Luftwaffe ace Helmut Wick shot down over Poole Bay
I learnt two things making this image: a deadly encounter between German and British fighter aircraft in late 1940; and the unusual cockpit canopy jettison mechanism on the Messerschmitt Bf 109.
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.
Two for the Hawker Hurricane fans
Two of my latest pictures feature RAF Hawker Hurricane fighters in action during the Battle of Britain.
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.
Downed in the Channel: Kanalkrankheit played out
My latest Flight Artworks picture deals with the fraught subject for Battle of Britain pilots of being shot down in the English Channel.
Flight Artworks pictures published in RAF Memorial Flight Yearbook
Colchester, 2 Jun 2015 As prefigured in a previous post, the Battle of Britain Day ‘big picture’ I was working on in February has duly appeared across two full pages in the Official Royal Air Force Memorial…
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…
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…
Gas patch soup: making Flight Artworks accurate
High Wycombe, 12 Feb 2013 Someone saw this picture on Facebook and asked what the yellow diamond shape was on the port wing. A gas detector patch. His further comment prompted me to write this…
Focus on specifics
High Wycombe, 11 Jan 2013 I have been remiss in updating the blog but that is partly because I’ve spent time getting a Flight Artworks page on Facebook off the ground. It has accrued some 200…
Aerial views
High Wycombe, 27 Sep 2012 Alongside my regular photography, taking in trips to the North East, the sailing Olympics in Weymouth and the Edinburgh Fringe, I’ve recently been putting a lot of effort into my…