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By Alan Bland
Having been a frequent (does 5 or 6 times a year count?) visitor to Lakenheath over the last 40 years, I decided it was high time to check out the day dubbed āquick climb Fridayā It took a while for the planets to align, (able to get time off work, the weather, runway 06 departure and...
By Raimo Roonet
I have just returned to the Estonian Aviation Museum for the annual Estonian Aviation Days. The event that at some point was like a tradition to me, calling me in every year, like a pilgrimage. This is also the event that started to steer me into aviation photography, culminating wi...
By Keiran Wilkinson
Itās been a few years since 2020 when I built my current website, and I thought it was time to finally build a dedicated website for my photography. Over the years Iāve tried different things like branding as āFly By Codeā or mixing it in with my professional portfolio site and ...
By Matt Holmes
I have never done anything like this before, so hopefully it will all work & make sense! I have had a couple of people ask about my recent āvintageā style edits & it was suggested I write one of these blogs, so here we goā¦
I have tried old fashioned/vintage style edits before, but n...
By Keiran Wilkinson
Friends of Barton Aerodrome (FoBA) hosted their 2023 fly-in during the first weekend of June. This was the first fly-in after the airportās rebranding from City Airport Manchester back to the original name of Barton Aerodrome and over 300 movements were made over the course of t...
By Bradley Rogers
A sold out bumper-crowd all enjoyed the British summer weather and of course the flying displays at the amazing 2023 Midlands Air Festival!
The Midlands Air Festival is in its third consecutive and successful year in its spiritual home of the Ragley Hall estate.Ā
This year saw t...
By Nigel Harrison
Following on from the MergeĀ Meet regarding Adobeās new leap in witchcraft technology Generative Fill, I thought Iād put up an example of what I found it can do.
Iāve been using Generative Fill for a couple of weeks now and thought Iād put it to the test the other day. This is a s...
By Raimo Roonet
At the end of April I finally returned from a ālittleā relentless pursuit of my own, having spent nearly a month in Florida with my wife and kid.
How to plan a month-long family trip across the pond to Florida? Squeeze in three airshows and a museum or two plus a night shoot, of co...
By Dan Eley
Starting off in the early 1990s my grandparents (grandfather ex RAF) on weekends and the occasional weekday evening would take me up to the old viewing area at Mildenhall and the warren at Lakenheath. Overlooking the runways with a bag of fresh chips my grandfather would pass on his kno...
By Bradley Rogers
The Royal Air Force showed strong support for the Abingdon Air & Country Show this year. held on the 20th May 2023, the show is situated just a stones throw away from RAF Brize Norton, home to both No.99 squadron and No.47 squadron,Ā which eachĀ sent an aircraft to attend the show
...By Matt Sudol
Located on a side road in a suburb of Sofia, Close to the Borisova Gradina Park. The National Museum of Military History documents the history of all three of the Bulgarian armed forces. With collections of naval guns and sea mines, tanks, and military vehicles as well as a strong col...
By Bradley Rogers
Bruntingthorpe is closed, they say⦠Well that is certainly not the case!Ā
On Saturday 29th April 2023 The Bruntingthorpe Cold War Jets Collection reopened to the public, to a lucky 150 people who managed to get their hands on the limited amount of tickets that were on sale via āe...