Steve Purcell, now a CFI, submitted this photo and note: “Zahn’s Airport. Amityville Flying Service, Amityville, N.Y., Long Island. 1965. Going student pilot solo in this neat straight tail C-150. About $16 an hour. My CFI was the awesome Ralph Thomas of Pan American Airways.” Would you like to have your photo featured as Picture […]
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Picture of the Day: Pit stop
Tom Strong submitted this photo and note: “A beautiful day of flying with a friend and his RV-7A and my RV-9A. A short pit stop in Craig, Colorado, before returning to Idaho.” Would you like to have your photo featured as Picture of the Day? You can submit it via this form. All photos sent […]
Picture of the Day: Socially distanced fun
Eric Dumigan submitted this photo and note: “Keeping the passion alive. As an aviation photographer I’m always looking for new subjects to shoot. With the COVID-19 virus curtailing a lot of activities, life has become very mundane. I heard a pilot friend, Luis De Menezes, was going flying in his C-172 at Waterloo, Ontario, but […]
Picture of the Day: Alaskan sunset
Craig Bixby submitted this photo and note: “Maule at sunset, Kotzebue, Alaska.” Would you like to have your photo featured as Picture of the Day? You can submit it via this form. All photos sent in for Picture of the Day are also considered for our new Page 4 photo feature in the print issue […]
Picture of the Day: A learning experience at 2GC
Regular General Aviation News contributor Bill Walker notes that local pilots and students at the Cape Fear Aviation Flight School at Grays Creek Airport (2GC) in North Carolina, near Fayetteville, know that the approach for Runway 35 offers some interesting challenges. The considerations are tall pines at the approach end, a displaced threshold of nearly […]
Picture of the Day: Final at Gaston’s
Mark Spencer submitted this photo and note: “Short final at Gaston’s White River Resort (3M0) in Lakeview, Arkansas. A great destination in Arkansas.” Would you like to have your photo featured as Picture of the Day? You can submit it via this form. All photos sent in for Picture of the Day are also considered […]
Picture of the Day: Ready for takeoff
Sparky Barnes submitted this photo and note: “NC52928, a Howard DGA-15P, on the takeoff roll in the Northwoods of Wisconsin.” Would you like to have your photo featured as Picture of the Day? You can submit it via this form. All photos sent in for Picture of the Day are also considered for our new […]
Picture of the Day: Low approach
Bryan Weathers submitted this photo and note: “A P-3 does low approaches at Meadows Field Airport (KBFL) in Bakersfield, California.” Would you like to have your photo featured as Picture of the Day? You can submit it via this form. All photos sent in for Picture of the Day are also considered for our new […]
Picture of the Day: Incredible escape
Andrew Henry submitted this photo and note: “While in isolation for weeks now, flying my MTO Sport gyroplane has been an incredible escape. This photo is a frame grab from video after a three-hour cross-country flight landing back at my home airport, Carp Airport (CYRP) in Ottawa, Canada. The setting of the sun and touchdown […]