F-16 Night Sortie

Andrew Wall of Ankeny, IA

Three F-16s depart Des Moines International Airport. The third aircraft held it on the deck 'til the end, where he yanked back on the stick and launched into space!

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Heaven? No, Lake Winnebago

Gary Dikkers of Madison, WI

The EAA Seaplane Base on Lake Winnebago, just before sunrise during AirVenture 2010. This image reminds me of a 17th century Dutch landscape painting.

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The Return of a Ghost

Gilbert Benzonana of Grand-Lancy, Geneva (Switzerland)

DC-3 used in the '50s by the late Swissair company (now simply "Swiss"). Grounded some years ago, [it's now] seen over the Grenchen airport near Bern, Switzerland. Photo taken with a Pentax Optio P80 camera at 1/650 sec. F 5.6, focal length 29 mm. No other modifications than re-centering and reduction of the original file under 1 MB.

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Rivers of My Mind

Rene Covelli of Cherry Hill, NJ

Caught the moment over Delaware Bay with Cannon PowerShot. I have a very hazy memory of this one. Virgin shot.

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First B747 to Wear the New United/Continental Colors

Scott L. Kordes of Amarillo, TX

Taken from the tower at Amarillo International Airport. Canon T2i, using Canon software to sharpen and crop the photo.

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"Blue 7 — Catch Up to Us!"

Richard K. Zohn of San Diego, CA

At the KNKX 2010 Air Show (MCAS Miramar, San Diego, CA). Great clouds — great background! Canon Rebel T1i: 1/1250, f5.6, ISO 100. No changes whatsoever to the photo.

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Proud Grandpa and the Newest Pilot

Curtis Carter of North Fond du Lac, WI

This photo was taken in September 2010 at Oshkosh just before my three-year-old grandson's first flight — which he loved!!

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Que Sera Sera

John Hoke of Gladstone, MO

Photo taken in the new Hangar Bay One at the U.S. Naval Air Museum in Pensacola, Florida.

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Spring Break PCB

Royce Blankenship of Panama City, FL

The view while doing touch-'n'-gos at KECP (Panama City, Florida).

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Sea Fury at the Avalon Air Show, Australia (5th March 2011)

Don Fogg of Echunga, SA (Australia)

Unmanipulated image of a Hawker Sea Fury taken at the Avalon Air Show (near Melbourne, Australia) with a 70-300mm zoom lens on a Pentax K100D DSLR.

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N2S-4 Pensacola Beach

Sheldon Heatherington & Roy M. Kinsey of Pensacola, FL

1943 Stearman N2S-4 over Ft. Pickens on Pensacola Beach, Florida. Photo was taken by Sheldon Heatherington while I [Roy] was giving a flight to a Navy World War II veteran.

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F-86 Sabre (Courtesy of Warbird Heritage Foundation)

Bob Herrick of Gurnee, IL

Shot in the hangar with my Canon S1IS camera.

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Corsair

Roger L. Mullins of Keystone Heights, FL

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Kolb M3X Take-Off

Chris Ambrose & Ken Miller of Houghton Lake, MI

Ski-flying off Houghton Lake, Michigan. Taken right after take-off.

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Watch This!

Brian Wood of Binghamton, NY

Jet jockey giving an air show at "heavy" level. (Barrel rolls?)

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Cousins in the Cockpit

Ron Horton of Ft. Mill, SC

My grandchildren, Lucas and Maddy, on the flight deck of the KC-97 located at the Carolinas Aviation Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina. All the levers, buttons, and dials any young pilot would ever want! A great museum with plenty of hands-on stuff for our future aviators. Taken with Nikon D90, 18-200 VR at 18mm.

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IAD Sunset

L. Scott McGowin of Burlington, NC

Unedited shot from my MyTouch 4G phone while en route to Washington Dulles.

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