Winners of Aviation Week's 2017 Photo Contest

Best of the Best

Peter Lewis
Brutten, Switzerland
A Swiss Air Force F-5E Tiger II releases flares after sunset over the Bernese Alps.

Commercial First Place

Ryohei Tsugami
Osaka, Japan
An All Nippon Airways Boeing 777-300 lines up for takeoff at Osaka International Airport.

Commercial Second Place

Tom A. Kolstad
Lommedalen, Norway
An Airbus A330 is captured against a stunning background, generating heavy aerodynamic contrails during its arrival on a humid, late afternoon at Oslo International Airport. (Editor's Note: This caption was changed to correct the identification of the aircraft.)

Commercial Third Place

Mark Garfinkel
Winthrop, Massachusetts
A huge Airbus A380 is framed by the solar eclipse on Aug. 21 amid sunspots and a layer of clouds. 

Space First Place

Bill Jelen
Merritt Island, Florida
The SpaceX Transporter-Erector at Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39A moves out of the way of a Falcon 9 rocket in the first few seconds after liftoff. 

Space Second Place

Bill Ingalls
Arlington, Virginia

This long-exposure shot captures a Soyuz MS-03 spacecraft launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying Expedition 50 crewmembers to the
International Space Station.

Space Third Place

Walter Scriptunas II
Charleston, West Virginia
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off on its maiden voyage from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Defense First Place

Martin de Ruyter
Nelson, New Zealand

The Royal New Zealand Air Force Black Falcons team performs a spaghetti break in their new T-6C Texan ll aircraft at the 2017 Classic Fighters Airshow at Omaka Aerodrome, Marlborough, New Zealand.

Defense Second Place

Bob Driver
Canyon Country, California

U.S. Air Force Thunderbird No. 8 is parked prior to the annual Los Angeles County Airshow at Fox Field in Lancaster, California, after the passage of a serious squall.

Defense Third Place

Christopher Mezzavilla
San Francisco, California

The U.S. Navy Blue Angels Nos. 5 and 6 soar above San Francisco, with legendary aerobatic pilot Sean D. Tucker in the Oracle Challenger III during Fleet Week 2017.

General First Place

LaDon Roeder
Washington, D.C.

A dramatic helicopter rescue is captured over Moraine Lake in Alberta.

General Second Place

Jessica Voruda
Oshkosh, Wisconsin

The world’s last flying Hamilton H-47, made in 1929, photographed under the Milky Way in Iowa during the Antique Aircraft Association/Airpower Museum Invitational Fly-In.

General Third Place

Mark Wagner
London, England 

A wingwalker on a Boeing Stearman, in mid-barrel-roll over the World War I military airfield Rendcombe in the Cotswold region of England.