Ask the Expert: Why do Planes Keep Spraying Chemtrails into our Atmosphere?

Ask the Expert: Why do Planes Keep Spraying Chemtrails into our Atmosphere?

13 Dec

2014

Posted by

Eric Reed

Perhaps the question I’m asked most from many people is, “Why do planes keep spraying their chemtrails into the sky?”
I’ve had this discussion informally numerous times, and I was getting ready to engage in it again after seeing the below Facebook post.

But rather than commenting to a Facebook thread about Chemtrails that only a few hundred people may see, it dawned on me that there’s been virtually no formal discussion on conservative based media explaining it. As a professional airline pilot, I believe the “Chemtrail” topic is something that should be formally addressed. But in order to answer it, a few very basic aerodynamic principles must be understood first.
The first principle is lift. Lift is best explained by a theory discovered by 18th century Swiss physicist and mathematician, Daniel Bernoulli. Bernoulli’s Principle was originally designed as an equation in fluid dynamics. The theory states that for an inviscid flow of a nonconducting fluid, an increase in the speed of the fluid occurs simultaneously with a decrease in pressure or a decrease in the fluid’s potential energy.
In plain English, that means that as fluid passes through the narrow tube below, it actually accelerates. As the acceleration occurs, this causes the pressure within that narrow opening to decrease.

It was later learned that the movement of air was no different. As air passes through a curved narrow opening, the air pressure decreases, as referenced in the picture below.

Taking it one step further, I’ve taken the liberty of “cropping” the same diagram from above. I think we can all agree that what we’re basically looking at below resembles an airplanes wing.

So as the wing accelerates down a runway for takeoff, the relative wind accelerates over both the top and bottom of the wing. Since the air racing over the top of the wing is traveling much faster than the air velocity on the bottom, the pressure on the top decreases while the pressure below remains relatively higher. Since the pressure below did not decrease while the pressure on top dropped, the relative high pressure below “lifts” the wing.


Now that we understand what lift is and how it works, we can move on. As lift is generated, some of the relative “high” pressure air spills over into low pressure spaces at the wing tips, and other control surfaces that generate lift along the span of the wing.

As the high pressure air blends with other air in these low pressure spaces, this creates a swirling effect. This swirling effect acts like a horizontal tornado that’s known as wingtip vortices or wake turbulence.

If you travel on an airplane frequently, you’ve likely felt a very strong jolt that may have caused the airplane to roll a bit. It may have occurred in smooth air so it was very noticeable, or in turbulent air you may have recognized it as a much stronger jolt than all the other turbulence. If you’ve felt that, you’ve felt wake turbulence.
Pilots generally try to avoid wake turbulence by climbing steeper than heavier aircraft that may have departed just ahead of them. Sometimes pilots must wait a couple of minutes for the wingtip vortices to dissipate before departure. Air is invisible, so pilots can only attempt to avoid areas where strong vortices may be present. Most of the time it works, but sometimes it doesn’t and you’ll feel that strong jolt.
That being said, under certain ambient atmospheric conditions (like high humidity days) wingtip vortices can be visible. The cores of these vortices become visible because water present within them condenses from a gas to a liquid, and then sometimes can even freeze, forming ice particles. This can cause the vortices to remain visible for extended periods of time under certain ambient atmospheric conditions.

Wingtip vortices are the strongest (which can also make them most visible under the proper atmospheric conditions) on heavy aircraft such as airliners. This is the reason that when Chemtrails are usually discussed, they’re most commonly associated with airliners or large military aircraft, and not on a tiny two seat Cessna.
 So in plain English, the ever so popular Chemtrail conspiracy theory is nothing more than an airplanes wings generating lift to keep them aloft. Furthermore, at high altitudes, contrails are visible as well. A contrail is just water vapor from the hot turbine exhaust instantly freezing at high altitude sub-zero temperatures.

I do realize that many might believe super secret government operatives are spraying poison on us. Many will comment on this article defending their beliefs without even reading the above facts first. But is that not what liberals are notorious for doing? Anti-gun liberals refuse to let facts interfere with what they believe to be true. Food for thought…..