Object Details
- Physical Description
- Gray painted, continuous strip aerial camera. Camera and magazine only; missing lens cone assembly (either 6-inch single lens cone or 88 mm stereoscope cone).
- Summary
- U.S. Army Air Corps Col. George Goddard developed this revolutionary shutterless camera at Wright Field, Ohio. A synchronizing mechanism matched the speed of the film, as it moved across an open slit, to the airplane's ground speed, producing a continuous strip image. This technique reduced distortion and improved detail in dangerous low-altitude photography from such aircraft as the Lockheed P 38. The camera used black-and-white or color film and a single or stereo lens. The lenses are missing but look like those of the adjacent Solar Strip camera.
- Credit Line
- GIFT OF GEORGE WOOD
- Inventory Number
- A19940187000
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- EQUIPMENT-Photographic
- Materials
- OVERALL - ANODIZED STEEL
- Dimensions
- 14 x 18 x 11 1/2 in. (35.6 x 45.7 x 29.2 cm)
- Country of Origin
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Air and Space Museum Collection
- Location
- Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA
- Hangar
- Boeing Aviation Hangar
- National Air and Space Museum
- Record ID
- nasm_A19940187000
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nv9e5dbceb1-4bc1-4221-aefb-d7bf2fbbaa0e
