Winners include silhouettes of aircraft in early morning, firefighting aid missions and snorkeling while planespotting. The Photo Contest in a Surreal Year We knew this year would be a challenging one for the Aviation Week Photo Contest because so many events at which photographers shoot were canceled or postponed and travel was so restricted. In order to make the Photo Contest successful during the COVID-19 pandemic, we:      Accepted photos taken since 2000 so photographers could dig into their archives and offer great images that might not have been widely shared; Created a special category, The COVID-19 Challenge, for outstanding photojournalism that tells the story of the pandemic and its effect on the world’s airlines and aerospace industry.

A roundup of editor's picks includes a gnarly crash test, moonlit takeoffs, a 1941 Piper J-3 Cub and ultralight aircraft.

StandardAero’s business is 80-85% of what it was before the COVID-19 pandemic, and it hopes to be at 100% in the second half of 2021, assuming vaccines roll out and are effective as anticipated, says Tony Brancato, the company’s president of business aviation.

Universal Avionics has completed the first flight of its latest human-machine interface technologies, including the SkyLens head-wearable display, on the company’s Gulfstream G-III business jet.

The COVID-19 pandemic has upended many previously supposed certainties. But it remains the case that regulatory and legislative processes move slowly, despite unprecedentedly swift responses to the coronavirus that have been rolled out this year.

The online marketing site of the International Aircraft Dealers Association from January through November facilitated 500 aircraft transactions worth $4.5 billion in sales, IADA said Dec. 3.

Swiss startup H55 has secured CHF20 million ($22.5 million) of investor funding to complete certification of its electric propulsion system.

Geneva-based Jet Aviation has added 41 aircraft to its global fleet as it expands its charter and management business in response to an increase in demand, despite flight restrictions and travel bans.