Picture of the Week

Rifling through our virtual mailbox and marveling at your photo submissions is probably our favorite part of the work week. Every Wednesday, we download the contents of our submission folder and go through the images one by one, picking out our favorites. Then we make a second pass, reading all the comments and trying to pick a winner. And finally, once we have a list of photos we plan to share with readers in our “POTW” feature story, we go back to the server and fish out the submitters’ names to see who’s getting this week’s AVweb baseball hat and who to credit for all our runner-up photos.From time to time, we get a little extra surprise when we discover that a winning photo’s been submitted by someone we actually know!That was the case this week, with a photo from Oregon Aero‘s own Steve Badman. Steve asks aquestion that we hear in e-mail quite often: “Where [have all] theskywriters have flown?” And he provides an answer: “Look no further than Suzanne Asbury-Oliver,” writes Steve,”who placed this mile-high smoke signal in the sky over EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2006. She crafted her signature smiley face from the cockpit of the Oregon Aero SkyDancer.”

Editorial Staff

Published Nov 1, 2006 12:00 AM EST

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Rifling through our virtual mailbox and marveling at your photo submissions is probably our favorite part of the work week. Every Wednesday, we download the contents of our submission folder and go through the images one by one, picking out our favorites. Then we make a second pass, reading all the comments and trying to pick a winner. And finally, once we have a list of photos we plan to share with readers in our "POTW" feature story, we go back to the server and fish out the submitters' names to see who's getting this week's AVweb baseball hat and who to credit for all our runner-up photos. From time to time, we get a little extra surprise when we discover that a winning photo's been submitted by someone we actually know! That was the case this week, with a photo fromOregon Aero's own Steve Badman.

*** THIS WEEK'S WINNERS ***

Used with permission of Steve Badman

Used with permission of Steve Badman

Used with permission of Steve Badman

Used with permission of Steve Badman

Used with permission of Steve Badman

Used with permission of Steve Badman

Skywriting by Suzanne Asbury-Oliver

Steve Badman of Wooster, Ohio asks a question that we hear in e-mail quite often: "Where [have all] the skywriters have flown?"

And he provides an answer!

"Look no further than Suzanne Asbury-Oliver," writes Steve, "who placed this mile-high smoke signal in the sky over EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2006. She crafted her signature smiley face from the cockpit of theOregon Aero SkyDancer."

Used with permission of Steve Badman

Used with permission of Steve Badman

Used with permission of Steve Badman

Used with permission of Steve Badman

Used with permission of Steve Badman

Used with permission of Steve Badman

Used with permission of Steve Badman

Used with permission of Steve Badman

Used with permission of Steve Badman

AVweb continues to receive a large number of excellent images for our POTW contest. Here are some of the runners-up. Due to privacy issues, AVweb does not publish e-mail addresses of readers who submit photos.

To enter next week's contest, click here.

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 thePOTW Rules orsend us an e-mail.

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