After a relatively quiet day yesterday I've just been outside and see that the chemtrailing has returned with a vengeance. I was hoping to enjoy a beautiful day today but it looks like the sky is to be used as a dumping ground for barium and aluminium and whatever else is in the chemtrails.
I only saw one chemtrailer yesterday ........
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| 4 engined airliner...not seen on planefinder website ( identified as a KC135 tanker aircraft by a commenter ). |
.....so the sky was actually quite blue and I had a fantastic day on the golf course.
However I've just taken a few pictures of the sky this morning and I think it's going to be a long day of spraying........
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| Criss cross time again...taken at 8am local time |
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| Sun rising and already struggling to peek through the chemical haze |
I'll take pictures throughout the day and see how things develop..........
Things developed as anticipated. I was over in Fife visiting a friend and took these photos en route ..
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| Tay Road Bridge ( Fife side)...sun hidden behind chemical cocktail. |
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Sun struggling to be seen in the evening.....should have been a lovely night to sit in the garden
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| Nearly May and the woodlands near St Andrews are still like mid winter due to a lack of sunlight. |
"4 engined airliner...not seen on planefinder website."
ReplyDeletePossibly because it is not an airliner - it is a Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kc-135
Hi anon....oops...yes you're right. Military aircraft won't show up on planefinder etc.
ReplyDeleteI usually look using my bino's as well but I was out and about and just caught it with the camera which doesn't have a very good telephoto lens. Have to get a better camera.
Looking at your link to wiki it's definitely a KC-135.
If you regularly see military (USAF) aircraft following more-or-less the same route it's quite possible they are rotating to and from the US following (whilst avoiding direct overflight of Glasgow/Prestwick airports and the city itself) a great circle path (most direct) via Reykjavík or Keflavik in Iceland, as this is generally considered to be the safest trans-Atlantic crossing when you consider the need for a possible (emergency) diversionary airfield.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=MHZ-RKV&MS=wls&DU=mi
hi anon...the aircraft was flying about 60 miles east of the great circle line shown on your map. Heading from SE to NW. Maybe it's the distance they maintain between going north and going south on the great circle route ?
ReplyDeleteAnother page from the same website, explaining the principle of ETOPS and mentioning Keflavik again. With the retirement of many older 3/4 engine passenger jets (DC/MD10/11, Tristar, DC8, 727, 747) and their replacement with more modern twins (Airbus prior to A340, 757, 767, 777, 787), this might provide for a reason why you see many more skytrails than you did in years gone by.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.gcmap.com/faq/etops
hi anon..I like the comedy alternative for the acronym ETOPS in your link...engine turns or passengers swim.
ReplyDeleteI've read that many pilots don't like to cross the pond with just two engines.
I don't expect to see any long trails in the sky. They just shouldn't be there. Certainly not from horizon to horizon and at all heights and in all atmospheric conditions. It's a new phenomenon for both 2 and 4 engined aircraft.
A slight overlapping of posts here - I think they would maintain altitude separation rather than lateral separation dependant on the direction they were flying - although another thought to possibly explain the presence of the KC-135 is that it was there to refuel fast combat jets making the Atlantic crossing somewhere over Scotland given that such aircraft usually don't have the range that airliners do and they would need full tanks before leaving the Scotish coastline. Tankers often set up an orbit flightpath so would leave huge repeating oval skytrails, the fighters (etc) would leave trails that might intersect these leading to the criss-cross effects you are witnessing. There has been a large draw-down of USAFE aircraft back to the States in recent years - this would also lead to increased traffic in the north of the UK maybe?
ReplyDeleteOn horizon to horizon trails - I'm at the other end of Britain from you (down in the west-country) and I'm not generally seeing anything out of the ordinary, and I'm speaking as a long-time plane spotter and skywatcher. I know the jetstream is now wavering about and moving south away from you - are you seeing longer lasting trails because they are not being dispersed or dissipated so easily? Scotland has long been known as a windy place - have things changed very much in recent times?
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ReplyDeletehi anon..I've never seen fighter jets leaving a chemtrail. The F4 Phantom used to leave a smokey old exhaust behind it but never a long chemtrail. And the aircraft that I see criss crossing are usually twin engined passenger type aircraft. Long and white with two engines.
ReplyDeleteThere are a lot of youtube videos showing spraying in your part of the country.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBy5VuXy6B8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7J4sZwpNE4