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By Raimo Roonet
[Recap] At the end of April I finally returned from a “little” 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 shoo...
By Richard Bryant
I had read the “Fête Aérienne Le Temps Des Helices” is one of the go to events on the airshow calendar. The show name translates to “Air Festival The Time of the Propellers”. This event takes place annually during the Pentecost weekend around the end of May.
Having never been I ...
By Mathew Foster Thorn
After the announcement of The Blades being disbanded back at the start of the year, I hatched an idea to try and capture the final display of The Blades over at Sywell (thankfully only a 10 minute drive from home), this meant keeping an eye on the Facebook groups and checking...
By Joe Copalman
Ahoy! First blog post for me.
I had the most fun I’ve had behind a lens in a long time last night.
I went down to the Pima Air and Space Museum with my hombre Judd Slivka for the museum’s ‘Night Wings’ event yesterday to get some photos to help reinforce a few of the co
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By Bradley Rogers
On Saturday 17th June I embarked on my latest Relentless Pursuit in aviation. It was Friday evening that I learned of a possible early morning x2 ship departure, of the currently RAF Fairford based, Rockwell B-1B Lancers. As it happened it would also fall on the day of Shuttlewort...
By Raimo Roonet
(Recap) At the end of April I finally returned from a "little" 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 sho...
By Mark Edwards
Ever since the 26th August 1912, when a pilot named Jean Benoit landed his aircraft on the beach in St Aubin’s Bay as part of a race from St. Malo, the beautiful island of Jersey has enjoyed a strong connection with the world of aviation. Evidence of the aviation heritage on the is...
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 ‘quick climb Friday’ 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
It’s 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 I’ve tried different things like branding as “Fly By Code” 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 ‘vintage’ style edits & it was suggested I write one of these blogs, so here we go…
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 airport’s rebranding from City Airport Manchester back to the original name of Barton Aerodrome and over 300 movements were made over the course of t...
