On my way home yesterday, I noticed several jet trails crisscrossing the sky. This one seemed particularly low – I could see the plane. I got home in time to photograph it as it was going over my house.
Maralee
The world as I see it
The world as I see it
On my way home yesterday, I noticed several jet trails crisscrossing the sky. This one seemed particularly low – I could see the plane. I got home in time to photograph it as it was going over my house.
Maralee
Through My Lens 
Neat. I just got the word out to my siblings (your cousins) about voting for you in the photo contest. I was vote #43 just now. I hope your blog followers will help get out the vote, too. Do you know when the daily voting will end? I hope you win. You are only 8 from the lead right now.
Thanks, Judy. I think it ends the 19th.
Brilliant shot … somebody told me that those trails is from then they dumping fuel. – but don’t take my word for it.
Thanks, Viveka. Your response made me curious so I did an internet search. Here’s what I came up with:
“What you are seeing is not smoke. It is a contrail . It is formed because the compressors in the jet engine compress a lot of air volume into an small chamber and the water vapor gets compressed into drops of water that are shot out of the back of the engine. The reason you see it at high altitudes is because the temp up there is around -40, those drops of water/vapor freeze instantly and form a cloud that you see witch is really thousands of water particles frozen. And to answer the other part only jet engines can do this because they have compressors, props do not so they cant make contrails. So if you are flying in a jet when the temp is a lot below freezing you will have a contrail. In some parts of Alaska and Siberia. The temp is already -20 and when planes take off they leave a contrail right there on the ground.”
Thank you so much … but I see the whole year around .. when they are going in for landing in Copenhagen. I wasn’t concerned really because if it had been fuel there had been some kick off about it.