Not really a scrapyard, although it looked like one at the time. I don’t think the Cessna, a Stinson or this Safir were ever brought out of Addis. amazing trip though!

Please, please tell me what AR219 is ?? some of us are unfamiliar with Brit numbers.

Selling pictures is really a matter of having the right image in front of the right person at the right time. How to do this is a major challenge. There are simply too many photo sites on the internet to know where to look for a picture and buyers don’t have the time to trawl through hundreds of sites after googling keywords. It also helps to be able to write a short and well researched story to go with the picture – at least this is true in the case of magazine editors. The picture also needs to be topical. There are also many, many photographers happy to have their images published for a byline. Another important factor is that it’s not about the camera. I’ve had six separate pictures published in three of the big magazines recently – all taken with a Canon compact (I’m not a Canon fan either – the compact is easy to carry around). 😉

Here’s another that has recently returned to the air after an inactive period – taken last weekend. I believe one of two or three in South Africa.

Pleasure flights also operated from Skegness beach. I have a photocopy of a photo somewhere of my mom about to depart during her honeymoon – will dig it out. Would have been circa 1955/56.