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Visual Approach: Sunset Stearman

Veterans Airlift Command founder Walt Fricke seems to hang motionless in his Stearman PT–13.

visual approach stearmanVeterans Airlift Command founder Walt Fricke seems to hang motionless in his Stearman PT–13 over South Florida on a cool winter evening. AOPA photographer Chris Rose captured this image from the front seat of an AirCam, an open-air observation aircraft with nearly unlimited visibility produced in nearby Sebring.

Subject: Stearman PT–13
Where: Lake Istokpoga, Florida
Photographer: Chris Rose

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