2015 Aviation Week Photo Contest Entries - First Look

Smiling Hawker

Dave Sheehy, Kingston, Massachusetts

Hawker 1000 with radome open.

Old Fighter

Eduardo Capdeville, Mexico City

Casey Alexander performing at the Queretaro Air Show, which was held at the Isaac Castro Sahade Airfield in Queretaro, central Mexico.

Redline Roller Coaster

Emmanuel Canaan, Eagan, Minnesota

The amazing duo of Jon Thocker and Ken Rieder of Redline Air Shows paint a beautiful roller coaster in the sky during the night air show at EAA Airventure 2015 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Perfect Timing

Angelo Bufalino, Highlands Ranch, Colorado

I noticed this gorgeous Gulfstream G650 on the ramp at Centennial Field (KAPA) Denver, Colorado and waited for the right moment from an active storm behind the aircraft to give me the lighting I was looking for. Well worth the wait!

Atlas 5 Launch Viewed From Downtown Orlando

Jason Braun, Brooklyn, New York

I woke up early, turned on the news, saw there was a rocket launch in 15 minutes, got out of bed, went out on the deck and arrived just in time to witness the successful launch of an Atlas V rocket from the Cape. That pin dot at the bottom is the rocket punching through Earth's atmosphere just before it vanished into space.

Number Two Hundred

Jin Nakashima, Ardmore, Oklahoma

The MUOS 3 spacecraft carried by the Atlas V rocket was the 200th Atlas-Centaur launch. It was lighting up a January night sky at Cape Canaveral, Florida.

Fly Me to the Moon

Julia Fuhr, Midland Park, New Jersey

An aircraft crosses in front of the supermoon on Aug. 29, 2015, as viewed from Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.

Hello

Lee Norberg, North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Still free-falling from 14,000 feet, I'm waving hello as I'm tethered to Skydive Myrtle Beach instructor Alex Torre.

FedEx Boeing 777-200 At Anchorage

Mark Zborowski, Half Moon Bay, California

A FedEx Boeing 777-200 taxiing at Anchorage with the city and full Moon in the background.

Israeli Air Force CH-53

Moni Shafir, Holon, Israel

An Israeli CH-52, nicknamed the Yas'ur, parks for night rest.

Engine Shop

Morteza Noormohammadi, Tehran, Iran

A technician looks through the compressor while working on an engine.

Dramatic Wings

Razvan Negrea, Bucharest, Romania

Jurgis Kairys performs one of his classic, yet stunning, moves at the AeroMania 2015 air show, held at Romania's Tuzla Airport in Constanta.

Abandoned C-46

Rui Merlin, Rondonopolis, Brazil

A deserted C-46 sits in the Brazilian Rain Forest near Itacoatiara.

Knife Edge

Sheldon Heatherington, Gulf Breeze, Florida

Skip Stewart in knife edge over Pensacola Beach during the Blue Angels Beach Air Show.

Here is a sampling of entries in the 2015 Aviation Week Photo Contest from photographers in six countries. The deadline for entries is Oct. 19. If you've taken photos in the past year that measure up to these, enter the contest today.