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Old 7th May 2008, 19:21
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AJ39
 
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F95's n' All That

WOW......! F95's

Blessed cameras of a forgotten era. The cameras I worked with were either fitted to Harrier/Jags providing not so great imagery of the FYR AOI, or fitted to the Canberra PR-9.

I analysed bucket fulls of cloud covered imagery from over the FYR, absolute pants..! Due to being flow constantly at medium level.

The PR-9 carried three F95's in the nose, positioned to give 180 deg coverage, they had 6 x inch lenses and were infrequently used above 1000Ft. Often used by the PR-9's to fly low over incidents such as rail crashes and air crash investigations. A good camera in good conditions often provided good quality images the lower the platform could go. Its certainly an old piece of kit but did have its uses up until the Canberras retired a few years ago.

The best people to speak to about such equipment are the much in decline Air Phots, some still roaming the halls of Tac Imint INTEL Wing (TIW) at RAF Marham. Sorry don't have any contacts but TIW is a good place to start.
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