“Chemtrail” Aircraft Photos
Several planes look a little odd, or have attachments that look odd, and so some people feel they must be part of a decades long conspiracy to spray stuff into the atmosphere to alter the weather or reduce the population. That’s obviously nonsense, but what are these strange planes?
Here’s one making the rounds, scary looking barrels, and a sign on the wall that possibly says “Hazmat inside”
What is it? It’s a Boeing 777-200LR Worldliner, specifically it’s WD001, a plane that was used for flight testing. The original photo can be found here - note the “Hazmat” text was added later. The barrels contain water, which is pumped around to shift the center of gravity to test various flight characteristics.
From Boeing’s blog:
Remember, we test at the extremes of the weight/CG envelope. This requires us to control the CG during ground and flight conditions. We can move weight, in the form of water, forward or aft with the use of the water ballast system. This system is comprised of 48 barrels, each capable of carrying 460 pounds, connected by tubing to a pump. A computerized system tracks fuel placement, fuel burn, people placement, ballast, flap setting, landing gear position and water barrel quantity. The information is processed to display the airplane’s current CG. We move water or specify fuel tank usage to configure the CG within the specified test requirements.
Why are there overhead luggage compartments? It’s a test plane, and for FAA certification they have to demonstrate that everything works. That includes stuff like the emergency oxygen system, and more minor things like the luggage compartments. It’s a requirement that they don’t pop open in flight - so that needs to be tested. They are also handy for stowing the engineers’ stuff.
Here’s some pictures from Boeing:
And a lot more photos can be found on Boeing’s site.
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This one gets a lot of use in the “chemtrail” forums:
Particularly because of the unusual collections of pipes sticking out in various places. There’s those two at the front, and then there is a group over the wing. Here’s some close ups
Very sinister looking tubes, but why are half of them facing the wrong way?
The plane is not for spraying the atmosphere, it’s for sampling the atmosphere. It’s a research aircraft, registration N701BN, operated by th e department of energy’s national labs. It’s pretty much one of a kind, so it’s hardly likely to be responsible for all the persistent contrails we see every day. The research is mostly on pollutants in the atmosphere, particularly from coal and oil burning power plants. But they also investigate the properties of clouds, which includes contrails.
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Here’s another photo you see in “chemtrail” videos, with the implied suggestion that it’s some kind of evil spraying device:

Actually it IS a spraying device, but quite innocuous. It’s used by the air force to test icing of planes in flight. See:
https://www.safaq.hq.af.mil/news/march04/raptor.html
Here’s some more details:
nkc-135-icing-attachmentpv1983_2688.pdf
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This plane is quite interesting:
It’s an E-6B “Tacamo”. This photo shows it dumping fuel (photo from tacamo.org). The E-6B is used by the United States Strategic Command as an airborne communication center. You can see the navy logo on the right wing. The E-6B is a modified version of the Boeing 707-320, and the fuel vents have been moved from the wing tips to between the fuselage and the engines in order to separate it from the communication equipment in the wing tips. This is what the wing-tip ESM/SATCOM pod looks like:
It looks like this odd assemblage is also creating some wingtip vortex contrails as well. The plane is pretty much all white, which is something you hear mentioned form time to time in “chemtrail” conspiracy theories.
Here’s another photo of the same plane, taken from a “chemtrail” YouTube video:

It shows the opening for the ELF trailing wire antenna. This is a very long wire antenna that is extended behind the plane for several hundred feet and used for communications with submarines.
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This plane also occasionally get brought up in chemtrail conspiracy groups:

This is obviously not a contrail, it’s far too low and the trail is dropping too rapidly.
It’s a Boeing 747-100 “Supertanker”, modified by Evergreen Aviation, the only one of its kind. Specifically designed for fire fighthing. That’s it dumping water.
Here’s a video of it in action, titled “B747 chemtrails”. It’s interesting reading the comments, as the first comment correctly identifies what it is, and then everyone else just ignores that and starts speculating.
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This one looks like a plane spraying stuff. But again it’s rather close to the ground. It’s actually taking off with the assistance of rockets. It’s not spraying, that’s just rocket exhaust.
