80-G-41957:  SNJ-3 rigged as a photographic plane, is used for practice by students at the Navy’s School of Photography, NATC Pensacola, Florida.  The photographer is held securely to the plane by a gunner’s belt.  In addition, he wears a “Mae West” (bright orange inflation-type rubber life jacket) and a parachute.  His training includes instruction on how to escape from a parachute when falling into water.  Training photograph planes are painted with a dull grey with yellow wing tips and carry a Fairchild F-56 aerial camera, May 1943.    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.  (2017/06/06)
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