December 27, 1993

December 27, 1993

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Best of the Best

Military

Winner of the 1993 Photo Contest

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Best of the Best

It is axiomatic that a key to taking a great photograph is being in the right place at the right time. R. F. Richards of Retersfield, Hants, England, whose photo is cited as Best of the Best in this year’s Aviation Week Photo Contest, agrees and adds that luck can help, too.
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Military

P-51D Mustang and Saab JA 37 Viggen were photographed during a commemorative performance. —Peter Liander Solna, Sweden Royal Australian Air Force F-111 C "Chariot of Fire" burns away the clouds while performing at Fairford Air Base in the U.K. on July 24.
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Winner of the 1993 Photo Contest

FIRST PLACE/ MILITARY Chuck Lloyd Lloyd and his partner, Rick Llinares, took the photo of preparations for catapult launch on board the USS John F. Kennedy, on p. 40. FIRST PLACE/ MILITARY Rick Llinares Llinares and Lloyd are partners in Flightilne, a photographic service with headquarters in Baldwin, L.I., N.Y., and with offices in New York City.
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The Judges

ROGER RESSMEYER Roger Ressmeyer was eight years old when John Glenn was launched into orbit in 1962. By the time he was 11, he was already photographing the stars, building rockets and constructing telescopes. When he was 13, Ressmeyer visited Grumman on Long Island, N.Y. and saw the Apollo lunar landing module being built.
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Civil

American Airlines Boeing 757 with Rolls-Royce engines was photographed at Dallas/Ft. Worth, International Airport. —Daniel Dorrock Aptos, Calif. Delta Air Lines McDonnell Douglas MD-11 makes a low pass at Yuma, Ariz.
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General

Any port in a storm: Aircraft from the U.S. Army, a private flying club and NASA shared NASA Langley’s hangar as the agency prepared for the arrival of Hurricane Emily. —Carol Petrachenko NASA Langley Research Center F-86 Sabre Jet was photographed on July 30 at the Experimental Aircraft Assn, air show in Oshkosh, Wis.
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Space

Lit like a jewel, the space shuttle Endeavour is shown the evening before the first launch of 1993, on Jan. 12. —James Neville Brown Decatur, Ga. NASA Langley technician John L. Simmons inspects a Subscale Parametric Engine (SXPE), which is part of the National Aero-Space Plane Program sponsored by the Defense Dept, and NASA.
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Reflections

The gods decreed that flight should be a paradox. It is rapturously visual, but dissolves in the invisible air. It is a delicate aerial ballet, powered by brute force. It is a deft, fluid surgery, performed with a blunt instrument. Pilots skim and surf the boundless air, plunge headlong down the horizon’s throat—
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