Katsuhiko Tokunaga
Katsuhiko "Katsu" Tokunaga (born 1957) is a Japanese military aviation photographer, specialized in air-to-air photography. He works for a large number of aircraft manufacturers including Dassault, Embraer, Airbus Military/Eurofighter, Korean Aerospace], Lockheed Martin, Mikoyan-Gurevich, Pilatus Aircraft, Saab and Sukhoi.
Tokunaga started his career in the backseat of a United States Air Force T-33A Shooting Star in 1978. To date he has flown between 50 and 60 fast jets in some 50 countries, logging 1400 flight hours.[1] He has also flown with and photographed the Royal Air Force Red Arrows, Japanese Blue Impulse, Canadian Snowbirds, Breitling Jet Team, Croatian Wings of Storm, Chilean Air Force Halcones, French Patrouille de France, Italian Frecce Tricolori, Portuguese Asas de Portugal, Slovak Biele Albatrosys, Spanish Patrulla Aguila, Swedish Team 60, Swiss Patrouille Suisse and PC-7 Team, American Thunderbirds (Air Force) and Blue Angels (Navy), Polish White-Red Sparks and Yugoslavian Leteće Zvezde.[2]
He also published many books including 'Smoke Trails: The last of the F-4 Phantoms' (in cooperation with Jamie Hunter), 'Super Blue' and 'Top Teams'.
