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But this will Stern Drives & Outboards
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on your activity
level, size, and
temperature.

If you are not
near this level
of fluid, move up
slowly, otherwise
expect frequent trips to the bathroom. The
color of your urine throughout the day should
be a pale yellow or white, any darker start
drinking more.

What exactly is the white we see be enough contrails will last longer.
moisture in
coming off an airplane in the sky? the air and the The other type of

temperature- contrail is called an
must be cold "aerodynamic contrail."
Sometimes in the summer you enough to form these ice crys- This is the white line you
look up and see a lot of white tals at the altitude at which might see coming off the wing
streaks in the sky which you the jet is flying. tips of a jet.
know are from jets. These Why are contrails Think of air as water
white streaks are called con- white? When light and think of the sky as a body
trails, which is short for con- passes through the of water such as a lake. As the
densation trail, and are similar ice it is reflected or aircraft moves through the air
to clouds. They are formed in bent (refracted), it pushes the air out of the way,
two different ways. which makes it just like a boat moving through
Contrails are made at appear white to the water. When the aircraft
very high altitudes (usually us on the pushes this air out of the way
above 26,000 feet) where the ground. the tips of the aircraft wings
air is extremely cold (less than Why are we able disturbs the air and causes the
-40ºF). Because of this, contrails to see contrails on some air to rotate like a horizontal
form not when an airplane is days but not on other tornado. This horizontal torna-
taking off or landing, but while days? If the temperature is too do is called wingtip vortices and
at cruising altitude. warm or the air too dry, is also termed wake turbulence.
Contrails are long contrails will not form.
thin clouds of ice crystals During the summer Note the word wake in
formed around the small par- the air is usually more humid wake turbulence, just like a
ticles (aerosols) which are in than in winter. This means that boat has a wake behind it when
aircraft exhaust. There must evaporation will be slower and moving through the water.

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