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Subject: Re: [OM] Aerial Photography
From: Chris Barker <cmib@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 Aug 1999 10:02:58 +0200
>    Good advice. .... reminds me of a similar undertaking by the USMC RF-4C (
>now retired) jets several years ago. A friend was one of the pilots, I'll ask
>him, but I doubt the pilots actually needed to know what type of film was
>aboard, just go out an take the pictures. Maybe Chris Barker can check with
>the photo-recon guys of the RAF?
>
>George S.
I can do so, although modern recce is done with Electro-Optical equipment -
with its quick turnround on the ground for exploitation, or even for
datalink in real time or soon after the sensor has picked up the images.
Wet film images are still hard to beat for resolution or available detail.
I did think that the aircraft that we have doing recce in UK use straight
monochrome wet film, but that during the operations that they undertake
(e.g. in Op Northern Watch/Provide Comfort) will have a choice of medium:
wet film/EO sensor, monochrome/colour and IR/normal.

We have some lovely wet film prints of targets for the laser designator
boys to use in preparing their training target runs - used some the other
day for low-level practices in Norfolk, just SW of Norwich (no noise
complaints yet...).  But for ease of access, electronic imagery is tops if
you can find it of the right area.  The world is still quite a big place...

I worked with RF4C boys from the USAF on an Exercise Red Flag once in the
Nevada desert.  They obviously did not have enough to do on one mission
because they started photographing us in Tornados running into the target
arrays.  I still have a 10x8 of me in a Tornado at very low level (about
110 ft above the desert) having an extemely exhilerating time.

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Chris Barker <><        mailto:cmib@xxxxxxxxxxx
Box 2, Officers' Mess,
RAF Brueggen, BFPO25, UK.



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