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  • London skyline seen from the Sky Garden on the top of the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
    sky_garden08-25-04-2015.jpg
  • London skyline seen from the Sky Garden on the top of the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
    sky_garden06-25-04-2015.jpg
  • London skyline seen from the terrace of the Sky Garden at the top of the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
    sky_garden02-25-04-2015.jpg
  • Visitors admire London skyline seen from the Sky Garden on the top of the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
    sky_garden14-25-04-2015.jpg
  • The silhouette of an airliner that has taken off from Heathrow Airport to the west, and overflying the capital amid high altitude soft clouds in a dusk sky over south London, on 24th August 2019, in London, England.
    dusk_sky-03-24-08-2019.jpg
  • Soft clouds in a dusk sky over south London, on 24th August 2019, in London, England.
    dusk_sky-02-24-08-2019.jpg
  • Soft clouds in a dusk sky over south London, on 24th August 2019, in London, England.
    dusk_sky-01-24-08-2019.jpg
  • Visitors admire the London skyline from the Sky Garden of the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
    sky_garden29-25-04-2015.jpg
  • Visitors admire the London skyline from the Sky Garden of the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
    sky_garden15-25-04-2015.jpg
  • The silhouette of an airliner that has taken off from Heathrow Airport to the west, and overflying the capital amid high altitude soft clouds in a dusk sky over south London, on 24th August 2019, in London, England.
    dusk_sky-04-24-08-2019.jpg
  • The Brasseris in the Sky Garden of the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
    sky_garden34-25-04-2015.jpg
  • The Brasseris in the Sky Garden of the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
    sky_garden35-25-04-2015.jpg
  • London skyline seen from the Sky Garden on the top of the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
    sky_garden32-25-04-2015.jpg
  • Visitors admire the London skyline from the Sky Garden of the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
    sky_garden30-25-04-2015.jpg
  • Visitors admire the London skyline from the Sky Garden of the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
    sky_garden21-25-04-2015.jpg
  • Visitors admire the London skyline from the Sky Garden of the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
    sky_garden19-25-04-2015.jpg
  • Visitors admire London skyline seen from the Sky Garden on the top of the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
    sky_garden13-25-04-2015.jpg
  • The Brasseris in the Sky Garden of the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
    sky_garden12-25-04-2015.jpg
  • London skyline seen from the terrace of the Sky Garden at the top of the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
    sky_garden05-25-04-2015.jpg
  • London skyline seen from the Sky Garden on the top of the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
    sky_garden33-25-04-2015.jpg
  • London's skyline and River Thames seen from the Sky Garden of the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
    sky_garden25-25-04-2015-2.jpg
  • London skyline seen from the Sky Garden on the top of the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
    sky_garden24-25-04-2015.jpg
  • The Brasseris in the Sky Garden of the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
    sky_garden11-25-04-2015.jpg
  • Architecture of the Sky Garden on the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
    sky_garden10-25-04-2015.jpg
  • Visitors admire the London skyline from the Sky Garden of the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
    sky_garden22-25-04-2015.jpg
  • London's skyline and River Thames seen from the Sky Garden of the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
    sky_garden27-25-04-2015.jpg
  • London's skyline and River Thames seen from the Sky Garden of the Walkie Talkie building in the City of London.
    sky_garden26-25-04-2015.jpg
  • An airliner blurs as it crosses later afternoon sky before landing at local airport.
    blurred_airliner01-20-04-2014.jpg
  • Live Sky News broadcasts latest results with life-size cardboard cut-out of Barack Obama during 2008 elections
    obama_election_night14-05-11-2008.jpg
  • Behind railings that honoured American aviator Wilbur Wright at the annual Le Mans air show, France, seven spectators gaze upwards to a clear sky where a lone but unseen aircraft performs in front of the French crowd. Wright made 110 flights at Le Mans and nearby Auvours in 1908 and his legacy for French and global aerospace lives on at events like this where a replica of his Wright Flyer was also exhibited. It is a bright summer's day and the blue sky has vapour trails left by a previous display pilot's jet engine. A prominent British Union Jack flutters on a pole and the words 'invites' (for invited guests only) are printed on to sheets of paper. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
    aviation_corbis27-20-07-1998.jpg
  • A blank screen of the advertising brand Primesight and clouds in a blue sky, high up on a building on the Walworth Road at Elephant & Castle, on 30th January 2018, in London, England.
