Heroic struggles against overwhelming odds
The Battle of Britain would have been my focus for the next few months, but events have rather overtaken us all.
Courage of the paratroopers who jumped into D-Day
Have you ever jumped out of a perfectly serviceable aircraft? At night. Under fire.
Topsy turvy new Flight Artworks picture published
It is always a bit of a strange feeling when pictures that you finished some months previously under embargo are finally published.
New challenge: two-seat Spitfires and a Hispano Buchon
Depicting three old aircraft that are gleamingly cared for presented a new Flight Artworks challenge.
Special 460 Squadron coins flown in BBMF Lancaster
Twelve 460 Squadron commemorative coins were flown on the BBMF’s Lancaster, PA474, to mark its new port side livery as AR-L for Leader.
New Supermarine Swift WK275 artwork
It’s a slow business, creating a Swift picture.
The search for the Lancaster bagpipes kangaroo artist
Researching the background to BBMF Lancaster PA474’s new identity as W5005, AR-L of 460 Squadron (RAAF).
Polish ‘boxing bulldog’ Spitfire TD240
The new paint scheme for the RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Spitfire TE311 features a Polish boxing bulldog nose art: one of several similar emblems.
EXCLUSIVE: Two new paint schemes for BBMF Lancaster
The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight’s Lancaster, PA474, will have not one but two new paint schemes following its winter service.
The shooting down of Whisky Hotel 799
When was the last time an RAF aircraft was shot down by an enemy in an air-to-air engagement?
Seven seconds: the Tower Bridge Hawker Hunter incident
New picture portrays the astonishing moment an RAF pilot flew his Hawker Hunter jet through the central span of Tower Bridge in London.
The view from the back seat
I am told I am deluding myself when I imagine there was a golden age during which I just made pictures and somehow all the household stuff and admin either did not exist or somehow took care of itself.
Here’s one I made earlier: silver Spitfire PR Mk XIX PS852 – or is it PS915?
The new RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Visitor Guide plops on to my doormat containing one of my pictures: silver Spitfire PS852.
A Mk I Spitfire and a PR Mk XIX silver Spitfire: my latest Flight Artworks
Colchester, 15 September 2015 The house and office move mentioned in the Preface to my first book was completed relatively painlessly as these things go, although the unpacking and decluttering took longer than I had…
Battle of Britain Spitfire for magazine
High Wycombe, 10 May 2015 Apart from all that spring stuff the month of May brought with it issue 16 of History Revealed magazine – whose cover features one of my Flight Artworks aircraft. The Spitfire was…
Lest we forget: F for Freddy remembered
Just a quick update that follows on from the picture I wrote about in January. It was commissioned by Kev Ruane to take to the unveiling of a memorial in a small town in Austria,…
Turning point: Battle of Britain Day, 15 September 1940
High Wycombe, 16 Feb 2015 My latest picture portrays some 128 separate aircraft on what we now know was a decisive day: 15 September 1940. The picture, which I have been working on for much of…
Remembering Berchtesgaden Lancaster “F for Freddy”
High Wycombe, 30 Jan 2015 There is an interesting story around all the pictures I get asked to make, but it is usually about the original circumstances that are being portrayed. In the case of this…
A close-up look at the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight
High Wycombe, 2 Dec 2014 I was standing next to a World War Two Spitfire while one of the few modern pilots lucky enough to have flown it recounted how the engine had emptied of oil…
Iconic moments in Dambusters aviation prints
High Wycombe, 13 May 2013 It ranks in certain quarters as possibly the most daring and audacious operation the RAF carried out during World War II. But when I asked American and German friends ……