This was a flight out of Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson
International Airport on the morning of Saturday, August 9th. I watched arriving planes coming out of the clouds and it
looked like their wings were on fire, completely covered in smoke. That of
course, was not the case. The planes were making clouds. When my flight took
off I started recording with my iphone and it started just before I hit record.
Watch the wing carefully you can’t see
the entire wing until after the cloud clears as the plane passes through the
low cloud layer.
Basically what is happening here is the water vapor in the
very humid air condenses because as the air speeds up over the top part of the wing
it leads to lower pressure and thus cooler air. The air is cooled enough to
reach the dew point forming a cloud.