    blank_screen-01-30-01-2019.jpg
  • A gentleman Sky Cap stands in front of the terminal building at Santa Barbara Municipal Airport, California, USA. Wearing his red waste-coat, ID badge and cap he holds the handle of the baggage trolley with which he assists passengers to offload their belongings and guides them to the check-in counters inside. The man has a greying beard and sunglasses against the glare and is an eager helper to those struggling with heavy travel possessions. On the ground are stencilled the words 'Passenger Loading Only' referring to where departing travellers might seek help with baggage. There are armies of workers across the world keeping airlines and airports running 24/7. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903..
    aviation_corbis47-10-11-2000.jpg
  • A father supports his son on his shoulders as a giant four-engined airliner passes directly overhead, about to land at London's Heathrow airport, England. Seen from a low angle, we see the graphic cruciform shape of the aircraft as it screams past two powerful airfield landing lights that help guide arriving aircraft to the runway. The backlit scene is largely monochrome apart from the boys red t-shirt and yellow-faced watch which are lit by flash, underexposing the overcast sky. Prior to 9/11, British airport authorities and police tolerated plane spotters near runway fences but with heightened terrorist alerts, these enthusiasts are told to move on or face arrest. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
    aviation_corbis13-17-08-1997.jpg
  • Nine pilots of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, stand in the shape of their signature 'Diamond Nine' formation with one of their Hawk jet aircraft at the team's headquarters at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire. Today they have reached the all-important milestone of 'first 9-ship' (when all nine aircraft have flown a basic air show display together, after two groups have practiced seperately) and is the culmination of five months rigorous Winter training. They stand proud with beaming smiles on a warm spring day, their flying helmets with those famous arrows pointing towards blue sky and fluffy clouds. Still dressed in green flying suits, they go on to their spring training ground at Akrotiri, Cyprus where they earn the right to wear red suits, known around the world. At the front is team leader, Squadron Leader Spike Jepson...
    Red_Arrows421_RBA.jpg
  • Cranes and blue sky on a large construction site at Broadgate development in the City of London. Looking up from a low angle, we see just two clouds in an otherwise blue sky, with four of the project's cranes reaching upwards, the reinforced concrete lift shaft of a new building rising fast and a completed block on the left. Broadgate is a large, 32-acre (13 ha) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and the Blackstone Group and managed by Broadgate Estates. The original developer was Rosehaugh: it was built by a Bovis / Tarmac Construction joint venture
    city_cranes02-17-12-2012.jpg
  • A large man with a shaved head and hairy back is seen from behind as he watches a display by the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team at Weymouth, England. A heart shape which grows from his bald head has been drawn with red smoke in the sky two Hawk jet aircraft taking part in the town's annual air show along the sea front. Such a tough-looking male specimen contrasts with the romance of this valentine symbol helping to make this picture's quirky juxtaposition touching. The Red Arrows use smoke to emphasize their flight-path, help the spectators see their manoeuvres and to make more of an enjoying spectacle. In blue sky they use white smoke for The Heart and red when overcast. We watch the man from below and see him craning his neck skywards, the skin on his thick neck wrinkling as he looks heavy from this angle.
    Red_Arrows614_RBA.jpg
  • Weeks before the UK's Brexit from the European Union (on 31st January 2020), a wide cityscape of the Tower of London (far right) and the City of London, the capital's financial district, under a darkening sky, on 17th January 2020, in London, England.
    river_thames-14-17-01-2020.jpg
  • Weeks before the UK's Brexit from the European Union (on 31st January 2020), a wide cityscape of the Tower of London (far right) and the City of London, the capital's financial district, under a darkening sky, on 17th January 2020, in London, England.
    river_thames-11-17-01-2020.jpg
  • Beyond Chinese TV media images, a red sun sinks behind late cloud in the west, a glowing red sky illuminates Hong Kong's harbour, this scene is symbolic of the decline of empire, the transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) two years after this picture was taken, often referred to as "The Handover" on June 30, 1997. Midnight of that day signified the end of British rule and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. From this famous ferry terminal that protrudes out into the busy waters of this colony's harbour from the Kowloon side of the territory. Hong Kong was once known as 'fragrant harbour' (or Heung Keung) because of the smell of transported sandal wood in the days before China ceded its territory to the British for 155 years until the 1997 deadline.
    star_ferry07-31-1997.jpg
  • Red disc of a setting sun over inner-city south London rooftops. As the sun sinks in the winter sky, over the inner-city of Britain's capital, we see a variety of eras in the architecture of urban housing: From early Victorian in the foreground to the tower blocks from the 60s in the distance. A warm glow of light flares from the camera lens to give an almost cosy feel to the landscape while giving a sense of raw cold on this February afternoon..
