For all Top Gun fans, for all those who one day dream of flying alongside Maverick, Olivier Lavielle brings this dream to your fingertips.

Since his world is tinged with jazz, swing, blues and rock’n roll, French photographer Oliver Lavielle is a fan of the period spanning the 1940s to the 1970s. A tireless globetrotter, he finds inspiration in the legendary Route 66, which he explores at the wheel of a classic old American car. He stops to photograph shiny chrome airplanes, highlighting the perfect aerodynamics of their delicately aggressive mechanics. They are the living testaments of a wonderful era, which the Americana series showcases by inviting the spectator to take to the air.