Contrail 1921
"Cloud Formation from Supercharged Plane": passage from Monthly Weather Review describing an early instance of contrail formation from a supercharged aircraft. This may be the first known description of such phenomena.
- Date
- 1921
- Mapmaker / publisher
- B. M. Varney
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- map
- Original size
- 582 × 653 pixels
Public domainsafest
Reason: its US copyright has expired (published before 1931).
Read from: Commons licence category: PD US expired; no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page; permission field: Public domain, published before 1923.
Credit line
"Contrail 1921" (1921). B. M. Varney, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Contrail_1921.jpgNeed maps for a whole project? Add Find Any Map to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 103033.
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