By the way, I looked at the video links you posted, and the captions are not correct, from what I know about aerodynamics and the FAA regulations. First, it is VERY illegal to fly supersonic outside a designated airspace corridor, usually located above a safe altitude of 30,000 feet or over the ocean many miles off shore, and pilots would lose their licenses (especially in the military) and be grounded permanently for a stunt like that. Aerodynamically, what is really happening is that the aircraft is transonic, between 0.9 and 1.0 Mach typically. The cloud around the aircraft is a condensation cloud. If the aircraft flies at transonic speeds in high humidity, only one part of the aircraft will be supersonic or very close, and that's usually just behind the cockpit around the wing area, in the area of the aircraft planform that narrows down like an old-fashioned coke bottle (hence the term "coke bottle design"). The drastic drop in pressure around the aircraft causes the temperature to drop rapidly, and thus the high humidity in the warm air suddenly finds itself creating 100% humidity in that portion of the colder airflow, hence a cloud and therefore the strange cone formation. If the aircraft were actually supersonic, the edge of the cloud would form at its nose. As the pilot speeds up from transonic, the condensation cloud would continue to move forward from its wing position at 0.95 Mach until it reached the nose at 1.0 Mach. And, on top of everything else, there is a good chance that car windows, house windows, etc., would have been broken by the sonic booms, had one been created due to the overpressure by the passing double-shock front. That would have resulted in several complaints and thus the final result of paragraph #1 above. In the second video, the pilot, who was obviously showing off, did not remember the golden rule about flying in the transonic range. That is, the aircraft is VERY sensitive in that regime, with the flight controls responding more vigorously than usual. In his exuberance, he likely was pulling up from his flyby with too much force on the control stick, and he over-G'd the aircraft. In that case, the wings snapped or the fuselage broke in half, spilling fuel into a hot engine already in afterburner and operating at high thrust settings, and thus the explosion. At least he'll never make that mistake again. Take care, Sandy Miarecki