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Subject: Name vapor cloud ballooning over low flying aircraft (-contrails)

Date: Fri May 19 06:51:29 2006
Posted by Mae
Grade level: 10-12
School: Windsor Public Library
City: Windsor State/Province: Ontario Country: Canada


A friend showed me a video of an F-14 Tomcat fighter jet, flying at or near 
the speed of sound, that punched through a cloud that suddenly appeared in 
front/surrounding the plane.  He thought the effect was simiar to contrails, 
but had a different name.

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