Reconnaissance system with a stabilized recording magazine

Claim 1

AN OPTICAL RECONNAISSANCE SYSTEM FOR RECONNAISSANCE VEHICLES, COMPRISING ROTATABLE, NON-STABILIZED, SCANNING MEANS MOUNTED UPON A ROTATABLE SCANNING SHAFT, SAID SHAFT BEING ATTACHED TO SAID VEHICLE AND EXTENDING ALONG AN AXIS SUBSTANTIALLY PARALLEL TO THE ROLL AXIS OF SAID VEHICLE, SAID SCANNING MEANS RECEIVING AND REFLECTING THE RADIANT ENERGY FROM A TARGET WHILE MOVING ANGULARLY THERETO WITH SAID VEHICLE, AN ELECTRO-OPTICAL SYSTEM ARRANGED ALONG A COMMON OPTICAL AXIS WITH SAID SCANNING MEANS, SAID ELECTRO-OPTICAL SYSTEM RECEIVING AND CONVERTING THE REFLECTED RADIANT ENERGY FROM SAID SCANNING MEANS INTO AN ELECTRICAL OUTPUT SIGNAL, A GLOW MODULATOR LAMP, THE INTENSITY OF WHICH IS CONTROLLED BY THE OUTPUT SIGNAL FROM SAID ELECTRO-OPTICAL SYSTEM, AN OPTICAL SYSTEM MOUNTED UPON SAID SCANNING SHAFT AND ROTATABLE THEREWITH TO RECEIVE AND REDIRECT A SWEEP OF RADIATION FROM SAID GLOW MODULATOR LAMP UPON EACH ROTATION OF SAID SCANNING MEANS, A PLATFORM MOUNTED FOR LIMITED MOVEMENT ABOUT SAID SCANNING SHAFT, SAID PLATFORM INCLUDING A TRANSVERSELY SLOTTED BARREL SHAPED FILM FORMER, A RECORDING MAGAZINE CONTAINING A RECORDING MEDIUM MOUNTED UPON SAID PLATFORM, SAID RECORDING MEDIUM PASSING OVER SAID FILM FORMER TO RECEIVE REDIRECTED RADIATION FROM SAID OPTICAL SYSTEM THROUGH SAID TRANSVERSE SLOT, SAID FILM FORMER BEING SHAPED TO MAINTAIN SAID RECORDING MEDIUM AT A FIXED DISTANCE FROM SAID OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR ALL POSITIONS WITHIN THE RANGE OF MOVEMENT OF THE RECORDING MAGAZINE ABOUT SAID SCANNING SHAFT, AND GYROSCOPICALLY CONTROLLED SERVO MOTOR MEANS MOUNTED TO MOVE SAID PLATFORM ABOUT SAID SCANNING SHAFT TO MAINTAIN A STABILIZED RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SAID RECORDING MAGAZINE AND SAID TARGET SURFACE.