Robert Bell

I have been fascinated with airplanes and stories of the pilots and crews for as long as I can remember. I started taking pictures while I was in the Marine Corps in the early 1980's. I was a bulk fuel man and had the opportunity to refuel aircraft as well as to get rides on a lot of the helicopters in service at the time.

My first experience of being able to take pictures at an airshow occurred when I was in the Alabama Air National Guard. At the time I was an Avionics Technician on F-4 Phantoms when the Guard unit I was in had an open house. I did not realize that there were so many restored and flyable World War II aircraft and vehicles still around, and this started my interest in Airshows.

Once I found out what was available to go see, I was hooked. With my interest in Military history and love for airplanes, I thoroughly enjoy going to a good airshow. I like to shoot video as well as still photographs.

I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of good people including many veterans, and performers. Over the years I have been fortunate to meet and be helped out by many of the Airshow personnel, pilots, and several exceptionally talented photographers. I do not mind passing that information on, so if you see me and have a question I can help with, please ASK.

Photos

Explore some of Robert's photos from our website by clicking the play arrow, or click on the square in the upper right hand corner to go to full screen. Once on the page, click play. To return to this page, click upper right hand button again. In full screen mode, you can double click the image to get a close-up view.