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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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San Francisco, as photographed by Fairchild Aerial Surveys on April 11, 1931. Two years later, the company built the largest aerial camera in the world. “With ten separate lenses and weighing 300 pounds,” writes Campanella, “the immense ‘aerial eye’ operated at an altitude of 23,000 feet and took a photograph measuring 23 inches on a side, covering 225 square miles in a single exposure.”
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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