JOINT US/UK VORTEX TRACKING PROGRAM AT HEATHROW INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT. VOLUME II. DATA ANALYSIS

From May 1974 through June 1975, the approach region to runway 28R at Heathrow International Airport was equipped with aircraft wake vortex tracking equipment. The vortices from approximately 13,000 aircraft were monitored along with the attendant meteorological conditions. The joint US/UK project represents a major step in learning how vortices move and die in the terminal environment. Volume II describes the entire project from the workings and locations of the equipment to the analysis of the data.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • See also Volume 1, AD-A024 842.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Systems Center

  55 Broadway, Kendall Square
  Cambridge, MA  United States  02142
• Authors:
  • Hallock, J N
  • Winston, B P
  • Burnham, D C
  • Sullivan, T E
  • McWilliams, I G
• Publication Date: 1977-11

Media Info

• Pagination: 197 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Aviation safety; Data collection; Data reduction; Information processing; Jet transports; Landing; Landing fields; Transport properties (Physics); Vortices; Wakes
• Uncontrolled Terms: Experimental data; Transport properties
• Old TRIS Terms: Aircraft landing; Decay schemes; Micrometeorology
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Data and Information Technology; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00169734
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
• Report/Paper Numbers: TSC-FAA-76-11-VOL-2, FAA-RD-76-58-VOL-2
• Files: NTIS
• Created Date: Mar 14 2002 12:00AM