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Wingtip Vortices and Wake Turbulence

Pilot Institute

When air flows over the aircraft wing, the shape of the airfoil creates low pressure above the wing and relatively higher pressure below the wing. A small Challenger 604 business jet flying at Flight Level 340 passed one thousand feet below an Airbus A380 flying the same route in the opposite direction. How Are Wingtip Vortices Formed?

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A Bristol Bulldog Biplane Fighter is Once Again in the Sky

Vintage Aviation News

And then when you get down near the threshold, you just hold it off and gently let the wheels down. 2B Fighter, a Bulldog Seems Logical Storo enjoyed a long career with FedEx, first flying Falcon jets, then Boeing 727s, and finally DC-10s before retiring in 2004. In this fighter, you don’t make square turns, so to speak.

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