Something wrong with wingtip vapor trails...

Pilotasso · September 8, 2013

The wingtip trails act as if they had greater density than surrounding air because they sink under the wing plane which looks weird. They should follow the aircrafts direction of motion (i.e. the angle between the trail and wing should be similar to AOA).

Also I think they are too short and requires too many G's to show up. are vapour condensation conditions dynamic or does it have a fixed range of speed and angle of attack to trigger?

59th_LeFty · October 10, 2013

Oh come on, Is this really the whole attention paid to this? I thought I'll find a dozen of topics about this. Vortices are flowing in the wrong direction relative to aircraft axis - down, instead of up from the wing. My fellow fighter up here would like you to pay attention to his problem:

shown here by FB of DCS:A10C

https://fbcdn-sphotos-f-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/1273710_734101746607003_1615063481_o.jpg

Another from this forum

http://imageshack.us/a/img17/884/q9wm.jpg

OK, now see how it should look like:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/FA-18C_vapor_LEX_and_wingtip_1.jpg/800px-FA-18C_vapor_LEX_and_wingtip_1.jpg

http://www.air-and-space.com/20040918%20Pt%20Mugu/DSC_3662%20F-15C%2078-549%2033FW%20left%20rear%20in%20flight%20l.jpg

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/26/41788003_5e1f9ed239_z.jpg?zz=1

Man, I can do this all day.

My beloved MiG

http://alpinestock.com/mig29_wingtip_vortice_geardown_afterburner_sjpg7741.jpg

Again :)