Swerv Posted March 12, 2001 Share Posted March 12, 2001 i was looking for some cool wallpapers when i stumbled upon this one! check it out: i wonder how many dB it would be from where the picture was taken... hehh.. to bad they dont have film footage availble for that... the water splashing up looks so cool. ------------------ All your BASS are belong to klipsch. ------------------------- -------> lmao hehehe http://www.suave.net/~jason/ayb2.swf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike... the real one Posted March 12, 2001 Share Posted March 12, 2001 Was that said that the guy who took the pic died from an heart attack right after? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paragon Posted March 12, 2001 Share Posted March 12, 2001 Here.. did a quick search. http://www.flightmasters.net/sonic.html There are many pages that have this posted. I am not sure where the original is. ------------------ All Your Base Are Belong To Us ------------------------------------- 1GHz TBird Abit KT7A-RAID FOP38 & CuShim Kingmax 256MB PC150 Annihilator2 32MB GTS Intel Pro100+Management NIC Promise Ultra100 IBM 75GXP 45GB ATA100 & Maxtor DMP6800 27.2GB ATA66 Plextor 16X10X40A Sony 12X DVD SBLive! 5.1 AOpen HX08 Full Tower 300W Sony CPD-G400 19" Triny ProMedia 4.1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swerv Posted March 12, 2001 Author Share Posted March 12, 2001 how do u explain that picture... is it a sonic boom? i didnt know it was visable.. hehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rol1 Posted March 12, 2001 Share Posted March 12, 2001 The pressure wave does that with the watervapor, high and cold. They wouldn't let me take pics, but setting concrete forms between the runways at Nellis AFB was a blast!! Lookin right up th' tubes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rkn-Rod Posted March 12, 2001 Share Posted March 12, 2001 quote: Originally posted by Swerv: how do u explain that picture... is it a sonic boom? i didnt know it was visable.. hehe Read this before checking out the picture. Knowing the history helps to appreciate it. Through the viewfinder of his camera, Ensign John Gay could see the A/F18 drop from the sky as it headed toward the port side of the Aircraft Carrier Constellation at 1,000 feet. The pilot increases his speed to 750 mph, vapor flickering off the curved surfaces of the plane. At the precise moment of breaking the sound barrier, 200 yards form the carrier, a circular cloud formed arourd the Hornet. With the Pacific Ocean just 75 feet below the aircraft being rippled by the aircraft's pass, Gay hears the explosion of the sonic boom and snaped his camera shutter once. "I clicked the same time I heard the boom and I knew I had it." What he had was a technically meticulous depiction of the sound barrier being broken on 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. Because Ensign Gay is a member of the military he was ineligible for the cash prize. "In the last few days, I've been getting calls from everywhere about it again. It's very humbling." Gay, 38, manages a crew of eight assigned to take intelligence photographs from the high-tech belly (TARPS POD) of an F-14 Tomcat. In July, Gay had been part of a Joint Task Force Exercise as the Constellation made its way to Japan. Gay used his personal Nikon 90 S, set his 80-300mm zoom lens on 300mm, his shutter speed at 1/1000 of a second and the aperture at F5.6. "I put it on full manual," Gay said. "I tell young photographers who are into automatic everything, you aren't going to get that shot on auto. The plane is too fast. The camera can't keep up." At sea level a plane had to exceed 741 mph to break the sound barrier. The change in pressure as the plane outruns all of the pressure and sound waves in front of it is heard on the ground as an explosion - the sonic boom. The pressure change condenses the water in the air as the jet passes these waves. Altitude, wind, speed, humidity, the shape and trajectory of the plane - all affect the breaking of the barrier. On July 7 everything was perfect. "You see vapor flicker around the plane. It gets bigger and bigger, then BOOM - it's instantaneous. One second the vapor cloud is there, the next it's gone." Now, go ahead, open the picture. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swerv Posted March 12, 2001 Author Share Posted March 12, 2001 thanks for explaining that.. hehe i wonder how far the f14 was from the water in the first picture... looks a little too close for me heheh ------------------ All your BASS are belong to klipsch. ------------------------- -------> lmao hehehe http://www.suave.net/~jason/ayb2.swf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ogAkira Posted March 12, 2001 Share Posted March 12, 2001 Well me being a graphic designer and familiar with several photo minipulation programs and their capabilities, think that the first photo is someone's creation. First off, the displacement of the water underneath and around the plane not just behind would be quite agitated if a supersonic jet were to jet by in that fashion. Second, if someone where to capture this jet image jetting by, the image produced would be heavily blured(motion blur). Third, Pilots are prohibited to fly at that low of an altitude especially over water. Fourth, the Pilot is picking his nose. Well just my thoughts to let yall know, "Don't always believe what you see on screen." Of course I could be wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paragon Posted March 12, 2001 Share Posted March 12, 2001 I agree.. it is created.. seems too clear for that much motion and it is also signed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swerv Posted March 12, 2001 Author Share Posted March 12, 2001 i think its near to impossible to manipulate the water to look like that unless your gonna get into hollywood special effects.. i donno the picture makes sense and couldnt they have used a shutter speed like the one they used in the supersonic picture quote: shutter speed at 1/1000 of a second and the aperture at F5.6. who knows! I certainly dont. all i know is i wanna hear the klipsch's recreating the sound of that plane flying by! yed yed yed yed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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