Aerial photography

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    Mapping In Full Flight: Air Force, Part 28

    August 18, 2008 by Hugh A. Halliday
    A Lancaster conducting a postwar aerial survey. PHOTO: ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY COLLECTION, LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA172600 The Royal Canadian Air Force’s aerial photography and mapping, a staple of operations from 1921 to 1939, was suspended during the Second World War, except where it would...
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    Above Enemy Lines: Air Force, Part 27

    June 12, 2008 by Hugh A. Halliday
    A Royal Air Force vertical reconnaissance photo reveals a massive breach in a dam in May 1943. PHOTO: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM—CH 9750 Aerial photography changed dramatically during World War II, but even before the war an expatriate Australian named Sydney Cotton, had—with the encouragement of...
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    Cameras Take Flight: Air Force, Part 26

    March 11, 2008 by Hugh A. Halliday
    A photographer operates a camera in this frontal view of a Vickers Vedette, June 1931. PHOTO: LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA—PA062895 Almost from the moment the camera was invented, men sought to take it aloft. The first aerial photograph—taken from a balloon over Paris—was made in...