Aerial Combat

Typepad is no more.

Four North American Mustang aircraft of No.268 Squadron Royal Air Force, representative of those it used in WWII, flying over the Normandy region of France.

Recently I noticed some confusion about the code letters applied to the fuselages of RAF aircraft during WWII, such as "G for George".

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.

The Battle of Britain would have been my focus for the next few months, but events have rather overtaken us all.

The B-17s were attacked by hundreds of German fighter aircraft in the most ferocious, sustained onslaught since the notoriously disastrous second Schweinfurt raid.

Have you ever jumped out of a perfectly serviceable aircraft?

My most recent D-Day related image experiments with depicting the visible shockwave from a bomb dropped by a Hawker Typhoon in Normandy in 1944.

Two of my latest pictures feature RAF Hawker Hurricane fighters in action during the Battle of Britain.

It is always a bit of a strange feeling when pictures that you finished some months previously under embargo are finally published.