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User currently offlineYZ717 From United States of America, joined Jun 2005, 6 posts, RR: 0
Posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 1289 times:

What type of aircraft produce the single contrail? Fighter aircraft or something else? One can easily tell if it's a 747/A340 from the 4-contrail pattern or the 2/3 engine aircraft from their respective contrail patterns. I can only figure that the single contrail patterns are from some military jets. Thoughts?

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User currently offlineNewark777 From United States of America, joined Dec 2004, 9348 posts, RR: 40
Reply 1, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 18 hours ago) and read 1275 times:

Sometimes, depending on the weather, the separate contrails may seem to merge, and appear as one contrail. Either that or some military single engine plane.

Harry


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User currently offlineOly720man From United Kingdom, joined May 2004, 6081 posts, RR: 12
Reply 2, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 8 hours ago) and read 1080 times:

Business jets are small enough that the exhausts combine and look like just one.

Fighters will also have single trails.


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User currently offline777DadandJr From United States of America, joined Feb 2005, 1516 posts, RR: 15
Reply 3, posted (6 years 8 months 1 week 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 1075 times:

Maybe it was a British Airways plane with only one operating engine!  rotfl 

I hear that's is pretty common!

Russ


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User currently offlineBruce From United States of America, joined May 1999, 4989 posts, RR: 21
Reply 4, posted (6 years 8 months 4 days 2 hours ago) and read 903 times:

What about a CRJ? Small enough fuselage that the trails would be close together?

bruce


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