Recent research demonstrated that, although most wing shapes used today create turbulent wake vortices, wing geometrics can be designed to reduce or eliminate wingtip vortices almost entirely. In ...

Recent research at the University of Illinois demonstrated that, although most wing shapes used today create turbulent wake vortices, wing geometrics can be designed to reduce or eliminate wingtip ...

Wake vortices spinning off the XB-70’s wingtip caused Walker’s F-104N to roll, colliding with the right wingtip of the huge XB-70 and breaking apart. The incident contributed to the demise of ...

Previously, multiple wingtip vortices have only been associated with large gliders such as eagles, vultures and storks. Now biologists Anders Hedenström, Christoffer Johansson and Marco Klein ...

British Airways Boeing 747 with winglets. Adrian Pingstone Winglets reduce wingtip vortices, the twin tornados formed by the difference between the pressure on the upper surface of an airplane's ...

The windtunnel tests were carried out at speeds up to M0.96 with values for the Reynolds number – used in the analysis of laminar-to-turbulent airflow – of 3.5-5 million.

This dramatic image shows a U.S. Coast Guard C-130J from Air Station Elizabeth City, NC. The USCG is flying a version of the C-130 since the first one was delivered to Air Station Elizabeth City ...

The vortex is strongest at the tips and decreasing rapidly to zero at midspan: a short distance downstream, the vortices roll up and combine into two distinct cylindrical vortices that constitute ...