The UAE civil aviation authority GCAA has called for a new study on wake vortex incidents in the emirates following a number of referrals in the authority's safety reporting scheme - particularly ...

Visualization of particle trajectories in water as turbulence winds down in a specially designed tank. The colors represent ...

Thanks to measurements by ESA’s Cluster mission, a team of European scientists have identified ‘micro’-vortices in Earth’s magnetosphere. Such small-scale vortex turbulence, whose existence was ...

Due to the high operating speeds in cruise flight and the standard 1000 ft. vertical separation in RVSM airspace, wake can be encountered up to 25 nm behind the generating aircraft. Credit: ...

NASA Boeing 727 tests in the 1970s revealed how wake vortices affect smaller aircraft, shaping modern separation rules for safer flight operations.