General Aviation: Business Aviation Aircraft—2018 Photo Contest
January 04, 2019
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.
David Branco Filho, Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil
The landing gear is still retracting on this Embraer Praetor 500 just after takeoff.
David Lau, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Hawaii Life Flight's King Air C90 flies over Waimea-Kohala Airport on Hawaii's Big Island.
David Lau, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
A Beechcraft King Air C90 is parked at the ramp at Waimea-Kohala Airport on Hawaii's Big Island.
David Samuelson, Cream Ridge, New Jersey
A business jet is deiced at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey.
Matt Gunn, Cleveland
An early morning view out the cockpit of a Challenger 604, 30 min. before departing Cleveland for Geneva.
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.
Peter Lewis, Brutten, Switzerland
This brand-new Bombardier Challenger 650 flown by Swiss Air-Ambulance was photographed over Interlaken in Central Switzerland.
Scott Stephens, Meridian, Mississippi
This TBM waits on the ramp as clouds stream overhead in Meridian, Mississippi.
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.
