--- In [email protected], Angela Mailander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes, I've observed this phenomenon also. It does > suggest that the plane is ejecting something that it > can stop doing while continuing to fly. So it's not > just normal jet vapor. > the jet vapor or contrail is a byproduct of a high compression, high bypass engine processing the naturally existing water vapor in the atmosphere. The water vapor is highly compressed by the engine and released as a contrail made of ice particles. If there is little water vapor in the atmosphere, there will not be a contrail.
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