You found your photograph on somebody’s website and your first thought was whether you did the thing you were supposed to do. You did not need to. What copyright actually gives you, what the myths are worth, the rules that catch air-to-air work specifically, and what to do in the first hour after you find… Read article
Air-to-air photographs of a nine aircraft Red Arrows formation in Royal Air Force centenary markings, made from a camera aircraft in 2018. What is held, what the markings date it to, and what a commercial user has to clear before using it. Read article
F-4 Phantom photographs of an aircraft still flying are now among the harder things to source in aviation publishing. There is no other aeroplane quite like it. Bent wings, drooped tail, two smoking General Electric J79s and a shape that looks as though it was designed by argument rather than aerodynamics, the McDonnell Douglas F-4… Read article
Where to license air-to-air Eurofighter Typhoon photographs: RAF and Luftwaffe jets, special schemes, head-ons and planforms, shot from a camera ship. Read article
Where to license air-to-air helicopter photographs: Apache, Chinook, Merlin, NH90, Sea King and more, shot from a camera ship with clean provenance. Read article
How to license original glass-plate photographs of early French aviation: Bleriot-era pioneers, Reims and Monaco meetings, aces and record breakers, scanned at archival resolution. Read article
Where to license high-resolution air-to-air Spitfire photographs: the marks on file, how the images were flown, honest captioning and a buyer’s checklist. Read article
The F-35 Lightning II is one of the most photographed new military aircraft of its generation and one of the hardest to source well: air-to-air imagery with the type is rare, tightly controlled and in constant editorial demand. This guide, the fourth in our series for picture buyers, is built around a collection that answers… Read article
On 11 August 2024 the Martin JRM Hawaii Mars, the largest flying boat in operational service anywhere in the world, made its final flight from Sproat Lake to the BC Aviation Museum. The air-to-air photography flown around those last days is now the closing chapter of an eighty-year story, and this guide explains what the… Read article
The B-17 Flying Fortress is one of the most requested subjects in aviation picture research, and one of the hardest to source well: fewer than ten remain airworthy, so fresh photography is rare by definition. This guide is for the people who buy B-17 images, publishers, museums, documentary makers and model manufacturers, and it is… Read article
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