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Old 20th Nov 2019, 17:14
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Originally Posted by compressor stall
If you're a pilot you'd know that wake vortices tend to stay directly behind the wing tips, they don't expand outwards (much).

The plan here is not to fly in the vortex or the wake, much the same way geese don't.

Here's the source info from the public project release at Dubai this week.

https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/pres...rformance.html

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How far away was that CRJ that ran into the vortice from the 380 heading the opposite direction?
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