Posted on 10/13/2014 12:45:40 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
Joe Broyles spent five years attempting to get the spectacular image which almost impossible due to the speed the aircraft moves.
The remarkable photo features an F-18 Super Hornet 2 jet with a vapour cone forming around it.
The cone, which lasted just tenths of a second, is produced when an aircraft reaches 'transonic velocity' — the speed of sound (766mph).
The 61-year-old took the picture at the Oceania Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, USA, on September 21.
He admitted he needed some luck to capture the shot after attending multiple air shows over the last five years without it.
Joe took eight snaps in less than two seconds hoping to capture the jet at just the right moment.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailystar.co.uk ...
It the “adventure” part of being a photographer.
I is akin to shooting a baseball hitter with the ball compressed on the bat. Not impossible to get, but the timing had to be perfect.
Joe may not have seen all the photos yet because he may not have the internet.
I is akin to shooting a baseball hitter with the ball compressed on the bat. Not impossible to get, but the timing had to be perfect.
Yeah, he didn't want to see the picture, he wanted to take the picture.
I'll bet the pilot was glad to finally land after all that time!
I thought that this effect, whatever it is called, has nothing to do with the sound barrier?
Unless you are a pro, and shooting with a motor drive.
Supersonic flow, the aircraft is not supersonic, just near it so some areas of flow over it are.
Right, he could have just googled it, but sometimes some people want to do things themselves. My guess is Joe Broyles’ photograph is worth more to him than 50 similar ones taken by others.
It does and it doesn't
It it technically the Prandtl-Glauert singularity, and is not always present at Mach 1 transitions. It is merely water vapor which condenses as pressure drops; exactly the same mechanism that is quite commonly observed over wings and in the spiral vortexes from their tips as commercial jets approach landing.
Four "see alsos" at the link.
I saw this affect around the front of the fuselage on a Blue Angel plane as it buzzed the waterfront at San Francisco fleet Week a few years ago.
I am a pro. Even shooting with a motor drive. Getting that instance of the bat on ball, or the moment the ball leaves the finger tips of a pitcher is still tough.
Certainly not unusual or unheard of. But in the late innings and there is nothing going on...it is the thing that shooters compete for. Its almost a nerd thing.
Yeah, once you “get it” its not a big deal any more.
Wait till ISIS sees that coming at them.
Why did the photographer just google image, jet breaks sound barrier? He could have got all the pictures of this he wanted...even more than what he wanted.
Thrust SSC braking the sound barrier
Sergeant Bilko’s hovertank?
I am not a pro, but my pro camera (back in the 35mm days) shoots 4 frames/sec.
When we do our “contests” we do it since shot. Usually on the pitcher. Getting ball on the bat is easier than the pitcher releasing the ball. Especially with a single shot.
You just hope “the play of the game” has already happened.
(And the FPS on my most recent camera is 11 frames per second. It’s almost a movie.)
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