Submission Guidelines:

Our submission guidelines are pretty simple. We accept any article or photo you send us, but we can't guarantee we'll use it. By submitting a written item to us, you agree to let us edit it for spelling, grammar, article length, and factual content.

Submission of an article to Warbird Alley does not prohibit you from also submitting it to any other publication -- Web-based, printed, or otherwise. (You might want to check other publications' submission guidelines before doing so, however.)  If your article has already appeared in print somewhere, we'll need proof that you control the reprint rights, or we won't be able to publish it in the Warbird Alley site. All articles and photos published on the Warbird Alley site will be fully credited to the author, with an e-mail link and/or Web link, if desired.

Digital Photographs: We appreciate receiving warbird aircraft photos, especially air-to-air photos and clear pictures of aircraft cockpits.

1. Please send the highest-resolution photos you have, preferably saved as a .jpg. Clear and colorful photos are best, but black-and-white is perfectly fine for historical photos, obviously.

2. Please don't attempt to compress, crop or otherwise or edit your photos in any way. We'll take care of everything for you, and we actually prefer to do the editing ourselves.

3. For aircraft photographs, we appreciate any information about the photo you can send, such as aircraft type, registration number, serial number (if known), photo location, photographer's name, pilot's name (if known), and date taken. This will help us write an appropriate and helpful caption.

4. Do not send us a photo if you don't know where it came from. Some of the photos currently on our site came to us with no attribution attached, and we don't know who the photographer was.  If you believe you deserve credit, please let us know as soon as possible. We'll contact you in an effort to establish your credentials. If we determine are the original source of the image, we'll either add your credit or remove the photo, whichever you desire.

Please note: Printed photos submitted to Warbird Alley by conventional mail will not be returned unless you include a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE).

Tips: Try to eliminate reflections from aircraft windows and canopies, do not shoot directly into the sun, and try to fill the frame with the subject. For ground-to-air shots, use a zoom lens if necessary. Photographing an airplane without a zoom lens usually results in the airplane appearing to be a small dot in a big sky.