READ THE TEXT FIRST TO UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING AT.
It’s pretty awesome!
This picture was taken by another fighter pilot at the moment the plane broke the sound barrier. What a sight! This is pretty cool! Be sure to read the explanation below before looking at the attached picture. You
can’t really appreciate the picture without knowing what it is exactly.
Through the viewfinder of his camera, Ensign John Gay could see the fighter plane drop from the sky heading toward the port side of the aircraft carrier Constellation. At 1,000 feet, the pilot drops the F/A-18C Hornet to
increase his speed to 750 mph, vapor flickering off the curved surfaces of
the plane.
In the precise moment a cloud in the shape of a farm-fresh egg forms around the Hornet 200 yards from the carrier, its engines rippling the Pacific Ocean just 75 feet below, Gay hears an explosion and snaps his
camera shutter once. “I clicked the same time I heard the boom, and I knew
I had it”, Gay said. What he had was a technically meticulous depiction of
the sound barrier being broken – July 7, 1999, somewhere on the Pacific between Hawaii and Japan. Sports Illustrated, Brills Content, and Life ran the photo The photo recently took first prize in the science and
technology division in the World Press Photo 2000 contest, which drew more than 42,000
entries worldwide
Pretty cool!
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[This message has been edited by CoolBlue (edited April 10, 2001).]
