Royal Air Force – Richard Broom Photography

The Bomber Cockpit – Richard Broom Photography

I’ve reprocessed (is that a word?) this image – an old favourite

The Lancaster – remade. – Richard Broom Photography

The Lancaster – Richard Broom Photography

The Hurricane – Richard Broom Photography

The Back End – Richard Broom Photography

The Fast Jet – Richard Broom Photography

The Engineers – Richard Broom Photography

The Interceptor – Richard Broom Photography

The Spitfire – Richard Broom Photography

The Spy Plane – Richard Broom Photography

The Jump Jet – Richard Broom Photography

The Lightning (2) – Richard Broom Photography

The Lightning (1) – Richard Broom Photography

The Lightning – Richard Broom Photography

Over 57,000 aircrew were killed during World War 2 (46% death rate). I can’t help wondering how many more young men and women will be killed if fighting breaks out (again) in Iran/Iraq and beyond. Ultimately a pointless and tragic loss of human life. We never seem to learn.

The Utter Pointlessness of War – Richard Broom Photography

For Vulcan lovers everywhere…

The XM655 Engineers – Richard Broom Photography

The WW1 Fighter Cockpit – Richard Broom Photography

Very brave men flew these Lysander aircraft during WW2. The RAF pilots who flew these aircraft behind enemy lines, landed and either picked up or dropped off resistance fighters. The pilots would land in the dead of night in out of the way fields guided by only three people on the ground who held torches. No GPS or navigational aids in those days. The aircraft were unarmed.

The Lysander Cockpit – Richard Broom Photography

Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Rodney Park, GCB, KBE, MC & Bar, DFC was a New Zealand soldier, First World War flying ace and Second World War Royal Air Force commander. He was in operational command during two of the most significant air battles in the European theatre in the Second World War, helping to win the Battle of Britain and the Battle of Malta. In Germany, he was supposedly known as “the Defender of London”.

Sir Keith Park – Richard Broom Photography

The Spitfire (2) – Richard Broom Photography

The Spitfire (1) – Richard Broom Photography

The Lancaster (2) – Richard Broom Photography

The Curvy Lady – Richard Broom Photography

The Dawn Departure – Richard Broom Photography

The Sunderland – Richard Broom Photography

Following on from my image of the Jet Provost, here’s an image of the Piston Provost, the predecessor of the Jet Provost.

The Piston Provost – Richard Broom Photography

Let’s try this one again. It didn’t post properly last time.

The Man & His Chopper – Richard Broom Photography

The Red Arrows – Richard Broom Photography

The Jet Provost – Richard Broom Photography

The Short Sunderland – Richard Broom Photography

Sheer undiluted power. From an era when we British used to build fine aircraft. A Lightning (AKA an intercontinental ballistic missile with a pilot sitting on the top!)

The Power and the Fury – Richard Broom Photography

An old favourite reworked…

The T1154 transmitter and the R1155 receiver were the first radios I used to transmit and receive signals (in my teens in the 1960s). These transmitters and receivers were used in Royal Air Force heavy bombers and other aircraft during World War 2. These transmitters and receivers used Morse code and the morse code signal used to ‘chirp’ (sounded a bit like a demented bird on drugs!). Some ‘chirping’ Morse code here.