Airbus A380 Contrail as seen from KLM Cockpit Boeing B747-400 

For a second there, I didn't know what I was looking at.

almost looks like a boat cruising through smooth water

A380 has very powerful engines , pulls you back into the seat as it speeds up with such a fantastic feeling. The plane is so big that turbulence is very minimal. A master piece of engineering.

Just imagine 500+ passengers on board having dinner,drinks , watching movies😊👍👍👍

Ok ok. Holy crap. The people saying "Chemtrails", blah blah blah have ZERO background knowledge in aviation.. So here's some info... Contrails are very very simple to understand.. The exhaust of a turbine engine contains high temperature water vapor and other things like carbon dioxide, hydrocarbons, soot, etc etc.. As soon as this water vapor enters the extreme cold of the air at 25,000+ feet it condenses on small exhaust particles and then freezes. This is why you see a space between the engines and the contrails.. It takes a second for the vapor to condense and freeze. After a while depending on the humidity and temp at that altitude the ice can either sublimate or melt which is why contrails are different lengths or not existent at all. Its all because of different variables. But its ice... Its always been ice... There is no way that its chemicals meant to do harm to humanity or whatever.. Do you even realize how much all those chemicals to make "chemtrails" that big would weigh? Just to make 4 contrails a mile long would easily take several gallons of liquid. Lets just say a mile long "chemtrail" from a four engine jet aircraft would take 4 gallons of liquid chemicals. (Trust me this is totally reasonable and probably a low ball..) This means to make a "chemtrail" on a flight from New York to Los Angeles would take 10,000 gallons of chemicals.. Where would they store this? In the overhead bins? And 10,000 gallons of liquid would easily weigh 30 tons... Who's paying to fly this stuff? The airlines are barely making ends meet as is. Why do you think people are crammed in planes like sardines? Because they need as much money per square foot as they can get.. Lets be reasonable though... Just to make a "chemtrail" as long as Colorado it would take, say... 1,500 gallons of fluid.. At maybe 6 pounds per gallon thats over 4 tons... Thats about the weight of 32 passengers with baggage.. Who the fuck is gonna pay for these "Chemtrails" when airlines are switching from paper flight manuals to lighter digital ones to save 1.2 Million dollars a year on gas..... Let me say that again... Switching from a heavy book to a lighter tablet PC Saves 1.2 million dollars.... "Chemtrails" are the most uneducated, idiotic, ignorant thing you can come up with as a conspiracy theorist. There is all the knowledge and info in the world to disprove it. Just look out the window at and airport terminal. DO you see a Hazmat truck full of "Brain washing jet smoke from the Illuminati" pulling up to the side of the jet? No... Freaking ridiculous...

Just beautiful! :) It's when you see planes fly by you midair that you realize how fast your actually going

They are absolutely hammering along.You get a great perspective of the speed these super-heavies are carrying from this rare clip.Super impressive!

It’s not even just about the beauty of man’s technology, and seeing it in action from a very unique point of you. It’s an amalgamation of the entire situation, the beautiful sunset, the jet tail, the perfect angular situation in which two planes literally cross paths. Profound is all I can say.

this is so cool. At first it looks like some kind of thing and then as it gets closer you can make out the wings of the plane...awesome footage whoever took it

I had no idea what it was in the beginning.

Uploaded ten years ago and i got in suggestions today, thanks RU-vid

Not every day does one see a plane in the sky below you!

Went to the comments looking for chemtrail idiots. Found mostly people telling chemtrail idiots that they're idiots. Not disappointed in the least.

Oh man....read many comments....I was the KLM co-pilot actually flying the KLM B747-400: My mate filming. It was a Quantas A380, maintaining standard airway vertical seperation, both of us NOT spraying 'chemtrails'...which is a hoax in itself.....Real chemtrails were sprayed during e.g. Vietnam war by USA called 'Agent Orange'....or your local farm crop-duster guy over your plants to kill the bugs...

That Qantas A380 looks awesome!!

