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Brett J. Grooms of Goose Creek, SC

Taken at the Cherry Point Air Show 2012.

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FiFi on Display in Charlotte

Douglas Johnson of Belmont, NC

The crowds loved FiFi in Charlotte on Memorial Day 2012.

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Honoring Our Vets

Dominic Mark Nicolai of Portage, MI

Western Michigan University's College of Aviation honors American veterans at the W. K. Kellogg Airport in Battle Creek, Michigan.

Photo taken with an HTC EVO camera phone.

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The Race Is On

Ron Malec of Charleston, SC

Paul Stender/Indy Boy's Jet School Bus vs. Skip Stewart & Prometheus II at 2012 May Fly Air Show and Festival in Florence, South Carolina.

Shot with Nikon D7000. Corel PaintShop Photo Pro: crop and autofix.

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Truckframe Windmill

Forrest Fasig of Dayton, NV

Out on the Gabbs Flats — between Gabbs, Nevada and the Rawhide Mine.

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"Roscoe International Airport"

Suzy Kryzanowicz of Bay City, MI

Roscoe's Stinson at Roscoe Intl. Airport (private 1,700' grass strip near KGRR).

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CAF B-29 FiFi over Lexington, KY

Bob Burns of Mauckport, IN

Bluegrass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky — May 19, 2012.

Shot from the ground with Canon 7D and Canon 100-400mm L series lens. Tweaked with Photoshop (sharpened).

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Warbirds Over the Beach 2012

Bret Magee of Newport News, VA

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Significance Beyond the Simple

Dan Leinbach of Apex, NC

Looking up at the stars and bars on the underside of the Enola Gay's right wing. Hard to believe the power this machine once delivered, sealing the end of a world war.

Taken with a Nikon D40; resized in Microsoft Paint. No other manipulations.

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The Perfect Moment — Captured

Dee Ann Ediger of Enid, OK

No Photoshop, no staging — just a little Windows color enhancement on a spur-of-the-moment picture. A friend and my brother-in-law were doing T-&-Gs at our grass strip (OK16) in the friend's Champ and happened to be in the right place at the right time.

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Portrait of the Pilot

Doug Gardner of Chesterfield, MO

Self-portrait using a wide-angle lens while flying my Great Lakes 2T1A just west of my home base, Creve Coeur Airport (1H0) in St. Louis, Missouri.

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RV8r

Gary L. Jones of Clovis, NM

Bill Groth in his RV-8 makes a low pass at the KCVN fly-in on April 21, 2012.

Panasonic FZ18 in "Program" mode with +1/3 exposure. Cropped & reduced for file size.

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RV-1 in Windsor, ON

George Mock of Windsor, ON (Canada)

Van's first homebuilt, currently touring the U.S. and Canada with the end of the tour at AirVenture 2012. Picture taken here in Windsor, Ontario before heading to Toledo, Ohio.

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Historic RB-29A #44-62290 — And Its Officers

Jay A. Botschen of Fancy Gap, VA

[This crew made] the initial attempt At airborne intercept of foreign communications.

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Three Gliders

Robert Koch of Z rich (Switzerland)

Three Stemme S10-VTs: HB-2462 ready, HB-2402 taxiing, and HB-2305 waiting on better weather — at LSZG in Grenchen, Switzerland.

Cropped to 16:9. Sony Cybershot G.

See Stemme's web site for more gliders.

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JU-52

Sean Hancock of Hampton, VA

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