Word: cameras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stockholders willing, a corporate fission will occur this autumn in a notable aviation name. Fairchild Aviation Corp. announced plans last week to divorce its engine and aircraft units from its aerial camera and survey business. The latter will be carried on by the present company. Shares in a new concern to be known as Fairchild Engine & Airplane Corp. will be distributed share-for-share to stockholders in Fairchild Aviation...
...joyriders in the twilight of the 1920's. Depression hit the company as hard as it hit the rest of the industry, and in the last five years planes, on the average, have accounted for only one-fourth of Fairchild sales. The balance was derived from the aerial camera and survey divisions, in both of which fields Fairchild is an undisputed leader...
Fact is, Fairchild planes were simply an outgrowth of the original camera business founded by Sherman Mills Fairchild in 1921. Son of the first president of International Business Machines, Sherman Fairchild had the money and the talent to indulge his precocious interest in photography. Ordered to Arizona for his health after a futile attempt to get into the Army during the War, he set out to improve the crude cameras then used in aerial photography. Within a few years he had developed a precision instrument as far removed from the ordinary camera as a micrometer from a tape measure...
...amateur snapshotters are Fairchild cameras. An inexpensive model costs more than $1,000, and the most popular number sells for about $4,000. This model has one lens, is operated automatically by electricity. After the camera is set for the amount of overlap desired on successive pictures, the shutter clicks at regular intervals in the plane's flight. Coincidentally with each click a little subsidiary camera records on the negative the time, temperature, altitude, bubble level reading and identification number. Then a vacuum, holding the film firmly flat during exposure, is released, and the roll is wound...
This theory has been born out by Professor H.N. Russell who has also written a book on the same subject. Some of the other subjects discussed were the eclipse of June 19, the twenty-inch camera at the Lick Obserratory, the discovery of a red nebulosity around Antares, the appearance of a wave of bright novae, appearing in the Milky Way, and the misbehavior of the star Gamma...