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Just past US Route 6 West and US Route 95 North division point at Coaldale Junction in Esmeralda County. It may be a very arid and extremely hot place but the beauty is spectacular. Noticed a faint contrail in the distance, just like some the westerns made for the Television industry.
Backed by a con-trail crossed blue sky, one of Dale Chihuly's incredible glasswork exhibits snakes skyward at Kew Gardens
www.kew.org/read-and-watch/reasons-to-come-to-chihuly-kew
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The thin horizon-to-horizon line of an aerodynamic contrail has seeded spreading cirrocumulus cloud, freezing on the outer edges to wisps of ice cloud over 20 minutes. The field of view is 150º (overhead and beyond).
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Photograph taken at an altitude of Seventy four metres at 12:05pm on Tuesday 2nd June, looking up at the contrails of a commercial aeroplane as it crosses through the clouds in the Summer sky, off Chessington Avenue in Bexleyheath, Kent
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Somehow the sunset hit the contrail and not the surrounding clouds, causing me to start squealing like an idiot about the pink contrail. I was pretty freakin' excited. Judge as you will.
High up there is a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner aircraft (PH-BHF) as operated by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines on flight KL741 from Amsterdam in The Netherlands to Bogota Columbia in South America.
The aircraft is at an altitude of just 32,000 feet (a lowish cruising height), it's travelling at 527 miles per hour (ground speed) and is some 27 minutes out of Amsterdam Schiphol Airport.
The aircraft is flying west not far from of the well known Clacton VOR (Very high frequency Omni directional Radio) aviation navigation beacon which is just a few minutes flying time from here.
I spotted this contrail while out in my back yard at my home in the County of Essex (UK) and the aircraft itself is around 20 miles away (in a straight line ;-)
All my contrails www.flickr.com/photos/stuart166axe/tags/contrail
My Aviation album flic.kr/s/aHsjuyqPMt
Another cloudless morning. (It’s a contrail.) So instead of taking pictures I had to make one. Again. Have another sip of wine.
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it really was too dark for this film, but the contrails looked so beautifully delicate in the sky...
An unidentified twin engined jet aircraft and its engine exhaust contrail high above my house at cruising altitude on a rare blue sky winters day.
If I had one of those new fangled aviation mobile telephone applications, I could tell you how high up this is, the airline, the type of aircraft along with its call sign, what airport it's from, what airport it's going to and what the first class passengers are having for dinner..
This aircrafts position is around the centre of the County of Essex, heading north east out of the United Kingdom in the general direction of the well known Clacton VOR (Very high frequency Omni directional Radio) aviation navigation beacon which is just a few minutes flying time from here.
First Class passengers can probably see it already.
Contrails or vapour trails are visible trails of condensed water vapour made by the exhaust of aircraft engines. As the hot exhaust gases cool in the surrounding air they may precipitate a cloud of microscopic water droplets. If the air is cold enough, this trail will comprise tiny ice crystals
Vapour trails or contrails, by affecting the Earth's radiation balance, act as a radiative forcing. Studies have found that vapour trails or contrails trap outgoing longwave radiation emitted by the Earth and atmosphere (positive radiative forcing) at a greater rate than they reflect incoming solar radiation (negative radiative forcing). Therefore, the overall net effect of contrails is positive, i.e. a warming. However, the effect varies daily and annually, and overall the magnitude of the forcing is not well known. Other studies have determined that night flights are mostly responsible for the warming effect: while accounting for only 25% of daily air traffic, they contribute 60 to 80% of contrail radiative forcing. Similarly, winter flights account for only 22% of annual air traffic, but contribute half of the annual mean radiative forcing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrail
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