How do you place a 'cloud' brush behind an object in the original image?

As you will see I am extremely new to Photoshop and I am trying to teach myself a few things so any help & tips would be great!
As you can see from the image below, I am trying to put trails behind each of the planes in the picture. I have downloaded a pre-set brush and for the first 3 planes on the right and I just created new layers and placed the trail, free transformed it till it was the correct size & changed the hue so it was white. I am trying to put the trail behind the remaining 6 planes but obviously the brush is going to go right across/on top of the other planes on the right. Can someone explain how the process on how I can insert this brush behind the planes in the original images - is it some sort of mask technique? Also how can I then merge this stamp so it's faded more into the background of the original image - is that the opacity?
Thanks

Use layers. Place each row of planes on its own layer and its trail on its own layer. Then you can move the layers so the planes are on top of the trail. Since the trails are on their own layers, you can then change its opacity as it is layer based.
layer 1 - first row of planes
layer 2 - trails for first row of planes
layer 3 - second row of planes
layer 4 - trails for second row of planes
etc
etc.

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