View Full Version : Who's contrails?
moggie
3rd Apr 2003, 20:21
Great picture, but whose contrails do you reckon those are on the left?
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Current/FSMiraq092_N6.jpg
PS - If anyone from work is reading this, I'm on my tea break!
maxburner
3rd Apr 2003, 21:10
Crop circles, clearly.
Bright-Ling
3rd Apr 2003, 21:25
Big friendly planes with spinning saucers or trailing hoses I would guess.
Or aliens. You be the judge!
rivetjoint
3rd Apr 2003, 21:37
Isn't the bit with those circles where the special ops guys have been quietly doing their bit recently? :)
sprucemoose
3rd Apr 2003, 21:44
Looks like a couple of Audis to me!
Gainesy
3rd Apr 2003, 22:22
Practice for Baghdad Olympics opening ceremony.
Events to include catching the Javelin...
ShutUp and Drive
3rd Apr 2003, 23:56
ShutUp and Drive!!! Log yourself out of Pprune before you leave the computer!!!!! Next time I shall say some very rude things!!!
Buffoon!
Anyway, they're not contrails, they're chemtrails!!!
GipsyMagpie
4th Apr 2003, 01:27
Looks more like a B52 pilot trying to do an elaborate NO in sky writing like on the Focus advert.
moggie
4th Apr 2003, 03:36
The question was mostly rhetorical - but i guessed it wasn't MiGs!!
Turn radius looks too tight for B52 or Tornado, so my money is on spinning dish or hoses, too.
Worth looking at some of the other sat images on:
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Current
Green Flash
4th Apr 2003, 18:10
Which reminds me.
Many eons ago I was working in the Yorkshire Dales. Twas a bright sunny day (freak weather for the Pennines) which was just begging for a bored BA crew trainer out of EGCC to con trail a massive set of meat & two veg in the sky, which he did. Very impressive, visible for miles and stayed for hours. Anyone seen/done/photo'd similer???:) ;)
ScienceDoc
5th Apr 2003, 03:03
Yes, on Dec 31 2002 you could see some contrail advertising (if I remember it correctly it was an advertisment for a certain battery) over the Birsbane sky.
Does anybody know what kind of aircraft was used?
moggie
5th Apr 2003, 05:42
Seen it here in Spain - some very neat sky writing for a certain brand of whisky - white smoke, small piston powered job (probably disel into the exhaust manifold for the smoke) but no idea on aircraft type. All non-gas turbine powered aeroplanes are classed as "small" or "toy" in my book!
January 3rd 2000, Darling Harbour Sydney. Aircraft was an Extra 300 advertising the Ford KA:
http://www.pbase.com/image/15113159
RRAAMJET
6th Apr 2003, 04:22
In the original sat-image, just wondering if the NW-SE and back straight tracks might be those of J-STARS having a good side-look at the combat area with it's kit....
India Four Two
8th Apr 2003, 13:58
Very interesting that this image has now disappeared from the NOAA archive. It must have been a UFO.