One recent day, I walked to my perch and watched a plane make its way west ... persistent, nonspreading trails that maintain their narrow form but can linger a long time; and persistent spreading ...

Read on for some fascinating airplane facts ... leave behind today will shape the skies of tomorrow. Let’s make sure they’re trails we can be proud of.

Contrails — short for condensation trail — are the white streaks ... the flight path of this small fleet of planes ever so slightly could make a big difference. American Airlines is already ...

The family aboard a Cessna 310R that crashed and burned in Boca Raton near Interstate 95 in April were on the plane’s first flight after an annual inspection and experienced an issue with ...

They are streams of condensation left behind from airplanes and rockets ... The contrails, or condensation trails, streamed in parallel lines toward the horizon as they tapered off into the ...

Boeing delivered more commercial planes last month than at any other ... Despite the quarterly increase, Boeing still trails Airbus for the most commercial aircraft delivered so far this year ...