View allAll Photos Tagged contrails
Contrails or vapor trails are condensation trails and artificial cirrus clouds made by the exhaust of aircraft engines or wingtip vortices which precipitate a stream of tiny ice crystals in moist, frigid upper air.
Airplane contrails in the sky, one airplane made a turn before landing in Beldringe airport nearby, now known as H.C. Andersen Airport.
Aviation contrails in every direction along with very light cirrus cloud formations towards the right high up in the atmosphere in the very early morning as viewed from my back yard in the County of Essex (UK).
Aircraft contrails can be anywhere from 25,000 to 40,000 feet up there while cirrus cloud formations are from around 13,000 feet or so towards 60,000 feet.
The airspace above my neighbourhood is a very busy place to be from 5am and onwards.
All my contrails www.flickr.com/photos/stuart166axe/tags/contrail
Endless clouds in my photostream www.flickr.com/photos/stuart166axe/tags/cloud/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrail
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cirrus_cloud
My Sky album flic.kr/s/aHsiXpSNc
Evolution of the STS-117 noctilucent contrail as the sun got progressively lower below the horizon as seen from Satellite Beach, Florida. Some of the variations in overall picture brightness are artifacts of the particular exposure settings of the individual images.