PROJECT AF 67-4: EQUIPMENT MODIFICATION & TEST
Following a series of planning meetings involving Defense
Intelligence Agency (Mapping and Charting); Military Airlift Command;
Army Map Service; 1370th Photo Mapping Wing; USAF (Wright-Patterson
Air Force Base); and Engineer Topographic Laboratories, an Air Force
contract was let in May 1967 to obtain the following services: e é
Item 1 - 2 ea GFP KC-3 (88 mm Super Aviogon Lens) cameras to
be repaired, reconditioned, and modifíed to accept
and operate properly with standard KC-1B type
magazines (i.e. with flat platen)
Item 2 - 4 ea, GFB KC-1B (6") cameras each to be re-focused for
use with Type lA Class K Infrared Film (EK Type 5424)
Item 3 - One (1) years operating spares for Item 1.
Item 4 - Distortion calibrations to be performed on each camera
and calibration certificates furnished AMS.
All cameras were to be delivered to Forbes Air Force Base by 15 July é e
1967. Upon receipt of the cameras, 1370th PMW personnel were to:
install them in an RC-130 aircraft for flight testing over the
Phoenix Control Area; have crew training on camera operation completed
and film processing techniques finalized prior to deployment to
Liberia.
By mid-June, camera modification efforts were behind schedule
by 30 days, with delivery of the 4 modified KC-1B cameras (newly
designated as KC-8's) having slipped to 15 August, and the