Aerial photographs and fly-overs, such as the famous Mickey on top of Spaceship Earth, were a mainstay of advertising and press photographs. They haven’t totally vanished, but these pictures are not nearly as common today, though not for lack of wishful thinking (who wouldn’t love a photograph over Kilimanjaro Safaris’ savanna?). Scrutinizing these eye-in-the-sky images offers an amazing amount insight into the early years of Walt Disney World. What was there, what wasn’t, a literal footprint of how things were laid out. Here’s just one such image, from just before the Polynesian Village opened in 1971.
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I noticed a pair of helicopters hovering around on the outer edges of Epcot and MK on Dec 16th 2011 while we watched Illuminations. I wondered if that was an official flight filming or do they do tourist flights?
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