Picture of the Week: AVweb's Reader-Submitted Amateur Aviation Photo Contest

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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 - 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 here? Click here to submit it to our weekly contest.

Cherokee at Night

Alan Wirth of Lexington Park, MD

This was a light-painting exercise with my Cherokee - basically, a long exposure as I walked around the plane with a flashlight.

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Aurora Cub

Bradley Thornberg of Nisswa, MN

Northern lights over Spider Lake in Nisswa, Minnesota July 16, 2012.

Super Cub is on a seaplane lift. I brightened the shot a little bit in iPhoto but made no other corrections. Sony NEX-5.

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Mosquito Aircraft Restoration, Auckland, New Zealand

Dan Gay of Great Yarmouth, Norfolk (England)

While visiting Ardmore Air Field in New Zealand, I was lucky to be invited to have a look around the Mosquito workshop where this was just finished being rebuilt. This is the world's only WWII-era Mosquito bomber capable of flying and will be at Oshkosh next year.

Unfortunately, I only had my phone to take the photos.

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T-6 Reflections

Dave Oberg of Anchorage, AK

Shot at Arctic Thunder 2012, JBER, Alaska.

Canon T2i, Tamron 18-270. Cropped and resized in Lightroom.

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Thai Airlines' First Airbus A380

Donald Lee Meurett of Thailand

First A380 to enter service for Thai Airlines. This picture taken a few days after delivery from Airbus. The A380 was doing practice approaches at Utapao Royal Thai Air Base Thailand.

Picture taken from our second-floor condominium with Canon Rebel with 200mm lens.

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