Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Oblique shock wave

Oblique shock wave
Voting period ends on 25 Jan 2022  at 20:52:48 (UTC)
 * Reason:Photo of supersonic shock waves of a full-scale aircraft in flight. This type of photography is a recent innovation (around 2010 to 2015), although the technique is old (Schlieren photography). The purpose of such photos is to aid design quieter supersonic aircraft. For details see, file description , and this source.
 * Articles in which this image appears:Oblique shock, Schlieren photography
 * FP category for this image:Featured pictures/Sciences/Others, or Photographic techniques
 * Creator:NASA & US Air Force (J.T. Heineck, Ed Schairer,  Maj. Jonathan Orso, Maj. Jeremy Vanderhal)


 * Support as nominator – Bammesk (talk) 20:52, 15 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Support Not a great image quality-wise, but a great illustration of the technology. And one has to make allowances when you're trying to show the image output of a specific thing. Adam Cuerden (talk)Has about 7.5% of all FPs 00:52, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Support - had to read the article to find out how the image was made - fascinating! --Janke | Talk 14:10, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Support.-- Vulp  ❯❯❯  here!  17:45, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Support. MER-C 18:53, 16 January 2022 (UTC)
 * Support Excellent photo that illustrates its subject well Nick-D (talk) 09:49, 17 January 2022 (UTC)

--Armbrust The Homunculus 22:20, 25 January 2022 (UTC)