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New batch of images releasedA new batch of 4,790 images has been digitised, catalogued and uploaded to the NCAP website. Areas covered include the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany, and the city of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 26 August 2013 |
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Cabinet Secretary briefed on NCAP developmentsFiona Hyslop MSP is briefed on the use of NCAP aerial imagery in recent BBC documentaries and on forthcoming website developments. 8 August 2013 |
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D-Day: The Last HeroesImages from NCAP are featuring in a new two-part BBC documentary about the Normandy landings, D-Day: The Last Heroes. To co-incide with the broadcast, over 3,500 images taken on D-Day have been released on the NCAP website. 6 June 2013 |
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New Book Reveals Secrets of Hitler’s V-WeaponsA new book, by NCAP Curator Allan Williams, tells the story of Operation Crossbow, the photographic intelligence hunt for Nazi 'Vengeance' weapons. 5 June 2013 |
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New Documentary: D-Day in 3DImages from NCAP have featured in a new documentary on the Discovery Channel in the USA, which reaches over 100 million households. The programme, D-Day in 3D, explores the use of stereoscopic aerial photography in the planning of the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944. 31 May 2013 |
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Dambusters images releasedImages from the Dambusters and Saumur Tunnel raids by 617 Squadron, Royal Air Force, have been released in a batch of 5,300 historic aerial images uploaded to the NCAP website, covering areas from Western Europe to North Africa. 10 May 2013 |
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German Air Force photographs of Scotland releasedA collection of 125 images of Scotland taken by the German Luftwaffe has been released on the NCAP website. 8 May 2013 |
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NCAP featured on Planetopia, the German science and technology programmeFollowing the discovery of an unexploded bomb near Berlin Central Station, on Tuesday 2 April 2013, the work of NCAP has been featured on the German science and technology programme. 9 April 2013 |
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NCAP and the German Bomb Disposal IndustryMagazine article in the Mail on Sunday - 31 March 2013 - features the work of NCAP. 2 April 2013 |
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From Brussels to Suez - new batch of images released4,700 historic aerial images have been uploaded to the NCAP website, covering areas from Western Europe to North Africa. Also released are images flown during the Suez Crisis in November 1956. 28 February 2013 |
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Images of Sardinia releasedOver 1,600 images of Sardinia have been digitised, catalogued and uploaded to the NCAP website along with 6 mosaics covering parts of the island. 18 December 2012 |
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New batch of images releasedA new batch of 3,500 images has been digitised, catalogued and uploaded to the NCAP website. Countries covered include Germany, the Netherlands and Scotland. 6 December 2012 |
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New NCAP Channel on HistoryPinNCAP shares 10,000 aerial images of Scotland and Western Europe on HistoryPin. 3 October 2012 |
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NCAP featured on German televisionThe work of NCAP has been featured on German television, following the discovery of unexploded bombs in Munich and Schipol. 12 September 2012 |
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New batch of images releasedA new batch of 12,000 images has been digitised, catalogued and uploaded to the NCAP website. Countries covered include France, Germany, Norway, The Netherlands and Thailand. 23 August 2012 |
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Operation Crossbow on German televisionNCAP imagery of a secret Second World War operation is the subject of a documentary to be shown in Germany 29 July 2012 |
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New batch of images releasedA new batch of 9,000 historical aerial images of Scotland been scanned, catalogued and uploaded to the NCAP website. Areas covered include Shetland, Caithness, Stirling and Bute. 6 July 2012 |
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New project to make 150,000 aerial images accessibleA new NCAP digitisation project will add 90,000 images to the 70,000 already available online by mid-2013. 26 April 2012 |
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New wartime aerial photographs of Scotland accessibleAnother 4,000 images of Scotland taken by RAF photographic reconnaissance units during the Second World War are now accessible online. 6 February 2012 |
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New batch of images releasedA new batch of 3,000 images has been scanned, catalogued and uploaded to the NCAP website. Countries covered include France, Germany, Norway, Denmark and Croatia. 31 January 2012 |