Contrails are clouds made of ice particles, which can be created when airplanes fly through cold, humid air. Persistent contrails are estimated to have a warming climate impact. Flight tests will ...

LYON—Thales and France-based carrier Amelia are scaling up their collaboration on preventing the formation of condensation trails, or contrails, as Amelia will apply prevention measures to every ...

Small changes to aircraft flight paths to avoid the atmospheric conditions that create condensation trails—known as contrails—could reduce aviation's global warming impact by nearly half, a new study ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — There have been all kinds of theories about jet contrails over the years. In reality, they have a very simple scientific explanation. You will often see a white streak trailing ...

GE Aerospace is partnering with NASA to carry out a series of flight tests designed to improve the industry’s understanding of contrails. To be performed over the week commencing 18 November, the ...

Those white vapor trails crisscrossing the sky carry a hidden climate price tag comparable to the damage from jet fuel itself. Research from Chalmers University of Technology reveals that aviation ...

Suggested Citation: "1 Overview." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2025. Developing a Research Agenda on Contrails and Their Climate Impacts. Washington, DC: The National ...

From the top of a plane wing, another airplane is seen flying above clouds in a blue sky, leaving a contrail in its wake. In spring 2023, scientists aboard a research aircraft chased an Airbus A321neo ...

In the skies over Hampton Roads it is common to see contrails, cloud-like strips of condensed water left behind by aircrafts at high altitude. Some dissipate within minutes, but depending on the ...

Aviation's climate impact is partly due to contrails—condensation that a plane streaks across the sky when it flies through icy and humid layers of the atmosphere. Contrails trap heat that radiates ...

MORE ON WHAT CONTRAILS ARE áANDá WHAT THEY ARE NOT. YEAH. LET'S TALK ABOUT CONTRAILS. "NOT CHEMTRAILS." CONTRAILS. WE'LL DISCUSS 'CHEMTRAILS" LATER ON. BUT, YOU'VE SEEN IT BEFORE, I'M SURE. UP WAY UP ...