    city_sunset01-14-03-2012.jpg
  • Weeks before the UK's Brexit from the European Union (on 31st January 2020), a wide cityscape of Tower Bridge and the City of London, the capital's financial district, all under a darkening sky, on 17th January 2020, in London, England.
    river_thames-09-17-01-2020.jpg
  • As a visual pun, the statue of Sir Joshua Reynolds seeminly paints clouds in blue sky from outside the Royal Academy in Piccadilly during the Summer Exhibition, on 13th August 2019, in London, England. This is a new cast of the original that was first exhibited outside the RA in 1904 and is an allegory of the human need for new challenges, of our instinct to always be scanning the horizon and the future. Sir Joshua's statue stands in the "Annenberg Courtyard" of Burlington House.
    joshua_reynolds-03-13-08-2019.jpg
  • Lens flare from setting sun between layers of cloud over inner-city south London rooftops. As the sun sinks inn the winter sky, over the inner-city of Britain's capital, we see a variety of eras in the architecture of urban housing: From Ewardian period in the foreground to the tower blocks from the 60s in the distance. A warm glow of light flares from the camera lens to give an almost cosy feel to the landscape while giving a sense of raw cold on this April evening.
    sunset_housing01-24-04-2012.jpg
  • Setting sun between layers of cloud over inner-city south London rooftops. As the sun sinks inn the winter sky, over the inner-city of Britain's capital, we see a variety of eras in the architecture of urban housing: From Ewardian period in the foreground to the tower blocks from the 60s in the distance. A warm glow of light flares from the camera lens to give an almost cosy feel to the landscape while giving a sense of raw cold on this April evening.
    sunset_housing03-24-04-2012.jpg
  • Seen from the cockpit of another Hawk of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Seen through the explosive Plexiglass cockpit of a tenth plane, we see forward into deep blue sky as two sets of aerobatic pilots steer their machines from a crossover manoeuvre, their organic white smoke pouring from their jet pipes to emphasize their paths through the air. In front of a local crowd at the airfield the team work their way through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
    Red_Arrows684_RBA.jpg
  • In London England, a life-size cardboard cut-out of Barack Obama stands next to a SKY News TV screen that is broadcasting live the latest polls of the 2008 US presidential elections. A Democratic party supporter listens intently and reacts with the tension of the early polls that suggest Obama is doing well against his Republican adversary, John McCain in this historic political election which saw the election of America's first black Commander in chief. The location is a pub called the Hoop and Toy, in South Kensington, West London which has been opened all night for this special event for the American expatriate community living in this European capital.
    obama_election_night15-05-11-2008.jpg
  • London landmarks designed into a glass panel with the circular London Eye ferris wheel and a cloudy sky.
    millenium_wheel06-28-04-2016.jpg
  • London landmarks designed into a glass panel with the circular London Eye ferris wheel and a cloudy sky.
    millenium_wheel01-28-04-2016.jpg
  • Lift shafts with their floors marked vertically at 5 Broadgate, designed by Make Architects which will become the new home of UBS in London when fully occupied. 700,000 sq feet (66,890 sq m). Rising towards the blue sky is the tower-like structure with blue numbers of future storeys, stencilled on to the grey reinforced concrete. There will be 12 floors to this office complex of 700,000 sq feet (66,890 sq m), scheduled to be completed in 2016. The City of London is the capital's historic centre first occupied by the Romans then expanded during following centuries until today, it has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
    construction_shaft04-12-03-2013.jpg
  • We look through the windscreen of a Royal Air Force C-130-J Hercules to see a pilots-eye view of his fixed head-up-display (HUD), while in flight over Hampshire during the Farnborough Air Show. We see the aircraft flying data in green set against the magenta colour (color) of the clouds and sky beyond. The pilot will see the statistics that are important aspects of his aeroplane's altitude, compass heading, localiser, air speed, pitch, roll and yaw. Head-up displays are increasingly important to military and commercial aircraft (airplanes) when information can be displayed without obstructing the user's front view front. The second type of HUD is mounted within a protective helmet visor. The C-130 Hercules primarily performs the tactical portion of airlift operations. The aircraft is capable of operating from rough, dirt strips and is the prime transport for air dropping troops and equipment into hostile areas. The C-130-J is the newer generation digital version with fully integrated digital avionics; color multifunctional liquid crystal displays including the HUD; state-of-the-art navigation systems with dual inertial navigation system and global positioning system; fully integrated defensive systems; low-power color radar; digital moving map display; new turboprop engines with six-bladed, all-composite propellers; digital auto pilot; improved fuel, environmental and ice-protection systems; and an enhanced cargo-handling system..
