Aircraft and Aviation Theme

[photoflyer]

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The C-17s have been very busy lately.

 

[Jeff15]

Hurricane and Spitfire

 

[zulu42]

 

[Joel Bolden]

I spent a year in Pensacola, Florida attending a Navy school located on an abandoned WWII airfield known as Corry Station. The Angels were homebased at the main Naval Air Station a few miles away. They'd often practice their routines flying over Corry, and we used to watch them in sheer awe over their flying.

 

[zulu42]

 

[pez]

 

[pez]

I was looking for something to do at an airshow last weekend and decided to take a Huey ride (I know, it's an "Iroquois" lol)

 

[Jeff15]

Spitfire

 

[wfooshee]

My "keeper" from the Blue Angels Homecoming show this past weekend

 

[Warhorse]

Very cool wfooshee!
I have never seen a photo of a plane breaking the sound barrier so low to the ground.

 

[wfooshee]

It's not supersonic. It's barely not supersonic, running about 700 to 720 miles per hour, but the vapor cloud forms behind the pressure wave that's building as it approaches the speed of sound. Air pressure drops quickly behind that area, condensing the water vapor. It is a result of high speed, but not a result of faster-than-sound speed.

 

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[DenisS]

C-5 Galaxy Photographed at RAF Lakenheath, Suffolk UK.

 

[DenisS]