Vortex Studies
A Learjet and a Cessna T-37 chase a Boeing B-747 to investigate its vortex trails, made visible with smoke generators, in the sky over NASA’s Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight Research Center in 1974.
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A Learjet and a Cessna T-37 chase a Boeing B-747 to investigate its vortex trails, made visible with smoke generators, in the sky over NASA’s Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight Research Center in 1974.