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Air Reconnaissance in the Royal Air Force Past, Present and Future

The principles, aircraft, associated camera and airborne sensor systems, ground support facilities and intelligence extraction methods

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

E. D. Crew
E. D. Crew*
Affiliation:
AOC, Central Reconnaissance Establishment
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Extract

The lecture I am going to give attempts to cover, in forty-five minutes a subject that really merits a series of lectures. This, of course, displays a fitting disregard for minor difficulties, of which, I am sure, the dauntless spirit of Sir George Cayley would have approved.

The broad title permits consideration of all methods of intelligence gathering from the air, including the more widely known optical photographic systems, and has been deliberately selected for this purpose. To avoid clumsy and longwinded definitions I will frequently have recourse to the the use of “in” terms such as Sensor, Multi-Sensor, Exploitation, Environment and many others.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 73 , Issue 706 , October 1969 , pp. 869 - 880
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1969 

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References

15th Sir George Cayley Memorial Lecture given before the Brough Branch of the Society on 13th November 1968.