Out of the blue! Join British glider pilots in the air as they capture gobsmacking bird's-eye view images from around the world
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From the Britain's Severn and South Africa's Orange River to the desert in Namibia and Black Mountains in Wales, the best view of all is that which can only be achieved by a bird... and the closest humans can get to that is a glider.
British gliding enthusiasts have captured these scenes and more in a series of stunning shots taken from above and below clouds, coasting over snow-capped or sun-soaked mountains, at sunrise and sunset all around the world.
The images, taken by eight members of the London Gliding Club over the past four years, were shot on mini cameras attached to their glider's wing tips or nose cones of the gliders. The are on display at London Luton Airport's Gateway Gallery in an exhibition entitled The Art of Powerless Flight.
Whether the pilot photographers are upside-down over the Pyrenees, swooping over Ivinghoe in Buckinghamshire or launching through the mist in Bedfordshire, their work is a sensational way to see the Earth.
'My favourite picture shows a glider climbing upside down over La Cerdanya in Spain as it's a stunning photo and reminds me of a brilliant flight,' said Adrian Hobbs, a member of the club.
'Guy Westgate, one of the leading aerobatics pilots, was flying and there were fireworks attached to the wing tips.'
Explosive: London Gliding Club's Guy Westgate climbs over La Cerdanya in France with fireworks on his wings
Mountain air: Westgate goes the wrong way up as his fireworks-shooting glider does some aerobatics over the Pyrenees
On the tow: The view of a tug pilot through the rear view mirror as a K13 glider gets set to be released
Out of this world: Pilot Stephen Lynn took this shot from 8,500 foot above the desert while flying from Kiripotib in Namibia
Journey: Lynn had this bird's eye view during a 600km journey via The Severn Estuary, the gateway to Britain's longest river
Shapely: The varied colours of these East Anglian Fields were captured as Lynn made his way out of Dunstable in Bedfordshire
Bird's eye view: Is there a better way to see the Southern Alps of southeastern France than from the cockpit of a glider?
Out of the mist: A tow takes off amid heavy fog towards Invinghoe Aston
Ready for lift off: Robin May flies out of the Black Mountains in Wales, heading towards the next possible lifting air under the cumulus cloud ahead
Rising over sunset: A glider climbs above the horizon line over Ivinghoe in Buckinghamshire
On the turn: Look down the wing of an Ash 25 glider to South Africa's Orange River, which runs from the Drakensberg mountains in Lesotho to the Atlantic Ocean
Ready for action: It's a frosty morning here as an Ask 21 training glider stands stationary with the Dunstable Downs as its backdrop
Crop circling: Lynn turns his Binder Ash glider over farmland on the Isle of Wight
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