Chad Slattery - Inside Aviation Photography: Techniques for In the Air & On the Ground

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Acknowledgements

Profound thanks go to Caroline Sheenand Linda Shinerat Air & Space/Smithsonianmagazine for unstinting support and lots of rope with which I only occasionally hung myself; the late great George Hallfor patient mentoring; Clay Lacyfor letting me fill Georges unfillable shoes; Beth Wolfe Milesfor best-ever photo flights aboard Wolfe Airs Learjet N49WA; the multi-talented artist/writer/editor/historian polymath Mike Machatfor endless encouragement and generous wisdom; Jill Bentonand Liz Jonesat AOPA for assigning me to photograph the worlds best pilots; John Aldazfor his long friendship; Beth Alesse, my patient editor at Amherst Media; photo consultant Deanne Delbridgefor encouraging me to combine my passions for aviation and photography; Tom Twomeyfor an introduction to the wild world of Northrop Grumman; Scott Cutshall, Anne Marie Fithian, Laura Hockemeyer, Zach Rutledge, and Denise Wilsonfor supporting my business jet habit; and finally Mom, for letting me mooch her Brownie Hawkeye camera on my twelfth birthday.

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A ll aviation photographers fly on the wings of those who came before them, and of those along for the ride. This book is dedicated to my lovely and patient wife, Donna Lee Lubansky, and to my all-star kids, Chloe Reveryand Gabriel Revery