This is the video taken by a Whangarei woman spreading paranoia over the “chemtrail conspiracy” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtfAU-NVtlE&feature=player_embedded#!
and here are the photos I took on the same morning in the same city, I almost wonder how we didn’t bump into each other . . . that would be spooky! 
Theese first two photos taken at 9:42am
Time Taken 9:45am
Time Taken 9:57am
Time Taken 10:08am
Unfortunately by the time I pulled my car over and fitted my 55-250mm lense the trail had already been layed. With a bit more practice I should be able to get a few more positive shots.
Nice sequence. Could you caption the photos with the times they were taken so that people can see the time-scale involved here.
BTW – Thanks for this blog site. Someone had to do it. Hopefully Clare, Rose, Bill, Jim and all the rest will come over and post some comments.
Will do after I come down from the euphoria of the AB’s win.
Thanks. So, after as little as 15 minutes (depending on wind shear and ambient moisture content conditions) a contrail is visually indistinguishable from ordinary cirrus cloud.
It looks and behaves just like any other cirrus.
Two planes over Whangarei 17/7/10
AirNZ flight NZ99 from Auckland to tokyo departure 8:30
Whangarei 9:05am
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/megrac/17-07-10-airnz9-05am.jpg
9:10 am
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/megrac/17-07-10-airnz9-10am.jpg
9:11 am for id of the AirNZ plane.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/megrac/17-07-10-airnz9-11am.jpg
9:17am nice contrail.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/megrac/17-07-10-airnz9-17am.jpg
9:23am contrail still there over 10min latter.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/megrac/17-07-10-airnz9-23am.jpg
9:36 over half and hour, still there.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/megrac/17-07-10-airnz9-36am.jpg
Korean airlines, Auckland to seoul, departure 9:10am. You can see the Tokyo planes contrail in teh upper left corner still.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/megrac/17-07-10-Korenair9-38am.jpg
9:44am
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/megrac/17-07-10-Korenair9-44am.jpg
Close up of the korean plane for id.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/megrac/17-07-10-Korenair9-48am.jpg
9:49am still there, both of them!
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/megrac/17-07-10-Korenair9-49am.jpg
10:00am 1 hour after and they are still there.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a350/megrac/17-07-10-Korenair10-00am.jpg