Raptor rainbow! What does it mean?! Here’s some info from the original reddit post: “F-22 Raptor pulling so many Gs, the low pressure air over the fuselage gets cold enough for the water to condense. The angle is just right for sunlight to make rainbow colors around the airplane.” This photo won second place in the Museum of Flight’s photography contest and is totally AWESOME! Raptor rainbow all the way!
Photograph by Bernardo Malfitano, via reddit
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See what happens if we let them serve openly?!
haha. kudos, but wrong. so very wrong. and hilarious. i’m torn.
agreed. the explanation as to the cause of condensation?… seems they should stick to photography.
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So,…Why is this wrong?….Did Bernouli’s work, or Newton’s, become wrong all of a sudden?
Seriously, why does someone have to draw a beautiful picture of people who put their lives between us and some very harsh possibilities into some small political dweebish focus? I have *many* things with which to belabor the Air Force. I still don’t need to sneer at the beauty they can draw from a horribly hard and dangerous job.
I remember during Vietnam that one classmate was sneering at AF pilots because they weren’t down in the mud risking their lives (before 1965 when the North started getting hit by the AF and Navy pilots). I mentioned to them that few occupations carried a 1 in 4 risk of coming out the other end dead. You see, those Century Series fighters had a crash rate that, in a 20 year career, would kill 1 in 4,…and they still strapped in and flew! If the AF can get a little beauty in their lives, then it is a blessing!
Meh, everyone already knows that the Air Force is gayer than a F-15 crewed by Elton John and Nathan Lane.
Hating the US Air Force, AND hating gays at the same time. At least you’re honest.
I don’t see anything hating on gays….. **looks confused**
Who knows? There are so many things he could be irrationally butthurt about…it’s impossible to say, really.
I just hope he declares that I proved my homophobia — is that what he’s accusing me of today? — by using the word “butthurt”.
Hmm, yeah, Wicket, just mentioning gay people isn’t quite the same as hating on them. Unless I’m missing something?
Actually, your implication that it would be a negative for the Air Force to be gay could be a little closer to that…
F-15s are single sea- ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I get it!
Not the current model. The F-15E is a two-seater.
Actually, the F-15C, which serves as a dedicated Air-to-Air platform next to the F-15E’s Air to Ground capability, is a single seat. So you’re half right.
LOL!
Now THAT’s comedy!
Wooooh, pretty colours!
Suddenly I see the full glory of all military units!
Whoa, who’s unit???
*tries to be funny by posting double rainbow guy quote”
Second place?? Who won first?
That’s my question too…….
This i want to know also.
If it’s going to shoot rainbows out of it’s bum I insist we rename it from Raptor to Unicorn.
A Rainicorn! Algebraic!
I see your double rainbow and raise you a raptor rainbow.
Men on Jetfighters.
Blain: The F-22 Rapture, hmmm gives me the tingles just saying Rapture.
Antoine: Blain you niggle buddy, that’s Raptor, as in bird of prey.
Blain: Well anyone flying that bird can prey on me.
Antoine: Yeah I give that plane and pilot two Rainbows in a Z formation!!!
Antoine: Rainbows? We gonna find you!
So you go run and tell THAT!
Homeboy!
Dude, this won SECOND place in the Museum of Flight’s photography contest? What could possibly beat this picture?
http://i208.photobucket.com/albums/bb126/Monkay_Man/Exalted-1.jpg
Neal Patric Harris doing the same on land with a unicorn.
An F-111 torching?
Or the BBMF doing pretty much anything (4 Spitfires, 2 Hurricanes, a DC-3 and a Lancaster is about as awesome as it gets).
But what does it MEAN?!
Pretty! So pretty!
is totally GAY!
Raptor Rainbow? It’s too much….WIN!
Press Z to make your wishes come true!
Will we ever stop glorifying weapons made to kill people?
Death by Rainbow?
If they are beautifully crafted, why not? This picture does not show any dead people, or people dying, so what’s the problem?
Also, if we’re going to use your logic, why show commercials on TV for fast food joints? The food you could potentially eat could potentially clog your arteries and kill you.
Wait, was that “logic”? I’ve confused myself. I’m a dummy.
I agreed. Let’s get those commercials off the air too.
(I gave up on TV around 1991.)
But the F-22 maybe one of the prettiest weapons ever!
(Seriously, it’s a beautiful aircraft – and flys like nothing else I’ve ever seen)
Fist place was a boring-ish but technically brillant photo of an old-fashioned plan flying over a field.
http://www.museumofflight.org/spirit-of-flight
Condens-ation…
OMG! Plane-bow!
Raptor rainbow all the way across the sky! What does it mean!?
RAPTOR RAINBOW!!! WHAT DOES IT MEAN?!
Raptor Rainbow All The Way!!!! So Intense! WHOAHOHOHOHO!!!! WOW! WOOHOOO YES!!!! What does it mean?! This is too much, hahahhaha!!!!
Wait,……I thought the navy was supposed to be gay?
Take a look. It’s in a book. A bombing RAINBOOOWWW!