Totality: Photographing free flight and the eclipse

Mallorca, Balearic Islands

Total eclipses of the sun do not come along often. The last one to pass over mainland Europe was on 11 August 1999. This year “totality” – when the entire sun is covered by the moon – occurred in a narrow arc across the Earth’s surface from northern Siberia, through Greenland, Iceland, Spain, the Mediterranean Sea and the Balearic Islands over...