NASA is conducting research that will enable safe improvements in the capacity of the nation's air transportation system. The wake-vortex hazard is a factor in establishing the minimum safe spacing between aircraft during landing and takeoff operations and, thus, impacts airport capacity. The ability to accurately model the wake hazard and determine safe separation distances for a wide range of aircraft and operational scenarios may provide the basis for significant increases in airport capacity. Current and planned NASA research is described which is focused on increasing airport capacity by safely reducing wake-hazard-imposed aircraft separations through advances in a number of technologies including vortex motion and decay prediction, vortex encounter modeling, wake-vortex hazard characterization, and in situ flow sensing.


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    Title :

    NASA wake vortex research



    Conference:

    AIAA, Aircraft Design, Systems and Operations Meeting ; 1993 ; Monterey, CA, United States


    Publication date :

    1993-08-01


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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