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Old 15th Jan 2010, 20:07
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Wingtip vortex: a hazard to ground-based objects?

Watching a 747 landing at Gatwick arrive a couple of hundred feet over the London-Brighton railway today I wondered whether the wingtip vortex from such aircraft could ever pose a danger to people/objects on the ground?
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