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Gerald
08-23-10, 12:10 PM
These pictures are from The Aerial reconnaissance Archive (TARA)



http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2009/11/22/secret-world-war-two-reconnaissance-flight-pictures-made-public-115875-21842426/
GoldenRivet
08-23-10, 12:11 PM
check the link.

"404 not found"
Gerald
08-23-10, 12:15 PM
check the link.

"404 not found" Now it was right, thanks! :yep:
papa_smurf
08-23-10, 01:41 PM
Great find:salute:
SteamWake
08-23-10, 02:03 PM
What does 'oblique' photograph mean?
Jimbuna
08-23-10, 02:08 PM
Some nice shots http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/thumbsup.gif

What does 'oblique' photograph mean?

An aerial photograph taken with the camera axis intentionally inclined between the horizontal and the vertical.
Gerald
08-23-10, 02:09 PM
What does 'oblique' photograph mean?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique
Gerald
08-23-10, 02:13 PM
Some nice shots http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/thumbsup.gif



An aerial photograph taken with the camera axis intentionally inclined between the horizontal and the vertical. Thanks! :DL
Jimbuna
08-23-10, 02:18 PM
http://www.psionguild.org/forums/images/smilies/wolfsmilies/greywolftail.gif
FIREWALL
08-23-10, 04:12 PM
Why does one pic show a sweptwing fighter plane ? :hmmm:
Raptor1
08-23-10, 04:20 PM
Why does one pic show a sweptwing fighter plane ? :hmmm:

Quite a few of them were shot during the Suez Crisis in 1956.
ajrimmer42
08-24-10, 02:13 AM
Quite a few of them were shot during the Suez Crisis in 1956.

Yep, looks like a Harrier to me
Raptor1
08-24-10, 02:29 AM
Yep, looks like a Harrier to me

Harriers didn't exist back then.

Perhaps an Ouragan or a Mystère...
Jimbuna
08-24-10, 06:37 AM
It was probably this:

http://www.neam.co.uk/mystere.html


French Mystere IVAs fought in the 1956 conflict with Eygpt, as did Mysteres IVAs of the Israeli Air Force.