This is truly amazing. I just had to share this image when I saw it. Especially since the next contest theme is in the air.

Through the viewfinder of his camera,
Ensign John Gay could see the fighter plane drop from the sky heading
toward the port side of the aircraft carrier Constellation. At 1,000 feet,
the pilot drops the F/A-18C Hornet to increase his speed to 750 mph,vapor
flickering off the curved surfaces of the plane. In the precise moment a
cloud in the shape of a farm-fresh egg forms around the Hornet 200 yards
from the carrier, its engines rippling the Pacific Ocean just 75 feet
below,
Gay hears an explosion and snaps his camera shutter once. "I clicked the
same time I heard the boom, and I knew I had it"

What he had was a technically meticulous depiction of the sound barrier
being broken July 7, 1999, somewhere on the Pacific between Hawaii and
Japan.

Right place, Right time.