Runway Photography

Abingdon Air and Country Show - 2 May 2010
Glorious sunshine, bright blue skies and temperatures hitting the 20s. Then the air-show season arrived and it all went Pete Tong. Steve Smith of AeroResource reports on the traditional season starter at Abingdon...
Full Report on AeroResource here

Project Curium - "Wiltshire's Role in the Afghan Conflict" - MOD Boscombe Down - March 2010
The past few months have seen the skies over Wiltshire filled with two strange, foreign machines which are shortly due to depart our shores. Steve Smith reports for AeroResource…
Images here
Full Report on AeroResource here

216 Squadron Visit - RAF Brize Norton - 5 February 2010
FighterControl.co.uk managed to pull off a visit to 216 Squadron as a prize for their Specialist Photo
Competition in November 2009. I was given one of the top 10 runners up prizes and booked myself in for themvisit. The fact I organised the competition had nothing to do with it....
Images here

RAF Valley Base Visit - March 2009
A few re-edited photograph's from my base visit in March
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RAF 2009 Hawk Display Team Photoshoot
This photoshoot took place at the former RAF Abingdon, the day after Abingdon's season-opening
airshow, and features the two Hawker-Siddeley Hawk aircraft in the 2009 display scheme.
The aircraft are part of 208 Squadron and fly out of RAF Valley.
Images here

September 2009
Duxford September Airshow Review for FighterControl.co.uk
‘The Duxford Airshow presents the very best in historic and modern aviation, both civil and military’ – Steve Smith reports for Fighter Control from the Duxford September Airshow 2009.
Report here

Airfield Viewing Guide - RAF Valley
The author's guide to viewing and photography at RAF Valley, located close to Holyhead on the Isle of Anglesey
Guide here

RAF Perdiswell - Article on the History of Perdiswell for FighterControl.co.uk
Steve Smith of the Fighter Control team looks back at an airfield in an area no longer associated with military aviation in any real form – RAF Perdiswell, also known as RAF Perdiswell Hall and RAF Worcester.
Report here

RAF Broadwell - Article on the History of Broadwell for FighterControl.co.uk
Steve Smith of Fighter Control and Runway Photography examines the history of a little known airbase located within 3,000 yards of RAF Brize Norton – the often forgotten RAF Broadwell.
Report here