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Welcome to the Dauntless Aviation Glossary!
At Dauntless, our editorial staff maintains the web's largest unified glossary of aviation terms. This glossary is built from a combination of official, quasi-official,
and proprietary sources (including original material that we develop oursselves). Uniquely, we often provide multiple definitions of a given term so that you can find that which best applies
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Wake Turbulence
| Wake Turbulence | | | Wingtip vortices that are created when an airplane generates lift. When an airplane generates lift, air spills over the wingtips from the high pressure areas below the wings to the low pressure areas above them. This flow causes rapidly rotating whirlpools of air called wingtip vortices or wake turbulence. | | source: FAA Airplane Flying Handbook (FAA-H-8083-3A) |
| | | turbulence found to the rear of a solid body in motion relative to a fluid. In aviation terminology, the turbulence caused by a moving aircraft. | | source: FAA Aviation Weather for Pilots (AC 00-6A) |
| | | Phenomena resulting from the passage of an aircraft through the atmosphere. The term includes vortices, thrust stream turbulence, jet blast, jet wash, propeller wash, and rotor wash both on the ground and in the air. (See AIRCRAFT CLASSES.) (See JET BLAST.) (See VORTICES.) | | source: FAA Pilot/Controller Glossary |
| | | The condition in which a pair of counter-rotating vortices is shed from an airplane wing, thus causing turbulence in the airplane’s wake. | | source: FAA Upset Recovery Training |
| | | Wingtip vortices that are created when an aircraft generates lift. When an aircraft generates lift, air spills over the wingtips from the high pressure areas below the wings to the low pressure areas above them. This flow causes rapidly rotating whirlpools of air called wingtip vortices or wake turbulence. | | source: FAA Weight Shift Control Handbook (FAA-H-8083-5) |
| | | a downdraught caused by the movement of a large aircraft through the air. For this reason, ATC usually provides additional horizontal separation after the passage of particularly large aircraft; also wake vortex | | source: ICAO English Pro Aviation Glossary |
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Disclaimer: While this glossary in most cases is likely to be highly accurate and useful, sometimes, for any number of editorial, transcription, technical, and other reasons, it might not be.
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