Fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions are huge priorities in the aviation industry – passenger airliners chew through amazing quantities of fuel. Take the Boeing 747, which guzzles somewhere ...

When people want to talk about something unpleasant, they often invent nicer-sounding phrases to disguise what's really going on. "Wake turbulence" is the kind of term that can bring to mind vague, ...

Recent research demonstrated that, although most wing shapes used today create turbulent wake vortices, wing geometrics can be designed to reduce or eliminate wingtip vortices almost entirely. In the ...

Many of us would have wondered what those thin white streams are which come out of the rear endplates when the Formula One cars run down the straights, and which are specially seen when the conditions ...

These are trails from wingtip vortices which happen when there’s a reduction in pressure and temperature at the tip of a wing causing water to condense, leaving a trail. They are not ‘chemtrails’. A ...