Selected Finalists From Aviation Week's 2018 Photo Contest

EAA AirVenture 2018, Night Air Show

Richard Larocque, Rimouski, Quebec

A 20-sec. exposure of two performers during the Experimental Aircraft Association night air show over Wittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Growler at Dawn

Daniel Adams, Bronx, New York

A Boeing E/A-18G Growler sits with its wings folded on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) as the Sun rises on yet another day of air operations in the Atlantic Ocean.

Flight over Tennessee

Timothy Coomer, Brentwood, Tennessee

An early morning flight over southeast Tennessee captures the Sun's rays peaking through the early morning cloud coverage.

The Greatest Generation

Tom Pawlesh, Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania

Four warbirds, a P-51 Mustang, P-40 Warhawk, FG-1D Corsair and P-63 Kingcobra, fly at the Geneseo, New York, air show.

Jet Age Astrojet

Sam Stallman, Kalamazoo, Michigan

N258FE, a Boeing 727-200 freighter, gleams in the Sun at the W.K. Kellogg Airport in Battle Creek, Michigan. This aircraft flew with Air Canada in the 1970s before being converted to a freighter for FedEx. In 2011, FedEx donated the aircraft to Western Michigan University for use in their maintenance program.

PC-6 Brakes On Improvised Landing Strip

Peter Lewis, Brutten, Switzerland

Swiss Air Force Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter from Transport Squadron 7 lands in a cornfield in central Switzerland. The squadron has mainly militia pilots who also fly airliners as their day jobs.

Thumbs Up

Tyler Mixa, Boulder, Colorado

A KLM Boeing 787-9 is captured on the ground at Amsterdam Airport Schiphol.

Blowing Up the Balloon

Doron Talmi, Herzliya, Israel

SkyShip Co.  balloon pilot Gelbart oversees inflation of a massive balloon at Kichwa Tembo, Maasai Mara, Kenya.

Falcon Heavy's First Flight

Jared Haworth, Raleigh, North Carolina

SpaceX's long-awaited heavy-lift rocket, the Falcon Heavy, makes its debut flight from historic Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in February 2018. LC-39A previously hosted the inaugural flights of both the Saturn V in 1967 and the space shuttle in 1981.

By Twilight, the Balloons Glow

Jared Haworth, Raleigh, North Carolina

The weather is always fickle when it comes to hot-air ballooning, and the Freedom Balloon Festival in Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina, in May was no exception. Only one of the festival's four days was calm enough to allow for a late evening "balloon glow," where dozens of teams inflated and illuminated their balloons for the assembled crowd. 

Summer Flies By

Joshua Calhoun, Satellite Beach, Florida

Katrina Hong watches an aircraft make a low-altitude flyby at the Chicago Air and Water Show on Aug. 18.

Reflections

Larissa Hewitt, Noordhoek, South Africa

New Resolution Geophysics' two Pilatus Porter PC-6 aircraft create reflections while on survey in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The crew were busy with early-morning calibrations for the day's flight after the rainstorms had cleared.

Night Shift

Maryann Miller, Clearwater, Florida

"Sitting on the balcony of my hotel room at the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport," photographer Maryann Miller writes, "I was able to watch aircraft take off and land. Late in the evening, the lights came on for maintenance of this Delta Air Lines jet."

PlanetVac Liftoff

Matthew Kuhns, Santa Clarita, California

PlanetVac takes off during a NASA Flight Opportunities campaign on Masten Space Systems' Xodiac vertical-takeoff-and-landing rocket in Mojave, California.

Vans RV-4 at Sunset

Michael Bargman, Geneva, Illinois

A Vans RV-4 with graphics by Dream Scheme Designs leaves DuPage Airport in West Chicago, Illinois, for a sunset flight.

Douglas DC-3 Air-to-Air Mission

Mitch Bowers, Aurora, Colorado

It was a beautiful evening for an air-to-air photo shoot near Longmont, Colorado, with this stunning DC-3.

Hornets Firing Flares over Davos

Peter Lewis, Brutten, Switzerland

Swiss F/A-18C Hornets release flares over Davos, Switzerland, in the buildup to the World Economic Forum in January 2018. The Swiss Air Force provides combat air patrol for the whole eastern section of Switzerland during the summit.

Aviation photographers worldwide, notable and novice alike, are submitting their work to the 2018 Aviation Week Photo Contest.

Good equipment helps, but an eye for composition, knowledge of the subject and a little bit of luck can go a long way in capturing prizewinning-caliber images. Can you guess which of these was shot with an iPhone?

See if your photos make you a contender for the Best of the Best photographers category. Submit your best shots today at AviationWeek.com/photocontest. The entry deadline for this year's contest has been extended to Oct. 29.

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