Category Archive: NASA / Aerospace

Predicting Contrails – Contrail Science

An American Airlines 757 and JetBlue A320 contrailing over Cleveland in 2008.  Photo:  Dave Reed - OPShots.net

Sometimes planes leave contrails, and sometimes they don’t. It depends on the weather, and specifically it depends on the weather at altitude. It’s also very localized. A plane might leave a trail in one region, and another plane a mile away might not leave a trail. NASA have put… Read more

Boeing, LAN Airlines Announce Order for Three 767s – Air Transport News

A Lan 767-300 at Miami in 2010.  Photo:  Ed Jones - OPShots.net

Boeing (NYSE: BA) announced today that Chile’s LAN Airlines ordered three additional 767-300ER airplanes valued at $493 million at today’s list prices. Today’s order brings the total number of 767s ordered from LAN to 33. “This order for additional 767s builds on the long-standing… Read more

Why do some planes leave contrails, but others don’t? – Contrail Science

The sky fills with morning contrails as seen at Cleveland Hopkins airport.  Photo: Chuck Slusarczyk Jr.  - OPShots.net

A question that comes up with some consistency is based on the observation that some planes in the sky leave trails that persist and spread, and other planes, in the same sky, leave short-lived trails, or no trails at all. This difference is often used as evidence of the “chemtrail”… Read more

Contrail Grids are not Chemtrail Grids – Contrail Science

Contrails drift from their point of origin on the right to the left in this image from Hopkins Airport in Cleveland  (Photo: George Mihalek - OPShots.net)

This enhanced infrared image from NASA’s Terra satellite shows a widespread outbreak of contrails over the southeastern United States during the morning of January 29, 2004. Satellite data are critical for studying the effects of contrails. The crisscrossing white lines are contrails that form… Read more

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