Explore: Vortex Flaps

effectiveness of wings and control surfaces, such as flaps, elevators, ailerons, and rudders. Vortex generators are most often used to delay flow separation

Flaps are usually located on the trailing edge of a wing, while leading edge flaps are used occasionally. There are many kinds of trailing-edge flap.

behaviour and performance of leading-edge Vortex flaps" (PDF). Retrieved 2023-12-17. "Leading Edge Vortex Allows Bats to Stay Aloft, Aerospace Professor

to the wing without the flaps. Storms, B. L.; Jang, C. S. (1994). "Lift Enhancement of an Airfoil Using a Gurney Flap and Vortex Generators". Journal of

Blown flaps, blown wing or jet flaps are powered aerodynamic high-lift devices used on the wings of certain aircraft to improve their low-speed flight

trailing edges of a fixed-wing aircraft. Flaps are used to reduce the take-off distance and the landing distance. Flaps also cause an increase in drag so they

configuration of the flaps could be changed on existing aircraft to break the vortex into three smaller and less disturbing vortexes. This primarily involved

Stollery, J. L. (1988). "The Behaviour and Performance of Leading-Edge Vortex Flaps" (PDF). ICAS 1988 Jerusalem. 1988. International Council of Aeronautical

Krueger flaps, or Krüger flaps, are lift enhancement devices that may be fitted to the leading edge of an aircraft wing. Unlike slats or droop flaps, the

and trailing-edge ailerons (i.e. what would later be called trailing-edge flaps) that could be deployed in conjunction with the leading-edge slats to test