Thank you for the kind words - but I am just an amateur when it comes to air-to-air photography...
Paul Zietsman wrote:Give us a bit more of an insight of the day(s).
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The website says most of it, but essentially aviation photographers can - at a price - attend an organised once a year academy for air-to-air photography - starting with theory and best practice, moving through safety, culminating in a two hour ride in a Short Skyvan (everyone fully harnessed and tethered into the aircraft) where a variety of photo planes are put up behind the Skyvan for the photographers to shoot. The Skyvan takes ten photographers at a time - and all get a good view. Aside from the Skyvan flight, there were a variety of other flights available - some paid, some free - such as open canopy flights in the T-6 and Yaks, through to rides in spare seats in the photo planes. It all happened over several days at Zoersel airfield, near Antwerp in Belgium, and was combined with a weekend flyin at the airfield so there was stuff going on all the time.
It was great fun and a fantastic experience - I'd do it again without hesitation... The only problem is that standing on the ground taking pictures isn't quite the same any more!
Andy
