Vapour trail

[Gerald D]

Travelling home from Christchurch to Kaikoura we noticed a vapour trail heading east above us.Found out later it was QF17 heading to Buenos Aires-interesting.

[Craig Murray]

VH-OEF QF0017 27/04/2011 11:03 Qantas B747-438(ER) Sydney-Buenos Aires

Info from Grahame's excellent 16right.com - ACARS (http://www.16right.com/YSSY/ACARS.htm)

[Jeff N]

Last Sunday night I saw a couple of interesting vapour trails over western Sydney around 550pm.

The first one was heading in a north westerly direction, when it suddenly veered off to the west. I then noticed that there was a second vapour trail heading directly towards it from the exact opposite direction.

They were both very high up, but I had no way of knowing how close in altitude they were to each other. I wouldn't imagine either one was departing from or arriving in Sydney.

Was the northwest bound one being diverted away from the oncoming one, or was it simply altering direction as part of its route?

[patrick woodward]

Anyone have info on a fast moving vapour trail this morning over Sydney around 1040am local.... Was travelling from the SW of Sydney to what look like overhead Sydney then headed east for a short time before heading what looked like NE... Hard to tell in a moving car....

Cheers

[Tim Bowrey]

Patrick it was most likely QF93 overflying us enroute MEL-LAX as it often comes over SYD or Woolongong which was VH-OQE.

VH-OQE QF0093 01/05/2011 10:44 Qantas A380-842 Melbourne-Los Angeles

[patrick woodward]

Cool thanks Tim...

[Bernie P]

And here is VH-OQE on its way to LAX...

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