This month's Flyer - and it's the March edition, not April - includes a feature on the people that a variety of aviation things were named after. In amongst the Bendix starter, Aresti notation, Fowler flaps etc there is the claim that the "vortex generator" was named after a Russian aerodynamicist named Viktor Vortex.
Am I alone in finding this extremely unlikely??
cbl.
ooops - the magazine containg the quality journalism in question is actually Pilot, March 2004, not Flyer... thread title edited...