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Flight test files: Boeing 727 – The NASA wake vortex trials of 1973

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

DLR trials system for predicting wake vortices during cruise flight

DLR is testing the accuracy of a warning and avoidance system for wake vortices using live data from commercial air traffic. To do this, researchers deliberately fly into wake vortices to evaluate ...
The Denver Post

More than 500 flights delayed, canceled at DIA as polar vortex freezes Colorado

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... More than 500 flights were delayed or canceled at Denver International Airport on Monday as a polar vortex continued to freeze Colorado. There were 529 ...
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Flight test files: F-84F Thunderstreak – Testing the limits of the 40-degree sweep

The F-84 Thunderjet evolved into the swept-wing F-84F Thunderstreak, aiding early jet research and NATO operations before supersonic fighters took over.
Ainonline.com

Vortex Ring Drill Triggered Bell 429 In-flight Break-up

The NTSB cited "the pilots' inappropriate flight control inputs while in vortex ring state" as the probable cause of the April 26, 2022 accident.