August 1, 2007 Picture of the Week: AVweb's Flying Photography Showcase |
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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. The top photos are featured on
AVweb's home page, 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 on AVweb.com?
Click here to submit it to our weekly contest.
*** THIS WEEK'S WINNERS ***
Terrific photos continued to flow into "POTW"
headquarters, even while we were away at Oshkosh kicking tires,
er, working hard. We'll keep the banter short this week in order
to squeeze in a couple of extra pics. If there were but world
enough and time, we'd go on and on about the 120 photos we had to wade
through this week and what a tough choice it was selecting only a
handful to appear in today's issue. But we think you'll get the
idea when you see the pics that we just couldn't turn away.
Let's hit it!
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Sunset Ultralights at Oshkosh 2007
It's always satisfying when the post-AirVenture "Picture of the Week"
comes from the show — and maddening, in a way, since we really did think
we saw everything there was to see this year.
Foolish us. Leonard Mack of
Hilliard, Ohio, hung around for the ultralight air shows every night at
dusk (whereas we went back to the hotel to write up stories).
Thankfully, Leonard snapped some photos for us, even if it isn't exactly
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Raptor Takeoff
Man, do we ever love to watch this thing zoom around the air shows and
hover mysteriously in mid-air! Don
Parsons of St. Peters, Missouri caught the spirit of the F-22
demo perfectly. (Note the onlooker plugging his ears with his
fingers.)
Say — some of you "POTW" contributors need to stop by our booth and say
hello while you're at Oshkosh! |
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Bulldog Bank
One of the week's tragic losses was the death of Jim Leroy, and we're
grateful to all the "POTW" readers who sent us pics of LeRoy working his
aerobatic magic over the last few days. (We'd love to see more, if
you have them.)
LeRoy "always put on a good show," writes Jeff
Randall
of Clyde, Texas. "Here, he pulls and banks after cutting the red
ribbon in last year's Ft. Worth Alliance Air Show." |
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Alone in an Osprey Sauna
Who could resist a description like this one, from
Dan McCoy of Pennsville, New Jersey: "On the end of
our flight ramp, the hot tarmac pounded with rain, ready to go, a lone
crew chief seemingly standing on water. (There's actually a river
between the trees and the aircraft.)"
Dan credits a co-worker with the photo, but we have to give him a tip of
the hat for sending us our Desktop Wallpaper of the Week! (And
this was up against some awesome skylines that didn't make it into the "POTW"
proper, by the way.) |
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Must ... Resist ...
Nothing says "AirVenture" better than this sign! Frequent "POTW"
contributor Ralph Lacomba of
Columbia, South Carolina took a minute to fool around for the camera and
captured the spirit of the show perfectly. Maybe we'll even
forgive him for not stopping by the booth and introducing himself.
Maybe. |
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Taxiing Fokker Spin
Not all the fun to be had last week happened in Oshkosh!
Paul Berrelkamp of North Holland in
the Netherlands was shooting photos of "probably the last flyable Fokker
Spin in the world, built in 1936 (taken from the original model from
1911) ... at the Airport in Leylstad in the Netherlands (EHLE) in front
of theme park the Aviodrome." |
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Daniel Lyons
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Before Hell Breaks Loose
And a somber reminder that some pilots weren't having fun at all, but
were instead serving in the world's military forces.
Daniel Lyons shot this as pilots
were preparing for a border flight from the Forward Operations Base at
Tallafar, Iraq. |
Update: Thanks to AVweb reader Dr. Dieter Zube whom confirmed the
origin and copyright of
last week's
Boeing 7-series photo through the Seattle Museum of
Flight!
Remember: There are more reader-submitted photos in the slideshow on AVweb's home page!
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To enter next week's contest,
click here.
A quick note for submitters: If you've got several
photos that you feel are "POTW" material, your best bet is to submit
them one-a-week! That gives your photos a greater chance of seeing
print on AVweb, and it makes the selection process a little easier on
us, too. ;)
A Reminder About Copyrights: Please take a moment to consider the
source of your image before submitting to our "Picture of the Week" contest.
If you did not take the photo yourself, ask yourself if you are indeed
authorized to release publication rights to AVweb. If you're uncertain,
consult the
POTW
Rules or
or
send us an e-mail.
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