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  • In mid-flight between Hamburg in Germany and London Heathrow, we see a passenger?s view of a climbing airliner's port wing and the hazy German landscape below at a high altitude. The sky above reflects its soft blue hue on the upper surface of the left wing but the air below is a soft pink, a rural patchwork of fields and villages. As an example of aerodynamic design, the flying machine is a perfect gesture towards the conquest of flight, copied from the characteristics of a bird?s anatomy. As art, the mere beauty of taking to the air and maintaining level, organised speed is so routine, we rarely look our from our window to marvel at how and why. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
    aviation_corbis34-21-05-2002.jpg
  • The East River Savings Bank in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Walking across Church Street they go beneath two American flags of the bank at the corner of 26 Cortlandt Street. Seen from a low angle, we look upwards to a tall skyscraper that rises into the Manhattan sky, adjacent to the site of the former Twin Towers and Ground Zero. It symbolises a wealthy country whose people largely enjoy a prosperity and stability of both economy and government.
    tim_lynch998-25-05-2014.jpg
  • A French Dassault-Breguet Mirage military jet interceptor/fighter stands on a pedestal in the Place de la Concorde, Paris during an aviation display weekend along the Champs Elysées. Passers-by seem oblivious to this celebration of French aviation as they walk through the Parisian square, the scene of public executions during the revolution. The Mirage seems to be climbing off its platform and up into the cloudless summer afternoon sky as a young child sits on top of his father's shoulders and passengers in a city bus seem trapped behind the windows. Its is a scene of incongruous moments, a surreal appearance of frightening military technology amid the calm of a public place. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
    aviation_corbis28-15-09-1998.jpg
  • London landmarks designed into a glass panel with the circular London Eye ferris wheel and a cloudy sky.
    millenium_wheel04-28-04-2016.jpg
  • London landmarks designed into a glass panel with the circular London Eye ferris wheel and a cloudy sky.
    millenium_wheel03-28-04-2016.jpg
  • Lift shafts with their floors marked vertically at 5 Broadgate, designed by Make Architects which will become the new home of UBS in London when fully occupied. 700,000 sq feet (66,890 sq m). Rising towards the blue sky is the tower-like structure with blue numbers of future storeys, stencilled on to the grey reinforced concrete. There will be 12 floors to this office complex of 700,000 sq feet (66,890 sq m), scheduled to be completed in 2016. The City of London is the capital's historic centre first occupied by the Romans then expanded during following centuries until today, it has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
    construction_core02-14-03-2013.jpg
  • The ever-turning London Eye is seen over the River Thames with the Palace of Westminster and Parliament beyond. The wheel is blurred after a minute's exposure and the blue sky behind renders evening as a romantic cityscape backdrop. We see Big Ben in the Tower of Westminster and Parliament just as they have become floodlit and the stand out set against the other buildings, very easily recognised as the iconic London landmarks known around the world. The Eye, or as it was known in 2000, the Millennium Wheel, was designed by architects David Blian, Julia Barfield, Malcolm Cook, Mark Sparrowhawk, Steven Chilton and Nic Bailey, and carries 32 sealed, air-conditioned passenger capsules which rotate at 0.26 metres (0.85 feet) per second (about 0.9 km/h or 0.5 mph) so that one revolution takes about 30 minutes.
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  • Darren Budziszewski is a Junior Technician engineer in the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. He is seen carefully standing in the cockpit of a Hawk jet closely inspecting the Plexiglass canopy for smears and scratches. Stooping at the open surface while keeping back flat and his knees bent, its posture that the RAF teaches its employees. Darren polishes the aircraft before its pilot emerges from the building at RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. The Red Arrows ground crew take enormous pride in their role as supporting the team whose air displays are known around the world, cleaning the red airplanes on their day off, so particular are they. The image is backlit and both canopy and man are bottom-weighted to allow us to see space and sky. Specialists like Darren outnumber the pilots 8:1 and without them, the Red Arrows couldn't fly.
