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Flying for Air Survey Photography

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2023

F Tymms

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The Chairman It is my pleasing duty to-night to introduce Captain Tymms, whom youall know very well I cannot think of anyone who is better qualified to read thispaper than Captain Tymms, as not only is he a practical aviator, but he is alsoa member of the Air Survey Committee, who are the recognised authority on airsurvey matters in the British Empire

We are also very fortunate in having another member of the Air Survey Committeepresent in the person of Captain McCaw, the Secretary

I have received letters from Colonel Edwards, Colonel Crosthwait and WingCommander Laws regretting their inability to be present to-night

I now have much pleasure in calling upon Captain Tymms to read his paper CaptTYMMS Flying for air photography is essentially a matter of navigation If“navi-gation,” by its root, means no more than the moving of aship, it has come to imply the moving of a ship with precision to the placedesired

Type
Research Article
Information
The Institution of Aeronautical Engineers Journal , Volume 1 , Issue 7 , July 1927 , pp. 4 - 34
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1927

References

Paper read by Captain F Tymms, M C, before the Institution in the Lecture Room of the Junior Institution of Engineers, 39, Victoria Street, London, S W 1, on 10th February, 1927 Major H Hemming, A F C, F R G S, A F R Ae S, in the Chair