A stunning video of an airplane taking off from the London-area Gatwick Airport shows a plane bursting through heavy fog, leaving an almost cartoonish gap in its wake as well as an impressive display ...

The Antonov An-225 Mriya is a giant flying machine. The only built Antonov An-225 Mriya (NATO reporting name: Cossack) strategic airlift cargo aircraft is continuing to fly COVID-19 missions across ...

This C-130J Super Hercules is on a regular mission over North Carolina, not escaping an alien fireball. But the 75,000 pound cargo beast is still so powerful, it warped the entire sky behind it. As ...

Winglets aren’t there for style — they’re there to fight a brutal aerodynamic problem most people never notice: wingtip ...

A U.S. government and contractor team is developing a novel wake-vortex detection system employing laser beams that "listen" to the acoustic signals generated primarily by aircraft wingtip vortices.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. If a 'wingtip vortex' - a concentrated air turbulence created by another plane - was responsible for bringing down Delta Airlines Flight 1141 on ...

aircraft, part of the Autonomous Formation Flight (AFF) project based at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., flew the mission in early December. During the 96-minute flight, the ...

Most pilots are aware of the danger of wingtip vortices from heavy fixed-wing aircraft. And they understand the wisdom of avoiding the mini-tornadoes that flow invisibly outward and down. And ...

An experimental Airbus concept shows airplanes flying in formation to save fuel. This concept carefully capitalizes on wake turbulence, which engineers have fought against for more than a century.