Mirage Fighter escort over Paris for fuel leak delayed Thomas Cook Boeing 757 flight TCX127
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wow, nice. That mirage was out there for probably at least ten minutes, and you film it for 24 seconds. Gee thanks.
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The trails you see at take off and landing are from the wingtip and flap vortices. The reduction in pressure and temperature across each vortex can cause water to condense and make the cores of the vortices visible. Common for take off and landing. Different to the contrails you see from high altitude planes which is from the engines.
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@64maskinn Hi 64maskinn. You can't have noticed the smaller fuel leak today 22/2/2010 which my daughter pointed out to me as we were landing at Birmingham from the same place as yesterdays bigger one on the plane which had been "repaired overnight". (Because the jet was on the left and the leak on the right).
hey man. i was sitting the other side of the plane haha. the day before (ie yesterday) when it actually leaked, i had a good view of it. some guy behind me was shitting himself lol. so nickRS100 is right. i wasn't able to see the jet. what you must've seen wasn't fuel leakin, but what i calll vapoury whisps, which i've seen pass across the wings of many planes i've been on.
rabbitspliff 2 years ago
Yes, I saw the usual vapour trail from between the flaps on the left hand wing too as we landed.
64maskinn 2 years ago
WOW I just read about this on the news!!! Was you on it the plane that leaked and made an emergency landing?????
rachaelmatt 2 years ago
Yes, more excitement in two days flying than you really want. We were so glad to get on it on Sunday as it was running 3h late into Turin after the snow in Birmingham delayed its takeoff.
64maskinn 2 years ago