Spindling Flow
Though they may look like smoke or exhaust from the earth below, contrails hold secrets of barely subsonic circular motion and accelerated water vapor and ice crystals. As vortices flow in our wake from our wingtips, the spindling flow of circular patterns within our contrails quietly tell the story of pressure changes from our movement through the troposphere.
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