Here are more amazing photos from a fabulous collection by pilots, passengers and flying enthusiasts -- catching beautiful images of the fleeting vapor trails left in the wake of jet airplanes. Please fasten your seatbelt, throttle back and enjoy!
Climbing into cloudy skies, the Space Shuttle Orbiter Discovery took off from Kennedy Space Center Tuesday at 7 am local time. This time, its final departure from KSC, it rode atop a modified Boeing 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft.
Chris Stricklin ejects from the USAF Thunderbirds number six aircraft less than a second before it impacted the ground at an air show at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, Sept.
The angel in the sky: Incredible ghostly image created by Russia's Red Arrows as they fire flares during amazing aerobatic display
The Russian Knights are the Russian Air Force aerobatic display team, like the British Red Arrows, and fly Sukhoi fighter jets
One plane has two powerful jet engines with afterburners, flies at almost mph, can soar more than 12 miles above the earth, and has 34 air combat victories in Operation Desert Storm.