This week’s pic is good for a bit of comic relief. Comments online say it’s a Photoshop job, and a darned good one at that. I present you the Boeing 747 LCF in Oscar Meyer livery, being towed by it’s little brother:

Licensed under Creative Commons. See the original photo on Flickr.

I stumbled across this photo quite by accident. It was taken by author, helicopter pilot, and prolific blogger Maria Langer of An Eclectic Mind on a recent trip to Alaska. I don’t have any words to do the photo justice. She calls the photo “North to the Future.” Here is a link to the photo. Enjoy!

I’m trying to use this weekly exercise to not only find cool pictures of planes, but of rare or unusual planes that capture the simplicity and fun of flying. My primary source is Airliners.net, though I go off in other directions as well. This week’s plane is a Grumman G-164 Ag-Cat taken in Serbia. This guy just looks like he’s having fun.

I found this remarkable photo of a 777 slicing through clouds and illustrating wake turbulence. This beautiful phenomenon is usually invisible, and something you don’t want to be caught in, especially if you’re a smaller plane!

This pic is a little bit late, so expect another one this weekend and I’ll be back on track. This time around, I found a toy airplane on Flickr, and I think this really captures the joy and exhiliration of flight. Enjoy!

I’m starting something new: the Aviation Pic of the Week. This is going to be a hard resolution to keep, because I love airplanes and will want to post more. I could stare at them all day long, doing their thing or just sitting on the ground, and never get tired of it. For this week, a perspective I hope to one day get on flying: