Gallery: 2022 Aviation Week Photo Contest General Aviation Finalists
December 22, 2022
Credit: Ben Ullings/Alphen Ann Den Rijn/The Netherlands
The first Diamond DA50 RG on the Dutch register breaks away from its Cessna camera plane over Ketelmeer Lake in the center of the Netherlands.
Credit: Hayman Tam/Belmont, California
A Cessna 172 is seconds away from touching down at San Carlos Airport in California.
Credit: Joseph Costanza/Marlton, New Jersey
Joseph Costanza set up a video camera on a tripod, then took off in his 1941 Piper J3F-65 before making this landing as a low-level fog surrounds Red Wing Airport in Springfield Township, New Jersey. This photo is a screen capture from his video to see the wingtip vortices cut through the fog on roll out.
Credit: Frederick Johnsen/Nampa, Idaho
Matt Younkin lays a twin smoke trail with his Beech 18, chasing his shadow along the runway as he holds it low on takeoff at the Experimental Aircraft Association’s AirVenture 2022 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, on July 29. The hand-held panning action image was made with a shutter speed of 1/80 sec. using a Sony a7R III camera with a Sigma 100-400mm full-frame lens.
Credit: Andreas Zeitler/Manching, Germany
While on the way to a sunset photoshoot with this DG800 glider in Eichstatt, Germany, Andreas Zeitler captured this image with the towplane against the low cloud cover and an early evening sky.
Credit: Thomas Backus/Laveen, Arizona
The thirsty Aero Spacelines Super Guppy arrives at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport for a fuel stop.
These aircraft, some of them frequently operated by business aviation operators, may be moving faster than you think.