Picture of the Week: AVweb's Flying Photography Showcase

PICTURE OF THE WEEK

March 3, 2011

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By Scott Simmons, Webmaster, POTW Editor

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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.

Blue Angels Inbound

Samuel Sun of San Diego, CA

The Blue Angels fly over the Coronado Bay Bridge, kicking off the Centennial of Naval Aviation's Parade of Flight at NAS North Island Saturday, February 12. (Cropped and color-corrected from the original; shot from 10,000 feet overhead.)

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Hawk(er)cicle

Jim Thrash of Edmond, OK

This Hawker was left on the ramp when OKC was hit with an ice storm in late January 2010. The entire left side of the aircraft was coated in over an inch of ice.

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Which Way Is Up?

Harold Bishop of Lufkin, TX

Blue Angels at Reno Air Races 2009. Canon 50D.

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Central Borneo Medicac

Sean Cannon of Monte Vista, CO

Cessna 185F being loaded with a heart patient from Central Kalimantan, Indonesia to be flown to a larger hospital. Canon T2i.

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PA31T Landing Roll

Joaquin Leon of Vina del Mar, Valparaiso (Chile)

Shot on San Pedro de Atacama Airfield in Chile. Clean pic, Sony Alpha 300.

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J3 Ski-Plane Barnstorm

Tom Ciura of Lancaster, NY

Winter fun in Buffalo! Taken at Clarence Aerodrome, not far from the Flight 3407 site in Clarence, New York.

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B-25 in Formation

Mike Weder of Okotoks, AB (Canada)

Picture as taken in 1991 when I flew as copilot for G&M Aircraft on Air Tanker Contract for Wood Buffalo National Park, based in Ft. Smith, Northwest Territories, Canada.

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Just in the Target

Gilbert Benzonana of Grand-Lancy, Geneva (Switzerland)

Helicopter exercise during one of the meetings for the 100th anniversary of the Swiss Aero Club in the airport of Grenchen near Bern, Switzerland. Photo taken with a Canon Power Shot G6 camera at 1/650 sec, F 5.6, focal length 29mm. No other modification of the original file than recentering of the photo with reduction to under 1 MB.

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