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A German Transal C160 on final approach for runway 29.
When the anti-missile pods underneath the wings detect anything that might be a heat-seaking missile they drop high-intensity flares that have to distract the missiles heat-seaking warhead.
Those flares create quite some smoke and since the aircraft wings create huge vortexes in the air, the smoke gets stuck in those and as a result we see those beautiful curly smoke patterns.
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Cristina | 17-Dec-2015 10:03 | |
Keith O'Brien | 22-Aug-2008 17:52 | |
anuschka | 22-Aug-2008 17:01 | |