Who can explain the distortion below the tail of this F/A-18 doing a low level pass over SF Bay during Fleet Week 2007?
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All photos in this post by Bernard Zee. Prints available here.
And, just for fun, a few more photos of Fleet Week in SF. Be there for the ACWS regatta 4-7 October 2012!
And, finally, not the Blue Angels. The Red Baron perhaps? Coming in to strafe the competition?