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Lasers Listen to Vortices from Airplane Wing Tips

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Hank Hogan

At Flight Safety Technologies Inc. in Mystic, Conn., senior vice president for technology Neal Fine is working to ease airport congestion while increasing safety. His company is using a laser-based system dubbed Socrates to listen for the sound of a vortex generated by wing tips as planes land and take off. Being able to identify when such vortices are present would allow planes to safely take off and land closer together. Socrates is not an active turbulence sensor, Fine said. “It’s detecting sound on the ground generated remotely from where the airplane passes over.” That, he noted,...Read full article

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