contrail

• By the time he crossed Lake Okeechobee he could see the ragged remains of the contrail, and when he arrived at the Cape the place looked like an anthill that had just been kicked. —  F ;SF; - vol 091 issue 06 - December 1996
• The bridge's dynamic shape is inspired from the metaphor of the contrail, a stream of crystallized vapor created in a plane's wake. —  Skycontrol
• The altitudes of the points of the terrain at which the contrail is projected onto is important in reconstructing the actual trajectory and any error in that terrain height directly produces errors in the reconstruction. —  ArmsControlWonk
• If i look up and see a curved contrail, a few minutes later will see the E3 (and a quick tune of the radio usually brings in the target vectoring channel!) —  Army Rumour Service
• "This one that looked like a contrail, then got larger and larger until it filled the whole sky? —  Rings of Ice

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