This particular plane is a Boeing B-47B, rocket assisted take off, April 15, 1954. An no, that’s not a contrail in the sky behind it - it’s rip in the photo. Click on it for a large version.
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This one is used for cloud seeding. It does not actually spray anything but uses silver iodine flares that are either ejected, or burn in place.
It’s operated by the Sandy land Underground Water Conservation district of Plains, Texas, as part of their SOAR program. They have some more photos of similar equipment on their site. They are all small aircraft not capable of getting to the above 30,000 feet where contrails normally form.
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This next photo is also of silver iodine flares, fixed underneath at large plane.
These also show up in “chemtrail” literature. They are sold by Weather Modification Inc, they make a range of weather modification equipment. About this one they say:
WMI racks for ejectable flares are mounted on the belly of the aircraft fuselage. Each rack holds 102 cartridges. When fired, the pyrotechnic is ignited and ejected from the aircraft. In this configuration, the WMI Lear 35A is equipped with four 102-count racks for ejectable glaciogenic pyrotechnics, a total of 408 flares.
Here’s another, this time from North American Weather Consultants, Inc.
About which they say:
This aircraft-mounted cloud seeding generator is fixed in place, and can burn a silver iodide solution during flight.
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Wednesday 23 May 2007 | Uncinus | chemtrails, contrails, science













There are chemtrails I see them every week. Why are you trying to
cover up the truth?
Why does the air get really hazy after I see many chemtrails being done in the sky? These photos do nothing to answer the many questions I have about why non-commercial jets are spraying chemtrails in our skies.
Ezra, sometimes when conditions are right, contrails will spread out to form a hazy layer of cirrus clouds.
why did a lab in louisiana test what fell to the ground after a plane sprayed and it was found to contain 30 times the amount of baruim levels acceptable?
all sites like this do is seek to stop us from questioning the government ,why are “chemtrails “mentioned in the congressional record?why are some congressmen with a conscience seeking hearings?,i suppose you want our email addresses so the”black suburban can show up to make us disappear”
the most feared sentence in the english language;WE ARE FROM THE GOVERNMENT,AND,WE ARE HERE TO HELP.
question authority!!!!!
Which congressmen are seeking hearings? About what?
Where are these barium results? All the tests I’ve seen show normal levels of barium.
“Chemtrails” are mentioned in the congressional record because Kuchinich trusted his eccentric friends to write his bills. See:
http://contrailscience.com/kucinich-chemtrails-and-hr-2977/
http://youtube.com/watch?v=okB-489l6MI
watch,why would they lie?
http://www.godlikeproductions.com/forum1/message502076/pg1
i guess these guys are liars too
The barium results you link to show normal levels, as I’ve explained several times:
http://contrailscience.com/barium-chemtrails/
The second link says nothing about congressmen seeking hearings, it just mentions HR2977, which I already explained:
http://contrailscience.com/kucinich-chemtrails-and-hr-2977/
http://www.chemtrails911.com/related_legislation.htm
None of those links mention chemtrails or hearings (except for HR2977, which I already explained)
http://www.arizonaskywatch.com
more lies right?
http://d1027732.mydomainwebhost.com/articles/articles/House-Resolution-3445.htm
http://d1027732.mydomainwebhost.com/articles/articles/Senate-Bill-1807.htm
no one here in arizona agreed to be sprayed like insects to “create man made rain”
Not lies, misunderstandings.
Nothing in those bills mentions anything like “chemtrails”.
The contrails that you see form at an altitude where the clouds form as ice. So they cannot be used for creating rain.
Most of the time they do not spread, and so have little effect on the weather.
Contrails DO have some effect on the weather when they do spread, as they increase the “global dimming” effect. But this is unintentional, and unrelated to anything in the bills you mention.
It’s a huge leap of reasoning to connect persistent contrails to these bills. If you still think they are connected, then please quote me the section of the bill that deals specifically with high altitude spraying.
Have a look at this satellite photo:
http://rapidfire.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/subsets/?AERONET_Maricopa/2008050/AERONET_Maricopa.2008050.terra.1km.jpg
It shows Arizona a few days ago (2/19). You can click on “Prev” at the top to show one for EVERY DAY in the past four years. In this particular photo you can see lots of contrails. You can also see they are associated with cloudy conditions. Go through the photos, and see what days have contrails.
