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.

Record-Breaking Lancairs

Allen Macbean of Orem, UT

Shot in Utah a few days before both Lancairs broke the cross-country speed record.

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Goodyear Tower at Sunset After an April Shower

Tim Coldenhoff of Goodyear, AZ

Unmodified, from my Motorola Android 5MP camera. Base of the tower at KGYR.

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Compass Roses

Terry Bowden of Moody, TX

Burnet County, Texas. Saturday morning, 4/9/2011, was a beautiful sunrise over Deer Pasture Air Field here in Central Texas. I just had to get this shot. No digital changes. Shot with a Fuji 3.8 MPx "FinePix" model 1200.

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Can You Feel the Heat?

Dean Wingard of North Augusta, SC

Picture is Gary Ward flying at Boshears Memorial Fly-In 2010 in Augusta, Georgia. Gary is a friend of mine who is a real showman in the air! Gary's favorite line is, "It's tough being geen, but sometimes it's kinda nice." Photo credit: Dean Wingard, Nikon D90, AF-S NIKKOR 70-200mm f/2.8G ED VR II lens; Photoshop to size. I'm an amateur photographer who likes to fly and take photos of cool planes.

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Close Formation

John M. Sanborn of Eagle River, AK

Blue Angels make a low pass during the 2010 Elmendorf AFB air show. Nikon D700, 500mm 1/320 at f6.7; cropped in Adobe Lightroom.

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Visiting T14

James Chadwick of Ben Wheeler, TX

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Ultralight Field at Sun 'n Fun 2011

Tim Howard of Edmonton, AB (Canada)

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1927 Pitcairn Fleetwing II

Brian Breighner of Cumberland, MD

1927 Pitcairn Fleetwing II over Mexico Farms Airport, Cumberland, Maryland.

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Eye in the Sky

Kyle D. Anastasio of San Marcos, CA

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A10 Landing at KBMQ

Chuck Deiterich of Bertram, TX

Taken during practice at KBMQ. Nikon D70. Resized only.

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Aviation x 3

Gary L. Jones of Clovis, NM

I saw the jet approaching and maneuvered my model "Bloody Mary" to try framing all three. Image is cropped for zoom effect. Photo taken with a Panasonic FZ18 Lumix on April 11, 2011 at the model airplane field near Clovis, New Mexico.

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