Hi manxmac, I’ve no ideas about your video, but regarding your question about contrails:
…why the contrails seem to be intermittent. I have observed many planes with the standard small trail behind but then in certain places the trail be a few miles long from various planes on similar flight paths over several hours.
A good observation; the reasons for this have been broadly understood for many decades.
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