Vapour Trail

[glojo]

Hi folks,
Last year I saw this vapour trail high above our house in South Devon.

http://glojo.unospace.net/images/Vapour_DSC_1691.jpg


I have NO idea what caused it, hence this post to see if I can get an answer. This image was taken a short time after it appeared and I guess it has got wider over that period of time.

At no time did I hear the noise of the aircraft making it, but that is not unusual and I am only saying to answer any questions regarding noise. The trail also went across a large expanse of sky and obviously this was just a small part of it.

Thanks for all the constructive replies
John

[tezzer]

"Puff puffpuff puff puff puffpuff".

Translates into "can you tell me where theladies or gentleman's convenience is please"

Copywright Jim Dale, Carry on Cowboy.

[glojo]

:ok::D Excellent reply...

Too many puffs might spoil the pot! :)

[JimmyTAP]

Looks like a normal vapour trail in the process of breaking up a few minutes after being formed. Nice patterns though.

[glojo]

Hi Jimmy,
Thanks for the reply, here in South Devon our skies look like airplanes are trying to play noughts and crosses and scribe out the markings with vapour trails :) (big exaggeration) but I must confess that in all the years I have stared up into the skies I have never seen anything that looks remotely like the image I have posted.

I am certainly not disagreeing with you if you are saying it is 'normal' but I would appreciate it if you could post an image of another of these 'normal' thingies :)

I am not disagreeing with you, I am merely curious and if it is the norm then corroboration will certainly put my mind to rest.

Thanks for the reply
John

[Capetonian]

The 'chemtrail' lot will say it's a coded mesage telling us the end is nigh.

[airsmiles]

The 'chemtrail' lot will say it's a coded mesage telling us the end is nigh.

Mmm.. looks like the government have now given instructions to chemtrail pilots to disguise their trails in case people get suspicious.

[treadigraph]

Ah, sorta doughnuts on a rope - an Aurora! ;)

Seriously, there was another thread on this topic a few months ago and while reading the thread I actually saw a very similar trail to the one you've photographed, heading east between Woodley and Dover - it was a 767 or some other such widebodied twin as I recall.

[Juliet Sierra Papa]

I have seen this before when I lived in Johannesburg and it was achieved by 5 Harvards flying side by side and using smoke at predetermined times for a split second. End result is basically a dot matrix printer in the sky. I think your pic shows exactly this but it has almost dispersed.....look at the spacings between.
JSP

[SpringHeeledJack]

Of my many strange quirks, one of them is being fascinated by clouds and vapour trails and the shapes and patterns they make :8 I have several photos (from memory) that are very similar/identical to the one shown in the OP. However, it's the UFO that made them hovering under the 3rd from left that should be causing concern ;)



SHJ

[JimmyTAP]

One taken over Manchester a few years ago.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v609/CMVH/DSC_6607.jpg

I didn't photograph the aircraft that made the trail though.

[forget]

Here -

Crow Instability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crow_Instability)

[Stu666]

Looks like they were caused by a German Mig-29 to me.

:E