Official Club 2025 calendar – December photo

During 2025 we have presented the image from the Official Club calendar in the newsletter for each month, with some details about the picture, including when and where the photo was taken. All the photos in the calendar were taken by Club members.

The December picture we chose was this rather haunting photo, by Club member Peter Rollings, of BBMF Lancaster PA474 flying away from the camera with the wings lit by sunlight. We titled the picture “Sunlit Bomber”. It turned out to be a fortuitous choice in the way it depicts the Lancaster, as PA474 has now flown away to Duxford for an 18-month Major maintenance.  

The photo was taken in July 2023 with a Nikon Z7_2 camera with a VR 70-200mm f/2.8G lens, ISO 64, focal length 200mm, f7 and with a shutter speed of 1/250s.