Debunked: Plane leaving trails from under wing [E-6 TACAMO Fuel Dump]

FuzzyUK

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A friend of mine wants an explanation for this. Where are the most prominent trails emitted from and why are there virtually no trails from the engines?

https://www.metabunk.org/data/MetaMirrorCache/23e4a2c195d8661d41dd63e32865d0f6.jpg

23e4a2c195d8661d41dd63e32865d0f6.jpg
 
As stated on the Contrail Science link the image came from the TACAMO website.

http://tacamo.org/

A quick search on the web reveals the following in relation to the original up loader of this image to the internet.

Simply a fuel jettison from an E-6 Mercury

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E-6 dumping fuel, no smoking allowed....
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Photos of the might E-6A Mercury Command & Control Aircraft from my days as a Mission Commander in Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron THREE.
https://picasaweb.google.com/ray.buettner/TACAMO#5089530237459329890

https://picasaweb.google.com/ray.buettner/TACAMO

The following is an image I took during 2009. It shows a Nimrod R.1 fuel venting and vortex contrails coming off the wingtip pods.

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http://www.airliners.net/photo/UK---Air/Hawker-Siddeley-Nimrod/1496456/L
 
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