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POLAR SOVEREIGNTY ISSUE. RECORD BY AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHS

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FEERUARY 1st, 1990.

PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT

How the 'nerini camera used by the Byrd Expedition reco.s objects to extreme width and distance is shown in the upper photo taken by Fairchild Aerial Surveys in snow-cover- ved mountains similar to that over which the South Pole light. was made. The camera it- self is shown lower centre, and at the left is Ashley C. Mc Kinley, who operates it in

Antarctica. Right is the young inventor, Sherman M. Fairchild.

A wealthy young New Yorker's Antarctic's centuries of lee and hobby, now valued Instrument snow,

of science, may play the decisive role in an international complica- tion over Antarctica,

When this $10,000,000 airport is completed, Los Angeles residents will be able to disembark from incoming planes and' descend vin elevators to the street-and depart the same why-without the usual long bus ride to and from a subur. ban field. Chief Engineer O. R. Angelfllo, who will superin tend construction, is shown here with a model.

gested to his friend Commander To carry off static created by Byrd that aerial cameras be in-moyement of the metal parts, the cluded in the elaborate equipment camera was grounded to the plane he was assembling for his South with a heavy, detachable chain. Pole venture. Thinking of the "At 5,000 feet, the mean alti- advantage Byrd lost on his Northtude of Byrd's 1,000-mile flight, Pole flight by having neglected so the camera's focal plain was 2,800 to equip himself, he foresaw onlyquare miles. Of this, however, the scientific value of such perhaps only 300 square miles in pictures of Antarctic regions. the foreground would have any From a mere adjunct to his ex-useful detail. With 660 exposures, ploit, Byrd's camera became an in- which Photographer Ashley C. to have dispensable factor in it, for he re- McKinley was believed lied on its lens to see for him taken, this would give Byrd camera many things which speed, distance coverage of 1,848,000 square miles or glare rendered Invisible to him of Antarctica. and his three companions as they ped from the Little America base to the pole and back.

As heir to the fortune of a millionaire New York Congress- man, Fairchild devoted part of his Te Camera Doesn't Lie.. While they are framing cireum-patrimony to the hobby of amateur The development speet notes to one another, Sher-Photography. E.man M. Fairchild, still in his early of aviation tarned his thoughts Byrd's successful South Pole 30's, goes about the daily routine aloft, to equipment that would ne-ritories enabled us to supply Byrd fight centres wide attention upon of directing the varied neronautic curately picture what the birdman "the bottom of the world" and its enterprizes of which he is the sees. commercial possibilities, the pron- head,

As Commander Richard

"Pleced together, these photos will constitute a huge pictorial monale of the regions over which he few. In a stereoscope, they would be lent a third dimension, bringing into necurate proportion every minute elevation of the ter rain."

Overcome Snow's Glare, "Our experience with aerial photography In other sub-zero ter- with the best possible equipment for "his South Pole undertaking," It is this close-knit patchwork Valuablë Beyond Expectations. Fairchild explained.

of air views, revealing topographi pect grows that Great Britain and High up in one of Gotham's | Thus was developed the camera "To a stock K-3 camera, stand-cal features beheld neither by Byrd the United States may hold differ-manolithic business buildings, he now in use by the United States ard with the U. S. Army, we added nor the British adventurers who ing views over the question of is not unaware that, the first aerial military services, and a science a blue-minus filter in eliminate went before him, which would be Bovereignty there,

photographs of the South Polar which soon attained proportions the excessive glare of the snow-of inestimable value in establish- its reflected sun. We lined the ing ur discrediting their rival already has Statesmen on both sides of the territory may determine whether beyond expectations of

camera with balen Wood as in-demands. "Byrd Atlantic, it seems, are alive to the Britain or the United States is to young or autor.

the United the frozen Fairchilt may not have had mulation against the cold and officially claimed for possibility that fabulous deposits have dominion over of coal, oil and other minerala wastes. For Fairchild made these potential International con-lubricated it with a special of States two vast ranges at the edge' ,mny lie buried

beneath the pictures possible,

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