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Past POTW Winners Summer rolls on — and photo submissions
continue to roll in. This week, we received just under 100 photos
from readers all across the globe. After an exhaustive gawking
session (and a few minutes of heated debate), we managed to pick a
handful of photos to share in our weekly "POTW" column.
This week's top photo comes to us courtesy of Eric Van Glider of
Moorpark, California. As a first-place winner, Eric should start
watching his mailbox. He'll receive an official AVweb baseball cap
any day now — along with the thanks and well wishes of everyone here at
AVweb. We always enjoy looking at reader photos, so please
send us some
more! Even if we don't pick yours as top winner in a given
week — and believe us, the competition can be fierce at times — we'll
still enjoy seeing it. And with a little luck, your photo may end
up here one Thursday morning, in front of more than 100,000 AVweb
readers.
*** THIS WEEK'S WINNERS ***
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"Dawn Patrol"
Eric Van Gilder of Moorpark,
California cornered the top spot this week with a tried-and-true
formula: Classic plane + classic composition = one of our favorite
"POTW" entries. The Fokker, Eric tells us, is flown by pilot
Jimmie New while the photo was taken from an accompanying Stearman
just a few weeks ago. |
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AVweb continues to receive a large number of excellent images for
our POTW contest. Here are some of the runners-up. Due to privacy issues,
AVweb does not publish e-mail addresses of
readers who submit photos. |
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Brian Emch,
Wings of Fury Aviation Photography
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"Not-So-Calm Before the Storm"
Brian Emch of Lancaster, California
turned up twice in this week's finalist pile. But as much as we
enjoyed his other photo, we couldn't pass up this one of Sean Tucker
at this year's Riverside Air Show. According to Brian, this was
Tucker's "final ribbon cut in the Oracle prior to [the]
accident."
For the camera buffs in the crowd, Brian got this terrific air show
photo "with the Canon EOS digital Rebel with a Sigma 175-500 (+60%) AF lens." |
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"Reflections at Udvar-Hazy"
Garrett Nievin of Ashburn, Virginia
attended the Become a Pilot Fly-In at the National Aeronautics and Space
Museum this past weekend — along with Bruce Bohannon and the Exxon
Flying Tiger. Here, Garrett captures both man and machine in a
rare moment of downtime, reflecting off the windows of an Udvar-Hazy
Center hangar. |
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Margaret Jackson
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"Margaret's Monthly Splash-In"
Margaret Jackson of Lake Wales,
Florida tells us this is "just one of the many monthly seaplane fly-ins
in Florida." They may be nothing special to Floridians, but to
many of a us a moored seaplane is synonymous with summer ... . |
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copyright © Gary
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"AT-6 and KC-135"
Gary Dikkers of Madison, Wisconsin
sends us this image of "an AT-6 and a Wisconsin Air National Guard
KC-135 at the Volk Air National Guard Base Fly-In [at] Camp Douglas,
Wisconsin."
Wisconsin, eh, Gary? Are you planning to stop in and visit with us
at AirVenture this year? (You can find us in Hangar C.) |
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Timothy O'Connor & Mark Webb |
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"Will Fly for Food"
Tim O'Connor of Cincinnati, Ohio
recently took his girlfriend, Connie Brockman, for her first spin
in his Twinstar Gyroplane. According to Tim, both photos were shot
while "on our way from the local EAA pancake breakfast ... to Sporty's
(I69) for hot dogs." (We all know about the $100 hamburger, but
man — were you guys just trying to get your money's worth?)
In the inset, Tim cheekily gives Connie the caption Why Aren't You
Supposed to Look Down?
Distance photo taken by Mark Webb.
and used with his kind permission. |
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Erwin Stam
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"Dutch Wave for Fat Albert"
The Blue Angels arrive in the Netherlands for the first time since the
1960s, according to semi-regular "POTW" contributor
Erwin Stam of Medemblik, North
Holland. Shot at Leeuwarden Air Base.
Thanks for the photo, Erwin — we'll let this wave from the 'Angels see
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source of your image before submitting to our "Picture of the Week" contest.
If you did not take the photo yourself, ask yourself if you are indeed
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