02/26/2008 1316 pm clear and sunny all day ,yes we have seen CON TRAILS today evaporating as fast as the jet is flying.
riddle me this:why are all these people “mis informed”as you say?
http://www.chycho.com/?q=node/1594
Contrails evaporate quickly when the air is not humid and cold enough. It varies, just like the weather varies.
You posted a link to a blog, so I’m not sure what you mean by “all these people”. I don’t know why Mr Chycho holds the opinions he does - but he’s still wrong about the science of contrails. He’s also rather confused about HR2977, and what the Germans have “admitted” to.
WELL YOU KNOW SOMETHING?LAST TWO DAYS HERE HAVE BEEN CLEAR AND NICE BLUE SKIES,YES A FEW HIGH ALTIDUDE JETS FLYING ,FORMING”CONTRAILS”THAT EVAPORATE…SEE WHEN WE ARE BEING SPRAYED THE SKY IS FULL OF JETS…SO NOT MATTER WHAT YOU SAY THE IS A BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CONTRAILS,PERSISTENT CONTRAILS AND CHEMTRAILS.CHEMTRAILS ARE REAL AND WE ARE BEING SPRAYED ,BE IT FOR WEATHER MODIFICATION OR TO KEEP GLOBAL WARMING DOWN IT IS HAPPENING ,NOT JUST HERE IN ARIZONA BUT ALL OVER THE WORLD
The difference you are seeing is simply due to the weather at altitude. The jets are still there, just harder to see because they don’t leave long contrails.
give me a break……….
No really, they are still there. You have to look pretty hard to see the higher ones. Especially the small executive jets that fly above 36,000 feet.
Where in AZ do you live? There are probably a LOT of planes flying over you every day, going do and from the West Coast, and the South and East States. Have a look at this map:
http://contrailscience.com/there-are-a-lot-of-jets-in-the-air/
Especially look at the Google Earth map, which will show you the jets above you right now, in 3D (you need Google Earth installed, and a fairly fast computer).
http://www.fboweb.com/antest/ge/geALLFLIGHTS.kmz
Thanks SO much for putting this site up. I was associated with the aviation industry for many years (built wind-tunnel models) and thought I knew quite a bit about aircraft until I saw one of the chemtrail conspiracy vids on youtube. This vid had a number of photos in it that showed some of the same type equipment you have posted in photos here. I was pretty sure the devices weren’t chemical sprayers or supporting equipment, but I just didn’t know what it was, you cleared it up for me
You’re doing yeoman work here and I commend you for the patient manner in which you respond to the outlandish claims some folks are making. I’ve tried explaining the physics of contrails to conspiracy believers a few times but I can’t get thru to those guys, it seems as if when they’re presented with a reasonable, logical explanation they just ignore the evidence.
Nice site, and you’ve made my day!
HEY GNORVILLE YUP PRETTY GOOD SITE I’D SAY ,MOSTLY TRYING TO CONVINCE PEOPLE OTHERWISE THAT CHEMTRAILS ARE NOT REAL,SEE HERE IN AZ ,PHOENIX IN PARTICULAR PAST TWO DAYS MON MAR 3 AND TUES MAR 4 JETS FLYING HIGH ABOVE US WITH “NORMAL CONTRAILS”,CLEAR BLUE SKIES,NOW TWO WEEKS AGO THE JETS THAT WERE FLYING OVERHEAD WERE NOT IN “COMMERCIAL AIR TRAFIC PATTERNS” AND THEY ARE OBVIOUSLY SPRAYING SOMETHING ,IN ALL MY YEARS BEING AROUND AIRCRAFT THE ONLY ONES THAT FLY UNCONVVENTIONAL PATTERNS ARE MILITARY…SO YOU SEE WHEN A GUY LIKE “UNICUS”CONTINUALLY TRIES TO “DEBUNK”CHEMTRAILS,IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE WHEN WE HAVE SEEN IT HAPPEN RIGHT BEFORE OUR EYES.
