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You have trumped me, young entropy! :) I was quite unaware of photography from kites. The shot whose link you gave had surprisingly good resolution.
The answer I had been looking for was Rocketphotography. German inventor Alfred Maul patented his Fotorakete in 1903. The German army carried out secret trials in Glausnitz in Lower Silesia in 1906. When Wilbur Wright took a French photographer aloft with him in 1908 the superiority of a system that could take multiple shots made the single photo rocket a non-starter.
16 October 1912 a Bulgarian Albatros aircraft was used to perform Europe's first reconnaissance flight in combat conditions, against the Turkish lines on the Balkan peninsula, during the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913.
Interesting. Was the recce a visual one or were cameras definitely used?
The Soviets had a delta-wing airplane in the Thirties. What was it called?
Actually it`s Albany Rifle`s question right now, if we are doing this correctly. My B-52 question was answered by Albany but Glyn threw one in whilst I was composing that one....Glyn made this pretty clear. I hope this clears things uo!!!!!!!!!
What was the main use for drop tanks on Allied fighters of the 9th AF and 2nd TAF in Normandy?
I think that question needs some rephrasing. Everyone knows the main use for drop tanks (on ANY plane ANYWHERE) were to provide enough fuel to fly from England to Nazi targets in Europe and have enough fuel to get back.
The problem was, they were not allowed to drop the tanks for fear they would hit a non-military target (or so it has been said). By not dropping the fuel tanks the plane's manueverability was severely reduced and resulted in a lot of losses on our side.
Finally, they were given permission to drop the auxilieary tanks when faced with enemy fighters no matter what was under them.
Our losses were drammatically reduced as the aux tanks were used only to get over Europe and they had plenty of fuel in the wing and fuselage tanks to get back.
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