The result was Keep. Neither rewriting nor moving the article require deletion. Eluchil404 (talk) 02:09, 24 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Another editor objects to a ((refimprove)) tag on this article for some strange reason. All the references seem rather thin and could relate back to a common source which is an hoax. But I think the conclusion will be: the technique was tried in 1903, exhibited in Dresden in 1909 but never used on any battlefield. The drawbacks, eg. shot down for food, listed in the article never happened but were anticipated by the military so the pigeons were never used. The army corps may well never have existed, so pigeons in aerial photography will probably be a better article title. — RHaworth (Talk | contribs) 19:03, 16 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]
[…] das den jahrelangen Arbeiten des Dr. Neubronner in Kronberg im Taunus seine Entwicklung verdankt. Er has as durch Training erreicht, daß eine Taube 75 g, d. h. ein Drittel ihres Eigengewichtes, 100 bis 150 km weit tragen kann. Den so vorbereiteten Tauben legte er eine kleine Tragevorrichtung and und befestigte daran einen […]
Julius Neubronner, Cronberg, hat Brieftauben dazu herangezogen, Winzige photographische Apparate in die Lüfte zu tragen, die dann automatisch funktionieren. Auf der Internationalen Luftschiffahrtsausstellung in Frankfurt 1909 brachte er Apparate […]
Die Versuche der Hofapothekers Dr. NEUBRONNER in Kronberg sind durch die Zeitschriften bekannt geworden. Der kleine Apparat ist fur 2-8 Aufnahmen engerichtet, darf bis 75 g wiegen und wird auf der Brust der Taube befestigt, die ihn bequem 100 — 150 km weit […]
However, it makes no sense to delete it altogether since there are related topics that I suppose are not yet covered in Wikipedia. Here are some sources for them:
Jenavecia, this does seem to be a more reliable source than the Smithsonian, even though I have yet to find indication that Fotogeschichte is peer-reviewed. It's a German-speaking historian of photography, who is apparently directly using primary German historical sources from archives. (Aside from all of the primary sources cited in the article that M. Adler cites above, the magazine article by Brons has a picture of Neubronner and his pigeons from the historical archives of the Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin, notice.) As far as I can determine, M. Brons is a lecturer in art history at the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. So whilst xyr paper credentials may be less than those of other authors, this is, conversely, an expert on this specific field, with direct access to primary sources in the relevant language, writing in xyr field of expertise.
The bad news is that it does strongly support the thesis that Neubronnner's work never took off (as it were). And whilst there are plenty of details in the German language sources that I cited above, including the masses of the cameras, how far the pigeons could fly, and so forth, I see nothing that contradicts this thesis (I hope that M. Adler has checked my German on these sources, as requested.).
The Internationale Luftschiffahrtausstellung mentioned above is the one also documented in Meyer(1912) that I cited, by the way. Uncle G (talk) 17:40, 17 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]