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Picture of the Week: AVweb’s Flying Photography Showcase

Editorial Staff

Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 12:00 AM ET

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Key Takeaways:

The article presents a gallery of aviation photographs submitted by readers from various global locations.
It features AVweb's "Picture of the Week" (POTW) contest, where top submitted photos are showcased, and the best one wins an AVweb baseball cap.
Each photograph includes a title, the photographer's name and location, and often a brief description or technical details about the image.
Readers are invited to submit their own aviation photos for consideration in the weekly contest.

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Each week, we go through dozens (and sometimes hundreds) of reader-submitted photos and pick the very best to share with you on Thursday mornings – and one photo that stands above the others is awarded an AVweb baseball cap as our “Picture of the Week.” Want to see your photo here? Click here to submit it to our weekly contest.

Say “Cheese”!

James Lichty of Brampton, ON (Canada)

Taken at the Great War Flying Museum at the Brampton Airport in Ontario, Canada.

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Lady of the Airways

George Mock of Windsor, ON (Canada)

Yankee Lady on take-off right over my head at Mason, Michigan.

Sony A350. Used some noise reduction.

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First Flight

Evert Cornet of Oegstgeest, Zurich (Netherlands)

Tim’s first flight over the Netherlands. May 2007.

Nikon D80.

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Full Panel

Jack Textor of Des Moines, IA

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Enola Gay

Stan Greenspan of Toronto, ON (Canada)

The Enola Gay on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Washington, D.C. No mods to photo.

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Heaven on Vargas Island

John Veale of Mill Bay, BC (Canada)

My Bushby Mustang ll on the beach at Vargas Island, just off the west coast of Vancouver Island, British Columbia.

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Luscombe Lunch at Prairie Lake

Ted Kopczynski of Schaumburg, IL

Shot at Prarie Lake Hunt Club, north of Marseilles, Illinois. Airstrip has since been closed.

Shot with Sony Cybershot; slightly cropped.

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Charleston’s Beauty

Brett J. Grooms of Goose Creek, SC

Enhanced a bit with Aperture. Near Charleston Executive Airport (KJZI) in Charleston, South Carolina. C-172 Skyhawk II.

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Flying past Mt. Baker, Washington State

Gabhan Berry of Carnation, WA

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Nieuport Over Missouri

Kirk Hull of Kansas City, MO

More of my work is available at Sportflight.net.

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Practicing Straight and Level

Paul Stambaugh of Dearborn, MI

Mark Coleman and Paul Stambaugh outside of Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Taken with a GoPro camera.

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Balloons Everywhere

Ken Anderson of Las Vegas, NV

My sister-in-law and her daughter at the 2011 Bear Valley Springs (California) Balloon Festival. Taken with an HTC Android phone and resized in Photoshop for submission.

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Strega Test Flight

Tim Adams of Minooka, IL

Dawn test flight at Reno.

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Reserved Seating

Glen Horton of Burlington, WA

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“Let’s Play!”

Daniel Valovich of Hot Springs, AR

This Luscombe looked at home on this grass strip in Arkansas. I enjoy flying this plane.

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Late Landing

Gilbert Benzonana of Grand-Lancy, Geneva (Switzerland)

Late landing on runway 03L in autumn at Montricher Air Field.

Photo taken with a Pentax Optio P80 camera at 1/640 sec, F 2.6, focal length 5 mm. Just resizing of the original file.

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Future Pilot

Dave Hightower of Carlsbad, CA

Santa Paula, California on Open Hangar Sunday.

Canon 50D. Reduced to fit the 1 MB max.

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Landing at SeaTac in a Q400 at Night

Terry Gleason of Albany, OR

Landing at SeaTac at night made for an unusal photo. Used a Fuji S2Pro with a Nikon 18-70 lens.

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Open-Air Flying

Assaf Sarfati of Tiv’on (Israel)

Holding the stick in one hand and the camera in the other, in an open-air cockpit on a nice freezing day.

Camera: Canon A1200
No processing except scaling down a little.

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Next Year’s Model

Greg Soaper of Fullerton, CA

New F/A-18Q dual cockpit variant makes carrier traps easier than ever. Long final may cause slight discomfort.

Canon 7D with EF 100-400mm, f/4.5-5.6L, IS USM. Cropped for increased viewing pleasure.

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Early Morning at EAA Seaplane Base

Gary Dikkers of Madison, WI

The EAA Seaplane Base at Willow Harbor as a fog bank lifts over Lake Winnebago during AirVenture 2011.

Nikon D90. Cropped for composition.

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Glamour Doll

Avery Willis (father) & Ben Willis (son) of Minden, NV

My dad volunteers with the CAF in Camarillo and caught the China Doll in the hangar lights. Other than size, the picture is unedited.

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Editorial Staff