Aerial photography 1919 AFL03_aerofilms_c12930

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"Wills, Shaw and Friese-Greene Ready to Film". A publicity shot for the foundation of the Aerofilms aerial photography company taken at the London Aerodrome, Hendon. Francis Lewis Wills was a former Royal Naval Air Service Observer and co-founder of Aerofilms. Claude Friese-Greene, holding the cine-camera, was technical director for Aerofilms in its early days, but is best known as a pioneering cinematographer. We know very little about Shaw, the pilot, probably an AirCo employee. K-109 was a biplane built and owned by AirCo - in 1920 the company was taken over by De Haviland and this model became the DH9b. Aerofilms Collection (see Links)
Copyright © Historic England
Media ID 1087767
Date: 11th July 1919
Source: English Heritage Images
City: London
Country: UK
Credit: Historic England Archive Aerofilms C
Image Size: 5020 x 3752 Pixels
Filesize is 8.02MB
Version 2 is 5.09MB
Associated Categories: Aerial Views
Associated Categories: -45
Associated Categories: England from the Air
Associated Categories: Aerofilms Collection (1919-2006)
Associated Categories: Airports and airfields
Associated Categories: Air planes (OLD)
Associated Categories: The story of aerial photography
Associated Categories: Biplanes
Keywords: aeroplane, air plane, aircraft, biplane, camera, film, flying, photography