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Identifier: aeroplaneinwar00grah (find matches)
Title: The aeroplane in war
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Grahame-White, Claude, 1879- Harper, Harry, b.1880
Subjects: Airplanes Aeronautics, Military
Publisher: Toronto : Bell and Cockburn
Contributing Library: ASC - York University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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out-stripped any official action, Mr Thorne Baker hasdevised a very ingenious camera. This is suspendedbelow the aeroplane, in such a position that it pointsdirectly downwards; and the whole operation of thecamera is automatic. The airman or observer puts the machine in actionby pressing a button. This causes a photograph tobe taken of whatever the aeroplane is passing overat the moment. Then, by means of another pieceof automatic machinery, a plate is changed for afresh exposure. Such a camera as this will, un-doubtedly, prove of very considerable value as anadjunct to survey work with an aeroplane. At the end of August, 1911, several militaryofficers in France carried out special tests with aerialphotography. They made flights over fortresses,for example, and secured excellent pictures. Tractsof country were also photographed, as were troopson the march. The result is that photography has joined wire-less telegraphy, in the French air-corps, as a definiteaid to aerial reconnoitring.
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bi r? — — .r?J 5 i£ o o NINTH SECTION DEVELOPMENT OF ALL-WEATHER WAR AEROPLANES I Flig-hts in thirty-five-mile-an-hour winds—Arguments ofsceptics—What the great contests of 1911 proved. Reference has been made to the fact that, as soonas engines became reHable, and airmen gainedconfidence, winds of an appreciable velocity weresuccessfully combated. But even now, despite the strides which the aero-plane is making towards becoming an all-weathermachine, those who beHttle it from the military pointof view, and uphold an official policy of inactivity,are found ready to argue that the heavier-than-airmachine is still purely a fine-weather craft. Suchan attitude is governed, not so much by deep-rootedconservatism, as by ignorance. The fact is that the wind-flying capabilities ofan aeroplane have been improved to an altogetherremarkable extent. So far as an average can bestruck, it may be said that, at the present time, a warmachine can be operated, and can carry out usefulwork, in

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