AERIAL SURVEYS
NEW MACHINE TESTED IN LONDON British Official Wireless Reed. Noon. RUGBY, Sunday. Lord Thomson, Air Minister, and Mr. P. Montague, Under-Secretary for Air, yesterday made a trial flight In the first airplane specially designed for air surveying. The Gloster Aircraft Company has built a machine for an aircraft operating company which will use it in Northern Rhodesia to the Cape over an immense area of unexplored territory. The airplane is so constructed that every part of the world will become accessible to the air surveyor, since its reserve of power is such that operations to the extent of 30,000 square miles are made posible from a dingle central airdrome. Its special aerial camera enables enormous areas l® be photographed on a single plate.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 881, 27 January 1930, Page 9
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125AERIAL SURVEYS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 881, 27 January 1930, Page 9
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