Nina Katchadourian's five - part portfolio Window Seat Suprematism (2014) is based on photographs of
airplane wings she took over the course of numerous commercial airline flights; in this work she documents her peripatetic lifestyle while also channeling the pared - down compositions of the Russian avant - garde.
Not exact matches
Most recently, he and his colleague Nigel Peake showed, mathematically, that the noise from
airplane wings could be reduced tenfold if their designers
took a few cues from the feathers that fringe the trailing edge of an owl's
wings.
In any case, the findings are still in their earliest stages, and it might
take two or three years before the ideas for a quieter
airplane wing are tested with a small model in a wind tunnel, Jaworski said.
Taking advantage of the streamlined packaging, Audi designers shaped the dashboard into an elegant shape that's supposed to resemble an
airplane's
wing.
60 Wind Generation Historically Small wind turbines used for Wind Generation Historically Small wind turbines used for agriculture use — pump water Provide electrical needs for isolated homes Extracts ~ 3 kW of power with wind vanes no larger than 1m long Modern Wind turbines with vanes larger than 50 m can extract megawatts of power from the wind Blades designed to function similar to
airplane wings utilizing lift created by the wind flowing over the surface to turn the blades — more efficient Turbines mounted on tall towers or at sea can
take advantage of higher winds.