This Title “Air Photography” covers a tremendous subject. In fact, so big that I am not going to attempt to deal with more than one aspect of it, and even that will have to be severely pruned.

To the best of my knowledge, nobody has yet written the history, but it is certain that picture taking took place long before I came on to the stage. Balloon-to-balloon, airship-to-airship and ‘plane-to-’plane. Wherever there was the promise of a picture, you would find a man with a camera.

Those were really the days of the true pioneers, not only of flying, but of photography itself, because that science was in its infancy, and the exponents of it were few and far between.