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I want to apologize to any of my meteo friends who read the comment below (since deleted) which stated that these were 'chemtrails.'
I'm not here to justify or condemn anyone's beliefs, but get your science straight before you comment on my photos. The physics behind contrails is fairly clearcut. The chemtrail conspiracy is a bunch of hyperbolic paranoia and I won't tolerate jackass tirades on my photos unless they come from me.
In 1769, a group of Spanish surfers stumbled upon a Chumash Indian tribe just up the coast from Rincon Beach. The tribe had a large seagoing canoe-building enterprise, or "carpentry shop". This was made possible by the availability of naturally occurring surface tar used to seal the canoes. Well, being extremely adept at naming things, the Spanish surfers called the area Carpinteria Dude. The name was later shortened to Carpinteria.
The "tar pits" are still visible at selected spots and if you walk the beach barefoot, you are likely to have a little gummy residue to clean off the bottoms of your feet. The view seen in the photo is what the Chumash saw as they worked on canoes. They always kept their backs to the ocean while working. This was primarily due to their interest in contrails which were not around at the time, but, were prophesied by Wilbur Lightheaded, the tribe's medicine man. So, naturally, the tribe was always on the lookout for those contrail things because most of the tribe didn't believe Wilbur after he said someday the tribe wouldn't have to collect food, they could just walk into something called Mickey D's and use wampum to get food.
(Absolutely no truth to the above story except the part about the surfers.)
Carpinteria, California 2015
I needed to be at a work site today doing a Caracara (a threatened raptor) survey that always begins 30-minutes before sunrise. I was about 70 miles away from Cape Canaveral and knowing that the shuttle was launching this morning, I got there a few minutes early. I didn't get there in time to photograph the shuttle itself (although I saw it!), but I got to photograph the contrails it left later. As the sun rose, the sun rays on the contrails made for a cool effect. I'll post several of the shots I got over the next few days. The little puff of a cloud at the top of the photo is where the booster rockets separated from the shuttle.
I will be gone for a day or so.
I am going camping.... firelight and smiles.
I wish that for all of you :)
Seen over my house in Newport, South Wales.
TUI Airways Boeing 757-28A G-OOBD crossing the contrails of an Aer Lingus Airbus A320-214
High up there and right above my back yard in the County of Essex (UK) is a Boeing 747-400F freighter aircraft (N493MC) as operated by Atlas Air on flight 5Y8091 from Frankfurt Germany to O'Hare airport Chicago in the United States.
The aircraft is at an altitude of 34,000 feet, it's travelling at 490 miles per hour (ground speed) and is some 55 minutes out of Frankfurt.
In a straight line, this aircraft is around 8 miles away.
The aircraft is flying west from of the Clacton VOR (Very high frequency Omni directional Radio) aviation navigation beacon which is just a few minutes flying time from here.
All my 747's www.flickr.com/photos/stuart166axe/tags/boeing747/
All my contrails www.flickr.com/photos/stuart166axe/tags/contrail
My Aviation album flic.kr/s/aHsjuyqPMt
Twenty seconds after this one
BA Flight City to Stockholm. Over Gothenberg, thirty eight thousand feet.
I was standing in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park when I made this image of an four-engine jet flying eastward high overhead. I have no idea what type of aircraft it is.
the sky just after sunset. I took this specifically because there were a lot of contrails in the sky (from all the flier-over-ers), and more specifically the upper left with the crossed trails that formed a star.
Photographed April 27, 2014 from the parking lot of the Sunnyvale Golf Course, Sunnyvale California.