✨ Check out this awesome post from BBC Culture 📖 📂 Category: 💡 Here’s what you’ll learn: After surviving nine crash landings, pilot Alfred Packham created some of the earliest and most impressive photographs taken from the sky. To achieve these goals, he risked his life, using risky, death-defying feats of ingenuity.“What scenes of grandeur and beauty!” Thomas Baldwin, in his 1786 novel Airopaydia, told of a balloon flight over Chester during which he created one of the earliest aerial drawings. Everything was "presented in a way that was new to the eye...the imagination...overwhelmed." Today, we take aerial views for…
