<P> The first time close head - on remote photography had been used was in 1977 when photographer Richard Cooke, working with Sqn Ldr Alan Voyle, Senior Engineering Officer of The Red Arrows, developed a camera bracket to fit on the underside of a spare Red Arrows Folland Gnat aircraft . The pilots were carefully briefed on the ground and then, in the air, the photographer operated the camera from the back seat of the camera aircraft, using a mechanical release triggered by a solenoid, operated through the anti-collision light . </P> <P> The Nikkormat camera with autowind pointed back at the Red Arrows team and was fitted with a wide angle 24mm Nikkor lens . The photography was commissioned by the Telegraph Sunday Magazine and made the front cover on 3 July 1977 . </P> <P> Databases exist on the internet, cataloguing aviation photographs . These include airliners.net, jetphotos.net and airplane-pictures.net allow users to search them for photographs of aircraft based on user - specified criteria . </P>

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