    Red_Arrows099_RBA.jpg
  • Flight Lieutenant Simon Stevens, a pilot in the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, makes a pre-flight check of his Hawk jet aircraft before a practice flight at RAF Scampton. Stevens and his fellow-aviators fly up to 6 times in winter training, learning new manoeuvres. The dangers of high-speed close formation flight makes health and safety precuations vital; the Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the Royal Air Force take working environments of their personnel seriously so pre-flight examination of aircraft happens before every sortie (flight). Performing the brief safety walk-around, Stevens bends at the waste to avoid the aeroplane's low aileron despite wearing a helmet, full flying suit, boots, life-vest and anti-g-pants. Flying still continues despite rainclouds in the gloomy Lincolnshire sky.
    Red_Arrows005_RBA.jpg
  • 'Counting the Cost' is a memorial sculpture in glass designed by Renato Niemis which is outside at the American Air Museum at the Imperial War Museum, RAF Duxford, England. The sculpture comprises of 52 toughened clear float glass panels, each etched with the outlines of 7,031 aircraft missing in action in operations flown by American air forces (Air Force and Navy Groups) from Britain during the Second World War. The images are scaled at 1:240, diagonally pointing towards the blue summer sky once filled with bombers and fighters during the air campaign over Germany and France. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
    aviation_corbis16-12-12-1997.jpg
  • Trails of white smoke left in the sky by Hawk jet aircraft of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. Completing their off-season training, the team put the finishing touches to their display routine every Spring on the Mediterranean island where they perfect new manoeuvres. The sky is empty but as the light wind blows across the airfield, the remainder of the tapering coloured smoke (a mixture of vegetable dye and 'derv' - diesel fuel), blends together like a patriotic ribbon to make a haze of soft spectrum in the correct order of the United Kingdom's flag, and which becomes ever-sharper as the viewer looks towards the distant aircraft. They fly past, bend to the left and climb to a higher altitude, ready for their next formation.
    Red_Arrows478_RBA.jpg
  • Trails of white smoke left in the sky by Hawk jet aircraft of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. Completing their off-season training, the team put the finishing touches to their display routine every Spring on the Mediterranean island where they perfect new manoeuvres. The sky is empty but as the light wind blows across the airfield, the remainder of the tapering coloured smoke (a mixture of vegetable dye and 'derv' - diesel fuel), blends together like a patriotic ribbon to make a haze of soft spectrum in the correct order of the United Kingdom's flag, and which becomes ever-sharper as the viewer looks towards the distant aircraft. They fly past, bend to the left and climb to a higher altitude, ready for their next formation.
    Red_Arrows657_RBA.jpg
  • A 7 year-old boy has been lucky enough to spend a day with the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. As just four members of the team of nine red jet aircraft fly past in formation, Mitchell stretches out his arm, holding a plastic toy Hawk aircraft up to the blue sky and light cloud with his back to the practice show, part of the team's winter training schedule. The Red Arrows' main purpose is Press and PR and corporate guest visitors are a weekly item in the team's diary during the winter training period - a 5-month schedule of up to six flights a day. Companies who help the RAF, the Red Arrows or local charities are privileged to be invited behind-the-scenes at the squadron's home facilities.
    Red_Arrows454_RBA.jpg
  • Cranes and blue sky on a large construction site at Broadgate development in the City of London. Looking up from a low angle, we see just two clouds in an otherwise blue sky, with four of the project's cranes reaching upwards, the reinforced concrete lift shaft of a new building rising fast and a completed block on the left. Broadgate is a large, 32-acre (13 ha) office and retail estate in the City of London, owned by British Land and the Blackstone Group and managed by Broadgate Estates. The original developer was Rosehaugh: it was built by a Bovis / Tarmac Construction joint venture
    city_cranes01-17-12-2012.jpg
  • Some of the nine Hawk jet aircraft of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, perform the 5/4 Split high during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Seen through the explosive Plexiglass cockpit of a tenth plane, we see forward into deep blue sky as two sets of aerobatic pilots steer their machines from a crossover manoeuvre, their organic white smoke pouring from their jet pipes to emphasize their paths through the air. In front of a local crowd at the airfield the team work their way through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.   .
