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Is it flying? Who cares? It’s an amazing ride.

Fans of this feature may have noticed that there were no captions accompanying most of the photos for the past couple of weeks. Also, those using Safari didn’t see most of the photos at all. Chrome and Firefox at least showed the photos. This is all because of our platform transition. We’re working on fixing […]

An Air New Zealand ATR 72 crew was on its game earlier this month when the left engine caught fire just before landing.

Grab some popcorn and red vines and learn the history of the F-104 Starfighter aka the Widowmaker.

This new method of entering is clearly a hit so we’ll carry on. Simply send your photos (not too big but the 1 meg limit is no longer in effect) to editor+potw@avweb.com and include the following: Some light manipulation for color corrections and exposure are fine but please don’t distort reality.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard is nearing completion of a bizarre, but potentially dangerous, variation of an aircraft carrier. The Shahid Bagheri is based on a former 800-foot container ship. A flight deck with a wide addition toward the rear and a ski jump structure at the bow was added to give the vessel barely enough room […]

We’re going to try something a little different with Picture of the Week and we really need entries so give it a try. It couldn’t be simpler. The old online form is a relic from when slow Internet connections and small hard drives made handling image files difficult. We’re past that so we can go […]