Gallery
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An EA-6 Prowler with condensation in the cores of its wingtip vortices and also on the top of its wings.
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The core of the vortex trailing from the tip of the flap of a commercial airplane with landing flap extended.
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Wingtip vortices from a Cessna 182 wind tunnel model.
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Wingtip vortices shown in flare smoke left behind a C-17 Globemaster III. Also known as smoke angels.
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The MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor has a high disk loading, producing visible blade tip vorticies.
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Euler computation of a steady tip vortex. Contour colours and isosurface reveal vorticity.
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A B-747 model has just passed through a stationary sheet of smoke, which is showing its trailing vortices, at the Vortex Facility at the Langley Research Center.
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Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)