Fly with jet tu-tu.

DAREDEVIL aircrew skirt the edge of the sound barrier at this air display in the United States.

USAF Pilot Lt Justin Halligan and navigator Lt Michael Witt's F/A-18F Super Hornet hornet: see wasp. swooped in low over Jones Beach in Wantagh, New York New York, state, United States
New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , last Saturday, thrilling thousands of spectators.

A halo of water vapour formed around the jet as it made its manoeuvre.

An onlooker said: "It looked so surreal when it flew past - the jet seemed to have a cloud in tow."

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PLUME Hornet jet at Saturday's air display in New York

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Publication:	The Mirror (London, England)
Date:	May 28, 2009
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