I’m so happy Osprey are making a comeback in my area, I can think of about 5 nests within walking distance of my house, and see them hunting at the park almost every time I go for a walk.
I have to say the knowledge of how enormously lethal polar bears are does put a slight damper on this image for me. These things can kill you easy, and I would not want to be this close to one. Let alone two.
Someone explained this to me but I may butcher it. The vapor clouds you see are actually the airflow over certain parts of the jet going transonic, the jet itself is subsonic so while it’d be extremely loud, it won’t generate a sonic boom.
B. This layer stays with the plane as it pushes subsonic air into supersonic. So it is the moment, that particular space of air goes supersonic, not the jet itself.
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