Josef Campion joins the RAF Chinook Force to see the action on its home turf and its training areas. Read more  

Carl Wrightson re-lives the experience of a lifetime, including THAT day in Rainbow Canyon. Read more  

John F. Stiles travels out to The Land of The Rising Sun to take in all that Japan has to offer. Read more  

Gilles Denis experiences Ukraine in a tiring but amazing operational visit. Read more  

Tim Beach goes ‘up close and operational’ with the Polish AF and Polish Navy, and nearly with a Polish colleague! Read more  

Charles Cerrone ventures to North Korea to the utterly incredible Wonsan Air Festival and can’t believe his eyes.  Read more  

Dave Griffths attends a COAP Workshop on how to get the best out of his photography before joining TLE and COAP to experience the sights and sounds of a TLE shoot Lancaster at night with ‘RAF Bomber Command’ re-enactors. Read more  

Darren James goes air-to-air with the aircraft departing RIAT 2016. Read more  

Erik Bruijns goes air-to-air with the aircraft arriving for RIAT 2016 Read more  

Mark Sutherland goes flying with A-4 Skyhawks and EF2000s out of Wittmund, Germany Read more  

Peter Cooper heads out to Switzerland with COAP to experience the mountain flying, stunning beauty and magical weather of Meiringen Read more  

Ian Sykes joins COAP for the official coverage of the 2016 Tour de Sky event at Kuopio, Finland Read more  

Lance Peters secures on the of the RAF Marham Enthusiast Day tickets allocated to COAP in raising money for the Station Fund.   Read more  

Robert Griffiths soaks up a COAP Workshop at East Kirkby to prep for an evening with TLE’s Avro Lancaster VII ‘Just Jane’ shoot. Read more  

Drinking From the Fire Hose: A few days with COAP in Switzerland, by Steve Zimmermann Read more  

Kedar Karmarkar talks us through the Assignment to NAS Key West, Florida, which presented perhaps the finest ramp shoot in the history of aviation photography… And some real challenges to get the best out of it. Read more  

Lance Peters squeezes every last drop of action out of the Swiss AF with COAP Read more  

Søren Augustesen gets immersed on the NATO frontline during the Baltic Air Policing mission out of Lithuania Read more  

Richard Clarke experiences the full-on action of the Bulgarian AF MiG-21s, MiG-29s and Su-25s during an epic five-day visit, which included going air-to-air in a BuAF C-27J Spartan with the fighter fleet!  Read more  

Mark Sutherland shadows the daily operations of the men and women of the 493rd FS ‘Grim Reapers’, part of the USAF’s 48th FW at RAF Lakenheath Read more  

Jonathan Young was one of two COAP members to respond to the chance of going air-to-air with the stunning Seafire SX336 in the hands of John Beattie in mid September.  Read more  

Ian Sykes visits the world of contracted Aggressors with DA Defence at Wittmund and takes the first steps into becoming a published author Read more  

Keith Meachem experienced being on Assignment at RAF Valley, shooting the next generation of RAF fighter pilots going through their Fast-Jet Training. We spent the day with Nos IV(Res) Squadron’s slick Hawk T2 sand No 208(Res) Squadrons classic (and soon to be retired) Hawk T1s, and had a super rare chance to shoot a SAR Sea King HAR3 and SARTU AB412. This busy Assignment also included hooking up with a serving QFI and skilled aerial photographer in the evening for a briefing & squadron tour followed by a photography Workshop. Furthermore, the next day offered the chance to try low-level photography in the famed ‘Mach Loop’.  Read more  

Mark Sutherland travelled to the foothills of the Tatra Mountains in Southern Poland to joing COAP’s second Assignment, shooting the awesome Mi-24 ‘Hinds’ and the rare Mi-2 ‘Hoplites’ on deployment for a mountain flight training exercise  Read more  

Adrian Carver was at London Heathrow at the end of April for the first COAP Workshop as well as the first COAP Assignment to No 12(B) Squadron at RAF Marham in May.  Read more