Showing Animals Respect and Kindness, or SHARK, has launched camera-carrying aircraft hundreds of times to film pigeon shoots, said Steve Hindi, the organization's president.

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On 29 December, the crash-landing of a Tupolev-204 aircraft was recorded on the dashboard camera of a car on a nearby motorway.

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While there's no video of this particular test flight, there is a video of the instruments being loaded onto the aircraft, shot with the very camera that's now installed vehicle's tail (and augmented with the requisite Benny Hill theme song).

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The aircraft had a multi-role capability with advance weaponry, the latest camera technology for intelligence gathering and short take off capability for aircraft carrier duties.

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Among earlier recommendations made by the board were to require multiple high-resolution cameras for the launch and to consider having camera platforms aboard ships and aircraft to film the shuttle from additional angles during launch.

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As he says this, the camera pans upwards to show an aircraft carving a line across the clear blue sky, a reference to both the double standards of Larson's patriotism and the secret that drives him on.

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Dr Coen's team, for example, uses an infra-red camera to video fires as they happen, from the vantage point of a crane or a small aircraft.

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