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Spectacular image in La Vanguardia Readers’ Photos with the perspective of two planes flying in parallel over Gavà beach, in Baix Llobregat, not far from the Barcelona-El Prat airport.
The snapshot shows a scene in the purest Maverick style from the movie Top Gun. Pure maneuver of beauty, too, with its trails drawn in the sky.
Airplanes form a vapor trail after the kerosene combustion process. The gases expelled by the engine come out at a much higher temperature than the outside temperature.
The sharp contrast in temperatures at a height greater than 30,000 feet (-50 degrees in the atmosphere) causes the immediate condensation of the water present in this mixture of substances. This causes us to see these kinds of elongated ice clouds that dissipate after a few seconds.
The snapshot is reminiscent of the pirouettes from the 1986 action film Top Gun, directed by Tony Scott and starring Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis. And of which a sequel was released more recently, Top Gun: Maverick, directed this time by Joseph Kosinski.
The proximity of El Prat airport allows images like this to be captured in the surrounding area due to air traffic both landing and taking off.
