Written by COAP Online members
Now, this is a delicate subject.
It’s dangerously close to biting the hand that feeds us, and it feels uncomfortable to go there when so many external barriers of red tape & bureaucracy are put in place to stumble this lifeblood of our hobby.
But Airshows. Air Days. Open Houses. Ai...
An international collective of aviation enthusiasts converged on the UK to witness the D-Day 80th Anniversary celebrations in late May, early June 2023, under the auspices of Ian Allan Aviation Tours. Gathering in Chertsey, Surrey, the intrepid band of brothers and one sister, embarke...
"GLOCK01, cleared hot!" is followed by "Shack, GLOCK01!". The Grand Bay Range Control Officer tells the pilot of a 74th Fighter Squadron A-10 Warthog that he has hit bullseye with his 25 pound training bomb.
In the heart of southern Georgia, nestled just north of the Florida-Georgi...
Ian Allan Aviation Tours is a sister company to COAP. Hailing from the days when this bunch of characters were young-ish, Ian Allan has been providing spotting tours and steam-driven, illustrated publications for railway geeks and latter-day, aviat...
“My memories are inside me - they’re not things or a place - I can take them anywhere”
I went to Andravida with no expectations, well none apart from getting up close to some of the last remaining Phantoms in active service. Getting close was just a part of a glorious couple of d...
When the A380 was introduced by Airbus in October 2007, its was expected that the world’s largest passenger aircraft would be flying for decades to come. Unfortunately, that was not the case.
In 2019, Airbus announced it would stop production of the A380 due to the lack of sales. The ...
I’m writing this the day after the TLE Wattisham Apache shoot. A difficult day, with difficult conditions. Certainly not the best shoot I’ve attended, not the worst though.
Organisers have a tough enough time getting events like this sanctioned, so to get on an active base and clo...
The magic of Adobe Lightroom masking gives us one of the best tool sets for aviation photography. The ability to change the levels on the aircraft, sky and background independently means even the flattest image can pop.
This image of an RAF C-130 Hercules was was shot from Cad Ea...
Photo Storage – Local, USB, NAS or Cloud
A little origin story for my latest post with the 747 head-on shot.
It was back in 2012, I had bought my first DSLR just over 2 years before and was taking first cautious steps towards aviation photography. But even then I knew I wanted something more out of my aviation photo
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Including People in Your Aviation Pictures
I will start with a confession…. I find taking pictures of static aircraft a bit dull.
I know, controversial. Maybe if there is an interesting sky or a good puddle I might be engaged for a few minutes, but that will be about it. What I...
RAF F-35B Edit Walkthrough - Making Flat Skies Pop!
I’m a regular user of the Lightroom mobile platform. Since they introduced the masking features in October 2021 it has drastically improved my editing capabilities massively.
First of all I start with the corrective parts, enabli...
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