specialized the work is, the Air Ministry took over the staff and equipment of Aerofilms, Ltd., and the Aircraft Operating Company. These technicians played an important part in the formation of the R.A.F. Central Interpretation Unit at Medmenham. In 1944 the name of Hunting Aerosurveys, Ltd., was established, and the two companies became affiliated under the chairmanship of P. LI. Hunting. The chief executives are T. D. Weatherhead, O.B.E., M.A., general manager; R. Lamboit, A.R.P.S., photographic manager; P. G. Mott, 469 An archaeological stud/—the outlines of ancient habitations showing through the greens and fairways of Mid-Surrey golf course betray a considerable prehabitation of the area. The white spots are bunkers and the rectangle In the top right is the Kew Observatory. A section for the photo map of London. The dotted white lines indicate Dorset House and Cornwall Press, where Flight is published. f 9. IF ^Hm •if 2iA
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