Kieran Turner's photos with the keyword: aircraft

Liverpool flying club

Piper Tomahawk, G-LFSA

19 Jul 2008 103
This is the little guy I'm now floating around in :-) Born in 1978. If only people looked after their cars so well!

Head in the clouds

16 Jul 2007 94
Since I've been flying so much lately (for which, as you may have read elsewhere, I'm looking forward to planting several trees), it seems appropriate that I see lots of aeroplanes from my window. I love the sky in a similar way to the way in which I love the sea. I suppose they're the overwhelmingly big expressions of the basic elements of air and water. I must try to take some pics which express the same elements in their more microscopic forms — a droplet here, a breath there.

Tiger Moth

24 Oct 2006 89
This is the kind of aeroplane my Grandpa, Joe Smith learned to fly in. We were asked not to get too close to the cockpit because it's a bit radioactive - thanks to the glow-in-the-dark dials! At East Fortune airfield (Scottish National Museum of Flight).

de Havilland Comet 4c

19 Dec 2006 74
At East Fortune airfield (Scottish National Museum of Flight).

Midnight sun over Greenland

15 Jul 2007 87
From a Boeing 747-400 between Los Angeles and London, in the middle of the night. And to make up for the flight, and the others involved in this journey between the UK and North America, I really will be planting several trees — actually planting them, not just paying somebody to offset my carbon guilt. I'm quite excited about it: I've never planted a tree before.

Crack in the sky

15 Jul 2007 76
# There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. Thanks Leonard :) This is actually from my first ever trans-Atlantic flight. I spent the trip chatting to my neighbour, a fascinating guy who despite being a vegetarian Hindu, actually worked for the government, involved in designing weapons...