aer-V2 (Holliday)_v_bw_o_n (original 1948 USN/JHU-APL photo no. 706214)
“ROCKET-BORNE SEQUENCE CAMERA FILMS 1400-MILE STRIP EXTENDING FROM UPPER WYOMING INTO MEXICO -- Seven of seven. Mr. Clyde T. Holliday, of the Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, located at Silver Spring, Maryland, is shown above inspecting two of the cameras used in the rocket filming sequence. Camera at left was used in the V-2 and the one on the right, (to Mr. Holliday’s left) was used in the Aerobee. Oddly enough, all three cameras, two in the Aerobee and one in the V-2, came through intact and shutters and lenses were in perfect working condition. Two cameras were placed in the Aerobee -- one loaded with color film and the other with black and white. Only one camera, loaded with black and white, was placed in the V-2. All three cameras were converted K-25 aircraft cameras designed by the Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation and manufactured by the Graflex Corporation of Rochester, New York. Lenses were Ilex paragon anastigmat, f: 4.5, 163[mm] made by the Ilex Optical Company, Rochester; and shutters were mad by the Graflex Corporation. Entire project was conducted under contract with the Navy Bureau of Ordnance. Mr. Holliday lives at 1232 Blair Mill Road, Silver Spring, Maryland.”
EASILY one of my favorite 'non-in-flight' photos. Pioneering & historic, with the man & equipment that made it possible.
Credit: YouTube/JHU Applied Physics Laboratory
Although I don't feel like doing the research right now, I'd like to think that at least one - preferably both - of the cameras are somewhere safe...and hopefully on display...somewhere.
Why did they include Mr. Holliday's HOME address??? Indicative of a different time.
books.google.com/books?id=u1wzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA34&lp...
Credit: Google books website/Popular Photography magazine, January 1949
www.airspacemag.com/space/the-first-photo-from-space-1372...
Credit: Air & Space magazine online website
Way too early:
www.newspapers.com/clip/9087393/clyde-thomas-holliday-obi...
Credit: Newspapers.com website
aer-V2 (Holliday)_v_bw_o_n (original 1948 USN/JHU-APL photo no. 706214)
“ROCKET-BORNE SEQUENCE CAMERA FILMS 1400-MILE STRIP EXTENDING FROM UPPER WYOMING INTO MEXICO -- Seven of seven. Mr. Clyde T. Holliday, of the Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, located at Silver Spring, Maryland, is shown above inspecting two of the cameras used in the rocket filming sequence. Camera at left was used in the V-2 and the one on the right, (to Mr. Holliday’s left) was used in the Aerobee. Oddly enough, all three cameras, two in the Aerobee and one in the V-2, came through intact and shutters and lenses were in perfect working condition. Two cameras were placed in the Aerobee -- one loaded with color film and the other with black and white. Only one camera, loaded with black and white, was placed in the V-2. All three cameras were converted K-25 aircraft cameras designed by the Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation and manufactured by the Graflex Corporation of Rochester, New York. Lenses were Ilex paragon anastigmat, f: 4.5, 163[mm] made by the Ilex Optical Company, Rochester; and shutters were mad by the Graflex Corporation. Entire project was conducted under contract with the Navy Bureau of Ordnance. Mr. Holliday lives at 1232 Blair Mill Road, Silver Spring, Maryland.”
EASILY one of my favorite 'non-in-flight' photos. Pioneering & historic, with the man & equipment that made it possible.
Credit: YouTube/JHU Applied Physics Laboratory
Although I don't feel like doing the research right now, I'd like to think that at least one - preferably both - of the cameras are somewhere safe...and hopefully on display...somewhere.
Why did they include Mr. Holliday's HOME address??? Indicative of a different time.
books.google.com/books?id=u1wzAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA34&lp...
Credit: Google books website/Popular Photography magazine, January 1949
www.airspacemag.com/space/the-first-photo-from-space-1372...
Credit: Air & Space magazine online website
Way too early:
www.newspapers.com/clip/9087393/clyde-thomas-holliday-obi...
Credit: Newspapers.com website