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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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By combining 100 aerial photographs, Fairchild produced this mosaic of Manhattan in 1921. Three years later, the company created a map of New York City’s five boroughs so exquisitely detailed it showed cars on Fifth Avenue and crowds on Coney Island. The aerial maps proved expensive to produce, however. An early contract photographing the city of Newark paid a princely $7,000—but to complete the job, Fairchild ended up spending $30,000.
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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