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Old 14th Jan 2017, 00:10
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AtomKraft
 
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The U-2 has a rear view mirror on a long stick. It's there to check if the thing is laying a contrail or not.

Rest assured, that if it were possible, by planning alone, to ensure a 'negative contrail situation', it would be done.

The presence of the mirror shows that it just cannot be reliably predicted whether or not a contrail will form.

All that matters for the U-2 driver, is that he can see if he's pulling one, and do something about it if it's giving his game away.
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