A sneeze. Ocean currents. Smoke. What do these have in common? They're instances of turbulence: unpredictable, chaotic, ...

The 777-300ER And Its Raked Wingtips For those who aren't familiar with them, raked wingtips are a wingtip extension design ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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) ...

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.

“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.