When my father passed away, one of the difficult tasks was sorting through his personal library of books. He had hundreds of volumes covering everything from geology and petroleum exploration (his profession) to space exploration and American history. I kept for myself the books that had the most meaning and took a significant amount of time finding recipients for his more technical manuals. To this day I still receive cards or notes from those recipients letting me know how much they appreciate having my dad’s books in their library.

Recently, a close family friend passed away and, being a pilot, he had collected a small library of aviation books. This time, I am the recipient. Several packages arrive from his incredibility generous wife and this photos is only a few of the titles that are now a part of my library.

Piaggio P.180 Avanti – RDU, North Carolina

Every Thursday AvWeb releases its Pictures of the Week and this week’s winner is a very familiar Taylorcraft camped out at this year’s watered down Sun’n Fun. I don’t think this photo is real, that has to be a painted backdrop.

Congratulations to Suzy for her second (or maybe third) AvWeb photo win. She says she takes a lot of fuzzy, out of focus photos but she must keep those in a shoe box somewhere cause I’ve never seen any of them.

Just a few weeks ago this little plane was sporting skis and cutting a Stem Christie across a frozen lake in the great state of Michigan.

Check Suzy’s Flickr stream here.