The cloud in this photo is a Prandtl–Glauert singularity, which only can occur if the aircraft is at very nearly the speed of sound, which is about 760 mph. So either that cop's radar gun is WAY out of calibration, or this photo is a fake.
LOL!
May not apply in military operating areas, but civilian aircraft have to slow down upon descent.
funny stuff...
Would be funny if it had an ounce of truth.
Fake news, plus there are NO F/A-18’s based at NAS Kingsville.
Good fun buzzing speed traps.
How would Burford t justice have responded back to the usmc!!! 🤣
A speed trap!
Vapor rings happen a little under Mach so no.
I was driving in an interstate near cherry point north Carolina when suddenly everyone’s (mine included) radar detector went off. Brake lights came on and everyone slowed down. Two f4 fighters were flying low level following the highway. Flew right over at a few hundred feet. That was before the days if Waze and Google maps.
I talked to a radar guru that worked for one of the local defense contractors many years ago when he was buying some plane parts.
The topic eventually landed on police radar. Apparently in the old days anyway, the PD radar units regularly got smoked by aircraft radar because the aircraft was so much more powerful than the PD and there was no filter to keep it from being overfed.
That got him to thinking that “if I was to build a transponder and put it in my car...”
He said it was amusing blowing by PD as the officer banged on his radar gun with his hand wondering why it just died.
I asked the boss and he confirmed the story.
The cloud in this photo is a Prandtl–Glauert singularity, which only can occur if the aircraft is at very nearly the speed of sound, which is about 760 mph. So either that cop's radar gun is WAY out of calibration, or this photo is a fake.
Used to drive the UFO highway (Rachel NV)
Got ‘boomed’ all the time by the hotshots blowing down the road heading to the EW range at Cedar Pass — at the speed of heat.
Didn’t always end well for them
https://www.dreamlandresort.com/info/crash_sites.html
cleaned up a few myself while an active zoomie...
USMC F/A-18 Hornet
Actual pictures of a F-16
I heard the part about the burned-out radar gun and the anti-radiation missile lock-on back in the 1980s in England, but then/there it was a Harrier or Tornado vs one of the local constabularies.
Fortunately, the Marine Pilot flying the Hornet recognized the situation for what it was, quickly responded to the missile system alert status and was able to override the automated defence system before the missile was launched to destroy the hostile radar position on the side of Hwy 77, south of Kingsville.
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Ah no. The writer is just making it up.
OoooRah!
Absolute BS.
Top pic, at that angle of descent and that altitude, if the pic were real, that aircraft would likely impact the ground a second later.
That old wives tale has been going around since we switched from VASCAR to radar in the 70’s There are so many wrong things about the story it hurts to delineate. Suffice, the radar gun will not jam, the Hornet quit flying in 2019. And on and on.