This paper contains information about the potential benefits and drawbacks of aircraft wake surfing. Wake surfing benefits have been measured and published previously; this paper presents the first known results obtained using a civilian business jet and an ADS-B data link.


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    Title :

    Recent NASA Wake Surfing Flight Research


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    2018 AIAA Aviation Forum ; 2018 ; Atlanta, GA, United States


    Publication date :

    2018-06-27


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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