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An example over Southport, UK, of V.C.I., vortex crow instability, it occurs when the wingtip vortices interact with the aircrafts contrails.
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Very nice Ian. The Crow instability gives the contrail strange shapes. Look on the forum for some other examples in black and white:
https://cloudappreciationsociety.org/forums/topic/circular-crow-contrail/
I was quite surprised to see this happen.
Hans