It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by weedwhacker
reply to post by Phage
Yeah...vortilons/vortex generators...same principles and functions, but mostly smaller in scope. Sometimes to alter the airflow over lifting surfaces, to increase boundary layer adhesion, etc. AND to mitigate, in some cases, turbulence (vortexes) as the airflow exits the surfaces.
("Vortex generator" is a misnomer...it does produce mini-vortexes, hopefully to counter/dampen the other that opccur do to shape and design limitations).
Anyone who wishes can look at the engine cowlings of a Boeing 737-300 series (the -400, and -600 too)....the so called "classics", not to be confused with the "NG" (next generation) models of B-737.
The SNECMA engine cowlings on the -300, et al, series include the types of vortex generators we're talking about, to improve airflow and decrease drag of air that encounters the engine nacelles, before it approaches the wing's leading edges.
The little tabs are about the width of two fingers, usually, at most. Little metal tabs.
There are NOT "NOZZLES"!!!
Originally posted by Genesis322
And oddly the last reply to one of my replies skipped over the fact that the aircraft could be a civilian aircraft.
Originally posted by Ouroborus2012
reply to post by Mason mike
hm, your comment made absolutely no sense at all.. 3 paragraphs of complete jibberish and something about Clint Eastwood is all I got from it.
Perhaps if you had read what you quoted clearly, you'd see the point being that there is ZERO data provided with the video.. Therefore, NOBODY knows what it is. There is only theory whether it be "scientific" or "conspiracy" and that sarcastic over tones towards the OP and those who believe it is uncalled for.
Originally posted by badgrammaman
whatever they are the bottom line is,they are blocking out the sunlight,and we all need apart from a few exceptions sunlight to stay healthy, so they cant be good for us.
Originally posted by Agent_USA_Supporter
reply to post by ~Lucidity
Maybe...maybe not
is most likey an disfo agent, he wont admit it, but you can tell by the threads and posts he makes or posts on them.
Originally posted by arpanet
Wow this has become the MMN/Moderator dislike thread
Originally posted by Mason mike
Originally posted by Ouroborus2012
reply to post by Mason mike
hm, your comment made absolutely no sense at all.. 3 paragraphs of complete jibberish and something about Clint Eastwood is all I got from it.
Perhaps if you had read what you quoted clearly, you'd see the point being that there is ZERO data provided with the video.. Therefore, NOBODY knows what it is. There is only theory whether it be "scientific" or "conspiracy" and that sarcastic over tones towards the OP and those who believe it is uncalled for.
I understand. For some folks you have to speak a bit slower, so I will type this slow.
Just because we are all members of a conspiracy site, doesn't mean we have to believe in every conspiracy. I for one, don't believe that the bad man is spraying chemicals on all of us and his family. I don't think that every trail left in the sky for more than 5 minutes is full of bad stuff. I do however think that UFO's might be a real thing, and I think that we weren't told the whole truth about 9-11. So maybe I am a junior conspirist. I will leave that up to you to decide.
to summarize what I just said, we all don't have to think just the same as you. We can all have our own ideas. Just as you are free to believe in reptilian overlords stealing your underwear and storing them in hollow earth. I am afraid I can't dumb it down any more than that.
[edit on 18-7-2010 by Mason mike]
Originally posted by soleprobe
problem is you don't see the rest of the trail.... if it dissipates it's condensation... if it hangs around for a few hours and spreads out creating a wide hazy blanket... it's a chemtrail
From what I can see it seems to start quickly dissipating before going out of view.
if it hangs around for a few hours and spreads out creating a wide hazy blanket... it's a chemtrail
Originally posted by malachi777
THESE ARE CHEMTRAILS FOLKS!!!! I ALSO KNOW WHAT IT IS...We normal people call it molecules of water and ice crystals produced by planes flying at various altitudes. In fact, my truck does that when it is cold outside. You conspiracy theorists need to relax and stop freaking out those who are ignorant to the facts. The only spraying that is done in this world are for crops and cloud seeding. In fact, dry ice and silver iodide are typically used for seeding. Trees also seed clouds with Terpenes, a form of hydrocarbon. If the government were trying to control us, it would not be from planes, they would just contaminate our water supply...
Originally posted by malachi777
In the video above, you will notice a major contrail. Do you really believe a plane can release that much chemical or fuel and not crash to the earth. Here's your foil hat..
Professor John Schellnhuber, former chief environmental adviser to the German government and head of the UK's leading group of climate scientists at the Tyndall Centre, said: 'These are exotic ideas and we probably will have to come up with the right mixture. But the problem has not gone away, so we think this analysis is just in time.
Similar solutions include the release of massive nets of ultra-fine metal mesh into the upper atmosphere by aircraft to prevent the Sun's rays from reaching Earth.
North America is now suffering its seventh year of conspicuous and dangerous aerosol and electromagnetic operations conducted by the U.S. government under the guise of national security. Concerned citizens watch in fear as military tankers discolor the skies with toxic chemicals that morph into synthetic clouds.
Part of what is happening in the atmosphere above us involves the Pentagon,s secret space weapons program, designed for strategic, operational and tactical levels of war. NASA missions will soon be transferred to Pentagon control.1
The Air Force Space Command declares that, in order to monitor and shape world events, it must fight intense, decisive wars with great precision from space.2 Air Force Secretary James G. Roche has stated: "Space capabilities are integrated with, and affect every link in the kill chain."3
Originally posted by Maybe...maybe not
There hasn't been a word invented for how WRONG that statement is!
Cheers
Maybe...maybe not
"What is the military protocol for making a large fuel dump?"
I believe that the protocol is to only perform fuel dumps if it is absolutely necessary. One such situation is in an emergency when it is required to lower an aircraft's gross weight to land quickly. Let me say that lowering gross weight for landing is probably the only reason to dump fuel in the first place.
If an aircraft is above a certain weight, it may not be able to land and come to a stop before the end of the runway. In addition, stopping the aircraft may require a herculean effort that can blow tires and cause hot brakes that start fires. In addition, if you're a Navy aircraft and you're landing (or crashing, depending on how you look at it) on an aircraft carrier, you stand the chance of doing landing gear, hook, and cable damage when you slam your overweight jet into the deck.
I'll assume from here on out that you are talking about tanker aircraft, since they are most often associated with larger fuel dumps and the "chemtrail" conspiracy.
Tankers sometimes dump fuel when their "receivers" (planes that are going to get gas from them) don't show up. With all of the extra gas on board, they can either burn it through their own jet engines by holding for hours on end or dump it. In most situations, I think that they'd rather dump it.
Another way that you may see fuel being dumped is when there is a boom or fuel transfer problem on the tanker. I was on the wing of a KC-10 once when it was having some problems with its boom. They spent a few minutes cycling their pumps on and off, and fuel was coming out of the boom in a dash-dash-dash pattern for quite a distance.