John Chvatal submitted this photo and note: “It takes a small village to prep these beautiful birds at Wings of the North in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, for flight.”
Photo of the Day
Picture of the Day: Virus Free Zone
Martin Schmidli submitted this photo and note: “Flying a Zenair Zodiac CH601HDS in Eastern Switzerland.”
Picture of the Day: Frosty tracks
Sparky Barnes submitted this photo and note: “A 1948 Piper Vagabond makes frosty tracks on a grass strip.”
Picture of the Day: Ghost plane
James Ayers submitted this photo and note: “Flying the Husky A1-C down the Red River when a ghost plane appeared. I chased it until the sun went down.”
Picture of the Day: Sailplane landing
Burt Compton landing his Open Class Schempp-Hirth Cirrus sailplane with drag chute deployed at Marfa Gliders Soaring Center Airport (KMRF) in southwest Texas. The chute allows for shorter landing distances on an off-airport field landing, occasionally necessary in cross-country glider flying when the thermal (or ridge or wave) lift might fade at the end of the day.”
Picture of the Day: Camping with my plane
David Montgomery submitted this photo and note: “This is my Cessna Cardinal, a 1976 C177B, at Bowstring Airport (9Y0) in northern Minnesota. Camping on my way to Brainerd, Minnesota, for the annual Minnesota Seaplane Pilots Association Safety Weekend.”
Picture of the Day: Remembering and thankful
Travis Roberts submitted this photo and note: “My favorite place to be is flying a Quicksilver. This picture is of me flying the Quicksilver Super MXL owned by my late best friend, Bill Rohland, who passed away a few weeks later last October. I dearly miss him every day as he was the one who introduced me to ultralights.”
Picture of the Day: A great co-pilot
Jeff DeFreest submitted this photo and note: “ZW learns about crew resource management reading the checklist for his uncle on short final to the float pond at Juneau, Alaska, in a 1967 Cessna Skywagon C180H on Edo 2960 floats. (Photo credit goes to his dad, back-seat flyer, Eric DeFreest.)”
Picture of the Day: Christmas Eve at the airport
Dana Vanderark submitted this photo and note: “Went to go fly Christmas Eve. Found this jolly guy getting ready to start up. I had a quick conversation with him. According to him, he was renting the 172 for the day and will have it back in the morning. His normal aircraft was down for annual and he had a mission he had to complete. He was a little vague on the details of the flight. I asked if he filed IFR, he responded with yes. He did admit that he hasn’t shot a approach in a year, so I don’t think he is current and I’m not sure of the legality of that! Merry Christmas!”