Simviation Forum - Cool Cloud Formation

May 14^th, 2007 at 10:42pm

Jayhawk Jake Ex Member

Show of hands: Who thought these were going to be GROUND based pictures?

Anyways, I luckily looked out the window just in time to see this really awesome cloud formation as we descended into Houston earlier this evening. I quickly fumbled through my bag to get my camera and managed to snap 3 pretty good pictures.

Comments welcome!

SIDE CHALLENGE! Who can name the plane? Should be REALLY easy...

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Reply #1 - May 14^th, 2007 at 10:48pm

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Very cool. ERJ?

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Reply #2 - May 14^th, 2007 at 11:07pm

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I'm gonna go with 737 just on the fact that Southwest rules Texas in commercial flights Grin

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Reply #3 - May 14^th, 2007 at 11:31pm

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Cool, I always like air-to-cloud pictures. Wink

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Reply #4 - May 15^th, 2007 at 5:51am

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Very cool shots, reminded me of the cloud that rolls in, in the Independence Day film

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Reply #5 - May 15^th, 2007 at 9:48am

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DC-9//MD-8x

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Reply #6 - May 15^th, 2007 at 9:55am

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Well Monkey, you may note that the 737 does not have Vortilions and I wasn't flying Southwest...

Bjorn: Nice try, but again, Vortilions...

And bok: You got it, but what model number?

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Reply #7 - May 15^th, 2007 at 11:03am

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ERJ-145?

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Reply #8 - May 15^th, 2007 at 12:11pm

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Looks like the Morning Glory.....some sort of a roll cloud.........we'll let Kris inform us as he seems to be looking skyward lots, lately..... Cool

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Reply #9 - May 15^th, 2007 at 2:07pm

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Nice cloud shots, As far as what kind of plane , My guess is one with scratched up windows. Grin

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Reply #10 - May 15^th, 2007 at 2:58pm

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Rifleman wrote on May 15^th, 2007 at 12:11pm:

Looks like the Morning Glory.....some sort of a roll cloud.........we'll let Kris inform us as he seems to be looking skyward lots, lately..... Cool

Hmm... what do you mean? I have no idea! Grin

I'm going for a roll cloud... the other type that looks a bit like this one, is a shelf-cloud, but they preceed severe thunderstorms, so this should be a roll cloud...

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Reply #11 - May 15^th, 2007 at 4:31pm

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Björn wrote on May 15^th, 2007 at 11:03am:

ERJ-145?

Yep

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Reply #12 - May 15^th, 2007 at 5:24pm

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Björn wrote on May 15^th, 2007 at 11:03am:

ERJ-145?

Beat you to it ^^^

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