That pretty stuff is the vapor condensation plume. It is both normal and harmless.
We maybe cannot say the same of the maneuver and stress on the airframe, but I cant even tell if they are vertical. It looks to me like maybe the shot is taken from below and the image rotated.
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neidu3@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 183d
I'm sure I see some octarine in there too
higgsboson@piefed.social · 10 pts · 183d
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 183d
Science is pretty!
higgsboson@piefed.social · 7 pts · 183d
[Alt-text] An F-22 silhouetted against the sky, with its colorful condensation contrail on display.
Pupscent@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 183d
Its a Pride fly by!
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 182d
Woke fighter
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 183d
Tragic. It looks like they struck the leprechaun at the end of the rainbow.
Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 180d
Source, hi-res, and photographer: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/d7uxs/f22_raptor_pulling_so_many_gs_the_low_pressure/
@higgsboson@piefed.social you are correct. Taken from the ground and rotated.
Camille_Jamal@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 183d
It’s pretty, but that can’t be good for the plane?
higgsboson@piefed.social · 3 pts · 182d
That pretty stuff is the vapor condensation plume. It is both normal and harmless.
We maybe cannot say the same of the maneuver and stress on the airframe, but I cant even tell if they are vertical. It looks to me like maybe the shot is taken from below and the image rotated.
Camille_Jamal@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 154d
Ok, did not know about this