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Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
reply to post by mkkkay
What you are probably seeing is 2 planes flying in opposite directions - with one exiting the contail altitude just before the other enters the contrail altitude.
Alternatively yo might have been seeing the a/c flying a holding pattern - a racetrack shaped path that ATC requires it to fly in order to maintain seperation from another a/c or delay arrival at some point in space.
there's a brief description of this on wiki - en.wikipedia.org... and you will sometimes see contrails in this pattern - eg see this page: contrailscience.com...
Originally posted by mkkkay
No, one plane only, only strait lines.
On my back keeping my eyes on the plane can clearly see it start.. Stop..
And the same plane comes back starts the same routine back and forth
the u shape, i have never seen before. but i have seen a lot of # and * shapes.
the same way a farmer would cover a field with only one plane.
Still i can see how a farmer could spray his crops making a u patern.
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Sulfate aerosol Main article: stratospheric sulfur aerosols
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Black carbonBlack carbon (BC), or carbon black, or elemental carbon (EC), often called soot, is composed of pure carbon clusters, skeleton balls and buckyballs, and is one of the most important absorbing aerosol species in the atmosphere. It should be distinguished from organic carbon (OC): clustered or aggregated organic molecules on their own or permeating an EC buckyball. BC from fossil fuels is estimated by the IPCC in the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC, TAR, to contribute a global mean radiative forcing of +0.2 W/m² (was +0.1 W/m² in the Second Assessment Report of the IPCC, SAR), with a range +0.1 to +0.4 W/m²
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Air pollution measurement station in Emden, Germany
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Originally posted by mkkkay
reply to post by Aloysius the Gaul
If it would of made a u shape turn then there would be no questiondrunk pilot
P.S i'm 43 years old never have i seen this before the 90's
the trails never lasted more then a few seconds
thats the way we could tell the difference between a plane and a jet.
the planes do not make trails but jets do.
A Rose by any other name is but just as sweet! In this case its a Chemtrail and it stinks!
reply to post by itsawild1
An interesting point OP, me and a buddy thought this the other week, the only possible reason could be for the altitude, but omy to work this morning across the chemtrailed sky, i saw 1 large plane leaving a huge chemtrail, alot larger than contrails & i saw 2 other planes in the air of similar size with not even contrails coming off ?
Unexplainable, unless the plane was creating the trail deliberately, which would make it a ..... *drum roll* CHEMTRAILER !