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Hybrid Contrails – A New Classification 6 Mar 2013 | 01:37 am
Contrails are generally classified into two types. Exhaust contrails and aerodynamic contrails. Exhaust contrails are formed by the mixing of the hot humid exhaust of the engines with cold humid surro...
Contrails Are Condensation, But Not Like Your Breath 13 Dec 2012 | 10:34 pm
The trails that aircraft leave in the sky are called “contrails”, which is short for “condensation trails”. They are formed by the condensation of the water vapor in the aircraft exhaust. When you bre...
How Far Away is That Contrail? 6 Nov 2012 | 12:14 am
When you look up in the sky and you see a contrail, how far away is it? Contrails typically form above 30,000 feet, or around six to eight miles straight up. It’s quite hard to judge exactly how high ...
Interactive Flight/Contrail Map Visualization 28 Oct 2012 | 09:20 pm
I’ve programmed a visualization of air traffic that you can interact with in a web browser http://contrailscience.com/map Here’s a quick video explaining how to use it: You can use to to see how many ...
How Big is the Gap Between Contrails and Engines? 30 Sep 2012 | 02:23 am
Contrails are the white lines that sometimes form behind high flying aircraft. They are actually a type of cloud. The cloud forms because jet exhaust contains quite a bit of water. If the humidity is ...
Contrail Avoidance and Mitigation Techniques 1 Aug 2012 | 12:43 am
Contrails are the white trails that planes leave in the sky. They are a type of cloud, and are comprised of very fine ice crystals, like a cirrus cloud. If the air at high altitude is humid, then the ...
Debunked: KMIR6 Geoengineering the Skies (chemtrails) 6 Feb 2012 | 11:11 am
References: Geoengineering covers lots of different things, not just spraying things from planes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoengineering KSLA Report, debunked and retracted http://contrailscie...
Contrail Simulations 20 Jan 2012 | 06:39 am
One often gets satellite images of contrails and it’s hard to visualize what’s going on, especially with racetrack contrails drifting in the wind. So I wrote a little contrail simulator applet to demo...
Chemtrail/Persistent Contrail Survey 7 Jan 2012 | 02:34 pm
When did you first see contrails?
1980 NBC News Report on Contrails 2 Dec 2011 | 05:16 am
This news report is from 1980. It’s based on this research paper: EFFECT OF CONTRAIL CIRRUS ON SURFACE WEATHER CONDITIONS IN THE MIDWEST (Searchable/Copyable OCR version here) It’s interesting bec...
