L ooking at any of the existing variants of the Airbus A320, it is possible to see a few different things on the ends of ...

“Vortices are wind trails that are generated by an aircraft in motion, and which can be of such hazardous intensities that they endanger other aircraft, especially small aircraft, in flight.

T he Boeing 767-300ER has long been a key part of medium- and long-haul operations for airlines across the world. It belongs ...

Image shows plane smoke experiment from 1974, not evidence of 'chemtrails' ... The image shows a Boeing 747 jetliner that was used as part of a study on trailing vortices, ...

Many commercial jets on an airport's runway have chevrons on their engines. However, whenever Boeing's 777X is ready to fly, don't expect to see the design.

If you've ever wondered what the curved ends on the sides of a plane's wings are for, this is what they do. Tech. Smartphones; Computers ... which reduces the strength of these drag-causing vortices.

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 ...

Wingtip vortices on a jet aircraft. Ad. The basic difference between the wingtip vortices in Formula One cars and in aircrafts (as seen in the two figures) ...

This video shows how NASA studied wingtip vortices using a C-5A Galaxy about 50 years ago. ... The greater the size of the aircraft and its wing, the more intense the wake turbulence it generates.

More recently, the US Air Mobility Command tried flying one C-17 Globemaster III some 3-6,000 ft (900-1800m) back from another, "surfing" the vortices left in the lead plane's wake – much like ...