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1949
1949 - 0020.PDF
FLIGHT LOUD LAND!I The winding Thamts has its place in this majestic study of Bucking- haw Palace, The Mall and the distant City. A warm sun beams on Hyde Park Con the (below). At the foot of the pags Tre £T is recorded that the first of all aerial photographs was taken by M. Nadar froma balloon over Paris in the year 1858. The four splendid pictures of our owncapital, reproduced on these pages, were secured some ninety years later, and are dence of the fine quality of to-day's aerial photography, now established as an invaluable aid in many spheres of surveying. Weather conditions in the United Kingdom are the greatest handicap to the aircrews of the R.A.F. and private survey firms engaged in air mapping ; in some of the worst areas the number of days suitable for photography averages only four or five a month during the year. It will readily be seen, however, that there were no lighting difficulties when the accompanying views were recorded by Eagle Aerophotos last summer. In the first photograph of the series, Buckingham Palace, normally concealed by its surrounding clusters of trees, is prominent in the foreground, and is shown to be nearer the Thames than is generally realised ; the straight driveway from the
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