DRAGON RAPIDE

The classic de Havilland airliner’s post-war service involved a host of different operators 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 MAIN PICTURE: Used in the 1950s by the Automobile Association for aerial