Are you guys sick of these yet?
Technically not a sonic rainboom, but an interesting photograph nonetheless! This particular phenomenon is produced by the low-pressure air over the fuselage of the aircraft sucking it into the loop getting so cold that the water vapor condenses. The plane also happened to be hitting the sun just right, producing a rainbow!
One more picture after the break!
41 comments:
The Air Force just got 20% cooler.
ReplyDeleteThat second one is rad as hell.
ReplyDeleteRotated and set as background. Thanks CV!
ReplyDeleteThe second one kicks ass.
ReplyDeleteperfect shots :D
ReplyDeleteMotioning for a "sonic Rainboom" tag, plus "no boom" button.
ReplyDeleteJust kidding, this stuff is awesome!
F-22A Raptor confirmed for best pony.
ReplyDeleteThat is rather kick ass!
ReplyDeleteHuh, well now we know how Rainbow Dash leaves her rainbow contrail in the sky. Neat!
ReplyDeleteDamn that looks cool!
ReplyDeleteOH.MY.GOD.
ReplyDeleteSo in other words, Rainbow Dash is so cool that she can literally cause water vapour to condense behind her when she flies? Neat-o.
ReplyDeleteOkay, that is just friggin cool...
ReplyDeleteApplejack is made of dark matter.
ReplyDeleteRainbow Dash is an F-22.
Now we just have to prove that Fluttershy is the cutest thing on earth, and my life will be complete.
Wait. You're telling me that Rainbow Dash is able to do something not only better than a fighter jet, but also more often and without even really trying?
ReplyDeleteDash kicks major flank.
F-22 now powered by friendship.
ReplyDeleteOne phrase comes to mind whenever I see this...
ReplyDeleteTASTE THE RAINBOW MOTHAFUCKA!
/r/equesting fan art of ponies flying in fighter jets with Dash flying in formation with them!
ReplyDelete@Reid
ReplyDeleteAlready happened. It's buried somewhere deep in the photo section of the Know Your Meme page.
@Torrential Rains
ReplyDeleteIf this doesn't prove it, I don't know what will.
http://moongazeponies.deviantart.com/art/Dancing-Fluttershy-207476723
@Fillyshy
ReplyDeleteOh well tha- DAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
So... Rainbow Dash is a F-22 Raptor reincarnated as a Pony?
ReplyDeleteI requesting fan art of Rainbow Dash Pulling Vapor out of the air like the F22 is doing in this pictures. I can't believe we haven't seen art like that yet in this fandom.
ReplyDeleteThis is beyond awesome. If I had been thee in person, I would have lost my shit at the sight of that. I mean you all saw what happened to Fluttershy when she saw a Rainboom.
ReplyDeleteY'know, the depictions of Rainbow Dash flying aren't so far fetched, allowing that the animation is stylized.
ReplyDeleteDash is obviously the fastest most maneuverable thing in the sky, so if you compare to this footage of the real-life wonderbolts:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnaT4ESKaOo&feature=related
And some Raptor goodness.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT6dz25JbFY
By pony magic standards, Dash seems entirely plausible.
@Anonymous
ReplyDeleteHappened in the show on Boast Busters, when she tried to upstage Trixie.
@Reid
ReplyDeletehttps://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-2mPED65csz8/TYJsiXYrZcI/AAAAAAAACZg/vSRZYGKW-70/s320/2909+-+apple_bloom+Cocolli+pinkie_pie.jpg
Cool shots of vapes- vapor made by extreme manuvers of a jet
ReplyDelete@Zephire
ReplyDeleteShe's done it in Boast Busters by flying through clouds, so it's canon
Hot damn, real life Sonic Rainboom. Every day this pony shiz gets more and more real. I love it.
ReplyDeleteYep, Rainbow Dash'd be a Jet Pilot, if she couldn't Fly.
ReplyDeleteI don't give a griffon's tailfeathers what it technically is. It's a big thing going really fast with a rainbow behind it. It's a fucking Sonic Rainboom.
ReplyDeleteAnd no one will ever convince me to say otherwise.
Starscream, did you learn that trick from Rainbow Dash? In any case, you just got 20% cooler.
ReplyDeleteNot only is it Not Fanfiction, it's Not Fiction!
ReplyDeleteAhh.
ReplyDeleteThe F-22A Raptor.
I love the profile of the bird.
My fave plane from Ace Combat 6.
This makes me
ReplyDeleteso happy.
Without the Sonic Rainbooms the Air Force would just be another expensive flying club.
ReplyDeleteIt's all part of America's plan to win the next war by making the sonic rainboom the central part of it's shock and awe strategy.
ReplyDeleteNothing about my solar eclipse on June 1st?
ReplyDeleteJune first is tomorrow, silly ;)
ReplyDeleteand OMGFLAGAL AWSHUM
Dang, that's cool. I've always been a big fan of planes and the RCAF but I never knew or saw anything like that. Sic Itur Ad Astra.
ReplyDelete