F-22 Rain­bow (Museum edi­tion) — by Bernardo Mal­fi­tano, AirShowFan.com

I am a sucker for Air­shows, and Air­craft. I orig­i­nally wanted to be a pilot (what lit­tle boy doesn’t?) and ended up study­ing Aero­nau­ti­cal Engi­neer­ing. How I wound up in IT I’ll never know, but my love of avi­a­tion has found new expres­sion in photography.

This is NOT my photo, but it is so good that I had to post it. It was taken by Bernardo Mal­fi­tano, from Seat­tle, and he describes it as follows:

A pic­ture I took at MCAS Miramar’s 2008 air­show. A lot of peo­ple really like it. It shows an F-22 at the top of the loop. The low pres­sure over the wings has cooled the air below its dew point, caus­ing the humid­ity to con­dense into vis­i­ble water droplets… and this hap­pened in just the right place in the sky for sun­light to undergo total inter­nal refrac­tion through the water droplets at just the right angle to be refracted towards me, i.e. I see rain­bow col­ors over the air­plane. A very neat effect.

Very kind of him for shar­ing it with the world.