October 12, 2006

Someday

The other photos Jeffrey Austin Randall of Clyde, Texas submitted to this week's contest were a little sexier — featuring more cool planes and airborne action — but we just had to run this one.  Here, Jeffrey caught a Major in the U.S. Air Force taking time to answer questions and share the love of flight with a youngster.

According to Jeffrey, the F-16 here was on display from the USAF Reserve's 301st, based at Carswell Field in Ft. Worth, Texas.  The photo was taken at the 2006 Ft. Worth Alliance Air Show.

Given the Choice, I'd Wing-Walk on a Stearman (Nice and Slow!)

Mark Silvestri of Upton, Massachusetts takes a pragmatic approach to a death-defying performance.  I suppose we'd have to agree with his assessment — if you're going to take the risk (as pilot Walt Pierce and wing-walker Jenny Forsythe are doing), you might as well stack the deck in your favor.

Mark snapped this shot a couple of weeks ago over Nantucket Island, Massachusetts.

Sublime

It's not often that a skyline photo (without a plane in it) is a serious contender for "Picture of the Week," but this breath-taking image from Stoney Truett of Cayce, South Carolina very nearly took the title.

"Returning home from a trip to the Bahamas, we passed through a line of storms — standard weather for the  summer in the southeast U.S. — and saw this sight," writes Stoney.  "I've got the best job in the world!"

(Second to looking at airplane pictures for a living, maybe.)

Rocky Mountain High

Blue skies and a green grass strip!

Robert J. Mazur of Cochrane, Alberta (Canada) reminds us why we love this type of weather ... .

Artistic Effort at This Year's Farnborough Air Show

It's always nice to see a little air-show-grounds problem-solving at work.

Guy Lynch of Pewsey, Wiltshire (U.K.) reminds us how much fun it can be to wander the grounds and gawk at other people's planes, with this photo he snapped at Farnborough.

Hmmm — now that we think about it, we didn't see very many photos from Farnborough in the "POTW" contest this year.  (Hint, hint.)

Ales Litomisky of La Crescenta, California treats us to the still-eerily-beautiful silhouette of a B-2 in flight.

Donald L. Reid of Bumpass, Virginia was another AVweb reader who had multiple submissions in the Top 15 this week.  Here's another guy who'd spend more time at air shows taking photos if we had our way.

Ryan Johnson of Denair, California returns with "a nice, peaceful evening on the ramp before putting the stallion away."

Bill Whitney of Soldotna, Alaska tells us that he "caught no fish [on this trip], but didn't really need to.  Just getting there was enjoyable enough!"

Oldies in Autumn

Eric Hutchins of Grand Rapids, Minnesota sees us off this week, as "11-year-old Labrador Joey and a 1946 Aeronca Champ gracefully show their age on a beautiful fall day."