It’s kind of cloudy, but you glance out the window to see whether there’s anything interesting on the ground. Instead, you see this — three rainbow rings hugging your plane’s shadow.

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Also known as a glory or pilot’s bow, pilot’s glory is produced by similar processes that create a rainbow, but with a twist. The phenomenon actually has very little to do with the shadow.

Rainbow plane offsets. July 22, 2016. When we had a look at the ‘rainbow effect’ of planes in flight we mentioned that the offsets of the different images were a result of both the plane’s ...

A stunning photo captured rare 'rainbow' vapour trails behind a plane as it came to land at Manchester Airport. The snap, taken from a photographer's back garden in Cheshire, show the Emirates ...