Aircraft trailing vortices, generated as an unavoidable consequence of lift, pose a potential risk to following aircraft. The highest risk of encountering wake vortices prevails in ground proximity, ...
Aircraft wake vortices constitute a potential safety concern and thus a capacity limitation at major airports. Plate Lines mitigate the risk of wake vortex encounters during final approach and may ...
OAKLAND — On Nov. 7, 1940, a 4-month-old bridge aptly nicknamed “Galloping Gertie” twisted apart in 35-knot winds, collapsed into Puget Sound and forever changed the way engineers designed bridges. To ...