Britain From Above

25 June 2012

More than 5,000 images of Scotland by the oldest commercial aerial photography company in the world, are now available online to the public for the first time.

Britain from Above, a new website (www.britainfromabove.org.uk) launched today (25 June 2012) features the Scottish photos alongside some 12,000 others from across the UK.

Together they are some of oldest and most valuable images of the Aerofilms Collection, a unique and important archive of over 1 million aerial photographs taken between 1919 and 2006.

The Aerofilms Collection embodies all that is exciting about aerial photography. Many shots were taken in the early days of aviation by ex-World War I pilots, from extremely low altitudes, a technique which was very dangerous. It shows just how far their pilots were willing to go for a great photograph.