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According to Mrs. Cockburn-Lange the pictures were taken by her late husband with a camera mounted in the cockpit of his plane and operated by a shutter attached to the machine-gun trigger. She has refused to tell her husband's name because, she says, his superior officer is still in the R. F. C. and might be punished for permitting the pictures to be taken "against army regulations...
...shutter was said to be operated by the first pull of the gun trigger. In normal combat practice a pilot would fire a burst from his gun to make sure it was in working order long before approaching as close to an enemy plane as the pictures indicated...
...perfection of a visual "synchronizer" developed by George Kraigher, chief pilot on the western division. It is based on the principle by which a wagon wheel in a motion picture appears to skid. It seems to skid because the spokes of the wheel accidentally become synchronized with the camera shutter...
Many new features are incorporated in both lines. All cars will all be equipped with shutter-proof glass, rear gas tanks, automatic shock-absorbers, silent transmissions, and roomier bodies...
...colyum of Washington chit-chat in the Scripps-Howard newspapers Reporter George Abell told how Dr. Erich ("Candid Camera") Salomon pointed his lens at a group of important Democrats jovially quaffing drinks in an anteroom at the Jackson Day dinner. Just as he snapped the shutter Dr. Salomon heard someone shout: "Hey, you can't take that picture!'' It was Governor Albert Cabell Ritchie of Maryland. Continued the Governor: ". . . But you can come in and have a drink...