Aeroplane Photographs

Radio Record, Volume III, Issue 20, 29 November 1929, Page 2

Aeroplane Photographs

Successful Transmission QUCCESSFUL transmission of photographs to airplanes by wireless was made on October 2 for the first time in Europe, when the Lufthansa radio station at Templehof Airport sent three photographs to a airplane flying high over Berlin. An Associated Press correspondent was aboard the plane, and watched the photographs eome in. The first was a weather map, showing conditions which would be met by the* pilot flying from Templehof to Cologne, over the regular air route from Berlin to Paris. The second showed storm conditions, and the third was a photograph of the landing field at Templehof showing a_ rainsoaked section of the airport where 2 landing would be difficult for a pilot. The photographs received showed only slight variation from the original in all cases, and the reception was effected within five minutes by an ordinary radio set equipped with a small apparatus known as a "fultograph."