On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 17:36:15 GMT, Larry Dighera
wrote:

On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 12:25:15 -0500, Bill wrote in
::

It was a tube of swirling distortion,
dropping down off his wingtip and then coming back to us.

Did what you saw have any moisture component that made it more
visible?

No. We discussed this as well. This was nothing like the vortices
you see when it's humid, especially from jets on landing.

This was just a visual distortion, like what would happen if you
looked through glass that had a big dimple in it. And if you weren't
almost perfectly centered on it, it was invisible.

You could not see it from the side of the plane, nor from behind it
unless the center of the vortex was actually hitting the windshield.


Bill Strahan
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