Photo Contest Entries: Editor’s Picks - Best of the Rest
December 29, 2014
Skip Stewart in knife edge over Pensacola Beach, during the Blue Angels Beach Air Show, 2014. By Sheldon Heatherington.
B-29 Superfortress 'FIFI' at Fox Field in Lancaster, California, during its May, 2014 visit. By Brian Emch.
Mirror Image: Thunderbirds at AirVenture 2014 Oshkosh, WI. By DeKevin Thornton.

Twilight airshow at Abbotsford Airport. By chance I was panning with my 600mm as he passed in front of the moon. By Jeff Bough.

Starting the engine Curtiss Fledglinger at Aerospace Museum in Rio de Janeiro. By Johnson Barros.
A Swiss Intl Airlines Airbus A-330 widebody proudly guides the Swiss Airforce Aerobatic Team Patrouille Suisse F-5E Tigers through the Air14 Air Display at Payerne, Switzerland. By Sandro Wicki.

Eaa's Ford Tri-Motor giving rides over the Wisconsin countryside. By Dennis Biela.
UAE Airforce Aerobatic Team Al Fursan performing in cheerful easiness. By Aldo Wicki.
Italian Airforce Aerobatic Team Frecce Triccolori rolling into a section split manoeuvre. By Aldo Wicki.

Showing how versatile a plane can be by drying their towels and charging their phone at AirVenture. By Dennis Biela.

Sea Planes waiting for morning in Alaska. By Aaron Hollander.
One of the early prototype Google Loon Balloons ascends slowly after being released by the Google Loon Crew on Halloween, 2013. Chico Municipal Airport - Chico, California. By Norm Rosene.
WGC in Leszno, Poland. By Yasuhiro Yama.

9/29/2014 @ 4:18pm. Flying southbound from Aitkin to St. Paul, MN we saw a 'Spectre of Brocken' of the Cessna 150 cast by the sun on a low layer of clouds underneath us. By Marie Lopez del Puerto.

Avro Vulcan bomber returning from its display at Farnborough airshow 2014. By Richard Deakin.

Flying at 12,000ft over the Austrian Alps with two others below before making our descent to land in Germany. By Paul Dopson.
The United States Navy's Blue Angel, Lead Solo flown by LCDR David Tickle performing at Deke Slayton Airfest in La Crosse, Wisconsin on 05-31-2014. By Tom Hedlund.

Looping with the Aeroshell Aerobatic Team in DAyton, Ohio. By Ricardo von Puttkammer.

Roger Buis putting Otto the Helicopter through its paces - Airventure 2014. By Ricardo von Puttkammer.

Royal Netherlands Air Force B-25 Mitchell landing at La Ferte Alais in France accompanied by WWII tunes. By Ben Ullings.

A French Morane F World War 1 replica in a ground loop at La Ferte Alais that fortunately ended without harm to plane and pilot. By Ben Ullings.

Crossing of the 2 solos of the Patrouille de France during Payerne Air 14. By Marcel Mivelaz.

Two Blue Angels Cross During a Pass at the LA County Airshow, Lancaster, Ca. By Darin Russell.

USAF Thunderbirds at Rome GA Airshow. By Richard Curtin.
UAE Airforce Aerobatic Team Al Fursan (The Knights) Solo smoking along the Display Line. By Aldo Wicki.

SPEED RECORD (293 mph) in the Eurocopter X3 hybrid. When you fly a fast helicopter, you need a fast chase plane. Eurocopter's X3 flies with an L39 Albatross during a test flight. By Alain Ernoult.
The sun sets as Code 1 Aviation completes another striking restoration project of an L-39 Albatross at the Chicago Rockford International Airport (RFD) on 18-July 2014. By Tom Hedlund.
Here we showcase a selection of entries from our Annual Photo Contest. Click through to our 2014 Photo Contest page to see the winning photographs, the photographers who took them, who the judges were and more galleries like this one.