Wake turbulence and WW2 bombers

[artik]

Watching this video about wake turbulance of relatievly small An-2 aircraft: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KXlv16ETueU

I wonder... how could pilot of relatively small plane like 109 sit on tail of huge aircraft like B-17/24 and shooting accurately without being thrown away

[Zimme83]

A part of the answer is Angle of attack. The heaviest vortexes are produced at high AoA on take off and landing, not at cruise speed.

[Busher]

and wing tip vortices (wake turbulence) by nature, tend to descend behind and below the aircraft creating them.

[Oldman731]

and wing tip vortices (wake turbulence) by nature, tend to descend behind and below the aircraft creating them.

But I have read accounts by German pilots of being thrown off course, or off mark, by the wake turbulence, so it was there.

- oldman (now where was it that I read that...?)

[save]

Flying into your own wake doing a 360deg turn should avoided in ultralights/VLA, when you do it you know why.

[PR3D4TOR]

From Heinz Knoke's war diary, at 3:50:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuWoh67V-C4

[colmbo]

The biggest bump is behind and below the wingtips. When getting in tight on the B-17 with the B-24 I knew I was about right when I could feel my wingtip get pushed up a bit by the vortices off the Fortress.

I've been directly behind the B-24 in the B-17 very close and felt nothing.  We closed to within 10' or so.