Boeing Developing System To Reduced Horizontal Separation Between Aircraft

ANOTHER EFFORT that could lead to reduced horizontal separation between aircraft is a system being developed by Boeing designed to break up trailing vortices. The system, which has been demonstrated in ground tests, uses control surfaces to cyclically shift a small fraction of the lift between...

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