AERIAL SURVEYS.
SPECIAL PLANES EMPLOYED.
BRITISH FIRM'S ENTERPRISES
(British Official Wireless.) (Received March S, 6.5 p.m.) A, and N.Z. RUGBY, March 7,
Aeroplanes arc being employed to an increasing extent for aerial survey work. A British firm, the Aircraft Operating Company, which has specialised in this direction, has designed special craft for this purpose, based on experience during surveys in Northern Rhodesia. The pilot sits in the nose of the machine and the photographer operates his camera from a special cabin near the pilot with a vertical view of the ground through windows in the floor.
The machine has special engines designed to permit of continuous flights at great heights o 1 cr unmapped bush. The company is at ,'"esent completing a survey of the Zami esi River for the Northern Khodesian Government, and is preparing maps of an area of 6000 miles. The expedition has now been despatched to Bagdad to carry out a survey of 1000 square miles in the vicinity of that city.
Ono of the company's representatives is in South America arranging for an aerial survey of certain cities and harbours.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19891, 9 March 1928, Page 9
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