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Vapor trails on F-15

Posted: 30 Oct 2006, 12:40
by PanzerMeyer
This pic is stunning. Take a look.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1130381/L/

Posted: 31 Oct 2006, 12:25
by Grifter
Looks fake to me.

Posted: 31 Oct 2006, 12:32
by VEGETA
ok this is sad but it is probably real and its a very high hummidy area. The water just can't go to liquid form, it needs a surface, partial anything to touch to turn to water form. a plane flying through a high hummidy area higher up can give it this surface, which in the end gives us the con trails. Now usually this is in cold tempretures where the water in the air is ready to turn to a liquid form very very fast, as soon as contact whit a partial occurs.

Thank you physical geography 101

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrail

Posted: 31 Oct 2006, 12:58
by Grifter
It still looks a bit airbrushed to me.

Posted: 31 Oct 2006, 13:31
by VEGETA
maybe, but its now my current background image PDT_Armataz_01_01

Posted: 31 Oct 2006, 17:32
by Mooseman
ditto

Posted: 31 Oct 2006, 17:44
by Jedi Master
I looked, and as I thought, it was taken in the UK. They get a TON of moisture in the air there at low temps.

Posted: 07 Nov 2006, 16:35
by KODIAK
Ther's a tonne of moisture in the air at anytime in the UK mate! LOL
Yes, I agree, it does look a little airbrushed, but I think it's a super pic nonetheless.

Posted: 07 Nov 2006, 16:36
by KODIAK
Did you know that the volume of air inside a jumbo jet weighs so much that it has to be taken into account for calculations of take-off and landing speeds etc.,