2020 Aviation Week Photo Contest Early Entries

The Lockheed Martin F-22 Demo Team flies at the 2018 Wings Over North Georgia Airshow.

The last British Airways 747-400 departs Heathrow International Airport on Oct. 8 on a very overcast day. BA is retiring its 747s as a result of the pandemic.

A 1936 Staggerwing and a de Havilland Dominie built in 1943, shown here during a formation flight over the picturesque, still Lake Hawea on the majestic South Island of New Zealand. The camera ship was a 1934 de Havilland Fox Moth.

This Israel Aircraft Industries Kfir fighter was photographed on the flight deck of the Intrepid Air, Sea & Space Museum in New York during Fleet Week in 2015.

At 7:29 a.m. (EST) on Tuesday, Oct. 6, SpaceX successfully launched another batch of Starlink communications satellites from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A). This photo—centered on the face of the Sun and shown at a distance of 11 mi. from the pad in nearby Titusville, Florida—shows the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the payload to orbit and transiting the Sun shortly after sunrise.

A view of sunrise over Arizona as seen from Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport.

A blood-red sky provides a remarkable backdrop at Kennedy Space Center’s LC-39A. This untouched shot was taken more than 40 min. after sunset on a mostly overcast night and produced a scene I have not previously shot in my years of rocket photography.

This shot was taken Sept. 22, 2018, during the Eight Mile wildfire in Soda Springs, Idaho. While under evacuation order and running to leave everything behind as flames approached, this picture of Aero-Flite’s Avro RJ85 airtanker dropping retardant was captured by a Nikon P900. The good news is that aerial firefighting support combined with firefighters on the ground saved the homes and ranches in Caribou Village.

The decommissioned space shuttle Enterprise is transported on April 27, 2012, to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York from the National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center at Washington Dulles International Airport. From Kennedy, Enterprise was transported by barge to the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum for permanent display.

A masked pilot carries his radio-controlled Sukhoi Su-30 to the flightline for a socially distant flight demonstration at the Hiller Aviation Museum’s Biggest Little Air Show, conducted during a short break in California’s pandemic-driven museum closures. Closed to the public, this event was livestreamed for the spectators sheltering in place.

An F-15 making a low pass is reflected in the canopy of another aircraft at the Reno Air Races in 2018.

This Airbus H175 hovering above an empty runway of Esbjerg Airport in Denmark.

This photo taken from above as a Kalitta Air 747 cargo aircraft nears touchdown at Anchorage, Alaska, provides a new perspective on landing.

A morning flight over Israel in formation with a Tecnam P92 light aircraft.

An AH-64D Saraph fires flares and conducts an evasive maneuver during a demonstration at the graduation ceremony of Israeli Air Force pilot cadets in December 2012.

A Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor making a low pass at sunset on full afterburner.

B-1B bomber launch from Nellis AFB, Nevada, at early dusk with the Las Vegas Strip in the background. The sound and vibration is hard to believe!

B-17, Ye Olde Pub, greeting an Arizona sunrise in Page, Arizona, in February 2019.

Korean Air heavies are stored on the Incheon International Airport cargo apron.

This photo was taken at Creve Coeur Airport in Maryland Heights, Missouri, on July 30, 2014, on the morning after The Collings Foundation brought their B-17 "Nine-O-Nine" into St. Louis for flights. I was driving into work at Boeing Co. and decided to swing by the airport to see this magnificent warbird in the morning light. Sadly, the aircraft was lost in a tragic crash in 2019.

Mount Ranier in Washington pokes through the clouds as an aircraft flies close—but not too close.

Evening maintenance on Tanker 101, Gen. William J. Fox Airfield, Lancaster, California.

A FlyDubai aircraft Boeing 737 is on the ramp at sunset.