Timing is everything: A photographer captured a jet breaking the sound barrier at this year's Wings Over Houston Air Show
Pictured: The Incredible 'Vapour Cone' As A Jet Builds Up Speed To Crack The Sound Barrier -- Daily Mail
It takes anxious skill, precision, and a certain amount of luck to catch the split second when an airplane this effect - compressed air building up behind an aircraft before it breaks the sound barrier with a loud 'crack - but photographer Michael Ashton-Moore did just that at this year’s Wings Over Houston Air Show.
The unique effect occurs in themoments before when a plane exceeds 741mph to break the sound barrier – the speed at which sound travels.
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