2023 Aviation Week Photo Contest: View Entries From Every Continent

A Panavia Tornado makes a low pass near the Greek mountains during the Iniochos 2023 exercise. 

A Lockheed L100-30 Hercules, operated by Safair and about to be retired, flies alongside a Boeing 737-800 owned by FlySafair (an airline subsidiary of Safair) as a clear representation of "out with the old and in with the new."

An Ethiopian Airlines attendant waits for passengers to board the Airbus A350 ET-AVC at Kilimanjaro International Airport in Tanzania.

A Brazilian Air Force Embraer AMX A-1 flies over Corumba Lake in Brazil.

Over the Cerrado biome that covers central Brazil, an Embraer R-99 remote-sensing aircraft flies escorted by two AMX A-1 fighter bombers.

British Antarctic Survey's DHC-7 taxis out on its penultimate Antarctic flight of the season. The Dash 7 primarily operates flights between Punta Arenas or RAF Mount Pleasant and the Rothera Research Station. It also has the capability to operate flights to the blue-ice runway at the forward operating base at Sky-Blu Field Station. In the 2022-23 Antarctic season, the Dash 7 was also modified to conduct aerial surveying duties for the Drivers and Effects of Fluctuations in Sea Ice in the Antarctic (Defiant) project.

I was photographing airplanes at Fukuoka Airport in Japan and noticed a fireworks show. This photo is the result of an aircraft and fireworks coming into the same frame.

An Aerotech Australasia Sikorsky UH-60A Black Hawk takes a drink of water to drop onto a nearby bushfire. The Aerotech fleet of water bombers dropped nearly 200 loads in an 8-hr. period. It was a formidable effort, with a rapid turnaround, but the team managed to get the fire under control by nightfall. The Aerotech fleet of Black Hawks has grown to four, in readiness for the predicted El Nino summer months.

This is Barry Hill's supposed final de Havilland Tiger Moth restoration, his seventh. This 1941 aircraft was originally built in the United Kingdom. As it is reputed to be Hill's last restoration, we thought it fitting to do a special photoshoot—a sizable task that took 1.5 days to set up and a day to tear down, including 40 m of construction plastic for a shallow pool of 11.5 m,² a timber frame, 3,000 L of water and multiple lengths of black 4 m drop studio drapes. After the "stage" was set and the pool full of water, I had to wait until nightfall so no light could pass through the hangar's skylights . . . mission completed. Kudos to his UK visitors for helping out.

A few of us ventured out to the sidewalk during Cranky Dorkfest for an unrivaled perspective of this Boeing 747-8 arriving at Los Angeles International Airport on a Lufthansa flight from Frankfurt, Germany.

A Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey flies at the Miramar Air Show in San Diego. The photographer made a sky replacement to add drama and make the Osprey stand out.