Wing Clouds

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Wing Clouds

Postby pilotwin7 » Tue Jan 31, 2017 9:14 am

Awesome!!! :o :o Unreal scene. :o Absolutely, Amazing video.. :clap: So beautiful :whistle: :dance: :lol:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1c-O0qWQBQ[/youtube]
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Re: Wing Clouds

Postby Roypcox » Tue Jan 31, 2017 10:32 am

Absolutely outstanding!!!
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Re: Wing Clouds

Postby FlexibleFlier » Wed Feb 01, 2017 10:31 am

Fascinating. I found it particularly interesting that "wingtip" vortices were actually not at the wingtips at all on many airplanes; rather they were being generated well inboard, nearer to a gap in the ailerons. Of course, they still moved outward eventually and were undoubtedly still very, very dangerous.
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Re: Wing Clouds

Postby C » Wed Feb 01, 2017 12:11 pm

The most commonly visible ones will be the wingtips and the outboard edge of the flaps - basically (in a very basic sense) where the local airflow runs out of wing surface to travel over (actually under).

Racing car rear wings can produce good ones in moist conditions too. ^-^
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Re: Wing Clouds

Postby FlexibleFlier » Wed Feb 01, 2017 3:02 pm

C wrote:The most commonly visible ones will be the wingtips and the outboard edge of the flaps - basically (in a very basic sense) where the local airflow runs out of wing surface to travel over (actually under).


C, I do get it...I simply had not seen that before. My real world flying big iron goes back 50 years, long before winglets and the very sophisticated designs that modern materials allow.
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