There's a very distinct spiral contrail shadow on the low cloud over the North
Sea off the NE coast of England. See it at


http://www.sat24.com/frame.php?html=...try=gb&sat=vis


Norman
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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.

On 20 Mar, 10:33, "Norman" wrote:
There's a very distinct spiral contrail shadow on the low cloud over the North
Sea off the NE coast of England. See it at

* * *http://www.sat24.com/frame.php?html=...try=gb&sat=vis

Norman
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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.

Google Earth photographing underwater street plans? Alton Towers' new
ride? Or will we all have to be shot?

Martin

Here is a noaa17 overpass image at 1026z, showing the spiral contrail in all
its glory
http://www.woksat.info/etcrc20/indexrc20.html

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Bernard Burton
Wokingham, Berkshire, UK.

Satellite images at:
www.woksat.info/wwp.html

"Norman" wrote in message
...
There's a very distinct spiral contrail shadow on the low cloud over the
North
Sea off the NE coast of England. See it at


http://www.sat24.com/frame.php?html=...try=gb&sat=vis


Norman
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Norman Lynagh
Tideswell, Derbyshire
303m a.s.l.

"JPG" wrote:
On 20 Mar, 10:33, "Norman" wrote:

There's a very distinct spiral contrail shadow on the low cloud over the
North
Sea off the NE coast of England. See it at

http://www.sat24.com/frame.php?html=...try=gb&sat=vis

Google Earth photographing underwater street plans? Alton Towers' new
ride? Or will we all have to be shot?

It's a sea-bedspring.

pe

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 11:28:27 -0000, Philip Eden wrote:

Or will we all have to be shot?

Almost certainly air to air refuelling. I've seen similar contrails over
us in the past:

http://www.howhill.com/weather/view....2003&m=04&d=07

Saw an Airborne Early Warning and Control plane going into Newcastle on
Tuesday morning.

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Cheers
Dave.

On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:00:18 -0000, Les Hemmings wrote:

AWACS early warning system. Aircraft loitering for an exercise
underneath...

Possibly or as I said air to air refueling. IIRC that area is one of the
ones designated for that. There is an excersice in progress though that
does cover that area and I did seen an AWACS on Tuesday looking as if it
was about to land at Newcastle.

http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/Ab...afetyandAviati
on/LowFlying/LowFlyingExercisesAndEvents.htm

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Cheers
Dave.

I had an Air Force friend Chas Morgan (sadly he died three years ago)
who was a navigator before later becoming an airline pilot.

Chas told me (and the story was repeated by someone else at his
funeral) how when as a young navigator on Javelins (doubtless flying
with an equally young pilot), he plotted the headings, speeds etc to
produce a rather graphic contrail. I leave it to your imagination,
but it involved two circles, a couple of straight lines and a semi-
circle. Apparently the contrail "art" was clearly visible from the
ground.

Jack

On 20 Mar, 10:33, "Norman" wrote:
There's a very distinct spiral contrail shadow on the low cloud over the North
Sea off the NE coast of England. See it at

* * *http://www.sat24.com/frame.php?html=...try=gb&sat=vis

Hi, Norman,

It's an AWACS plane, not an unusual site from here.

Ken
Copley