October 5, 2006

EAF Over Table Mountain

Picking a top photo was tough this week, but when all was said and done, we thought this image from Gert Coetzee of Cape Town, South Africa captured all the wonder and scale that seemed to be a prominent theme of this week's submissions.  We were tempted to make it a four-way tie, but in the end, Cert takes home an official AVweb baseball cap as this week's "POTW" winner!

Oh, yeah, in the photo:  That's Graham Chamberlain over Table Mountain.

Smoke On

Josh Cawthra of Mobile, Alabama was a serious contender for that hat, as well.  He sent us two photos of Skip Stewart doing his thing at a local air show in Alabaster, Alabama, but this was our favorite.

Early Morning ...

Ryan Johnson of Denair, California didn't give us much background on this photo — but does he really need to?

(This one got turned into a watermark image and went straight into service as the background image for one of our desktop applications at POTW HQ.  Sharp!)

... and Late Evening Reflections

Would you believe this Stearman photo from Peter Braswell of Chesterfield, Virginia was so good it almost didn't make it in to the competition?  We were so captivated by it, we saved the image directly to our "keep this one" folder and almost forgot to copy it into the competition folder!

According to Peter, the photo was snapped at a recent EAA Regional Fly-In in Virginia.

Helio Missionary Aircraft Demo

Wesley Alan Taylor of Johnson City, Tennessee was another submitter who provided us with a great sense of scale and background this week.  (He also used another of this week's recurring motifs:  fog!)

The photo was taken during a demonstration flight at Hensley Airpark in Chuckey, Tennessee last week.

As much as we love peeking into people's cockpits, we enjoy a good underbelly shot from time to time, too.  Fortunately, Tom Staggs of Redmond, Washington was on hand this week with a dynamic shot taken by photographer Theresa Koskella.

Tom's the one in the cockpit, along with navigator Sean Staggs.
Ken Koskella flew the photo plane, another Long-EZ.

(Oooh, now we've got that song stuck in our heads.)

The Sanyo Airship stayed overnight in Cape Girardeau, Missouri a couple of weeks ago.  John Taylor saw it off the next morning, taking this photo as the Sanyo team headed south.

Brian Emch of Lancaster, California writes:

Taken in [the] evening of the last day of the Reno Air Races last month. These two boys had already been warned once by security not to go out to the A-10, which had just been towed out. This time around, they got chewed out pretty good. But that's why there's a fence, people!

Honey Whittier of Glendale, Arizona took this tower photo as her 16-year-old son was preparing for his solo.

Strangely, it arrived during the same week as another great ATC tower photo — also shot in Arizona!  We were torn as to which photo to run, but (fortunately for us), we noticed that our other was from someone who'd been featured in recent months and decided to give Honey a bit of the spotlight.

(Honey and Christopher:  Both of you are welcome to send us photos anytime!)

(Insert Witty Sign Post Joke Here)

Rather than close on a skyline photo this week, we thought we'd leave you with a photo that had us both smiling and scratching our heads.  Not that it's particularly confusing, but — well, we just couldn't decide on a punchline!

Thanks to Peter Grimm of Minden, Nevada for brightening our afternoon.