condensation trails

Do Commercial Aircraft Have Contrails?

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Do Commercial Aircraft Have Contrails? Contrails Precipitation cloud? No Why do military jets not leave contrails? Why do some jets not leave contrails? Contrails form when jet exhaust emits water vapor that condenses and freezes. Contrails don’t form for every airplane. The atmosphere where the plane is flying needs to have low vapor pressure and

Why Do Jet Planes Leave A White Trail Behind Them?

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Why Do Jet Planes Leave A White Trail Behind Them? These clouds are contrails, short for condensation trails. Water vapor is one of the byproducts of jet fuel combustion and will turn into ice crystals in the cold air at the high elevations where jet airplanes fly. Those ice crystals create a cloud (the contrail),