Drew - aerial photography has certain advantages that films at sea level don't have, especially in terms of shadows and exposure scale - on the other hand, they need to cut through haze and image tiny objects at huge distance - which is why people get in such a tangle with the repurposed Agfa films.
From Bob's book, the persistence of triacetate in LF film bases was because of the need to enable pre-photoshop compositing methods using solvents and emulsion stripping.
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