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esa-aardvark
7th Dec 2018, 16:12
Maybe an optical illusion, but saw a dark(blackish) contrail yesterday.
Wife & I were travelling from Alicante to Norwich. She saw some puffs of black
smoke (?) out of her window, and looking forwards there was a long black contrail.
We were at height (30,000 + I suppose), the contrail to our left and a few miles away.
Location a bit north of the channel islands. Time 12.30ish UK. Any ideas ?
KelvinD
7th Dec 2018, 17:50
I have seen that plenty of times in the past, seems to be caused by the position of the sun, putting the contrail in shadow.
dogsridewith
7th Dec 2018, 22:18
Their crew "rolling coal" for your crew? (USA expression for something that hopefully isn't "a thing" anywhere else.)
RevMan2
8th Dec 2018, 06:25
Thought you weren’t supposed to flush in the station....
Anodyne
11th Dec 2018, 20:39
Contrail see from below = white
Contrail seen from above = dark
Council Van
12th Dec 2018, 08:19
Or perhaps it was some old Eastern European oil burner��
Bullethead
12th Dec 2018, 22:30
They’re the new dark chemtrails which are only supposed to be spread at night! ��
Final 3 Greens
13th Dec 2018, 15:02
https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/619x349/1499135797654_c9a9cd86a5a9b26ad4fc73793ea75013d10c235c.jpg
You won't see it often in the back but going head to head with an aircraft a bit below you can make some impressive illusions that look like smoke..
Just pinched this from somewhere online but if you get the right conditions and light and angle you can get some even more impressive sights than this.
Cr*p - that's some serious wake turb (vortex), what aircraft type is that?
DaveReidUK
13th Dec 2018, 15:41
It's a 787, shot from a passing NCA 747, even more impressive in the movie version:
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Downwind.Maddl-Land
17th Dec 2018, 07:34
Oh PLEASE someone repost that on one if the Chemtrail Conspiracy sites! They'll go apoplectic! :E
Auxtank
17th Dec 2018, 07:53
Oh PLEASE someone repost that on one if the Chemtrail Conspiracy sites! They'll go apoplectic! :E
Let them eat cake wih this one;
https://i.postimg.cc/tgcYP4Gw/1212.jpg (https://postimages.org/)
Final 3 Greens
26th Dec 2018, 20:47
It's a 787, shot from a passing NCA 747, even more impressive in the movie version
You're not wrong :)