This long-lived vortex pair constitutes a potential risk to following aircraft. The proper prediction of wake vortex drift, descent, and decay and the resulting minimum separations between consecutive ...

These vortices can be dangerous for other aircraft flying in their wake. Commercial aircraft are divided into weight categories by the ICAO to account for the Wake Vortex Turbulence they generate.

Winglets reduce wingtip vortices, the twin tornados formed by ... and winglets have to be carefully designed and tested for each aircraft. Cant, the angle to which the winglet is bent from the ...

As an aeroplane cuts through the air, the air forms tiny whirlpools called hairpin vortices that scrub the ... if the film were to be applied to an aircraft like the Airbus A380, it could save ...