Following from our previous discussion on contrails, Helen on the Taking Flight fear of flying support forum asked about what looked like smoke in the front of a jet engine at takeoff, and posted an interesting video from Youtube.  Here's the video, and my reply. (The "smoke" appears about 1:30 into the video) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ii0nUcm24Jw[/youtube] Inside the engine … Continue reading the story "Smoke in the Engine?"