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Old 06-09-2004 | 01:49 AM
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Default RE: wing vortex

Like Crewguy I'm not sure I follow either. Straight or swept you don't get vortices except at the tips anyway. There are exceptions like the forward strakes on fighters that sort of ACT like wingtips and if the sweep angle is high enough like on a delta you can get rollling air flowing from the lower to the upper side at higher angles of attack but for the most part it's only the tips that generate vertices.