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1959
1959 - 1185.PDF
576-577 FLIGHT, 24 April 1959 An Imperial War Museum photograph of the original hand- operated A-type plate camera strapped to the fuse- lage of a B.E. 2C tFrom nearly nine miles up. An enlarged "detail" of London Airport: the B.O.A.C. engineering base photographed from 47fi00ft by a Wil- liamson F96 camera with 48in Wray lens CAMERAS IN EVIDENCE Britain's Newest Equipment for Service and Survey Use IT is a far cry from the original brass-bound mahogany A-type Thornton Pickardhand-operated air camera, suspended on the exterior of B.E. aircraft in the early partof the 1914-18 war, to the modern set-up of a battery of eleven Williamson F96 film cameras in a reconnaissance version of one of the V-bombers. For military purposes radaris now taking over much of the reconnaissance work; but it is difficult to believe that for sheer wealth of informative detail the air photograph will ever be completely superseded.If international inspection of atomic plants ever becomes fact, air photography will become big business. In Britain, the Williamson Manufacturing Co. Ltd. are pioneers of the aerial filmcamera; their original Fl was in use in Mesopotamia and Palestine in the 1914-18 war, and their latest, the F117, is just going into service with Coastal Command. Now beingproduced by the company are the F49 survey camera, the F96 reconnaissance camera and the F117 universal air camera-Many and diverse are the problems connected with photographic reconnaissance. Two The Fl (above) was built by Williamson and used in the Middle East in 1916. It was the first air camera to use film, but was fully automatic; the slipstream windmill provided the power (Right) As used to obtain the accompanying picture of London Airport, the Williamson F96, with 48in lens cone fitted. (Far right) Shutter setting, triggering and film shift mechanism
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