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English: Photo taken from the research aircraft Falcon of the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt(DLR) at about flight level 33,300 feet of an Airbus A340 with contrails (left) and a Boeing 707 without contrails (right).
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Source http://www.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-051013-001.pdf
Author US Air Force employee in the course of their official duties

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00:57, 28 July 2009 282 × 251 (98,507 bytes) w:en:Smallman12q (talk | contribs) ({{Information |Description = The contrails formed by the exhaust at high altitude are typically white and very similar to cirrus clouds. As the exhaust gases expand and mix with the atmosphere, the contrail diffuses and spreads. It is very difficult t)

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current20:32, 27 May 2024Thumbnail for version as of 20:32, 27 May 20241,192 × 631 (1.06 MB)Michael Weinolduploaded higher quality version of this photo which was provided to me directly by the involved researchers
04:02, 10 June 2012Thumbnail for version as of 04:02, 10 June 2012282 × 251 (96 KB)This is also Sven ManguardTransferred from en.wikipedia: see original upload log above

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