AERIAL SURVEY
BRITISH COMPANY'S WORK (British .Official Wireless.) !• ' RUGBY, 7th March. Airplanes are.being increasingly employed for aerial survey work, and tho British firm,. the Aircraft Operating ' Company, which has specialised in this diroction, has designed special craft for this purpose, based on experience (luring surveys 'in Northern Rhodesia. . : ' .■ Tho pilot sits in tho noso.of the machine and the photographer operates his camera from a special cabin near tho pilot with a vertical view of tho ground through windows in the floor. The machine is specially engined to permit continuous flights at great heights over unmapped bush. The Aircraft Operating Company is at present completing a survey of tho Zambesi River for',tho Northern Rho- ( desiun Government, and 'is proparhig maps of an area of 0000 miles. An expedition has no\y been dispatched to Bagdad to carry'out a survey of 1000 square miles in the vicinity of tho city. One of its representatives is now in South America arranging for an aerial survey of certain cities and harbours.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 58, 9 March 1928, Page 9
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166AERIAL SURVEY Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 58, 9 March 1928, Page 9
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