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Cities From the Sky
Sherman Fairchild, the photographer who transformed aviation
By Rebecca Maksel
airspacemag.com, January 12, 2009
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Fairchild Aerial Surveys would frequently send pilot-cameraman teams to photograph subjects such as skyscrapers and hotels, then try to sell the images. During the 1920s, Fairchild opened sales offices in Los Angeles, Dallas, and Boston (the latter seen here from above in 1932). But even before the Great Depression, most of the company’s real estate contracts had dried up, and Fairchild turned to conducting aerial surveys for the Bureau of Reclamation and the Department of Agriculture.
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Re Fairchild's Cabin airplanes; don't forget his futuristic "Flying Yachet", radial engined pusher anphibians of the mid-twenties.My father,Harold Kantner,FAI#65,designed for Sherman and made photos of every thing under construction. These photo are available to anyone doing a historical article on the subject.
Posted by Dick Kantner on September 1,2009 | 03:47PM