whoa. thats a beautiful shot!Lots of nice photos of nature and contrails.
whoa. thats a beautiful shot!
that 2184/2185 i love the colors in the contrails. blue and 'brown'. nice shots.Thanks, I've put all my Yosemite contrail shots here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/metabunk/sets/72157660809505650
Yeah, kind of ties in with the blue/red contrail thing. Seems related to density as "red" spreads out into "blue".that 2184/2185 i love the colors in the contrails. blue and 'brown'. nice shots.
Yes it is.Today, I was working in Camarillo, CA, a little east of the Naval Base Ventura County, it looks like it's getting ready to land. I didn't know they put these set-ups on prop planes. I think it's a Grumman E-2 Hawkeye.
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I know that multiple contrails making crosses and hatches are commonplace in some parts of the world, but in Sydney this formation is vanishingly rare. Taken on 05 December 2015. One contrail is from a Singapore Airlines 777-300ER flying SIN-AKL, the other is United 99, a 787-9 flying MEL-LAX.
Not as good in my areaIt would have been a good morning to do a time-lapse if I had the kit and the time. Lots of short trails mixed in with the long ones.
I wouldn't have thought that was the case either! Apparently the runway is 6,447ft long. Looks like at sea level on a dry runway it's just about long enough for the max landing weight of a 747-400.Surprise visit
I did not know that our local airport is capable of taking a B747, but it's just done it:
External Quote:An airport spokesman said: "We have had Boeing 777s at the airport many times before, and in fact aircraft bigger than that, Boeing 747s – jumbo jets.
"In the 1940s, 50s and 60s, we carried out maintenance on large aeroplanes such as the Vickers Valiant and VC10, and in the 1960s, began work on the RAF's Hercules fleet.
"In 1982, we began servicing TriStars for the RAF, which are about the same size as a Boeing 777, and in the 1990s, Boeing 747s.
"Whenever a large aircraft comes in, we use traffic lights to halt the trafifc because of the aircraft's wake, turbulence which can affect cyclists on the ground."
He said aircraft coming in to land always followed a three degree glide path, and that large ones often appeared much closer to the ground than they actually were.
The spokesman added: "The arrival of these bigger aircraft is part of the maintenance contract work we have, on which many jobs depend."
Looks like the jumbos are maintained at CBG?
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/INC...ge-Airport/story-22821258-detail/story.html#1
External Quote:…in the 1990s, Boeing 747s.
The plane is still there, neatly tucked beside a hangar:Surprise visit
I did not know that our local airport is capable of taking a B747, but it's just done it:
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I hadn't seen that. From a quick reading of the main changes I don't think any of these flights would have been directly affected. Flights to and from LCY are generally too low to leave contrails here. Departures from Stansted are sometimes high enough to begin contrailing as they pass over. The majority of the trails I see here are from transatlantic routes, and those between Irish and northern UK airports and Europe.New routes from the LAMP airspace changes @Trailblazer ?
https://www.metabunk.org/airspace-change-to-go-live-uk.t7270/
I hadn't seen that. From a quick reading of the main changes I don't think any of these flights would have been directly affected. Flights to and from LCY are generally too low to leave contrails here. Departures from Stansted are sometimes high enough to begin contrailing as they pass over. The majority of the trails I see here are from transatlantic routes, and those between Irish and northern UK airports and Europe.
I was in Playa del Ingles, Gran Canaria in January. It was around +25 C during my visit. At the same time it was -30 C home in northern Sweden. Took photos of sunrise in the morning around 07:55 GMT. Canary Islands have same timezone as UK.
The two first photos is from an unknown flight.
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There is few flights in the direction from South America to Europe at that time. The odds for it to be LAN 700 is good.It's difficult to get an idea of the direction of the photos, but could the first two also be of LAN 700?
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