Trailing vortex wake encounters at altitude - A potential flight safety issue?

Collection of Technical Papers - 2006 Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 527-543

  Nelson, Robert C ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b Center for Flow Physics and Control   (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT SAFETY; FLIGHT TESTS; VERTICAL SEPARATION; VORTEX WAKES;

AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL; AIRCRAFT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FLIGHT DYNAMICS; LANDING; TAKEOFF; VORTEX FLOW;

WAKES;

EID: 33751399723     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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