That is pretty cool. Perfect timing on the picture.



https://www.yahoo.com/news/shockwaves-bend-light-around-transonic-203320151.html

__________________
Sent from an agnostic abacus

2014 C250 21,XXX my new DD ** 2013 GLK 350 18,000 Wife's new DD**

- With out god, life is everything.
- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Also found this while perusing Youtube. A POV low level in a F-18 through the mountains in WA state.



https://youtu.be/9W48BYDATkI

__________________
Sent from an agnostic abacus

2014 C250 21,XXX my new DD ** 2013 GLK 350 18,000 Wife's new DD**

- With out god, life is everything.
- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

I have some familiarity with fighter jets in the mountains of Washington state. I think it was in the late 80s I was driving over Stevens Pass, I was pretty close to the summit and all of a sudden I heard what sounded like a semi coming at me sideways with its tires locked up. Just a horrific screeching came out of nowhere.

I was whipping my head around so hard to see what was going on I pulled a muscle in my neck a little bit. Then I saw what it was, a fighter passed overhead from behind, did some barrel rolls, not far above the pass ahead of me, and was gone.

__________________
1986 300SDL, 362K
1984 300D, 138K

I knew there was a place called the Mach Loop in the UK. I did not know about this place called Sidewinder in CA. Im going to have to look into this for the next time I go out there. Not sure if civilian access is allowed.

__________________
Sent from an agnostic abacus

2014 C250 21,XXX my new DD ** 2013 GLK 350 18,000 Wife's new DD**

- With out god, life is everything.
- God is an ever receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller as time moves on..." Neil DeGrasse Tyson
- You can pray for me, I'll think for you.
- When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Great picture ! .

I go to / through the Panamint Valley and the N.A.S. China lake used it for fighter training, two jets following one another near the deck is an amazing thing to behold .

LOUD, too .

__________________
-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

Saw the same thing.

Was years ago. in my Westfalia camper in the middle of nowhere near Death Valley.

Stopped for lunch.

No other vehicles in either direction.

Dead silent.

And then screaming loud.

Fighter jet was close enough that I saw the pilot.

I saw him as a still frame.

And then he was gone.

I don’t know how fast he was going.

__________________
Those who fail to read posts in a topic thread are doomed to repeat them.
George Santayana.

I lived in Fort Worth during the 50s. Back then it was not illegal for aircraft in the US to go supersonic. Sonic booms were a common thing since Carswell AFB was right there and the B-58s stationed there had to practice somewhere. So they usually blew past Fort Worth and created a boom every few days.

They would rattle the windows every time.

Yes ~ I remember in the late 1950's hearing sonic booms on a regular basis, we kids were told : "that's the sound of PROGRESS ! " .

__________________
-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better

Had the fortune to be allowed to take a seat in the cockpit of a F35. The interesting part is that there isn't much to see, the entire plane is controlled with the helmet. Next to the F35 was a F-22 Raptor parked, they were more protective and secretive over that plane, while the F35 was just delivered.

__________________
1979 Black on Black, 300CD (sold), 1990 Black 300SE, Silver 1989 Volvo 780, 1988 300CE (vanished by the hands of a girlfriend), 1992 300CE (Rescue).

Wow, cool picture.


It is amazing how fast they fly. The Blue Angels come to Seattle for a summer festival every year (before COVID) and they would practice near where I worked. It was kind of scary to watch.

__________________
I'd rather argue against a hundred idiots, than have one agree with me. — Winston Churchill