What Supersonic Looks Like
What Supersonic Looks Like
A widely circulated photograph shows an Air Force Raptor 22 jet breaking the fabled sound barrier while performing aerial maneuvers in the Gulf of Alaska.

The phenomenon is not well studied. Scientists refer to it as a vapor cone, shock collar, or shock egg, and it's thought to be created by what's called a Prandtl-Glauert singularity. picked by Bingo 4 months ago
tags sonic supersonic Prandtl-Glauert singularity phenomenon
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 Moe
4 months ago
Some really cool gallery photos in that link. Also look at the one with the 1969 moon mission rocket.
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 theshizk...
4 months ago
That's just a tear in time/space.

No worries people.
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 AutumnLo...
4 months ago
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 Huskerdu...
4 months ago
« theshizknitt725 : That's just a tear in time/space.

No worries people.
Time travel is just a sonic boom away.
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