- Jeff,
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- Some time ago, you posted a message from me requesting
anyone who had pictures of contrails, as we have been seeing in our skies
the past few years, taken before about 1990 to send them in. So far, the
only one I have received is the one you posted.
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- Recently, using a good search engine, I went looking
for contrails from WWII. I was confidant that I would find such pictures,
for I have often seen contrails in photos and films of WWII bombers and
fighter aircraft. I was not surprised, therefore to find many (I have attached
three). What did surprise me, however, is that I found that there are contrail
"debunker" sites that use these photos as evidence or "proof"
that the persistent contrails we see today are somehow "normal."
This is not a correct assertion for it assumes that the constituents of
the exhaust gasses of WWII piston-powered aircraft are the same as the
exhaust gasses of a jet engine. This is simply untrue.
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- The modern turbojet engine is one of the most efficient,
clean-burning internal combustion engines ever put into service. Particulates
in the exhaust are practically nil. WWII aircraft engines, as good as they
were for the era, are a different story altogether.
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- By their nature, carbureted or mechanically fuel injected,
reciprocating engines do not burn the fuel perfectly, they are often very
good, but not perfect. This results in unburned hydrocarbons and carbon
particulates. Also, such engines are not run with a perfect stoichiometric
mixture of fuel and air. That is, they are run slightly fuel rich. This
is because a lean mixture tends to burn much hotter causing possible damage,
often terminal, to the engine. Better to err on the side of rich than lean.
Those familiar with engine tuning know about this. And a rich mixture,
even slightly so as in a properly tuned engine, produces carbon particulates.
Anyone who has ever had an engine with a stuck choke has seen the effects
of an extremely rich mixture- black smoke.
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- Further, WWII aircraft engines used prodigious amounts
of oil. In part to lubricate the cylinder walls and rings to avoid piston
seizure. This was particularly true in high-performance radial engines
where the piston/cylinder wall clearance is greater than in a water-cooled
engine. The oil would wind up getting into the combustion chamber and was
exhausted as smoke. Or, blow-by gasses got into the crankcase and were
expelled through a breather as smoke.
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- All these effects were admittedly small, so that there
was not necessarily any discernable smoke from a normally running engine.
But the particulates produced, especially from a bomber with a full load
or a fighter in a dogfight at full power, were significant as compared
to a modern turbojet. Enough to effect the formation and persistence of
contrails. Therefore, if anything, these photos of WWII contrails provide
evidence that the persistent contrails we see today are NOT normal, that
some particulate matter is being injected into the exhaust gasses of the
jets to make the contrails persistent.
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- In addition, as I perused many so-called "chemtrail"
sites, both debunkers and conspiracy theorists, some good, others not so
good, I found much that was distasteful: vicious name-calling, innuendo,
claims and counter-claims, much unsubstantiated, a lot of self-righteousness
and pointless fighting. Does this not serve the purposes of our enemy,
whoever he is? And, I found a lot of people who send in photographs of
their home skies, as on you site, and simply say, "I know this is
not right. What is going on?" And we get no answers.
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- I have lived 54 years, in the Midwest, in Northern and
Southern California and here in Oregon. I can't remember ever seeing a
persistent contrail. Then, SUDDENLY, beginning on January 1, 2001, hardly
a day goes by that the sky is not filled with them. And don't tell me that
I simply have not been paying attention, I do. I have had a life-long fascination
with the sky and everything in it. I do not know what is being done or
why or by whom. I have no inside information. I have no connections to
the Halls of Power. I am just a man who knows what he sees in front of
his own eyes. I know this is not right. What is going on?
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- Paul S. Szymanski
Eugene, Oregon
sampunski@hotmail.com
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