Friday, November 12, 2010

Where would you like to go today?

would greatly appreciate suggestions for improving this destination finder!


Wednesday, November 10, 2010

Aircraft Vapor Plume??

an aircraft plume usually makes a continuous streak across the sky ... if it is an aircraft, why does the plume abruptly terminate?

Amplify’d from www.msnbc.msn.com


Pentagon: Mystery 'missile' likely a plane


Review concludes vapor plume that streaked across Calif. sky probably came from aircraft



WASHINGTON — A mystery vapor trail that was filmed off the coast of southern California and looked like a missile launch was likely caused by a plane, the Pentagon said on Wednesday, closing its case on the incident.

"With all the information that we have gathered over the last day and a half about this condensation trail ... we have no evidence to suggest that this was anything other than a contrail caused by an aircraft," said Col. David Lapan, a Pentagon spokesman.

The image was
caught on tape by a KCBS news helicopter on Monday evening at rush hour. Video showed a billowing contrail apparently rising from the water about 35 miles west of Los Angeles and north of Catalina Island.

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