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Pinned North American F-86K Sabre fighter jet at the Nationaal Militair Museum in Soest (The Netherlands)
Detail of the thrust nozzle of an F-105 Thunderchief on display at Addison, Texas’ Cavanaugh Flight Museum.
A U.S. Air Force Thunderbird is parked on the tarmac at the Owensboro Night Air Show as fireworks go off.
Roaring into the air to begin the evening display and tearing up the air with a massive afterburner flame.
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Mikoyan - MiG-21 - Cold War Aircraft - Romanian Air Force - BIAS - BIAS 2016
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EAA AirVenture 2025 Air Show
This may be my most interesting photo of an aircraft I have ever taken.
Condensation trails, or contrails, generally form in two main ways.
The first occurs when hot exhaust gases from jet engines rapidly cool as they mix with the cold upper-atmosphere air. If the temperature drops below the dew point, water vapor in the exhaust condenses into visible ice crystals—this is the familiar type of contrail we often see trailing behind aircraft at high altitudes.
The second form of condensation occurs around the aircraft itself, particularly over the wings. As air flows over the wing surfaces, it accelerates and experiences a drop in pressure, which leads to adiabatic cooling. This cooling can also cause moisture in the air to condense, forming visible trails. In the case of supersonic jets, frictional heating can raise the air temperature significantly along the aircraft's surface. However, as this heated air rapidly mixes with cooler ambient air, it can cool just as quickly, again leading to condensation. These effects become especially pronounced when supersonic jets ascend steeply or fly vertically, intensifying both pressure-related cooling and mixing dynamics.
In this photograph the entire jet is engulfed in condensation as it accelerates vertically very rapidly in super saturated air.
I shot this last week at the EAA AirVenture air show in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. The show attracted more than 700,000 people during the week.
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One of the two F16Cs from he 157th Fighter Squadron (Nickname Swamp Fox) of the 169th Fighter Wing of the South Carolina National Guard is going home. Airshow London 2024.
F/A-18 of the Swiss Air Force in Tiger livery climbing up to the KP during the Axalp 2018 shooting demo
Polish Lockheed Martin F-16C Fighting Falcon today. Specifically, this airframe (tail number 4052) is one of the jets used by the Polish F-16 Tiger Demo Team.
Photographed from my garden, Mach loop, Wales, UK
This year, I attended four airshows, and the Viper Demo appeared at three of them. Naturally, I took many photos of the aircraft. Now, however, I’m facing a challenge: I need to sort through all these photos and identify the ones that are different from the ones I posted before.
Taxiing in front of the crowd after landing at Kecskemet Airshow 2010. This is the replacement of the MiG-29 in HuAF service.
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Saab - JAS-39 Gripen - Hungarian Air Force - Kecskemet 2010
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