{"id":6823,"date":"2015-12-21T17:39:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T00:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/12\/21\/circular-contrails\/"},"modified":"2015-12-21T17:39:48","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T00:39:48","slug":"circular-contrails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/12\/21\/circular-contrails\/","title":{"rendered":"Circular Contrails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/contrail-circles.jpg' title='Circular Contrails'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/contrail-circles.jpg' alt='Circular Contrails' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We frequently see condensation trails over the desert, but they almost always appear in straight lines or showing a minor dog leg over an airways facility or when vectored. Today, Damsel called me out to the courtyard to witness these circular contrails being painted as we watched.<\/p>\n<p>All I can figure is that these were military aircraft making high-altitude maneuvers. The aircraft involved were due south of our location, possibly directly over Luke AFB or one of the outlying training facilities near the Northwest Valley of the Sun. <\/p>\n<p>Shortly after our morning observation of these unusual sky circles, they all sublimated away and have not been seen again. Click on Damsel&#8217;s image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We frequently see condensation trails over the desert, but they almost always appear in straight lines or showing a minor dog leg over an airways facility&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,40,14,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-aviation","category-military","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}