Photo #: NH 97412
USS Oriskany (CVA-34)
One of a series of photographs "taken by a Navy F2H-2P 'Banshee'
as it followed another 'Banshee' in for a carrier landing on
the USS Oriskany (CVA-34), somewhere off the coast of
San Francisco, California. The photo plane was equipped with
a forward firing aerial mapping and reconnaissance camera installed
in its nose. The camera was a type K-48 aerial camera with a
24-inch lens, a red A-25 filter, 1/200 second exposure, an exposure
interval of two (2) seconds, and film size of 9x18 inches. The
speed of the aircraft during approach is approximately 110 knots."
(quoted from the original caption released with this image)
Photograph was taken on 8 February 1955.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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