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.”.
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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.”
Picture of the Day: Flying over Lake Conroe
Javier Vera submitted this photo and note: “How do we aviation lovers take advantage of a beautiful day? Flying. And it is even better when doing a formation flight with friends. While I fly with Stephen Jones in his Bonanza V-Tail, I take the opportunity to photograph his daughter, Lauren Jones, in command of this Cessna 177 Cardinal, flying with two friends, Blair and Jarrod. It was definitely a great afternoon flying over Lake Conroe in Texas!”
Picture of the Day: Coming straight at us
Richard Medley submitted this photo and note: “Flying around Kentucky doing instrument training with Brian in a 2021 Cessna 172 based at historic Bowman Field (KLOU), we came across this plane coming straight at us at 2 o’clock. Oh, no worries, it was just our reflection off the clouds.”
Picture of the Day: Between a rock and a high place
Isaiah K. submitted this photo and note: “Using Morro Rock to practice turns around a point after a ‘$100 crab melt’ run to San Luis County Regional Airport (KSBP) on California’s Central Coast.”