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1957
1957 - 0005.PDF
anuary 1957 ^ 5 Manhattan Island and the surrounding area, seen from horizon to horizon. The picture was taken with a panoramic sweep camera and shows Central Park in the centre. REPRODUCED in these pages aresome of the remarkable aerial• photographs, taken by the U.S.A.F. and the Italian Air Force, that will be displayed in the American "Open Skies for Peace" exhibition, to be opened by the American Ambassador, Mr. Win- throp Aldrich, on January 7 at the Royal Exchange, London, E.C.3, in the pre- sence of the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Cullum Welch. The public will be admitted from January 8 to 26, where- after the exhibition will be transferred successively to Manchester (Houlds- worth Hall, February 3-12), Birmingham (Bingley Hall, February 18-24), Brad- ford (St. George's Hall, March 12-18), Leicester (Granby Hall, March 26- April 2), Bristol (Drill Hall, Old Market Street, May 1-7), Belfast (Wellington Hall, May 20-24), and Cardiff (Assem- bly Room, City Hall, May 30-June 6). When siting arrangements are con- cluded it will also be taken to Scotland. Mutual Inspection Organized by the United States In- formation Services, the show is designed to illustrate the practicability and effec- tiveness of the part aerial photography could play in President Eisenhower's proposal for mutual aerial and ground inspection by the United States and the Soviet Union as a major step towards disarmament. It will be seen how a Boeing RB-47 medium reconnaissance aircraft of the U.S.A.F., carrying seven cameras, all operating continuously, is able to photograph one million square miles of territory in three hours, and how, by means of modern equip- ment, it is possible not only to identify many objects on the ground but to give their dimensions, including height and depth. One particularly notable picture will be that reproduced on this page: it was taken from an RB-47, using a panoramic sweep camera, and to obtain the per- spective of the buildings at the bottom the page should be turned upside down. Colour photographs will illustrate a new type of film which readily discloses camouflaged installations. All living vegetation which contains chlorophyll shows up red on the film, and all else appears as a dull grey-green. Another classic photograph will be that of the Convair XB-46, reproduced at the foot of the opposite page, together with an enlargement of a portion of the wing. This picture was taken from an aircraft flying at 525 m.p.h. at a height of only 60ft. Yet another, a section of which appears at the top of the opposite page, demonstrates the capabilities of the "sonne-strip" which makes possible clear, continuous pictures from low altitudes at very high speeds. One Italian picture, taken at 550 m.p.h. from 400ft, discloses in consider- able detail a French poodle on the steps of St. Peter's.
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