Smoke generators show the twisting paths of wingtip vortices behind two NASA Dryden F/A-18's used in the Autonomous Formation Flight (AFF) program during flight #743.
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Smoke generators show the twisting paths of wingtip vortices behind two NASA Dryden F/A-18’s used in the Autonomous Formation Flight (AFF) program during flight #743. The lead aircraft, F-18 #845 (NASA Dryden’s Systems Research Aircraft), piloted by Craig Bomben, is followed closely by another F-18, #847, piloted by Dick Ewers.› Read Project DescriptionNovember 9, 2001NASA Photo / Carla Thomas