William Spencer submitted this photo and note: “I was flying my Vashon Ranger in the East Bay of San Francisco in early February 2024. The rains were expected later that day so I went up early. When I noticed the beautiful sunrise I held up my phone and snapped one picture then put the phone back down. After landing I checked the photo, and wish I had taken more. (That’s a GoPro mounted on the tie-down).”
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Picture of the Day: Ready to fly
Peter DeLoof submitted this photo and note: “The RV-4 owned by Peter DeLoof outside its hangar at Tecumseh Mills Airport (22T) near Tecumseh, Michigan, and about to go flying. The military livery was done by the prior owner to honor his father who was a crew chief on a P-51 in World War II.”
Pictures of the Day: Old Crow
Matthew Baker submitted these photos and note: “The P51 ‘Old Crow’ made a visit to the former airbase in Bartow, Florida.”
Picture of the Day: It’s a dog’s life
Anitra Goddard submitted this photo and note: “Katie Waito and I took her 1949 Piper Clipper sandbar hopping in the Arkansas River and let the dog frolic in the sand.”
Picture of the Day: Skyhawk rays
Matthew Baker submitted this photo and note: “A very cloudy sunset with sun rays coming from the sky as a Cessna 172 makes its turn towards the airport in Bartow, Florida.”
Picture of the Day: Escuadrilla Historica
Damian Kopac submitted this photo and note: “The Escuadrilla Histórica (Historic Squadron) belonging to the Argentina Air Force performing a low pass over the crowd during the first day of the EAA Convention Argentina 2024.”
Picture of the Day: Formation maintenance
KT Budde-Jones submitted this photo with a note: “Peter and Richard Lauderback have dedicated their lives to keeping World War II fighters flying. For the past 40 years they have supported Stallion 51’s fleet and kept their brother, Lee Lauderback in the cockpit of ‘Crazy Horse.’ As the expression goes, ‘they have forgotten more than most people know about warbirds.’ When they work on the Mustangs, they work in silent synchronization — formation Mustang maintenance.”
Pictures of the day: Evening flight
Longtime contributor Tom Snow sent these photos of the sunset view on the evening of Feb. 7, 2024, as he and his son, Sam, returned to land at Chattanooga, Tennessee (KCHA) at the conclusion of their first flight in their new Van’s RV-12iST trainer.
Picture of the Day: Gleaming wings and fat tires in the high desert
Anitra Goddard submitted this photo and note: “Micah Lindstrom’s 1955 Cessna 170B gleaming on Dead Cow Lakebed Airstrip in Nevada. Micah was there racing this 170 in the STOL Drag World Championships at the High Sierra Fly-In.”