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== Gallery == <gallery> Image:EA-6B Prowler from VAQ-138.jpg|An [[EA-6 Prowler]] with condensation in the cores of its wingtip vortices and also on the top of its wings. Image:DehavillandCC-115Buffalo12.JPG|Vortices form at the ends of propeller blades, as seen on this [[de Havilland Canada DHC-5 Buffalo|DHC-5 Buffalo]]. Image:Wingtip condensation.jpg|The core of the vortex trailing from the tip of the [[Flap (aircraft)|flap]] of a commercial airplane with landing flap extended. Image:Cessna 182 model-wingtip-vortex.jpg|Wingtip vortices from a Cessna 182 [[wind tunnel]] model. Image:C17-Vortex.JPG|Wingtip vortices shown in [[Flare (countermeasure)|flare]] smoke left behind a [[C-17 Globemaster III]]. Also known as smoke angels. file:MV-22B Osprey (USMC) 008.jpg|The [[MV-22 Osprey]] [[tiltrotor]] has a high [[disk loading]], producing visible blade tip vortices. File:Euler tip vortex.png|Euler computation of a steady tip vortex. Contour colours and isosurface reveal vorticity. File:Model in Vortex Facility - GPN-2000-001288.jpg|A [[Boeing 747]] model has just passed through a stationary sheet of smoke, which is showing its trailing vortices, at the Vortex Facility at the [[Langley Research Center]]. </gallery>
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