    Red_Arrows730_RBA.jpg
  • A lone Tornado jet fighter arcs across a typically overcast sky at Southend-on-Sea on a Bank Holiday Sunday. Well-defined figures of children and adults either play nonchalantly on the beach at low tide, or watch in awe as the aircraft thunders over the Thames Estuary mud. A few stranded yachts stand upright in the low water and a groyne stretches out to sea towards the Kent coast, seen in the distance. It is a bleak and depressingly empty scene and the jet is merely a dot in the grey English sky, traditionally familiar summer weather. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
    aviation_corbis11-25-05-1997.jpg
  • Weeks before the UK's Brexit from the European Union (on 31st January 2020), a wide cityscape of the Tower of London (far right) and the City of London, the capital's financial district, under a darkening sky, on 17th January 2020, in London, England.
    river_thames-13-17-01-2020.jpg
  • Weeks before the UK's Brexit from the European Union (on 31st January 2020), a wide cityscape of Tower Bridge and the City of London, the capital's financial district, all under a darkening sky, on 17th January 2020, in London, England.
    river_thames-10-17-01-2020.jpg
  • Spectators watch an air show at North Weald in Cambridgeshire, England. A man films a lone aircraft that banks across the summer sky. The enthusiast's blue denim jacket is almost fully-covered with aeronautical badges which depict various foreign military aerobatic teams, including the Swiss, Norwegian and German squadrons, whose emblems have been stitched into the fabric. Plane spotters form hardcore groups of aviation pilgrims. Logging and photographing flying machines, they follow air displays across their own countries and the calendars of other European festivals that attract hundreds of thousands. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903.
    aviation_corbis10-12-05-1997.jpg
  • Weeks before the UK's Brexit from the European Union (on 31st January 2020), a wide cityscape of the Tower of London (far right) and the City of London, the capital's financial district, under a darkening sky, on 17th January 2020, in London, England.
    river_thames-15-17-01-2020.jpg
  • Weeks before the UK's Brexit from the European Union (on 31st January 2020), a wide cityscape of the Tower of London (far right) and the City of London, the capital's financial district, under a darkening sky, on 17th January 2020, in London, England.
    river_thames-12-17-01-2020.jpg
  • As a visual pun, the statue of Sir Joshua Reynolds seeminly paints clouds in blue sky from outside the Royal Academy in Piccadilly during the Summer Exhibition, on 13th August 2019, in London, England. This is a new cast of the original that was first exhibited outside the RA in 1904 and is an allegory of the human need for new challenges, of our instinct to always be scanning the horizon and the future. Sir Joshua's statue stands in the "Annenberg Courtyard" of Burlington House.
    joshua_reynolds-06-13-08-2019.jpg
  • As a visual pun, the statue of Sir Joshua Reynolds seeminly paints clouds in blue sky from outside the Royal Academy in Piccadilly during the Summer Exhibition, on 13th August 2019, in London, England. This is a new cast of the original that was first exhibited outside the RA in 1904 and is an allegory of the human need for new challenges, of our instinct to always be scanning the horizon and the future. Sir Joshua's statue stands in the "Annenberg Courtyard" of Burlington House.
    joshua_reynolds-08-13-08-2019.jpg
  • As a visual pun, the statue of Sir Joshua Reynolds seeminly paints clouds in blue sky from outside the Royal Academy in Piccadilly during the Summer Exhibition, on 13th August 2019, in London, England. This is a new cast of the original that was first exhibited outside the RA in 1904 and is an allegory of the human need for new challenges, of our instinct to always be scanning the horizon and the future. Sir Joshua's statue stands in the "Annenberg Courtyard" of Burlington House.
    joshua_reynolds-07-13-08-2019.jpg
  • Lift shafts with their floors marked vertically at 5 Broadgate, designed by Make Architects which will become the new home of UBS in London when fully occupied. 700,000 sq feet (66,890 sq m). Rising towards the blue sky is the tower-like structure with blue numbers of future storeys, stencilled on to the grey reinforced concrete. There will be 12 floors to this office complex of 700,000 sq feet (66,890 sq m), scheduled to be completed in 2016. The City of London is the capital's historic centre first occupied by the Romans then expanded during following centuries until today, it has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
    construction_shaft03-12-03-2013.jpg
  • In the top-right corner of the image, an airliner passes overhead in the clear blue sky flight-path over South London
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  • In the top-right corner of the image, an airliner passes overhead in the clear blue sky flight-path over South London
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  • Live Sky News broadcasts latest results with life-size cardboard cut-out of Barack Obama during 2008 elections
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  • Flying overhead into the distance, Hawk jet aircraft of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, leave behind a trail of red, white and blue smoke in the clear skies above RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus. Completing their off-season training, the team put the finishing touches to their display routine every Spring on the Mediterranean island where they perfect new manoeuvres. The sky is empty but as the light wind blows across the airfield, the remainder of the tapering coloured smoke (a mixture of vegetable dye and 'derv' - diesel fuel), blends together like a patriotic ribbon to make a haze of soft spectrum in the correct order of the United Kingdom's flag, and which becomes ever-sharper as the viewer looks towards the distant aircraft. They fly past, bend to the left and climb to a higher altitude, ready for their next formation.
