Message posted by lone wolf on September 13, 2003 at 12:52:08 PST:

It is certainly a possibility, assuming only a single stage.

There are plenty of known missile launch photos on the net. Perhaps looking at them will help decide the issue.

http://www.darkskyimages.com/wstrail.htm
http://www.silcom.com/~pordecon/vafb_missle.htm
http://www.freqofnature.com/photos/mmii1014/
http://www.freqofnature.com/photos/mmiii/
http://sd.znet.com/~schester/fallbrook/views/contrail_picture.html
http://www.moonglow.net/ccd/pictures/rocket/

As you can see, using the word "exactly" may not be appropriate as the contrails have lots of variance.

In Reply to: Re: Contrail Pictures posted by scott on September 13, 2003 at 12:31:06 PST:

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