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News

New batch of images released

A 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

Cabinet Secretary briefed on NCAP developments

Fiona Hyslop MSP is briefed on the use of NCAP aerial imagery in recent BBC documentaries and on forthcoming website developments.


8 August 2013

Fiona Hyslop briefed on NCAP

D-Day: The Last Heroes

Images 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

Aerial photo of D-Day

New Book Reveals Secrets of Hitler’s V-Weapons

A new book, by NCAP Curator Allan Williams, tells the story of Operation Crossbow, the photographic intelligence hunt for Nazi 'Vengeance' weapons.


5 June 2013

Operation Crossbow book by Allan Williams

New Documentary: D-Day in 3D

Images 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

Dambusters images released

Images 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

German Air Force photographs of Scotland released

A collection of 125 images of Scotland taken by the German Luftwaffe has been released on the NCAP website.


8 May 2013

NCAP featured on Planetopia, the German science and technology programme

Following 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

NCAP and the German Bomb Disposal Industry

Magazine article in the Mail on Sunday - 31 March 2013 - features the work of NCAP.


2 April 2013

From Brussels to Suez - new batch of images released

4,700 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

Images of Sardinia released

Over 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

New batch of images released

A 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

New batch of aerial images released

New NCAP Channel on HistoryPin

NCAP shares 10,000 aerial images of Scotland and Western Europe on HistoryPin.


3 October 2012

New NCAP Channel on HistoryPin

NCAP featured on German television

The work of NCAP has been featured on German television, following the discovery of unexploded bombs in Munich and Schipol.


12 September 2012

unexploded bomb

New batch of images released

A 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

Democracy Monument Bangkok

Operation Crossbow on German television

NCAP imagery of a secret Second World War operation is the subject of a documentary to be shown in Germany


29 July 2012

Operation Crossbow on German television

New batch of images released

A 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

New batch of images released

New project to make 150,000 aerial images accessible

A new NCAP digitisation project will add 90,000 images to the 70,000 already available online by mid-2013.


26 April 2012

New project to make 150,000 aerial images accessible

New wartime aerial photographs of Scotland accessible

Another 4,000 images of Scotland taken by RAF photographic reconnaissance units during the Second World War are now accessible online.


6 February 2012

New wartime aerial photographs of Scotland accessible

New batch of images released

A 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

New batch of images released

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