Gallery
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An EA-6 Prowler with condensation in the cores of its wingtip vortices and also on the top of its wings.
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The core of the vortex trailing from the tip of the flap of a commercial airplane with landing flap extended.
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Wingtip vortices from a Cessna 182 wind tunnel model.
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Wingtip vortices shown in flare smoke left behind a C-17 Globemaster III. Also known as smoke angels.
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The MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor has a high disk loading, producing visible blade tip vorticies.
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Euler computation of a steady tip vortex. Contour colours and isosurface reveal vorticity.
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A B-747 model has just passed through a stationary sheet of smoke, which is showing its trailing vortices, at the Vortex Facility at the Langley Research Center.
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—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
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—Herman Melville (1819–1891)