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  • Lens flare from setting sun between layers of cloud over inner-city south London rooftops. As the sun sinks inn the winter sky, over the inner-city of Britain's capital, we see a variety of eras in the architecture of urban housing: From Ewardian period in the foreground to the tower blocks from the 60s in the distance. A warm glow of light flares from the camera lens to give an almost cosy feel to the landscape while giving a sense of raw cold on this April evening.
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  • Seen from the cockpit of another Hawk of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team during an In-Season Practice (ISP) training flight near their base at RAF Scampton. Seen through the explosive Plexiglass cockpit of a tenth plane, we see forward into deep blue sky as two sets of aerobatic pilots steer their machines from a crossover manoeuvre, their organic white smoke pouring from their jet pipes to emphasize their paths through the air. In front of a local crowd at the airfield the team work their way through a 25-minute series of display manoeuvres that are loved by thousands at summer air shows. After some time off, spare days like this are used to hone their manual aerobatic and piloting skills before re-joining the air show circuit. Since 1965 they've flown over 4,000 shows in 52 countries.
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  • The elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, fly over an area known as the Cliffs on the Akrotiri peninsular of southern Cyprus. We see a barren scene of scrub and in the air, the team are in their signature 'Diamond Nine' formation, climbing up in a long arc through the blue sky and traversing above the dusty, featureless landscape where a naval Transit marker in the shape of a giant red arrow aids coastal shipping to safely navigate but which is missing some panels. The nine Hawk jets pass-by as a tight 'nine-ship' (the term used to describe nine aircraft in close formation) during a training flight in the clear Mediterranean skies. They return to this stretch of Cypriot coast each Spring to complete their rigorous winter schedule before the UK's air show display season.
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  • A red Hawk jet aircraft belonging to the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, is parked in the hangar at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire, the home base for the squadron. Night is falling with only blue daylight remaining in the western sky and the warm light from the hangar spills out of the giant open doors on to the concrete. The aircraft awaits attention from the engineer's night-shift who service and maintain all 11 of the famous red aerobatic jets before flying the next morning. The hangaran original World War 2 shelter for the Lancaster bombers of 617 Dambusters squadron who attacked the damns of the German Ruhr valley on 16th May 1943 using the Bouncing Bomb. The Red Arrows use this and nearby offices administrative nerve-centre for the 90-plus displays they perform a year. .
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  • During the Coronavirus lockdown, a time when residents in the UK are asked to stay at home, semi-detatched period homes from the Edwardian era, are lit in evening sunlight with a rare commercial airliner passing overhead, leaving its vapour trail in a blue sky, on 20th May 2020, in London, England.
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  • London landmarks designed into a glass panel with the circular London Eye ferris wheel and a cloudy sky.
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  • The East River Savings Bank in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Walking across Church Street they go beneath two American flags of the bank at the corner of 26 Cortlandt Street. Seen from a low angle, we look upwards to a tall skyscraper that rises into the Manhattan sky, adjacent to the site of the former Twin Towers and Ground Zero. It symbolises a wealthy country whose people largely enjoy a prosperity and stability of both economy and government.
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  • Lift shafts with their floors marked vertically at 5 Broadgate, designed by Make Architects which will become the new home of UBS in London when fully occupied. 700,000 sq feet (66,890 sq m). Rising towards the blue sky is the tower-like structure with blue numbers of future storeys, stencilled on to the grey reinforced concrete. There will be 12 floors to this office complex of 700,000 sq feet (66,890 sq m), scheduled to be completed in 2016. The City of London is the capital's historic centre first occupied by the Romans then expanded during following centuries until today, it has a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
    construction_shaft01-12-03-2013.jpg
  • Chief Technician Kerry Griffiths is a with the 'Red Arrows', Britain's Royal Air Force aerobatic team, the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team. In camouflaged military green jacket, large forearms and rolled-up sleeves, he oversees the loading of spares and personal effects into a C-130 Hercules aircraft before the two-day journey from RAF Scampton to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus. Surrounded by heavy-duty flight-spares, survival equipment boxes and a tyre for a Hawk jet aircraft, the Hercules looms large in the overcast sky. The team complete their winter training schedule in Cyprus. The Red Arrows pilots fly their own jet aircraft to air shows but when requiring the support of ground crew  they borrow a transporter to fly behind the main airborne squadron. 10 tons of spares and personal effects are shipped for a six-week stay.
