Editor's Picks From 2018 Photo Contest
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Commercial Editor’s Picks
Brian Losito
Lachine, QuebecAn Air Canada Boeing 737-8 banks over the Vancouver Island Ranges mountains.
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Commercial Editor’s Picks
Leonid Faerberg
MoscowA Boeing 737-7 takes off behind a CargoLogicAir Boeing 747-8F at the Farnborough Airshow.
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Commercial Editor’s Picks
Benoit Denet
Liege, BelgiumA Lufthansa Airbus A340-600 casts its shadow on a road while approaching Los Angeles International Airport.
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Commercial Editor’s Picks
Scott Stephens
Meridian, MississippiShrouded in dense fog, a Bombardier CRJ200 flight crew calls it a night at Meridian’s Key Field.
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Space Editor’s Picks
Ed Whitman
Laurel, MarylandThe Parker Solar Probe begins space environment testing in the 40-ft.-tall thermal vacuum chamber, the Space Environment Simulator, at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
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Space Editor’s Picks
Ben Cooper
Orlando, FloridaA two-nozzle RD-180 engine and five Aerojet solid rocket boosters propel the most powerful version of United Launch Alliance Atlas 5's rocket into space with AFSPC-11 for the US Air Force.
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Space Editor’s Picks
Bill Ingalls
Arlington, VirginiaSoyuz MS-06 lands with NASA astronauts Joseph Acaba and Mark Vande Hei and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin near Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, on Feb. 28. The three were returning after 168 days in space as crewmembers of Expeditions 53 and 54 onboard the International Space Station.
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Space Editor’s Picks
Ed Whitman
Laurel, MarylandThe Parker Solar Probe is encapsulated within its 62.7-ft.-tall fairing on July 16, in preparation for the move from Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida, to
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Space Editor’s Picks
Michael Seeley
Melbourne, FloridaThree cores = three streaks. The United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket carrying the Parker Solar Probe was captured with a remote camera set to a 25-sec. exposure and placed at the end of the front pond at Space Launch Complex 37.
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Space Editor’s Picks
Stephane Corvaja,
ParisSoyuz MS-09 rises from Baikonur, Kazakstan, on June 6 carrying crew members Sergey Prokopyev, Alexander Gerst and Serena M. Aunon-Chancellor to the International Space Station.
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Defense Editor’s Picks
Peter Lewis
Brutten, SwitzerlandA Swiss Air Force Pilatus PC-6 Turbo Porter from Transport Sqdn. 7 brakes while landing on an improvised strip in a central Switzerland cornfield. The squadron is mostly staffed with militia pilots who also fly airliners as their day jobs.
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Defense Editor’s Picks
Ricardo von Puttkammer
New YorkTwo members of the U.S. Army “Golden Knights” Parachute Team exit their Fokker C-31A aircraft at 12,500 ft. over Dayton, Ohio, during the Vectren Dayton Air Show.
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Defense Editor’s Picks
Avichai Socher
Givat Shmuel, IsraelLanding in the Negev desert, and left alone for hours, the photographer manages to capture the circling stars above an Israeli Air Force Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk.
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Defense Editor’s Picks
Mark Holtzman
Sherman Oaks, CaliforniaA Northrop Grumman B-2 stealth bomber flies over the stadium as the national anthem concludes at the 104th Rose Bowl game on Jan. 1 in Pasadena, California.
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General Editor’s Picks
Joshua Calhoun
Satellite Beach, FloridaAt the Chicago Air and Water Show on Aug. 18, Katrina Hong looks toward Susan Dacy’s Super Stearman making a low approach pass. The photograph was taken with an IPhone X in black and white high dynamic range mode.
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General Editor’s Picks
Mitch Bowers
Englewood, ColoradoThe Metropolitan State University of Denver Precision Flight Team conducts an air-to-air photo mission east of Denver.
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General Editor’s Picks
Brianna Clements
Tucson, ArizonaIn the final minutes before the 100th anniversary celebration of the March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, California, the photograph of a Boeing B-17 captured a single moment of calm after a hectic day of setup.
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Eric Freibrun
Northbrook, IllinoisThe hub of a two-blade prop on a Russian Yakovlev Yak-52 was photographed at the Northern Illinois Airshow in Waukegan.
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Michael Otis
Prides Crossing, MassachusettsGEICO Skytypers perform in their North American SNJ-2s at the Rhode Island Air Show.
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General Editor’s Picks
Kurt Gearhart
Chandler, ArizonaThe photographer took this selfie with a GoPro while taking a friend’s wife for a flight, a Christmas present from her husband.
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General Editor’s Picks
Andres Magai
Majadahonda, SpainAn Air Tractor AT-802 firefighting aircraft waits for the call to action as lightning strikes on the horizon in the Spanish province of Cuenca.
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Our editors brought their expertise to bear on photographs that encompassed commercial, defense, space and just-plain-exuberant flying fields to select the photographs that they found most compelling in their respective fields this year.