No shitposting this time. Only plane porn. You’re welcome.
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.
I’m sure I see some octarine in there too
when a wizard is tired of looking for broken glass in his dinner, […] he is tired of life.
[Alt-text] An F-22 silhouetted against the sky, with its colorful condensation contrail on display.
Science is pretty!
Woke fighter
Its a Pride fly by!
Tragic. It looks like they struck the leprechaun at the end of the rainbow.
It’s pretty, but that can’t be good for the plane?
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.
