• Grainy image of an aircraft flying with a trail of contrails.
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    NACA pilot flying the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum P-61 Black Widow in August 1952 carries a transonic model at high altitude. Note the streaming contrails.

  • Grainy image of an aircraft flying with a trail of contrails.

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