From The Daily Mail:
It looks like a flight of fancy from the special effects department - a fighter aircraft slicing through a perfectly triangular cloud.
Yet no trickery was involved in this photograph of a U.S. Navy Super Hornet.
The cloud is known as a shock collar or vapour cone, created in certain atmospheric conditions at high speeds.
The £35million plane was travelling at about 570mph when the blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment was captured on camera at the Jones Beach Air Show in Wantagh, New York.
Super Hornets have been used by the US Navy since 1999. This plane was in flown by Pilot Lt. Justin Halligan and Lt Michael Witt.
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