Originally posted by OhZone
I think those photos of WWII planes in the sky with all the "trails" is fake.
According to the WWII bomber group Vets who flew those missions, and took these photos, they are absolutely authentic.
Contrail Testimony by WWII Veterans Smashes 'Chemtrail' Hypothesis
Jay,
Yes, we certainly did. Contrails were so thick that they became clouds. We often said that we created weather over Europe. They would persist for many
hours, maybe days. We flew a different route coming back than going in partly to avoid the contrail clouds that we created. There are some pictures of
contrails on my web site - none of these are shown to be very heavy but there were time when we were near the end of the bomber stream and the
contrails were so dense that it was no dfferent than flying in clouds. A thousand or more
planes (4000 internal combustion engines) can make a lot of contrail at 25000 feet or more.
Hope this helps.
Willard Reese- 457th Bomb Group
There are plenty of other, similar, testimonials on that site, check it for yourself, better yet write the vets organizations and ask the pilots
personally.
Originally posted by OhZone
Why do we not see them forming from those planes in the phots?
I don’t understand this question. I quite clearly DO see them forming from the planes in the photos.
Originally posted by OhZone
I read that "con trails" are the result of the higher heat from jet engines, and that they are a new phenomena since the jet age began.
You think that piston driven engines do not get hotter then the surrounding atmosphere as well?
How do you explain the white vapor that comes out of a car when it’s cold outside?
Evil car spirits?
Originally posted by OhZone
I have lived in Florida for 54 years. I lived in and near Tampa. MacDill AFB is next to Tampa, you might even say in Tampa. I did not see any of these
persisten trails until recent years.
And the reason for this is that most of them have been north of Tampa in Lutz and Pasco County. Why the sudden shift? Well its because they did
construction on the runways and had to route the traffic into the airport from a different direction then normal, thus causing folks who were not used
to living under the flight path to have to for the first time. There was much griping, crying, and lamentation about this, as the folks south of TIA
were complaining it was making their property values drop.
When the news picked up on the story I think the folks to the North did not realize that the folks to the south had been lobbying the airport to keep
the flights to the north, and started to fight back. The folks to the south would have been better off to stoically handle the traffic increase for
awhile, and have kept their mouths shut, cause now the folks to the north realize they have a say in the situation as well. I am guessing that is why
I still hear about traffic increases to the south, now after the construction is completed.
Kind of reads like “the blue and the gray”….
I don’t live to the north or south of it anymore so it really doesn’t effect me, other then the amusement factor of it all.
Originally posted by OhZone
Also as to Florida. We do not have much E/W air traffic. Yet there are days when there are many E/W trails.
Not sure where you get that FL does not get much east/west traffic from. There are plenty of flights which come and go to Dallas FortWorth and Houston
International Airport. There are Flights which go from Texas, across the Gulf and down to Miami or over to Orlando. There are flights which go from
here to England for crying out loud. Aircraft certainly don’t have to follow the landmass like a car does, and enter FL from the North. Also when
the airport is routing for a southern approach aircraft come either down the bay or down 275 then have to turn either east or west on their
base leg for final approach.
Check these maps out, I bet you had no idea that there was this much traffic into TIA:
South flow all aircraft
North flow all aircraft
Originally posted by OhZone
And who is it that takes the time and trouble to make those daisy formations>
I assume you are talking about holding patterns. A holding pattern looks something like this:
Holding patterns
So basically, to answer your question, bored pilots and annoyed passengers make them.
Originally posted by OhZone
Ignorance is bliss; knowledge is agony.
Hm…..
Nevermind…
[edit on 4/29/2007 by defcon5]