Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buzz Wagner could lick the Japs: he had seven planes to his credit in aerial combat, and he had probably destroyed 50 more on the ground. But no man can lick fickle luck. Last week, in a solitary routine flight between Eglin Field, Fla. and Maxwell Field, Ala., Lieut. Colonel Boyd D. Wagner, at 26 the youngest officer of his rank, was missing. It was just about a year after the U.S. had first heard of Buzz Wagner...
...MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, AUSTRALIA--The Allies have occupied Gona, westernmost Japanese strong point in Papua, and have launched an around-the-clock aerial bombardment against the surviving enemy positions, Prime Minister John Curtin announced today...
...takes a sharp, experienced eye to read an aerial photograph, locate targets, measure bomb damage. The picture is flat, looks unnatural because the camera has only one eye and cannot register distance, depth, or solid shape. The third dimension can be added only by double vision, each eye having a slightly different angle on the scene. Such photographs have long been made by double cameras with lenses as far apart as are human eyes. But the production of motion pictures in three dimensions has lagged...
Exaggeration is also possible. For aerial mapping a high-flying plane may shoot the same terrain from points a hundred feet or more apart, giving a rangefinder effect as if seen by some fantastic bird whose eyes are that distance apart. When such pictures are viewed by human eyes, less than three inches apart, the effect is one of foreshortening-as if seen from a height of a few hundred feet. Thus reconnaissance has a superb new tool...
...University program, which is the first of its kind to be offered to civilians, is supplemented by material obtained from authorities on aerial photography, architecture, and human vision as well as information gathered from Army research projects. The program has been endorsed by the Office of Civilian Defense in Washington...