A stunning video of an airplane taking off from the London-area Gatwick Airport shows a plane bursting through heavy fog, leaving an almost cartoonish gap in its wake as well as an impressive ...

The end result is a tube of vapour trailing behind the tip of each wing. Wingtip vortices are most common on very humid days while a plane is taking off or landing. Some flights can trigger rain ...

A fantastic display of von Kármán vortex streets requires low-lying stratus clouds to make these vortices visible. Low-level clouds are common in the eastern Pacific Ocean, making the delicate ...

In this photo, giant cloud swirls collectively cover an area of around 260,000 square miles (670,000 square km), making this one of the most widespread examples of concurrent vortices ever seen ...

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 ...

Flight: Research examines wing shapes to reduce vortex and wake Date: May 14, 2018 Source: University of Illinois College of Engineering Summary: Recent research demonstrated that, although most ...

A vortex wing tip was created slightly below the space where the plane jumped. The movie repeats the same trial multiple times, and it is captured that the vortex wing tip is formed each time.

If you had an infinitely long wing, you wouldn’t have any wingtip vortices and the wing would seem to produce greater lift with less induced drag. But you don’t need an impossibly long wing ...

This video shows how NASA studied wingtip vortices using a C-5A Galaxy about 50 years ago. Although they dissipate at a certain distance from the wing, wingtip vortices, that form because of the ...