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:
“Each morning the manager of this gallery substituted some new picture, distinguished by more brilliant or harmonious coloring, for the old upon the walls.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“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)
“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)