Gallery

Falcon at sunset on the Strategic Air Services ramp at Spirit of St. Louis Airport (KSUS).

Swiss mountains to Virginia farmland.

Morning light and optical illusions: from an Atlantic dawn to a Swiss trick of the eye.

A moment of calm and motion at Montricher Airfield.

Gliders, from the Davis Mountains to the Swiss Alps.

Twin gliders in the Swiss Jura Mountains.

Stopover during a single-engine, transcontinental journey from decades past.

Soaring, sunsets, and circles in the sky.

Backlit birds, field on fire, and Geneva from above among this week’s photos.