Wow! This is perfect lighting for this. I wonder if the 747 made a similar contrail, and whether the A380 crew has a video of them somewhere. Great video.

When giants ruled the skies

This is a sight that brings tears to my eyes!

Love those random people searching for planes on youtube, thinking they are experts, saying "that's too close" or "they nearly hit" and don't even think about ATC controllers who know exactly how to guide the pilots properly and safely...

What a monster A380! I really hope they change their mind not to discontinue this beauty.

what a beast of an airplane. wow.

This is a great demonstration of the wingtip vortices caused by all of that lift.

Mind-blowing scenery.This is truly awesome 🤩

It is clear that what is visible is the effect and relation of the hot exhaust of the four engines reacting with the hot air. To think that all that is enveloped by swirling air from the wing tips , it all means that there are more beautiful dynamics which we are not seeing. I can imagine two large contra rotating air cylinders enclosing all that. Beautiful engineering.

More than once I have seen from the window, for a few seconds, another jet crossing paths at a lower altitude and it's so impressive how fast these planes travel!

I love looking up and seeing contrails. Such an amazing weather phenomenon

Really get a good idea now of how fast a plane really is. When you think about it we only really see aeroplanes travelling through the sky from a distance or from the ground which usually gives a slow lethargic movement to the human eye. But that’s obviously not the case. Great shot. I’m 36 and first time iv’e ever seen this.

In the old days (1980’s) when normal looking people were (on balance) , normal, and not beholden to some belief system that went around killing everyone, you used to be able to ask to go up to the cockpit on a commercial jet! I once had the thrill to be in the cockpit of a QANTAS 747 as it crossed the north west coast of Australia in the morning, it just so happened to coincide with us passing another QF 747 coming the other way on what looked like a similar altitude but maybe a couple of kilometres horizontal separation, the closing speed must have been phenomenal, and it looked like a bullet.... great thrill and fond memory.

who else is here when this is recommended 17 years later

Straight up looks like a UFO at the beginning

amazing

Huge vortices of the wings indicating the drag. Bernoulli's theory amply displayed. Very interesting.

*At the beginning of the video, I thought it was a fish flying.* 🤣😂😂🤣

What an amazing plane the A380 is. Stunning!

Beautiful. Engineering at its best.

Wow! The first 30 seconds of video I had no idea what I was looking at. Once the jet came closer and I picked up on its orientation, the earlier 30 minutes looked totally different again and I could make out the airliner. Great video.

Those are the tears of the 380 crying and just wishing it were as good looking as the 47.

Pretty cool. I love the way the contrail folds over like a wave breaking on the shore.

At first glance of picture, I thought it was an Unlimited Hydroplane on water, till I read title...

I get to see Air France 196 fly over my house often. I live in Florida and you can make it out everytime. Around 2:30pm. Its coming from Paris and headed to Mexico City. I love it

Dude that looks sick!!! One day I will be a pilot!!!

lol so many people shouting chemtrails dont know how moisture works

That was awesome, thanks for sharing you guys👍☺️

Wow!!! It looks like waves on the ocean!! Awesome thanks 😀

When i was child, i called it 'Smoke from damaged engine'

Yes, that's a CONTRAIL.But that no one call Contrail to CHEMTRAILS.

Red tail : Qantas or maybe British Airways ?

If you're a pilot there's not much chance of missing that thing coming!! Incredible plane.

Experience the flight once, and your eyes will forever be directed to the sky. Having been there once, you are doomed to yearn for him for the rest of your life.

So amazing!!! Thanks for uploading such a different thing. Few people would be able to witness it in other way than watching it here. :-)

I’m just curious why this 8 year old clip was suggested to me 🤷‍♂️

this is a great description of how planes fly

At first its like ship floating on the sky

Boeing: Hey Airbus, you think you should add some bigger wingtip devices to control the tip vortices on the A380? Airbus: No, the small tip fences should be enough to control the vortices. The Vortices:

"Chemtrail fuckers incoming"

Now that is different! Truly amazing. Thank you. Seems so close when it passes under the Boeing but must be far away judging by the size.

