Show 00 LONG DISTANCE PICTURE IS AIM W Will ll Photograph City Miles Away From Airplane By ny BERNARD St Special Correspondent o of The Standard Standard rd Copyright 1926 by The Th Consoli Consoli- Consolidated Consolidated dated Press Association DAYTON Ohio June Jun IS- IS 11 Lieutenant George W Goddard aerial photographic expert at Mc Cook Me-Cook Cook field and author of an am- am ambitious ambitious am ambitious scheme schem of long lone distance aerial photography 1 Is not letting any grass rass grow crow under und r his hie feet while perfecting his preparations to photograph Detroit miles away from rom the th air all above Day Day- Dayton Day Dayton ton Lieutenant Lieutenant- Goddard announced today that he h was making prep prep- preparations preparations while waiting to tn make maken maka n a daylight ht 1 photograph with his gigantic long lone distance camera or of ortho the tho outer corona of ot the tho sun sun- sun something that has IU never nover been successfully attempted I NEED GREAT T HEIGHT I IThe The Th project of o photographing I Detroit from Dayton Dalton announced i a month ago ao will bo ho hold up another an- an another an another other month Lieutenant Goddard i isaid said while the tb plane piano 1 lImo from which he will tako his pictures picture is reo re- remodeled re remodeled I modeled no so that It can attain the necessary height of or to 35 f feet between six ela and seven sevenmile mile mUes Lieutenant Goddard plans plane to use the same samo high altitude plane that Lieutenant John MacReady used on h his l unsuccessful effort to set act a new world worlds world's heIght mark markI I and It Is this aeroplane that Is delaying the photographic experiment ment While some som mechanical changes changos ate are bein being made on the plane plan plane so that It may go 10 above altitude altitudes to which MacReady drove It It Lieu Lieutenant tenant Goddard Is I Improving his photographic equipment lie II Is further trying to Improve on the film he will use us for his Detroit test Already Lieutenant Goddard ha has hall availAble the finest film for his experiment but he Is trying try try- try try-Ine ing to better belter It even before he h gets the th chance chanco chine to put It to the severest kind of test POUND CAMERA The camera Itself Is four feet Ceet long and weighs pounds The Thebus bus the th fastest yet built for high attitude altitude air photogrAphy la II I nine Inches In diameter and Is I 14 Inches thick It comprises six eIx of ot concave and convex Ie noes with ray fitters In between for tor cutting through the haze The Th camera will be b mounted In Inthe inthe the rear rr cockpit pointing paral paral- parallel parallel lel lei with the th tight fight Vl ht wing It will not be a hit bit or miss attempt asVery as asvery every very detail has ben been carefully figured Certain marks hI have ve veI I b been en painted on the th right wing I So o that at feet or higher when one on of these mArks marki 1 Is II plants point point-Ine log Ing at Indian lake about 10 90 0 mile south of Toledo the th camera will willbe willbe willbe be on direct line from Crom Dayton through the tb edge of Indian lake to Detroit To make mak sure sur that the th camera will function when called upon It will be b heated electrically and andas andas andas as an extra precaution will get ceL heat from the th exhaust manifold This ensures the emulsion on the film and will act as a a preventive of a n stiffening of the th rubber parts of the th camera MILITARY VALCE Because o of the tho excessive weight weicht Lieutenant Goddard Goddar will be obliged to make mak the th flight and take the th picture alone All ar- ar arrangements ar or arrangements are aro ar being made mad so that hr hi- can call operate both beth the th cam carn camera camera era and the th shIp without moving from fro the cockpit Lieutenant Goddard dou doe not hope hop to get lot much detail oC or Dc- Dc De Detroit troit from Dayton lie II says saya the military value of the th picture willlie will willIt lie In the h fact that If It the tho town were vere shelled the th smoke mok from the tho ruin ruins would show on the th plAte Or It Ir a fleet were wr anchored In any of the th harbors the th detail on the th picture would be b sufficiently I II sharp for military purposes |