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October 23, 2020 Video Shows U.S. C-17 Globemaster III Aircraft Performing Nose Gear Up Landing in Afghanistan Aviation Safety / Air Crashes
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Watch Shock Diamonds and Mach Disks Form In The Exhaust Plume Of An F-15E’s Engine

March 30, 2020 David Cenciotti

Shock Diamonds and Mach Disks in jet engines exhaust can be particularly evident and fascinating at night. The video below shows RAF Lakenheath’s Propulsion Test Cell during a test of an F-15E Strike Eagle’s afterburning […]

Check Out This Photo Of An F-35C Flying Transonic With Visible Schlieren Shock Waves

July 9, 2019 David Cenciotti

The photograph was taken in the exact moment when the pilot transitioned from subsonic to supersonic speed. The photograph in this post shows a U.S. Navy Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II of Air Test and […]