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Here's our Image of the Week - another Saab Gripen, this time operated by the Royal Thai Air Force at Chiang Mai in Thailand. The photo is on our AirSpace gallery, posted by user ApistJ.

Credit: user ApisJ on Flightglobal.com/AirSpace 

Supplied by user Dave Vaughan (vaughaag) on Flightglobal AirSpace is this picture of a US Navy McDonnell Douglas DC9 at Exeter Airport in July 2010.

Credit: vaughaag gallery on Flightglobal/AirSpace

The cracking picture of an Airbus A380 in Air France colours was posted on AirSpace by user Manuel Negrerie in his commerical aviation gallery. He took the shot as the superjumbo was on final approach to CDG.

This week's Image of the Week (featured on page 3 of Flight International), is taken by AirSpace user commercial aviation. His photo depicts a Boeing 747 LCF Dreamlifter on final approach.

This week's Image of the Week (featured on page 3 of Flight International), is taken by AirSpace user Nicolas.H. His photo depicts a Corsair Boeing 747-400 taking off on runway 03 on a ferry flight from Nantes - Atlantique (Chateau Bougon) to Paris - Orly on 07 Febuary this year.

This week's Image of the Week (featured on page 5 of Flight International), is taken by AirSpace user SteveBailey. His photo depicts an Embraer EMB-120 performing a flypast with anti-missile defence bomb burst at Africa Aerospace and Defence at Cape Town, South Africa in September 2008.

To say it was a chance shot would be an understatement. I was closing down for the day, walking away from the field as the light conditions were fading fast, goodness knows why I turned to watch the aircraft doing a cross field run, put my bag down and started to shoot (Canon 5D, Canon EF 400mm IS USM lens). Shot off about 7 frames as the star burst exploded. The aircraft was operated by Naturelink (now absorbed into National Airways Corporation), was modified with the ECM (electronic counter measures) and was operating in Africa.

This week's Image of the Week (featured on page 3 of Flight International), is taken by AirSpace user ilpavone2004 (Mattia Vichi). Mattia's photo depicts Singapore Airlines 777-300ER 9V-SWD departing Milan at sunrise with Monte Rosa in the background.

This week's Image of the Week (featured on page 3 of Flight International), is taken by AirSpace user mjc772 (Mike Chalmers). Mike calls his photo "Wild Things" after the three tail finds depicted on Frontier Airbus jets. In April parent company Republic Airways announced Frontier would be the surviving brand for Republic's operations, thus ending the Midwest Airlines name.

Mike says he's flown into Denver "quite a few times...and often admired the wildlife themed tailfins sported by Frontier Airlines' fleet of A3230s - in keeping with their base in the Rocky Mountains." He took this photo on 25 May.

Editor's note: You--yes, you!--can submit photos to have one featured as our Image of the Week (see below). From now until 1 December you can also submit photos for our front cover competition.

This week's Image of the Week (featured on page 3 of Flight International), is taken by AirSpace user Tonyoung (Tony Young). His photo depicts Antonov An-2 SP-ANM in Leszno, Poland. Tony took the photo in August 2009.

Tony writes of the aircraft:

I saw these two Antanovs from the main road and just had to stop!

During a later visit to Leszno this year, one of the [An-2s] was actually flying around the town centre of Leszno very low (200ft?) during some kind of private flying show at the gliding centre. I went back to the airfield, but we couldn't get in. 

There's a MIG15 at Poznan airport I want to shoot next time, also!