A Photographic Eye for the Airman 



With this camera apparatus every detail of the world below the airman is minutely registered 

 on the roll of film which runs over the camera lens at a speed regulated by the operator 



GREATER progress has been made 

 in aerial pliotography during the 

 ]>resent war than in the years fol- 

 lowing 1858, when M. Nadar, of Paris, 

 took a view of that city by means of a 

 camera attached to the basket of a bal- 

 loon. The fact that a ]>hotograph (nnn 

 an aeroplane of fori ificat ions, damaged 

 railways, bodii's of troops, and the con- 

 tour of the enemy's country gi\-es valu- 

 able information which is absolutely 

 relialjle, not being dependent for its 

 accuracy on the skill ami coolness of the 

 observer, makes this form of reconnais- 

 sance of the highest military importance. 

 Indeed, it is of such \ahie that a dozen 



different t>'pes of aerial photographing 

 apparatus ha\-e been e\olved in the 

 short duration of the present world strug- 

 gle. The latest development is found in 

 the Fabbri automatic aeroplane camera, 

 which includes some features already 

 tried out b\- other inventors but which is, 

 in the main, an ingenious mechanism of 

 original construction. With it an aerial 

 scout can take a continuous photograph 

 of the earth's surface one hundred and 

 ihirtN' miles long. When operatetl on an 

 aeroplane at an altitude of two thousand 

 feet it will take into its field a strip of 

 ground one thousanil two hundred feet 

 wide. In clear weather excellent work 



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