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Saw this interesting sight earlier The right hand aircraft is the C17 and the other is a B747...

Cool!  :) Some serious contrails there!

How come the 747 is only giving out 3 contrails?  ???  :o
Or is it an optical illusion?

Noyce

Great shot!!

How come the 747 is only giving out 3 contrails?  ???  :o
Or is it an optical illusion?

I see four  Just gotta look a little closer on the right wing, the perspective kinda makes it hard to see both of them.

Nice shot

Aye, with the wrapping that the contrails do, it's a bit hard to see #4.  Lovely pictures, I'm a sucker for contrails.  

And really?  A C-17?  Always seems weird to me to see a military plane of such leaving a contrail just like a 747, they're in such different classes it seems.

Thank you for those nice comments

And really?  A C-17?  Always seems weird to me to see a military plane of such leaving a contrail just like a 747, they're in such different classes it seems.

I know what you mean but yes it was a C17, I took the photograph in the below thread about 3 minutes later

http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/ ... 1144233364

And really?  A C-17?  Always seems weird to me to see a military plane of such leaving a contrail just like a 747, they're in such different classes it seems.
     

They are both jets, aren't they?

They are both jets, aren't they?

My thoughts exactly... I was under the impression that a contrail is a contrail is a contrail.

My thoughts exactly... I was under the impression that a contrail is a contrail is a contrail.

contrail is a contrail is a contrail is a contrail
 they have 4 engines therefor 4 contrails

They are both jets, aren't they?

They don't need to be jets. http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~josephkennedy/combat_photo_gallery2.htm

PS. Nice one Omag.

Nice sight

Thats pretty sweet!