General Aviation: Business Aviation Aircraft—2018 Photo Contest

An Embraer Praetor 600 prototype performs a minimum unstick speed (V_mu) test, where the aircraft lifts off the ground at the minimum possible airspeed and sometimes drags its tailskid on the runway. V_mu is a certification reference to determine operational takeoff speeds with a margin of safety for normal operations.

The landing gear is still retracting on this Embraer Praetor 500 just after takeoff.

Hawaii Life Flight's King Air C90 flies over Waimea-Kohala Airport on Hawaii's Big Island.

A Beechcraft King Air C90 is parked at the ramp at Waimea-Kohala Airport on Hawaii's Big Island.

A business jet is deiced at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey.

An early morning view out the cockpit of a Challenger 604, 30 min. before departing Cleveland for Geneva.

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.

This brand-new Bombardier Challenger 650 flown by Swiss Air-Ambulance was photographed over Interlaken in Central Switzerland.

This TBM waits on the ramp as clouds stream overhead in Meridian, Mississippi.

A freshly painted Lear 60 is resplendently reflected under a dense canopy of light-saturated fog.