2021 Aviation Week Photo Contest Editors' Picks: General Aviation
December 03, 2021
Credit: Maciej Hatta/Ottawa, Canada
A Harmon Rocket sits ready for action under the green glow of the northern lights.
Credit: Luigino Caliaro, Monteviale, Italy
Doug Matthews flies a 1952 North American F-86 Sabre.
Credit: Steve Zimmermann/Broomfield, Colorado
A remotely triggered, tail-mounted camera on my Diamond DA62 captured the aspens in all their autumn glory on the slopes of Colorado’s Carter Mountain.
Credit: Andreas Zeitler/Manching, Germany
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A Buecker Jungmeister and Jungmann fly in formation during Germany’s traditional Buecker meeting.
Credit: Tam Hayman/Belmont, California
Jason Somes makes a flyby in his MiG-17 during the Wings Over Camarillo Airshow in California.
Credit: Jerry Soifer/Corona, California
During a break in a rainstorm, a heron takes a perch on a private plane to survey the Corona (California) Municipal Airport.
Credit: Doron Talmi/Herzliya, Israel
A Cessna in the pattern at Herzliya Airfield, Israel, is seemingly mixing with flying birds, actually raptor decals that were installed on the nearby highway sound barriers to deter other birds from colliding with the transparent walls.
Credit: John Smoker/Terrebonne, Oregon
The Stratos 716X (foreground) and 714 (behind) skim over the forests of Sunriver, Oregon, bathed in the late evening glow.
General Aviation casts a wide net, with aircraft ranging from kit-built experimental aircraft to vintage fighters.