Contrails are made by jets that fly very high, and are going between places that are far away from Phoenix. Examples being Los Angeles to Houston, or San Diego to Atlanta. There are many such flights every day. If the planes do not leave contrails (when the weather is not right for contrails to form), then they can be very difficult to spot.
sorry i was wrong went out side at 1445 03/04/08 and wow two jets side by side spewing a contrail from horizon to horizon amazing
NWO Dept of Weather Managment / Cloud seeding program not harming western Colorado wildlife
http://kjct8.com/Global/story.asp?S=7935944
Anonymous Coward
User ID: 381326 (OP)
3/4/2008 2:02 AM Re: They’re seedtrails not chemtrails Quote
Cloud seeding is used to make rain (or snow). It is done at a lower altitude than where contrails form.
Cloud seeding has been done for decades. There has never been any secrecy about it. See all these books:
http://books.google.com/books?q=cloud+seeding&as_brr=1
Ok, I have a friend that is a lawyer and he believes in almost every conspericy that is out there. He says that since he is a lawyer he has to look at all the facts but he really just looks at the negative and its making his life a complete hell. You can question authority all you want but to what avail? Are there such things as aliens, monsters or ghosts? come on… believe what you want and say what you want but when it comes down to it, none of you will really do anything about it but post comments on the internet. I dont see anyone at the federal building protesting or much of anything else. No use bashing this post because i will never look at it, I just found this site on accident and will never return. “Get busy living or get busy dyeing” Dont waist your life with stress and pain, try to enjoy the positive things around you. Happy Easter!
Weatherman Explains Chemtrails on Radar:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=222_1200191568
NBC news: Chemtrails over California:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIAWWL4HQDg
Chemtrail Proof - German Military Exposed:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaPqCMIuEk4&eurl=http://prisonplanet.com/articles/december2007/181207Chemtrail.htm
The first video is about chaff.
The second video is just an overview of chemtrail theory, with no actual evidence presented. I can address individual points if you’d like to pick one or two you feel are most compelling.
The third video is badly translated, also about chaff, and I dealt with it at the following link:
http://contrailscience.com/germans-admit-they-used-duppel/
i love ur site btw, its quite humurous seeing ppl’s points on chemtrails. they really dont understand the science hey. i think wildwelder should check out flightaware.com and i think his opinion on how many jets are in the air will change. have these chemtrail theorists ever realized, if there was such spraying, how inefficient it would be to spray at 30,000ft+…the US government is not that dumb. the barium tests make me laugh. expecting what one see’s above is gonna fall right into ones testube lol. do they know what wind and winds aloft are???
great site!
hey, thanks for posting this site, i do admit i was sorta convinced by all the rediculous tin-foil hat folk cell tower mind control theories, HAARP and ELF weather control, and chemtrails, but seeing this brings me back to reason. i cant thank you enough for trying to debunk these things, plus returning aviation to it’s good name. uncinus i commend you on your calm and eloquent way of attempting the conspiracy theorists to listen to reason. although i am abit distrustful of our present govt. and i think it’s getting too involved in other folks lifestyle, i would think they would not have the power, means or lack of respect for their country to do such a thing.
good day, and keep on debunkin’
Do rockets leave contrails?
Yes, rockets do leave contrails, although they are very different to jet engine contrails because the chemical composition of the exhaust is different (and varies also based on the type of rocket engine). They are also different because rockets travel vertically, so they go through a greater variety of atmospheric conditions.
The vertical lift also means a lot more fuel is used for distance travelled, so the trail is a lot denser.
Some rockets, like solid fuel rockets, produce a lot of smoke - this can look like a contrail, and might actual exist in combination with condensation. Smoke can precipitate condensation if the air is moist enough.
Some rockets use combustion of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, and that produces a lot of water, such as the space shuttle. Those types of rocket can leave very dense vertical contrails due to the vast amount of fuel needed to generate the lifting force.
Rockets like the space shuttle can leave contrails at very high altitudes, which created weird looking wispy clouds.
Here’s some photos of the Space Shuttle contrail at the bottom of this page:
http://zimmer.csufresno.edu/~fringwal/ksc.html