{"id":110542,"date":"2017-12-02T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T09:43:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-01-08T11:01:46","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:01:46","slug":"what-supersonic-looks-like-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/2017\/12\/02\/what-supersonic-looks-like-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What Supersonic Looks Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><h3 class=\"post-title entry-title\" itemprop=\"name\"><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post-header\"> <\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_Y7kQSOBuEJw\/SkpsezXhyGI\/AAAAAAAAAjA\/VhjXq21MI8k\/s1600-h\/RaptorSoundBarrier.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"213\" height=\"298\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353210383524022370\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/raptorsoundbarrier-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-110543\" style=\"cursor: hand; height: 298px; width: 213px;\" \/><\/a><br \/><em>An F-22 Raptor breaks the sound barrier during a fly-by of the carrier USS John Stennis last week (U.S. Navy photo)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If  we had a prize for the shot of the week, we&#8217;d give to it Navy  photojournalist Ron Dejarnett. He took the photo you see above last  week, during Exercise Northern Edge in the Gulf of Alaska. Dejarnett  captured an Air Force F-22 passing through the sound barrier, as it flew  over the <em>USS Stennis<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hardly the first time a  fighter aircraft has been photographed at Mach 1. In fact, one of our  favorite images shows a Navy F\/A-18 breaking the sound barrier during a  fly-by of the carrier <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/USS_Constellation_%28CV-64%29\"><em>Constellation <\/em><\/a>in 1999.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Y7kQSOBuEJw\/Skpzkv8gMSI\/AAAAAAAAAjI\/vQF3_zDe3NU\/s1600-h\/F18supersonic.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"229\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353218182265975074\" src=\"http:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/f18supersonic-1.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-110544\" style=\"cursor: hand; height: 230px; width: 320px;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Ensign  John Gay&#8217;s famous photo of a Hornet hitting Mach 1 near the USS  Constellation. He captured the shot with a Nikon 90S, using a shutter  speed of 1\/1000th of a second. Gay&#8217;s iconic image took first place in a  2000 world photography contest. <\/em><br \/><em><br \/><\/em>For the physics-and-engineering crowd, LiveScience.com offers this explanation of the effect depicted in the photographs:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\">A  layer of water droplets gets trapped between two high-pressure surfaces  of air. In humid conditions, condensation can gather in the trough  between two crests of the sound waves produced by the jet. This effect  does not necessarily coincide with the breaking of the sound barrier,  although it can.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Indeed, it can.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An F-22 Raptor breaks the sound barrier during a fly-by of the carrier USS John Stennis last week (U.S. Navy photo) If we had a prize for the shot of the week, we&#8217;d give to it Navy photojournalist Ron Dejarnett. He took the photo you see above last week, during Exercise Northern Edge in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":110543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvnextjob.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}