Official Club calendar 2025 – July photo

During 2025 we are continuing to present the image from the Club calendar in the newsletter for that 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.

For July we chose this dramatic photo of BBMF Dakota ZA947 in its previous D-Day markings, almost head-on during an approach to land, with some impressive prop blur and with its undercarriage and flaps lowered. The photo was taken by Club member Mike Gauckwin, who also took the picture of the Dakota and Lancaster formation which we used for the cover of the 2025 Official calendar.

Mike tells us that his photo of the Dakota was taken at RAF Coningsby back in May 2014 with a Canon 7D camera fitted with a Canon 300mm 2.8 lens, using F10 ISO 100 at 1/125th second.