Eyes of the RAF a history of photo-reconnaissance
RAF air photography has come a long way from faltering beginnings over the trenches of the Western Front during the First World War, when unwieldy plate cameras were fixed on the cockpit sides of Royal Aircraft Factory BE2 biplanes. By the close of the Second World War dedicated photo-reconnaissance...
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Gloucestershire, UK
Sutton Publishing
2003
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Eyes of the RAF |b a history of photo-reconnaissance |c Roy Conyers Nesbit ; assisted by Jack Eggleston ; foreword by Air Chief Marshal Sir Neil Wheeler |
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| 300 | |a x, 342 pages |b illustrations |c 27 cm | ||
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| 400 | 0 | |a Roy Conyers Nesbit | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The Other Side of the Hill -- Cameras at War -- Above the Trenches -- Between the Wars -- Sidney Cotton's Air Force -- British Intelligence -- Africa and Malta -- The New Squadrons -- Europe's Underbelly -- Photography and the Invasion -- Night Bombing and Photography -- South-East Asia -- Behind the Iron Curtain -- Near and Middle East Commands -- The Far East -- Strike Command -- Appendix: Second World War Photo-reconnaissance Strategic Units and Squadrons | |
| 520 | |a RAF air photography has come a long way from faltering beginnings over the trenches of the Western Front during the First World War, when unwieldy plate cameras were fixed on the cockpit sides of Royal Aircraft Factory BE2 biplanes. By the close of the Second World War dedicated photo-reconnaissance Spitfires could photograph the enemy by day, while Mosquitos could operate by day or night from heights up to 36,000 feet. With the quantum leap in recent decades of electronics and optical imagery, Panavia Tornado GRs can use video-tape with a data link to relay pictures to image analysts on the ground, thus doing away with 'wet' film techniques. Eyes of the RAF was written at the request of the Association of Royal Air Force Photography Officers and is the only book currently available on this fascinating subject. Using official and personal records, the author traces the development of air photography from the earliest days to the present era. His detailed narrative is supported by more than 400 photographs with exhaustively researched captions, making it the most comprehensive history yet written on the RAF's photo-reconnaissance capability. | ||
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