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Ford Contrail sounds something like a 1960s suggestion from Don Draper over martinis with the head honchos from Dearborn, Michigan, but it is in fact from the neon Wallingford sign with the contrail nicely positioned over the “ford” for my photograph. However it does give me a nice little Seattle segue into an urban legend involving Ford and Microsoft squillionaire Bill Gates……
Once at a COMDEX computer expo, Bill Gates compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated, 'If Ford had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 miles to the gallon!’
In response to Bill's comments, the urban legend goes that Ford issued a press release stating:
If Ford had developed technology like Microsoft, we would all be driving cars with the following characteristics:
For no reason whatsoever, your car would crash.........Twice a day.
Every time they repainted the lines in the road, you would have to buy a new car.
Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason. You would have to pull to the side of the road, close all of the windows, shut off the car, restart it, and reopen the windows before you could continue. For some reason you would simply accept this.
Occasionally, executing a maneuver such as a left turn would cause your car to shut down and refuse to restart, in which case you would have to reinstall the engine.
Apple would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast and twice as easy to drive - but would run on only five percent of the roads.
The oil, water temperature, and alternator warning lights would all be replaced by a single 'This Car Has Performed an Illegal Operation' warning light.
The airbag system would ask 'Are you sure?' before deploying.
Occasionally, for no reason whatsoever, your car would lock you out and refuse to let you in until you simultaneously lifted the door handle, turned the key and grabbed hold of the radio antenna.
Every time a new car was introduced car buyers would have to learn how to drive all over again because none of the controls would operate in the same manner as the old car.
You'd have to press the 'Start' button to turn the engine off.
Leica MP & 50mm Summilux
B+W Yellow Filter
TMax 400 (@320)
Rodinal (1+50 - 10min)
Plustek 7600i & Vuescan
Have you ever seen an aircraft flying high in the sky with a trail of cloud following it? Those are contrails and they are a type of cloud too. Here is how they form: eschooltoday.com/clouds/special-clouds.html
Walking back to my car from the beach, I noticed a contrail being illuminated by the sun against a darkening sky. Unfortunately, due to LENR my camera was still processing pics so I could only shoot one at a time and had the current settings on AEB, so I only got this one darker shot without a subsequently lighter shot to merge. Exposure from RAW bumped way up and there's still alot of noise, even with Topaz denoising. Too much work for a mediocre shot, but I still kind of liked it. In the foreground is an old rusted out dock structure at a Quincy beach.
More contrails than normal. O'Hare was shut down for a while on this day and more planes may have been diverted to Indianapolis.
Contrails or vapor trails are long, thin artificial clouds that sometimes form behind aircraft. Their formation is most often triggered by the water vapor in the exhaust of aircraft engines. (Across St.John's Antigua)
This contrail was a little different than most. Nice looking rainbow effect.
~~no this is not a "chemtrail"
"Contrail" © Kristen Cavanaugh 2011
The Chase Tower, also known as Lincoln First Bank (before 1996), is a skyscraper located in Rochester, New York, USA. It is the third tallest skyscraper in Rochester, standing at 392 feet (119 m). It has 27 floors and was constructed in 1973. The architect responsible for designing the building was John Graham & Company. It serves as the upstate NY headquarters of JPMorgan Chase. The building is unique for its outstanding white vertical fins and the fact that it curves outward on the bottom.
The white fins were originally made with marble panel coverings. By the 1980s, however, these began to warp and loosen, some falling to the sidewalks below. These were replaced with painted aluminum panels.
Four Marks, Hampshire.
Finnair flight AY 1739 from Helsinki to Lisbon making a left turn over Southampton at 38,000 ft.
Airplane contrails in the sky, one airplane made a turn before landing in Beldringe airport nearby, now known as H.C. Andersen Airport.