Pilot mapped new territory

By Photo Courtesy of Charles Shipman

July 29, 2008 | 6:44 p.m. CDT

Charles Shipman, center, stands with a survey party in the jungles of Colombia. The men were working to map out the country using a telerometer, a relatively new technology in the late 1950s.

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