Russell Adams FRPS (19122000) was probably the pioneer photographer of the jet age. His dramatic air-to-air photographs of Britains early jet fighters like the Gloster Meteor and Javelin regularly graced the pages of magazines and newspapers at home and overseas in the 1950s and early 60s. In fact, his photographs remain so popular that they are still used today with regularity by the aviation press. Russell Adams' photographs so impressed his employers, the Gloster Aircraft Company, that in 1950 they made him their photographer. Unusually for the time, much of his work was air-to-air photography of the aircraft themselves, mainly Meteors and Javelins on test flights. In fact, Russells photographic work was of such a high standard that he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.

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