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F-18 Tearing Through
Published: 2008-09-24 04:22:53 +0000 UTC; Views: 25111; Favourites: 610; Downloads: 0
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a high speed shot of the F-18 Super Hornet just tearing up the sky. the unique design of the F-18 makes it possible to get shots like this where the air is crushed so much around it, that it looks as though it is flying inside a cloud.high spped camera and mad skillz as a photo guy (me) also needed.
4-24-09 EDIT:
thanks to all for the nice comments and favs. I WILL BE RE-WORKING THIS FOR A LARGER AND CLEANER IMAGE.
to all concerned with the watermark: IT IS THERE FOR A REASON. I DO NOT TAKE KIND TO MY IMAGES BEING STOLEN. THE WATERMARK PREVENTS A LOT OF THAT. I USED TO SHOW PICTURES WITHOUT THE WATERMARK, AND I LOST A LOT OF WORK TO THIEVES. please respect my decision on that. if there was actual web coding that would prevent any and all stealing of the image, I will gladly remove the mark.
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Comments: 266
no prob
ohh okay so you just had the cam zoomed in a bunch
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yeah, zoomed in and moving with him with high speed shutter and hope they come out right. timing is the biggest thing.
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lol thats amazing i though it was a model on a wall ... that amazed me thats its an actual plane its so awesome that you can catch that on film
kudos on the DD
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thanks...you need the right amount of humidity when they tear up the sky. unfortunately it gets too humid here, as an asthma sufferer, that makes it hard to breathe!
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That is an amazing photograph, meer words cannot describe how much i admire this xD
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idk bout shots in photo im lame but it looks cool i like military flyers <3
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I love this pic, the watermark is there for a reason, so i don't mind it at all. 
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thanks much!
once i get my photoshop re-installed (after an ugly crash) i will clean it up and make it bigger so the WM is less imposing.
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It looks like this Hornet is coming out of nothing; like the sky is giving birth to it. Beautiful.
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thanks, thats an odd way to look at it....i guess the baby crying would be that louder than all hell afterburner.
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A F18 superhornet, in my opinion the most beautiful of the F18 and one of my fav airplanes! I would have a hard time imagining that anything blocking the view of the airplane in its full splendor could make the picture more magnificent, though in this case I am willing to reconsider.
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And thats what a broken sound barier looks like
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not quite....just before it. they arent allowed to break the sound barrier at low altitude over land anymore. its a bummer.
if you can get near a coastal air show....take ear plugs. they are allowed to do it over open water.
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great picture. definately worth a DD! congrats!
btw
''"FULLUS VIEWUS"
"PRINTUS AVAILUS"'
genius XD I haven't heard that before haha
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thanks!
yeah...had to come up with something.
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Excellent watermark, really adds to the effect of making the picture look completely retarded.
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watermark is there for a reason.
as for the pic being retarded, i can honestly say that you are entitled to your own opinion, however, there are over 500 people that disagree with you just today alone.
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Too bad it's not breaking the Warp speed barrier!
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yeah they stopped doing that over land a long time ago. if you ever get to an air show that is on the coast, open water, they will bust it up.
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WOW
<3 this pic
awesome shot..
and yeah, i love it when they have like the massive cloud round them as they fly
it looks so cool
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I've always liked this plane, I look out for it (and a few others of course) at the local airshow - watching it pull off some incredible square loops and such.
Wonderful shot, almost looks like it's in some sort of void rather than normal air
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yep, it can pull some wicked turns. be sure to look for lots of WWII aircraft at your local shows. being in England, you should have a lot of them. even though i love the sound of a jet engine ripping up the sky, the sound of a merlin engine in a P-51 or Royal Marine Spitfire.......now that is just perfection.
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yeah, we had a great war display team, complete with commentry and fake gunfire, last year. From my point of view, the newer jets are always better, since they generally go higher, and can be seen from my bedroom window - the red arrows even fly over my house, on occasions. But it's still nice to go down to the end of the runway and take a look at the rest of the show!
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In fact, it IS breaking the sound barrier 
Someone said it's not related to transonic, but it is, even in subsonic flight you can see certain parts of the airplane (specially the wing tips) "emitting" steam, it's due to local transonic vortices.
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i think its more on the verge of breaking. they cant bust it over land shows any more. which sucks, as a kid i got to see the SR-71 bust it TWICE in one pass.
i like when an F-16 breaks it....they go by so quiet its freaky.
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Holy Freaking Crab Pies, that's AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!
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Um...where did you shoot this photo FROM? Another plane? That's really amazing!
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nope, the ground, just before it blasted by and took my ability to hear with it.
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watermark location is stupid. we can't see the picture.
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if it wasn't there, you could easily clone it out in photoshop.
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then don't bother uploading it, or at least not in high resolution.
i have no interest in cloning, i came to see the picture, and having this huge water mark right over the only subject in the photo renders it useless.
it is a nice photo, thats why i'm pissed.. but i can't really see it well.
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I don't think he had a choice, standard DA watermarks are just put in the middle. He was probably too busy to up load a watermark.
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he did photoshop that picture, i'm sure he could have placed one easily in photoshop.
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well, i'm sure he thought DA watermarks were safer, plus, he did it for his own safety, he wasn't thinking of the watermark as something part of the appeal of the picture, so complaining technically does nothing.
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as a small picture, it looks like a metal claw or blade cutting through paper...
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oh yeah...kinda sideways....i never saw that til now.
i ought to do a pic like that. i do have a machete......
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