JustOccurred2Me
6th Dec 2012, 12:24
Wish I'd been able to take a pic of this.
Day before yesterday, east Yorkshire, looking south-east. There were four decent sized military (I think) planes heading directly SE; two in front, two behind, fairly well spaced. I'm not even going to guess at flight level, but they were a long way up.
They were clearly twin jets, but all four only had contrails from engines on their right wings. Several of us saw them, and it was really clear that there was nothing behind the left wing. They were big enough and the sky was perfectly clear so that we could tell that the contrail was coming from an engine on the wing, and not e.g. a rear mounted engine.
Just interested to know what we saw - single engine training, or metereological / air dynamic artefact? Or is it time for a group appointment at Specsavers?
Day before yesterday, east Yorkshire, looking south-east. There were four decent sized military (I think) planes heading directly SE; two in front, two behind, fairly well spaced. I'm not even going to guess at flight level, but they were a long way up.
They were clearly twin jets, but all four only had contrails from engines on their right wings. Several of us saw them, and it was really clear that there was nothing behind the left wing. They were big enough and the sky was perfectly clear so that we could tell that the contrail was coming from an engine on the wing, and not e.g. a rear mounted engine.
Just interested to know what we saw - single engine training, or metereological / air dynamic artefact? Or is it time for a group appointment at Specsavers?