General Aviation: Business Aviation Aircraft—2018 Photo Contest
January 04, 2019
Credit: David Branco Filho, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
An Embraer Praetor 600 prototype performs a minimum unstick speed (Vmu) test, where the aircraft lifts off the ground at the minimum possible airspeed and sometimes drags its tailskid on the runway. Vmu is a certification reference to determine operational takeoff speeds with a margin of safety for normal operations.
Credit: David Branco Filho, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
The landing gear is still retracting on this Embraer Praetor 500 just after takeoff.
Credit: David Lau, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Hawaii Life Flight's King Air C90 flies over Waimea-Kohala Airport on Hawaii's Big Island.
Credit: David Lau, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
A Beechcraft King Air C90 is parked at the ramp at Waimea-Kohala Airport on Hawaii's Big Island.
Credit: David Samuelson, Cream Ridge, New Jersey
A business jet is deiced at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey.
Credit: Matt Gunn, Cleveland
An early morning view out the cockpit of a Challenger 604, 30 min. before departing Cleveland for Geneva.
Credit: Peter Lewis, Brutten, Switzerland
A factory-new Bombardier Challenger 650 flown by Swiss Air-Ambulance flies in front of the Jungfrau mountain range in the Central Swiss Alps during a photo shoot.
Credit: Peter Lewis, Brutten, Switzerland
This brand-new Bombardier Challenger 650 flown by Swiss Air-Ambulance was photographed over Interlaken in Central Switzerland.
Credit: Scott Stephens, Meridian, Mississippi
This TBM waits on the ramp as clouds stream overhead in Meridian, Mississippi.
Credit: Scott Stephens, Meridian, Mississippi
A freshly painted Lear 60 is resplendently reflected under a dense canopy of light-saturated fog.
Business aircraft are often the most understated flying machines, at least from the outside. But they still make impressive photo subjects.
