Almost unbelieveable photos of jets and the condensation clouds

[FlyingJets]

Almost unbelievable photos of jets and the condensation clouds

There are a couple of links to a healthy number of spectacular "Prandtl-Glauert singularity" condensation clouds making the rounds. Since I haven't seen the addresses posted at FlightInfo.com (that's surprising), let me pass them on to you:

August 17, 2004 (part 1)
http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20040817.htm

August 18, 2004 (part 2)
http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20040818.htm

August 2004 archive and page with archive links
http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-2004-08-Tenjos-August.htm
http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw.htm

So as the forum's serious discussions resume, lets remember that when a lighter moment is needed those stunning photos are a few keystrokes or mouse clicks away.

 

[siucavflight]

What are you getting at?

 

[VampyreGTX]

What are you getting at?

Looks like just trying to share some pretty cool photos with the rest of us to lighten up the serious discussions that occure on this board!

 

[enigma]

Is this fake?
http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20040823.htm


The picture shows a B1 flying very close to the pyramids in Egypt. I find it hard to believe that the Egyptians would allow American nuclear bombers to get that close to their pyramids.

enigma

 

[Swede]

Most of these photos are transonic Hornets. I wonder if there is something in the drag profile of that jet that tends to create spectacular effects? Notice too the little bubble of con behind the Hornets' cockpits, indicating there is a disturbance in the airflow at that particular spot.


There's nothing quite like seeing a direct overflight of a supersonic airplane. One Cold Lake Canada exercise, way too long ago, I was out on the range at a threat site (simulated bad-guy radar). The operator says "Here comes 2 FB-111 from the South. They'll be here in 20 seconds. Go look."

I went outside, spotted the two-ship on the flat terrain, heading almost for us. No sound. They're getting bigger. No sound, deathly silent. Now they're 500 yards away. Absolutely silent, the spookiest thing I have ever seen. At that point I went "ohhhhh $hit....", ducked and covered my ears. Moments later I was lashed by the shock wave. It was the coolest thing I have ever witnessed, aviation wise, from the gound.

 

[Swede]

Is this fake?
http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20040823.htm


The picture shows a B1 flying very close to the pyramids in Egypt. I find it hard to believe that the Egyptians would allow American nuclear bombers to get that close to their pyramids.

enigma

While it's a nuke-capable bomber, the U.S. no longer flies nukes around. The photo is real, I want to say it's from an exercise called "Joint Star" or "Bright Star", something like that, U.S. and Egyptions having some fun. There's similar photos of MiG's, F15's F16's, etc in dissimilar 4-ship formations of the the pyramids.

 

[ShawnC]

Is this fake?
http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20040823.htm


The picture shows a B1 flying very close to the pyramids in Egypt. I find it hard to believe that the Egyptians would allow American nuclear bombers to get that close to their pyramids.

enigma

No it's real, it's on the USAF website too:
http://www.af.mil/photos/index.asp?galleryID=2&page=100

Anyways like Swede said it's from Bright Star 99.

 

[FlyingJets]

Another interesting aspect of the photo collections are the images from the perspective of the jet's engines, showing the jet partially in or out the cloud, or, pulling the cloud, or exiting the cloud--I'm not sure what's going on. See photos 6 and 7 at http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20040818.htm (August 18, 2004). In photo 8 the jet appears to be at least half-way out of the cloud, and the cloud is still intact. And for comparison purposes look at photo 2 at http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20040817.htm (August 17, 2004).

Photo 2 of the B-1 Lancer at http://chamorrobible.org/gpw/gpw-20040818.htm (August 18, 2004) was puzzling. I wasn't sure what that thing on top was--thought it was a condensation cloud, but was uncertain. Then an explanation was published at http://GalleryOfFluidMechanics.com, pointed to in the "8/20/04" update at the "What's New" page (http://GalleryOfFluidMechanics.com/what.htm), which began to provide some answers. It's a Prandtl-Glauert condensation cloud. But the B-1 bomber is pretty high up, right? And the condensation cloud is not surrounding the jet but hovering above it, intact? Remarkable.

After reading the this forum's discussion about the effort to get the Concorde in the skies again, I wondered: Did Prandtl-Glauert condensation clouds form over or around the Concorde while it was in transonic flight? Were photos taken and published? If so, it would be very interesting to see them in light of the spectacular photos in the August 17 and 18 photo collections.

 

[jetexas]

Hey this obvious aviation related photo, from a link above, looks remarkably like the ATR !!


[url="http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-20040824-thumbnail.jpg"]http://chamorrobible.org/images/photos/gpw-20040824-thumbnail.jpg[/url]

 

[FlyingJets]

There are two new photos in the August 17, 2004 photo collection: http://ChamorroBible.org/gpw/gpw-20040817.htm , Photos 5 and 6. If the photo credit for Photo 5 wasn't an authentic U.S. Navy source or site, frankly speaking, it would be difficult to believe that it's real. But it is real and looks a bit eerie (at least to me it does). That said, these photos are really impressive.