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To: TXnMA
Contrail drift is understandable. What amazes is to see an airplane being blown sideways by the jet stream, with max winds of about 150 mph, faster than it makes forward progress at about 500 mph.


281 posted on 12/07/2010 6:40:33 PM PST by TigersEye (Who crashed the markets on 9/28/08 and why?)
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To: TigersEye

Do you believe the small dark images at the top of that photo are the actual object creating the contrails in those photos?


283 posted on 12/07/2010 7:34:43 PM PST by Brian Kopp DPM (Liberalism is infecund.)
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