I must admit, I came here to see how many dipshits were gonna chemtrail the crap out of this thing. Not disappointed, there's even a user called chemtrail tails. Funny ... He's still alive though 😉

Here to laugh at chemtrail comments

Just here for the chemtrail comment entertainment

Very nice. I love how it starts off looking like a UAP.

At the beginning it look like a speed boat, then it turn into a rampage plane.

Wow.Now show us the type that lingers and grows for the entire day.I see them everyday.Ha!

Thats the vaccine we all been waiting for

Everybody gangsta till you see it's the same altitude as yours😎☠️

Watched this video more than five times in a row. Flabbergasting!

It's a contrail ir a chemtrail?????

It's a vapour trail.

The chemtrails I see are much closer to the ground and they stay there for many hours and disperse over the sky. Contrails fade away fairly quickly. Can you tell the difference?

HOLY SH ...... IMPRESSIVE

I'm a douchebag who researched the internet and I say it's chemicals.

For someone who knows nothing about airplane, my first reaction will be ' omg the plane on fire ' especially

Gotta love that vertical separation.

They see me flyin' they stallin'

Chemtrail, there fixed it for ya!

That was too damn close! All that empty sky, and two planes fly on top of each other! 🤦‍♂️

That is one badass aircraft

Holy Shit! Thats amazing!!!

Yes... watched 3 times to understand the first 40 seconds...!!

I think the title should have been 'NEAR MISS', those planes were kinda close.

That was really nice. I just love the 747 and the A380 I also love the 737s and the A320.

Well done, mr or mrs air traffic controller !

Chem_trail??

Small typo there, its "chemtrails" 😆

Physics is awesome! Especially when witnessed. I absolutely hated physics in college. Dreaded that class. Discovered it was really due to the professor that taught it. He was good at physics but that doesn't make him good at teaching it. HUGE difference. If can't relay the information to students in understandable form then the class for the most part is pointless. I had to eventually teach myself to where it was understandable. Anyway, the drag at that altitude us minimal. That is why planes fly so damn high. The jet wash is the immediate cooling or condensation from the altitude and how cold it is from the heat from the Boeing engines exhaust. Much more to it but fascinating stuff.

water vapor from exhaust...... or it might be chemtrails, and we never landed on the moon and we flew into our own buildings, and....

Top demais.

Unequivocally the cover-up of a UFO ... slow day needs some conspiracy theories. 😎

What is it putting out into the atmosphere?

It would be cool if airplanes had horns on them like a truck so they could honk when they pass each other

Chemtrails?

Rare footage of an Airbus chemtrailing the flat earth - 2010 colorized

Looks like you really had an amazing lens capturing the 380s contrail. Otherwise everything would be over in a jiffy coz of the inclusive speeds of both the crafts. Amazing capture. Beautiful.

TRAFFIC! TRAFFIC!

Chemtrails lollllllll It’s vapor dummies. 💦

Rode the Air France Airbus A380 from Paris direct to LAX. Excellent plane with amazing service by the Flight Attendants. Made the 11 hours go by quickly.

12 anni! Chissà se quell'A380 e SuredT volano ancora. Era un bel canale, davvero un bel canale.

Interesting spherical earth confirmation - assuming both aircraft are flying level and that the horizon is just below the top of the murk, the 380 appears to be above the horizon at the start and passes below at the end. This is only possible because the curvature of the earth makes the horizon appear at a down angle of about 3 degrees below level at these altitudes. So the initial view of the 380 is say 2 degrees below level, but above the "horizon". You could use this in discussion with a flattie in the pub, but I wouldn't get your hopes up.

how much separation between the aircraft? i thought a mile vertical and 2 or 3 miles horizontal. i was on a flight from lax to mexico and we passed a flight going north. what a freak out to see that sight of a plane going as fast as we were in opposite direction.....!

flying is amazing. I hope we can go back to normal

Nice work. Thanks for the effort and for the post.