RCAF aircraft camera installations
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3574063)
Tri-metrogon camera installation in a North American Mitchell Mk. II, No. 413 'Tusker' (P) Squadron, RCAF, 19 June 1945.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3584061)
North American Mitchell Mk. II, RCAF (Serial No. unknown), No. 1 Detachment, Armstrong, Ontario, 21 May 1947.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3584099)
No. 413 Squadron camera set-up, 1947.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3574069)
Camera installation in a Douglas Dakota, No. 413 Squadron, RCAF, 1947.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3584095)
Camera installation in a Douglas Dakota, No. 413 Squadron, RCAF, 1947.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3581722)
Camera installation in an RCAF Lockheed Hudson, c1941.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3584365)
Camera installation in a Avro Lancaster of No. 413 Squadron, RCAF, 20 April 1950.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3583351)
Sergeant installing a vertical camera in an Avro Anson V aircraft of No. 14 (P) Squadron, RCAF, Rockcliffe, Ontario, Canada, 4 July 1944.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3293776)
Northrop Delta, RCAF (Serial No. 667) interior with a multi-camera installation.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3574065)
An Airwoman displaying types of aerial cameras used by the Royal Canadian Air Force in Operation Eclipse to photograph a solar eclipse. RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario, 19 July 1945.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3582415)
K24 camera, 12 March 1943.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3580722)
F24 camera, 25 November 1931.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3574056)
Airman demonstrating an F24 aerial camera, RCAF Station Rockcliffe, Ontario, Canada, 26 January 1944.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3583960)
F24 camera, 25 November 1931.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3575607)
F24 camera installation in an RCAF aircraft, 16 November 1931.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3581641)
F24 camera mounted obliquely in an RCAF Westland Lysander, 7 March 1940.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3581642)
F24 camera mounted obliquely in an RCAF Westland Lysander, 7 March 1940.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3582413)
F24 camera installation in an RCAF Fairchild Bolingbroke, 6 March 1943.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3581971)
Camera mount in an RCAF Catalina, 30 September 1941.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3584102)
Camera set-up, No. 413 Squadron, RCAF, 1947.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3574072)
Camera installation in Douglas Dakota Mk., III aircraft of No. 414 Squadron, RCAF, 23 January 1950.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3574082)
Multi-camera installation in Northrop Delta aircraft of the Royal Canadian Air Force, 7 December 1936.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3582173)
Camera installation on Curtiss Kittyhawk, 25 May 1942.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3206349)
Canadian Vickers CH-300 Pacemaker 30 floatplane, RCAF Reg. No. G-CYVK (Serial No. 612), with a multi-camera installation.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3577531)
Canadian Vickers CH-300 Pacemaker 30 floatplane, RCAF Reg. No. G-CYVK (Serial No. 612), with a multi-camera installation. Exterior showing port and lower cameras, 13 May 1935.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3580924)
Canadian Vickers CH-300 Pacemaker 30 floatplane, RCAF Reg. No. G-CYVK (Serial No. 612), with a multi-camera installation, 13 May 1935.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3643675)
Oblique camera installation in a Canadian Vickers Vedette Mk. II flying boat of the RCAF, Rockcliffe, Ontario, 24 August 1929.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3256679)
Canadian Vickers Vedette Mk. II flying boat, RCAF (Serial No. G-CYYZ), equipped with a camera for oblique aerial photography, 24 August 1929.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3574057)
Photographer operating a K3 aerial camera in a Canadian Vickers Vedette Mk. II flying boat of the Royal Canadian Air Force.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3380391)
RCAF aerial camera used for surveying.
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(Library and Archives Canada Photo, MIKAN No. 3405554)
Canadian Official Kinematographer ready for an ascent on a Kite Balloon, France, May 1917.