Memphis Belle WWII Bomber Contrails - 1944
This is an excerpt from the 1944 film “The Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress”. The full original film is public domain, and can be found here:
http://www.archive.org/details/TheMem…
The film shows contrail formation, including showing “broken” contrails.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfOrez6q7WM
Make sure you listent to the audio, as it explains how high the planes are, how cold it is, and why contrails form.
Monday 03 Nov 2008 | Uncinus | contrails
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To quote someone, please use <blockquote> and </blockquote> tags, for example:
<blockquote>But surely the contrails would evaporate?
How do you explain that, given those facts?</blockquote>
This brought back distant memories, but so distant as to not remind me exactly when I saw the film that had this clip in it. Thanks for the memory.
It must have been hard to extract any enjoyment out of being a twenty-year-old crewman taking off maybe in the dark to set off for deadly confrontations with flak and fighters in a brightly-lit sub-zero stratosphere, wondering how you could possibly get through a tour of duty before your number came up.
Don’t show it to BLoblaw005 - he’ll deny it has any validity AND say the vapor trails aren’t persistent - all at the same time.