Leading the way from his native Texas to Las Vegas for the season finale of the 2015 Red Bull Air Race World Championship, Kirby Chambliss took fellow pilots Nicolas Ivanoff of France and Matthias Dolderer of Germany on a flight through one of the most iconic regions of the American West: Monument Valley. Only one […]
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Pictures of the day: OC Air Show
Photographer Robert Talarczyk sent in these photos from this year’s Ocean City, Maryland OC Air Show:
Pictures of the day: Airpark living
Rebecca Duggan sent in these photos of her favorite airpark, Sugar Springs (5M6). Sugar Springs Airpark is a privately owned public-use airpark located in mid-Michigan, she explains, noting it has a 3,500-foot grass runway that is very well maintained. “It’s a wonderful community with so many amenities,” she said. “It has two large recreational lakes with […]
Pictures of the day: Reno Air Races
Larry Moore traveled to Reno this year and captured thousands of photos of the Reno Air Races. Here are more than 50 to feast your eyes on:
Picture of the day: Hand-propping a vintage Taylorcraft
Bob Martin sent in this photo of Jack Stuart hand propping a vintage Taylorcraft at the annual fly-in at the Havana Regional Airport (9I0) in Illinois. More than 50 pilots took advantage of beautiful weather and awesome pancakes over Labor Day weekend, Martin reports.
Picture of the day: Cleared for takeoff
Chuck Rosenfeld sent in this photo taken by Cathy Boyko at this year’s AirVenture in Oshkosh. “Flight of two Ercoupes cleared for takeoff,” as Maynard Smith and Chuck Rosenfeld depart from the airshow in Ercoupe 415s.
Picture of the day: Fresh from the hangar
The folks at Oceania Aviation at Ardmore Airport in Auckland, New Zealand, sent in this photo, explaining: “Ex-Era Helicopters AS350B2 (N186EH) getting ready to leave the Oceania Aviation Hangar as ZK-IEP with a fresh NZCAA CofA.”
Picture of the day: A great day to go flying
Steve Sundstrom sent in this photo, noting, “It’s a great day to go flying off my grass field Wolfe Airpark (3T2) outside of Houston.”
Pictures of the day: How about these hangar doors?
Size definitely matters when your hangar door has to be big enough to allow access for rockets. Schweiss Doors, which provides hangar doors of every size from the smallest GA hangar to Cape Canaveral, recently delivered two doors to SpaceX, with one 40 feet wide and 69 feet tall, while the other is 90 feet wide […]