Penny Hamilton submitted this photo and note: “This Chinook helicopter, along with several others, deployed to Granby-Grand County Airport/Emily Warner Field (KGNB) in Colorado, to fight the Indian Peaks Wilderness Wildfire in a heavily-wooded, rugged area seven miles northeast of the popular summer tourist area in Fraser, Colorado. This heavy-lift helicopter is based in Yellowstone, Montana. The crew is headed to refuel before lifting off again.”
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Picture of the Day: Hot and dry
Chris Souchon submitted this photo and note: “The Macha Mission airstrip in Zambia with our Navajo surrounded by curious school children.”
Picture of the Day: Midwest majesty
Jim Roberts submitted this photo with a note: “Sunset illuminates building cumulus clouds during the 2019 Antique Airplane Association annual fly-in at Blakesburg, Iowa.”
Picture of the Day: Sunset high and low wings
Matthew Baker submitted this photo and note: “Took this of a 172 and Piper Archer from our flight school at Bartow Flying Service at Bartow Executive Airport (KBOW) in Florida. After a pretty good rain and thunderstorm, the sky made for a beautiful scene.”.
Picture of the Day: It’s raining
Amirhossein Shirazian submitted this photo and note: “After takeoff it started to rain so we came back and landed at Payam International Airport (OIIP) in Iran.”
Picture of the Day: Flying in Indiana
Michael E. Finney submitted this photo and note: “My wife, Sherry, took this photo of my plans-built Cub. I fly from our home airport, Finney’s Airpark (II77), near Albany, Indiana.”
Picture of the Day: Hunter’s Cub
Mike Townsley submitted this photo and note: “A visitor to Sig Field (7C5) in Montezuma, Iowa, on July 13, 2023. Hunter is from Charlottesville, Virginia, flying towards home.”
Picture of the Day: It’s a tedious job, but somebody’s gotta do it
Diana Layton submitted this photo and note: “Jack Banks with the West Virginia Civil Air Patrol hooks up the tow cable, preparing for glider orientation flights.”
Picture of the Day: Planes and pancakes
Dr. Penny Rafferty Hamilton submitted this photo and note: “Not an every day happening at Emily Warner Field (KGNB) in Colorado. This Nanchang CJ-6A proved popular for a lot of kids eager to sit inside an airplane at the July 1, 2023, EAA Chapter 1267 Pancake Breakfast, Fly-In, and aviation scholarship auction. One is getting out of the cockpit and the legs of many more can be seen under the fuselage.”