Picture of the Week: AVweb’s Flying Photography Showcase
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.” Photo submissions crept back up to more comfortableterritory this week, and with more pictures came a tougher time ofchoosing our favorite. As always, we resorted to a top-secret andvery scientific algorithm – flashing reader-submitted pictures in fronta select group AVweb editors at 3-millisecond intervals and charting theincrease in electrical impulses across the surface of the skin.It’s a method that never fails, and the photo that made us tingle themost this week came from Lisa Salazarof Port St. Lucie, Florida.

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."
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Picture submissions crept back up to more comfortableterritory this week, and with more pictures came a tougher time ofchoosing our favorite. As always, we resorted to a top-secret andvery scientific algorithm - flashing reader-submitted pictures in fronta select group AVweb editors at 3-millisecond intervals and charting theincrease in electrical impulses across the surface of the skin.It's a method that never fails, and the photo that made us tingle themost this week came from Lisa Salazarof Port St. Lucie, Florida.
We'll be away from the submission box next week, onassignment at Sun 'n Fun in Lakeland, Florida - but that doesn'tmean you should stop hitting that submit button! Whilewe're out seeing the sights, we'll be counting on AVweb readersto send usphotos of their airborne antics and fancy flyers.
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| ![]() | copyright Movin' Pictures | ![]() | copyright Movin' Pictures | Play Ball! H.B. Wise of Arlington, Texassnapped this pic at the Texas Rangers' home opener. "What could bemore inspiring than opening day baseball and low-level jet noise?" asksH.B. - to which, frankly, we have no answer. (Unless you count "weather warm enough for opening day," whichapplies in places a bit north of Texas this week.) | |||||||||||||
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Refueling photos never fail to get a woo-whee out of us.Christopher Starr of Grand Rapids,Michigan submitted this one on behalf of "a gentleman I work with [who]took a familiarization flight recently on a KC-135." The 135 inquestion was from the 927th Air Refueling Wing, and the F-15 fromSeymour Johnson Air Force Base. Woo-whee. | |||||||||||||
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| ![]() | Used with permission of Jerry Malin | ![]() | Used with permission of Jerry Malin | The Fighting Lady Jerry Malin of Matthews, NorthCarolina sent us a couple of shots from Charleston, South Carolina'sperennial tourist destination, the USS Yorktown. Strangely,we chose the one with the fewest planes ... . | |||||||||||||
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Want more? Visit the "POTW" slideshow on ourhome page for more reader-submitted photos!
To enter next week's contest,click here.
A quick note for submitters: If you've got severalphotos that you feel are "POTW" material, your best bet is to submitthem one-a-week! That gives your photos a greater chance of seeingprint on AVweb, and it makes the selection process a little easier onus, too. ;)
A Reminder About Copyrights: Please take a moment to consider thesource 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 indeedauthorized to release publication rights to AVweb. If you're uncertain,consult thePOTWRules orsend us an e-mail.
