You’ll find me at airshows around the UK, hopefully by the crowd line on a sunny day, but often further back and sheltering under an umbrella. Always with my Nikon within reach and an airband radio clipped to my belt.
I only find time to visit a handful of the dozens of air shows staged each year and here are the events I’ve visited most recently. Click through for my best pictures at each show and you’ll see that I love both seaside and airport venues; fast jets and Merlins.
When the UK airshow season has ended, I indulge in my other pastime, also weather dependant: astrophotography, the imaging of stars, planets, nebulae and galaxies.
August 19, 2023
Eastbourne 2023
Plenty of wing vapour photos and a unique Typhoon and Lancaster formation.
August 19, 2023
July 15, 2023
June 14, 2023
Hercules Farewell Flypast
A tour of the UK to mark the Hercules retirement from the RAF.
June 14, 2023
September 1, 2022
August 20, 2022
September 2, 2021
September 28, 2019
August 15, 2019
July 21, 2019
RIAT 2019
Poor international attendance embarrassingly hyped up by their social media team.
July 21, 2019
July 13, 2019
June 30, 2019
June 15, 2019
June 9, 2019
Cosford 2019
A disappointing line-up considering it’s the RAF’s only air show of the year.
June 9, 2019
June 4, 2019
August 25, 2018