Fairchild K-20

Charles E. Kerlee of the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit exits the aircraft with two Fairchild K-20 cameras

The Fairchild K-20 was an aerial camera that was primarily used by the US armed forces.

Use and manufacture

It was mainly used during World War II . The apparatus was designed for 4x5-inch roll films and the lens had a focal length of 6 3/8 ". The lenses came from Kodak , Ilex or Bausch & Lomb .

15,000 copies of the Fairchild K-20 were built by Folmer Graflex in Rochester, New York between 1941 and 1945.

Web links

Commons : Fairchild K-20  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• K-20 (Navy) - George Eastman House Technology Archive
• Paul R. Baumann: History of Remote Sensing, Aerial Photography ( memento from October 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on oneonta.edu
• Evolution of Airborne Remote Sensing 1783–1950 on mst.edu (PDF)
• Illustration

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Popular Mechanics , July 1946, Volume 86, No. 1 , ISSN  0032-4558 , pp. 113-115