An experimental Airbus concept shows airplanes flying in formation to save fuel. This concept carefully capitalizes on wake turbulence, which engineers have fought against for more than a century.

aircraft, part of the Autonomous Formation Flight (AFF) project based at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, Calif., flew the mission in early December. During the 96-minute flight, the ...

A wing-tip vortex from a Boeing 747 may have hit wind shear and intensified enough to contribute to the upset that doomed American Airlines Flight 587, a scientist from Canada's National Research ...