The Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission (OAC) recently chose artwork from nine students who placed in the Oklahoma 2017 International Aviation Art Contest, adding a new Honorable Mention category. The state-level Aviation Art Contest, sponsored by the Aeronautics Commission, encourages kids, ages 6 to 17, to reflect on aviation by designing a piece of art based on the theme “Beyond […]
Photo of the Day
A Piper in a Diamond
Jessica Belcher of Exclusive Aviation at Flying Cloud Airport (KFCM) in Eden Prairie, Minn., sent in this photo with a brief explanation: “I was shooting this DA40 XLS for our sale listings, and caught this Piper doing touch and goes right in the plane’s canopy.”
Chasing a rainbow
Dale Rogers from Mayfair, Saskatchewan, in Canada, answered our call for interesting aviation photos with a series of photos of a full-circle rainbow. He writes: “For many years I reasoned that if a person was in an aircraft when there was a rainbow that it should be a full circle. So I wanted to see it with […]
Sundowner at sunset
Dustin Carter sent us this photo, with a brief note: “Sunset In The Capital City: An after flight picture of my 1976 Beechcraft Sundowner (N2235L) at Bolton Airport (KTZR) in Columbus, Ohio.”
A sunset takeoff
Scott Taylor sent in this photo of his 1968 Beech Musketeer (N5093T) at San Carlos Apache Airport (P13) in Arizona at sunset just before takeoff.
Back seat bear
Smitty Smith from FunPlacesToFly.com sent in this photo, taken at the Texas Antique Airplane Fly-In in Texas of Orville, a passenger in the back seat of this Van’s Aircraft RV-8.
Resting its wings
This beautifully restored Cessna Beech T-34 Mentor trained many new military pilots in its day. It was resting its wings for the night, having just arrived at sunset at Carolina Avionics & Aircraft Interiors in Salisbury, North Carolina (KRUQ), where it will have new ADS-B Out and autopilot equipment installed, according to Warren Ludlam with the […]
A plane with stories to tell
Frequent contributor Star Novak sent us this photo of Vintage Aircraft Association Chapter 16 President Ron Sipple flying his newly acquired Swift out of Gardner Municipal Airport (K34) in Kansas, on a recent warm winter Saturday. Sipple has quite a story to tell about his new plane: “The previous caretaker had this plane for about 40 […]
Flying the colors
Smitty Smith of FunPlacesToFly.com sent us this photo, taken at the Texas Antique Airplane Association Fly-in, of a plane that’s flying the colors and proud to be in the USA.