HOOKS’ TOURS

Mike Hooks began his aviation photography career in 1945 with a simple box camera, moving on to an Ensign folding camera in about 1948, and later to a Voigtlander Vito B. He converted to colour in the 1950s, and went on to build one of the UK’s most extensive archives of Kodachrome transparencies VICKERS VIKING Initially used by BEA, Britain’s first purpose-designed airliner to fly after World War Two later became a mainstay of many independent operators 1. Independent Air