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Flight Lines
In John Ford’s last western, Cheyenne Autumn, long threads of white cross the sky over army tents in Monument Valley, along the Utah-Arizona border. In the 1993 film Gettysburg, a brilliant white sliver hovers in the clear sky above the head of a Union officer. In Zulu, a dramatized account of the 1879 assault by thousands of Zulu tribesmen on a small British garrison in Natal, South Africa, whitish bands sometimes hang in the sky beyond the hills.
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It’s not only jets that make contrails; piston aircraft do too. So do rockets. So, apparently, do birds. “I have heard of wild geese leaving vapor trails high over the Canadian Rockies,” Guy Murchie wrote in his book Song of the Sky. A goose exhaling warm, moist air into –38-degree air could produce a contrail, Minnis allows, although “it would certainly be a small one.”
The first recorded sighting of a contrail likely occurred in southern Tirol in the Italian Alps in 1915 when somebody named Ettenreich spotted “the condensation of a cumulus stripe from the exhaust gases of an aircraft”; the stripe stayed around for a while. It wasn’t until World War II that anyone took interest. In a single combat area, hundreds of aircraft sometimes generated so many contrails that pilots couldn’t see to keep in formation or find a target. “We were, in effect, clouding the sky over Germany,” wrote 34th Bomb Group member Hal Province to Veritas News Service reporter Jay Reynolds in 1999. Contrails could be used as cover for an attack: “Four Me-262s came in hidden by the contrails and hit four of us,” Richrad Scroxton wrote in a 1983 account now posted on the 100th Bomb Group Web site. Even more troublesome, contrails gave away aircraft positions. “We were easy for them to spot, as our contrails were heavy that day,” another bomber crewman noted, “pointing like fingers in the sky toward our squadron,” Mike Banta wrote in 1997 in an account of his B-17’s last mission, now posted on the 91st Bomb Group Web site.
AllTied...you really are blind, aren't you???!!!???
Originally posted by AllTiedTogether
reply to post by defcon5
The criteria he asked for has been mentioned from the beginning. He said footage from a movie that is not a WWII movie and that has multiple contrails going through it much like the one that he posted earlier.
Originally posted by GoldenFleece
How about JUST ONE film, TV program or commercial shot between 1921 and 1998?
That shouldn't be too hard, should it?
Originally posted by GoldenFleece
Good reasoning since it was stated that it was quite abundant throughout movies... Contrails in movies that are about aircraft and the sky is like using a sonar ping in a movie about the sea to say that there was a real hit on the sonar because they showed it. Its all part of the movie folks and proves nothing...
Originally posted by GoldenFleece
They want you to see the aircraft and follow it... what better way than to have a trail follow it...
Originally posted by AllTiedTogether
But the trail normally dissipates after 30secs at an altitude of approx 30,000ft, which is approx the height that contrails were normally seen.
Oh RLY? Where did he make these requirements that you claim…
Fm GoldenFleece
I mean, besides the typical debunker photos of WW II piston-engine bombers belching massive amounts of particulate exhaust.
The point is they persisted then, and they persist now, you all are just trying to save your rapidly sinking ship here by changing the rules after the fact. So much so I have to wonder what some folks have at stake that they continue to try and spread this rumor despite losing on all fronts? If I were losing that badly on a topic I would gracefully bow out and admit defeat, and I have done so when proven wrong in the past. For some reason though certain people persist on this despite defeat to a level that seems beyond just a normal interest, almost like they have something at stake if they are shown to be wrong. Hm…. I won’t say what is on my mind here, but it seems rather suspicious to me.
IMDB Goofs in Patton
· Anachronisms: Jet stream or plume above Patton and Bradley at the tank crossing in Francie - seen in several frames. There were no jets in this war.
Originally posted by reconpilot
reply to post by C0bzz
Ho hum . do you really believe everything the techies tell you in those aviation mags . Its all puff and blow mate .
Your quoted dispositions are a total white wash and bear no relation to our true defence capabilities .
We only use those new f18s to train our pilots before putting them in our REAL AND STILL TOP SECRET front line fighters . Now there your talking serious kit . Mach 10 plus mate , blow the crap out of a raptor any freakin day of the week. Hell, ive seen the assembled fuses being taken by low loader down the coast road for final assembly on base . Cheeky buggers !
And dont tell me they dont exist mate because I have seen them fly right over my house .
I have seen the troop transports too. With our massive coastline we need super rapid deployement and these babies shift like you wont believe .
So look. Techno blab and quote all the official white wash blather you want but I know better .