Blue skies, we will miss you, Clive!❤️😞
04-Aug-1954 - 08-Nov-2023

About: Clive was born in 1954 in Kent, southeast England and for his entire adult life he has been based in London. For the last twenty two years he has lived in Ealing, West London with fast access to Heathrow Airport, so that he can get away easily on his many aviation trips. Clive has had an interest in aviation, particularly civil aviation, since his early teens when he and his best friend would regularly head off to Heathrow or Gatwick to watch the activities and log the registrations. He bought his first camera, an East German Zenit-B, in 1973 and photography became the focus of his aviation hobby shortly after that. His working life was spent almost entirely within the field of aviation. He started out as an air traffic control assistant in 1973, progressing to become an air traffic controller in 1980. In his later working years, Clive moved on to airspace design and finally airspace regulation rôles before his retirement in June 2016. Unfortunately for him, during all that time he never worked at an airport, so his hobby could only be pursued in his time off. However, since his retirement, and in fact for several years before, Clive has been fulfilling his dream of travelling the world to take photos of aircraft at every available opportunity and he intends to carry on doing so for as long as he possibly can.

Base: Ealing, near Heathrow EGLL

Equipment: Nikon D7200 camera plus spare, Nikkor DX 18-55mm and 55-300mm lenses. Clive also keeps a Nikkor 55-200mm lens in case of emergencies, but his most expensive lens, a Sigma DG 50-500mm, tends to get left at home, as its size and weight doesn’t easily fit with the sort of action photography that Clive prefers.

Favourite Spotting Airports: In Europe : Amsterdam, Corfu, Düsseldorf and Lisbon.
Elsewhere: Anchorage, Rio Santos Dumont, Tokyo Haneda and San José, Costa Rica.

Find more of his pictures on the Facebook ‘Plane Mad’ site.