When people want to talk about something unpleasant, they often invent nicer-sounding phrases to disguise what's really going on. "Wake turbulence" is the kind of term that can bring to mind vague, ...

'Airplanes push or cut through the air, which inevitably creates a turbulence in the atmosphere called'Wake Turbulence',' Schrader said while flying a small light aircraft. One of the phenomena that ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. If a 'wingtip vortex' - a concentrated air turbulence created by another plane - was responsible for bringing down Delta Airlines Flight 1141 on ...