Evening star., 1926-06-20
FLYER PLANNING
PHOTOS Of SUN
Goddard's Long Distance
Camera to Be Given Hard
Test at Outset.
By the Consolidated Press.

By the Consolidated Press.
DAYTON, Ohio. June 19.-Lieut.
George W. Goddard, aerial photogra-
phic expert at McCook field and
author of an ambitious scheme Of long
distance aerial photography. is not
letting any grass grow under his feet
while perfecting his preparations to
photograph Detroit. 2lS miles away,
from the air above Dayton.
Lieut.. Goddard ANNOUNCED today
that he was making preparations,
while waiting. to make daylight
photograph with his gigantic long dis
tance camera OF the outer corona OF
the sun--something that has never
been successfully attempted.
The project OF photogra phing De-
troit from Dayton, announced a month
ago, will be held up another month.
Lieut.. Goddard said, while the plane
from which he will take his pictures
is remodeled so that It can attain the
necessary height Of 10000 to $4,000
feet-between 6 and miles.
To Use MacReady Plane.
Lieut.. Goddard plans to use the
same high altitude plane that Lieut..
John MacReady used on his unsuc-
ceSsful effort TO set "A new world
height mark, and it is this airplane
that IS delaying the photogra phic ex-
pertinent.
While some mechanical changes are
being made on the plane SO that 1t
may go above attitudes to which Mac
Ready drove it, Lieut.. Goddard is i'm
proving his Photographic equipment.
He is further trying to improve on
The film he will use for his Dayton
r Ia, AAA a~d
has available the finest supersensi
is trying to better it even before he
gets the chance to put 1t to the
severest kind Of test.
The camera itself Is four feet long
and weighs 100 pounds. The lens,
the fastest vet built for high altitude
air photography, Is nine inches In
diameter and Is IA inches thick. 1t
comprises six elements of concave
and convex lenses with special ray
filters in between for cutting through
the haze.
Camera Carefully Trained.
The camera will be mounted in the
rear cockpit. pointing parallel with
the right wing. 1t Will not be a hit
ormiss attempt, as every detail has
been carefully figured. Certain marks
have been painted on the right wing
70 that at 10000 feet or higher. when
one OF these marks is pointing at
Indian Lake, about 80 miles south Of
! Toledo, the camera will be on direct
line from Dayton through the west
ern edge of Indian Lake to Detroit.
To make sure that the camera will
function when called upon, II Will he
heated electrically, and as an extra
prccaution will get heat from the ex
haust manifold. This insures the
| emulsion on the Aim and will act as
a preventative to stiffening OF the
| rubber parts of the camera.
Because OF the excessive weight
| Lieut.. Goddard will be obliged tc
make the flight and take the picture
alone. All arrangements are being
| made so that he can operate both the
camera and the ship without moving
from the cockpit.
Lieut. Goddard does not hope to get
| much detail of Detroit from Dayton
lie says the military value of tn,
picture will lie in the fact that II tn,
town were sheiled. the smoke from
the ruins would show on the plate
Or IL u fleet were anchored in any OF
the harbors, the detail on the picture
! would be sufficiently sharp for mill
tary purposes