Smitty Smith from FromPlacesToFly.com sent in this photo, taken at the Texas Antique Aircraft Association Fly-in in Gainesville, Texas.
Photo of the Day
There’s still time to send in your photos
We’re still on the look-out for photos for our December print issues, which will feature The Year in Pictures. We want to run the best shots from 2015 from our readers. Photo also may be considered for Picture of the Day online. Email your photo — and be sure to include specifics like where it […]
Picture of the day: Next generation linemen
Mom Karine Brown took this picture of twins Alex Brown and Christian Brown, sons of Jay Brown and grandsons of Hank Brown of the Greenville Jet Center at Greenville Downtown Airport (KGMU) in South Carolina. The next generation of line service refueling technicians, Alex wears hearing protection due to the “noise” from the non-turbojet pedaling aircraft his brother […]
Picture of the day: Train in this!
Humberto Vivanco sent in this photo he snapped on his HTC One phone of a North American T-6 after it had landed and circled around in its own cloud of smoke at the Joint Base Air Show in San Antonio, Texas.
Pictures of the day: The art of the airport tower
A new exhibit, “Art of the Airport Tower,” opened Nov. 11 at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. The exhibit, composed of 50 photographs by Smithsonian photographer Carolyn Russo, explores the varied forms and functions of airport traffic control towers in the U.S. and around the world. The exhibit will remain on display at […]
Pictures of the day: Flying low and slow to track wildlife
GALLATIN VALLEY, Mont. — Jim Ortman takes off frequently with a government biologist in an Aviat Husky for the kind of flights most pilots only get to dream about. An ATP rated pilot with nearly 19,000 hours logged in everything from bush planes to 747s, Ortman is comfortable flying low and slow over the Rocky […]
Pictures of the day: Planes, boats and cars…
Hardath Laloo sent in those photos taken during preparations for the kick-off party for the Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show at Banyan Air Services at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport.
Picture of the day: Best fly-in breakfast in Illinois
Albert L. Dyer sent us this photo of a beautiful Luscombe snapped earlier this fall at a fly-in in Illinois. He explains: “I found myself flying into Ogel County Airport (C55) to what was being advertised as ‘the best fly-in breakfast in Illinois.’ “And, let me say that every word of that statement was true, […]
Pictures of the day: Rare nose art exhibit travels to EAA AirVenture museum
EAA AVIATION CENTER, OSHKOSH, Wisconsin — More than 30 pieces of nose art from World War II combat aircraft are making their first-ever trip outside their home museum, with the Experimental Aircraft Association AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh chosen as the first public display location for this rare collection. The collection from the Commemorative Air Force […]