What A Whopper! Estimating The Weight Of A Chemtrail
A crude calculation that reveals an aluminium oxide ‘chemtrail’ to be very heavy indeed. So heavy, in fact, that the plane couldn’t get airborne in the first instance
A lot of people I know these days are pointing up at the sky and blurting something about chemtrails. Commercial airliners both big and small are squirting out deadly concoctions, apparently. Gone are ye olde contrails of my youth and the fashion de rigueur these days is yer chemtrail, innit though?
“It never looked like this when I was growing up” is a favourite utterance.
Being brought-up on a near-weekly diet of a lucky bag, airfix kit, Dinky toy and some-or-other science magazine from a tender age I tended to go big on planes, from Richthofen’s triple winger to Concorde’s technological innovation. At least a dozen plastic planes hung on threads from my bedroom ceiling. It was going to be the air cadets for me, followed by the RAF; except my ex-navy father had other ideas. And so I continued to build kits, get paint on the kitchen table, swoon at glossy photos of sleek airframes, and take my cheapo binoculars to local airfields. Such was my excitement at seeing something in the air …