By @ tlmazer

It’s not something I’d ever considered but I did indeed find this interesting.

Too cute to handle

When the F-22 Raptor pulls a hard turn, the air pressure above its wings collapses. A pressure drop forces a temperature drop, and the instant the air cools below its dew point, the invisible water vapor inside it condenses into cloud directly on the airframe. The second the jet levels out, pressure recovers and the cloud vanishes. This is known as condensation trails.

The Raptor also steers with thrust vectoring nozzles that physically tilt the engine exhaust, which is how a 35,000 pound fighter snaps through turns tight enough to trigger this effect on demand.

Filmed on a Phantom Flex4K at 1000 frames per second through a 1000mm lens, slow enough to watch condensation form and dissolve in real time.

A 300 year old equation, visible at 1000 frames per second

Credit: Wealth, Instagram

Video from the scene shows one aircraft flying very low, leaving some beachgoers thrilled and others terrified as the jet passes directly overhead.