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USN Photo of the Day: Hello! Jaw-dropping F/A-18F Super Hornet fly-bys! Is this just a dream?
Navy NewsStand - Eye on the Fleet, United States Navy (USN)
| November 5, 2006; September 11, 2006
| Jarod Hodge, Unjted States Navy; Joshua Wayne LeGrand, United States Navy
Posted on 11/12/2006 7:44:05 AM PST by EnjoyingLife
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To: Northern Yankee
oooooooooooooooooooh ping!
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posted on
11/12/2006 8:07:20 AM PST
by
kstewskis
("Tolerance is what happens when one loses their principles..." Fr. A. Saenz)
To: RunningWolf
22
posted on
11/12/2006 8:08:27 AM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Ken522
I think it's called a *vapor cone*
23
posted on
11/12/2006 8:08:51 AM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Ken522
24
posted on
11/12/2006 8:10:05 AM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: Ken522
25
posted on
11/12/2006 8:10:06 AM PST
by
null and void
("Jihad" just means "[My] Struggle", but then again, so does "Mein Kampf"...)
To: metmom; Yehuda
26
posted on
11/12/2006 8:13:46 AM PST
by
Dad yer funny
(FoxNews is morphing , and not for the better ,... internal struggle? Its hard to watch)
To: null and void
To: Alice in Wonderland
If I'm the target of that fighter, I say, "commence soiling of underpants!"
To: liege
This is one sexy plane. (my favorite is the B-1 Lancer, it's a thing of beauty)
Don't ask how a plane can be sexy, it just is.
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posted on
11/12/2006 8:16:55 AM PST
by
Shimmer128
(My beloved is mine and I am his, Song of Sol 2:16)
To: Ken522
The explanation in response No. 6 is pretty good. The airplane is not actually going supersonic - at least, not overall. However, local flow around parts of the airplane can be supersonic or near supersonic when overall aircraft velocity is as low as 70% of the speed of sound in more or less one-g flight, and even lower when accelerating the air a lot in high-lift conditions.
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posted on
11/12/2006 8:17:37 AM PST
by
Phlyer
(Poster since 2000, I just changed my screen name.)
To: EnjoyingLife
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posted on
11/12/2006 8:19:31 AM PST
by
EBH
(All great truths begin as blasphemies. GB Shaw)
To: spokeshave
I hear they're gonna' melt'em down... and make luxury buses for the residents of NOLA.
32
posted on
11/12/2006 8:19:57 AM PST
by
johnny7
("We took a hell of a beating." -'Vinegar Joe' Stilwell)
To: EnjoyingLife
33
posted on
11/12/2006 8:33:40 AM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF 68-73...."never store a threat you should have eliminated")
To: Flavius
There is a name, it is not directly realted to breaking the sound barrier. B-2s can generate the same condensation, and they are decidedly subsonic.
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posted on
11/12/2006 8:41:31 AM PST
by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitor)
To: Blueflag
35
posted on
11/12/2006 8:44:15 AM PST
by
Blueflag
(Res ipsa loquitor)
To: Phlyer
The zone is called "Transonic"...
36
posted on
11/12/2006 8:52:28 AM PST
by
OregonRancher
(illigitimus non carborundun)
To: EnjoyingLife
I actually saw this condensation cloud form briefly on a Blue Angels F/A 18 during the San Francisco Fleet Week air show last month. One of the jets was coming in over the Golden Gate bridge and the cloud formed -- and was gone in a half second or less. I had no idea the jets were that close to transonic speeds. It was incredible to see.
To: Ken522
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posted on
11/12/2006 8:56:33 AM PST
by
Sacajaweau
(God Bless Our Troops!!)
To: EnjoyingLife; alfa6
#12 ... the VIDEO: AWESOME!
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posted on
11/12/2006 8:57:49 AM PST
by
STARWISE
(They (Rats) think of this WOT as Bush's war, not America's war-RichardMiniter, respected OBL author)
To: EnjoyingLife
40
posted on
11/12/2006 9:03:59 AM PST
by
Doogle
(USAF 68-73...."never store a threat you should have eliminated")
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