A large number of studies of flow visualisations, developed on the upper surface of delta or gothic wings and on that of ogives of revolution, have been carried out in the wind tunnel of the Valenciennes University aerodynamics and hydrodynamics laboratory (LAH). These studies have provided a better understanding of the development and the positioning of vortex structures and have enabled, in particular, the preferential nature of inter vortex angles, thereby defined, to be determined on a wide range of Reynolds. This paper concerns in particular the study by visualisations of the behavioural properties on the upper surface of an ogive of revolution having an apex angle of 68.6° at a low angle of attack and conducted at variable speeds. It has been noted that variations in speed have no influence at all on the behavioural properties of the development of vortex structures whereas, by contrast, changes to the angles of incidence do indeed strongly influence that development. The study of the ascent of the vortex breakdown at high angles of attack has revealed original behavioural properties which find expression notably in the discontinuous evolution, in terms of the apex angle, of those angles of attack which define the beginning and the end of the ascent of this vortex breakdown.