Take off

During a visit to Durham, North Carolina, I took these shots of the jetstream of a plane taking off from the airport.

We start with the plane actively climbing into the sky, leaving the thin cloud running in a straight diagonal across the sky.


We look down to this pond and see that reflected on the water.


We back up a bit and see the dissipating jetstream in the sky and reflected in the pond.


And then we get closer to the trees and see the jetstream getting less distinct as the winds in the atmosphere blow it apart. (The lower left of the frame is where it's lower in the sky, getting higher as it moves to upper right.)


And finally we see as it has drifted overhead and is now in the western sky, along with earlier jetstreams that have ended up there.