Stow Maries WWI Sunset and Night Shoot
Deep in the Essex countryside lies Stow Maries, the last remaining near complete WWI Aerodrome, originally home to No 37 (Home Defence) Squadron of the Royal Flying Corps. Stow Maries is now home to the Great War museum and on this very wet afternoon in April to [...]
Yorkshire Air Museum Night Shoot
Having missed the first event last year, I welcomed the chance to shoot some of the Yorkshire Air Museum's aircraft, including the Handley Page Halifax under the lights. Based at the former RAF Elvington on the outskirts of York, the Yorkshire Air Museum is home to aircraft [...]
Lightning Preservation Society Night Shoot
Following the success of the double reheat event in November the Lightning Preservation Society hosted a night shoot at their Bruntingthorpe base. Set up in 1988 the Lightning Preservation Society are home to 3 English Electric Lightnings, 2 of which are regularly fast taxied on [...]
Avro Shackleton Dusk Engine Run
With maritime operations again in the news recently the opportunity to see engine runs from two classic maritime aircraft was a hard one to resist. Located at the West side of Coventry airport, the Shackleton Preservation Trust's Avro Shackleton WR 963 and Classic Air Force's Nimrod XV232 were [...]
Lightning Double Reheat Twilight Run
The Lightning Preservation Group, based at Bruntingthorpe airfield in Leicestershire is home to three English Electric Lightnings and its two taxiable aircraft XS904 and XR728 were to perform a syncronised engine reheat on the airfield's runway at twilight followed by a night photo shoot with its latest [...]
“Just Jane” Night Photoshoot
Now a biannual event and selling out well in advance each time, Timeline Events afternoon and evening photos shoots at East Kirby give photographers a unique opportunity to photograph Lancaster Just Jane on full engine revs in an authentic setting as well as raising money [...]
Cold War Jets Taxi Day August 2015
This was my first trip to Bruntingthorple for the Cold War jets day, although I'd been to the airfield before when the Lightning was on engine test so know what to expect in terms of the noise. Arriving when the gates opened at 9am I [...]
Hangar 11 Night Shoot
Based at the former WWII RAF fighter station of North Weald airfield in Kent, the Hangar 11 collection is home to four vintage aircraft owned by the renowned airshow display pilot Peter Teichman. With the Supermarine Spitfire and Curtiss Kittyhawk in deep winter maintenance the Hawker [...]
Vulcan XM655 Night Shoot
In November I attended the first night shoot with Vulcan XM655 at Wellesbourne airfield organised by Neil Cave's team at Timeline Events. Avro Vulcan XM655 was third from last of the Vulcan bombers produced for the Royal Air Force, being delivered in late 1964, and was [...]