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  • London landmarks designed into a glass panel with the circular London Eye ferris wheel and a cloudy sky.
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  • Reflections of blue sky, surrounding buildings and union Jack flag hanging from Claridges hotel in Mayfair, central London.
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  • A mid-afternoon jogger runs over the junction of Bishopsgate as a London double-decker bus advertising Sky Sports drives south.
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  • From a low angle looking upwards to the building exterior of the Hotel Negresco on the Promenade de Anglais, Nice. We see the colourful orange light bulbs and the overall green hue from sodium illumination and the blue of the evening sky. In the foreground is an example of the ubiquitous palm trees that line the Côte d'Azur. The Hotel Negresco on the Promenade des Anglais on the Baie des Anges in Nice, France was named for Henri Negresco (1868-1920) who had the palatial hotel constructed in 1912. Noted for its doormen dressed in the manner of the staff in 18th-century elite bourgeois households, complete with red-plumed postilion hats, the hotel also offers renowned gourmet dining at Le Chantecler. In 2003 the Hotel Negresco was listed by the government of France as a National Historic Building. Nice is a major tourist centre and a leading resort on the French Riviera. Located in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur région, it is a commune and the préfecture (administrative capital) of the Alpes-Maritimes département.
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  • Looking through the large windows of Greater London Mayor (GLA) Ken Livingstone's headquarters on the River Thames, a lone figure stands silhouetted with a floodlit Tower Bridge in the background. We see the reflections of the GLA building pasted over the evening sky above Tower Bridge. London's famous bridge was completed in 1894 and remains one of the capital's most visible symbols both for Victorian engineering and as a tourist landmark. The Mayor's Greater London Authority (GLA) headquarters stands over the Thames, opposite the Tower of London on the north shore.
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  • An unseen person's hand reaches from the corner of the picture to offer a chip (French fry) to a hovering seagull at Minehead on the Somerset coast, South-west England. Another younger person has turned around to see what is happening but is also holding up his hand to other birds  none of the others are accepting the free meal. The summer afternoon sky is filled with bird life but clear of clouds and is a deep coastal blue which echoes the reaching shirt sleeve.
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  • Canary Wharf tower is seen from below at street level in London Docklands, England. The sun glints off one corner of the highly-reflective surface of the building underexposing the mottled sky to make the scene gloomy and slightly threatening. It also looks aspirational for any corpoiration to have its headquarters in this iconic skyscraper tower. It thrusts itself in from the bottom left corner into the centre of the picture with imposing dominance as if pointing towards Heaven like a church spire. Canary Wharf is the product of the 1980s financial boom when during the office of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, huge building projects such as the Docklands consortium saw vast changes in London's landscape.
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  • Sheltering from a rain shower at the Kemble Air Day, some pilots of the elite 'Red Arrows', Britain's prestigious Royal Air Force aerobatic team, gather beneath a full-scale model of a Hawk jet aircraft. Spectators have also gathered in their waterproof wear to make a colourful group. Flight Lieutenant Steve Underwood, who as commentator and Ground Safety Manager worries about the cloud cover and the implications for a safe display. He looks towards the gloomy sky to assess the prospects of a Red Arrows show in a short while. Dressed in red flying suits, the pilots have been signing PR autographs and distributing team brochures to some of their many fans before the deluge which sent the public undercover to seek shelter. The team's main purpose is to forge a link between the RAFand potential recruits plus the general public.
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  • Clouds and blue sky above the Indian Ocean are far below a Sri Lankan Airbus aircraft port wing and CFM engines.
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  • The East River Savings Bank in Lower Manhattan, New York City. Walking across Church Street they go beneath two American flags of the bank at the corner of 26 Cortlandt Street. Seen from a low angle, we look upwards to a tall skyscraper that rises into the Manhattan sky, adjacent to the site of the former Twin Towers and Ground Zero. It symbolises a wealthy country whose people largely enjoy a prosperity and stability of both economy and government.
    tim_lynch1003-25-05-2014.jpg
  • A four-engined airliner takes-off into distant darkening skies during the bi-annual aerospace industry expo at the Farnborough in southern England. Lifting off from an unseen runway, the aircraft leaves the ground to climb away towards its unknown destination - its modern navigation aides pointing it to foreign lands and skies.
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  • A generic jet airliner flies overhead in blue skies on its flight-path into London Heathrow airport, on 10th August 2018, in London, England.
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