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 US Navy P2V-7 Neptune BuNo 135570 of patrol squadron VP-21 was a visitor to West Malling on 6 August 1960. The USN operated 148 Neptunes of this