Our Best Photographers Pick Their Best Photos

The late Bob Odegaard flew his rare Super Corsair as we skimmed the tops of the clouds near his home in North Dakota, with me shooting from the tail of a B-25 Mitchell bomber. I wanted an abstract shot that emphasized the Corsair’s gullwing. Flying with great pilots like Bob makes my job easy.

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Someone once said, “God forgives us the time we spend looking at airplane pictures.” And true, or not, it’s hard to ignore the fact that every aviator and aviation enthusiast on the planet simply can’t not look at airplane pictures. There’s a reason some folks refer to it as “plane porn” or “eye candy.” Paul Bowen, Photographer, Wichita, KS Paul Bowen, a commercial photographer based in Wichita, Kansas, is credited with more than 1,000 magazine...

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