At high speeds, even the smallest movement can have major consequences. When an aircraft tilts sharply during flight, the air ...

Engineers at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering have identified the precise flight angles at which vortices behind a cone-shaped aircraft nose become unstable, creating asymmetric forces that can ...

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The intake of a jet engine is like an unimaginably powerful vacuum cleaner, can snatch surprisingly heavy things right off the runway. Pliers, wrenches, cigarette lighters, coins and nails have all ...

Passengers have described the terrifying moment a vortex sent their Qantas flight into a 10-second “nosedive.” Hundreds of horrified travelers held hands ­believing they were about to die as the ...

Vortex is a natural fluid phenomenon that is often of great consequence in almost any practical flow, such as shear layers, ...

DLR is testing the accuracy of a warning and avoidance system for wake vortices using live data from commercial air traffic. To do this, researchers deliberately fly into wake vortices to evaluate ...