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To: warsaw44

No to the distance it covered without seeing it in more detail to fix a relative distance to ground objects but that detail is not needed to know it was not a commercial aircraft. An SRB contrail is distinctive and this was it. The other point is that afterburners are required to give off any resemblence of a white hot ignition at the exhaust of a jet engine but the smokey contrail is not indicative of a jet afterburner.


68 posted on 11/09/2010 5:47:17 PM PST by mazda77 (Mike Hogan - JAX Mayor)
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To: mazda77
Thank you.

My only experience with contrails is watching them where I grew up in Maine. Our home was surrounded by acres of hay fields and I'd lay in the field for hours watching the aircraft leaving trails in the sky. It always seemed there were hundreds of them at once and you really couldn't make out the airplanes too well without binoculars.

These contrails would take a good long time to travel across the sky and I sure wasn't 35 miles away from them!

71 posted on 11/09/2010 5:55:55 PM PST by warsaw44
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