File:Contrails Formed At High Altitude.png
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English: Photo taken from the research aircraft Falcon of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt(DLR) at about flight level 33,300 feet of an Airbus A340 with contrails (left) and a Boeing 707 without contrails (right). |
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Source | http://www.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-051013-001.pdf |
Author | US Air Force employee in the course of their official duties |
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00:57, 28 July 2009 | 282 × 251 (98,507 bytes) | w:en:Smallman12q (talk | contribs) | ({{Information |Description = The contrails formed by the exhaust at high altitude are typically white and very similar to cirrus clouds. As the exhaust gases expand and mix with the atmosphere, the contrail diffuses and spreads. It is very difficult t) |