TargetDriver Posted December 3, 2017 Report Share Posted December 3, 2017 I had occasion to fly out of Heathrow a month ago on an Airbus A380 giant. After we broke ground on the climb out I shot this cool video of the left inboard engine's nacelle strake generating its vortex trail back over the wing. I was surprised at the boundary layer thickness. It's hard to scale due to the size of the wing but there was actually about 2 feet between the wing and the trail. Thought everyone would enjoy some pilot-aero geek stuff. Sorry it wasn't edited better. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carusoam Posted December 4, 2017 Report Share Posted December 4, 2017 That is pretty fancy camera work there TD... The airflow is pretty impressive. Best regards, -a- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TargetDriver Posted December 4, 2017 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2017 Haha yea, sorry about the final crotch shot at the end! Always being the pilot and gawking out the window at all the big flappy moving parts of the wing, I was caught off guard by seein gthat at first.. then I thought of crap !! PHONE - VIDEO ! I work with a group of Aero Engineers and thought they'd get a kick out of analyzing the heck out of that. The more I watched it, the cooler it was. yes, the airflow is impressive for sure ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carusoam Posted December 4, 2017 Report Share Posted December 4, 2017 And the thermodynamics too... The drop in pressure and temperature has caused the RH/moisture in the air to immediately fall out of solution... Best regards, -a- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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