Sentences with phrase «rotor blades»

LM Wind Power is a leading independent supplier of rotor blades to the wind industry, and is part of GE Renewable Energy.

LM Wind Power builds rotor blades for the industry's bread - and - butter 1.5 - and 2 - megawatt wind turbines, as well as 8 - megawatt behemoths with rotors spanning 180 meters, or roughly the length of two football fields.

The most obvious is its twin main rotor blades which spin in opposite directions.

The way helicopter rotor blades produce their characteristic noise has been photographed for the first time, in a bid to make the craft run more quietly

From those tiny dust particles to the air brushing through Snake's hair, even the shadow of the chopper's rotor blades got me stunned.

According to a 2013 study commissioned by the Brandenburg State Environment Office, rotor blades killed about 300 red kites each year in this one state alone.

I've never seen rotor blades light up dust as gracefully as what you can see here.

«For instance, we're developing smart rotor blade technology to optimise the power production of single turbines,» says Stephan Barth, managing director at Forwind.

Other aerial robots, like some drones, aren't so agile, relying on four whirling rotor blades to lift off the ground, Hutchinson said.

Bernard Feringa was the first person to develop a molecular motor; in 1999 he got a molecular rotor blade to spin continually in the same direction.

The retreating rotor blades create a weather system of their own for a few violent seconds, and then it is resoundingly quiet.

We're also promised some close - quarter carnage as your chopper's propellers have been replaced with deadly rotor blades.

Organisers say the B75 rotor blades are the world's largest handmade fibreglass components to be cast as a single object and the one being placed into the centre of Hull is one of the first to be made by workers at the German tech giant's new plant on Alexandra Dock.

Challenges to Incorporate Rotor Blade Inspection and Maintenance Activities Into Your Big Data Solution Chris Wraith, Complete Wind Corporation

Some 33 stories high with rotor blades extending 50 meters in length, the Brilliant 1.6 - 100 and 1.7 - 100 wind turbines embody the most advanced and efficient turbines GE has developed to date.

But the longer rotor blades they require lead to higher loads on the main bearing and the shaft.

They can even fly through spinning rotor blades without getting hit.

Ice shed from rotor blades: Ice buildup makes Skystream blades less aerodynamic, so that they turn more slowly.

Its ducted fans provide lift and propulsion without the dangers of exposed rotor blades and high maintenance costs of rotary - winged aircraft.

As most choppers don't vary rotor speed during flight, the researchers were even able to use tremor frequencies to deduce the number of rotor blades and their revolution speed.

Just after sunset a shoe box — size airborne object collided with one of the choppers, damaging its main rotor blade, window frame and transmission system.

Both airplane wings and helicopter rotor blades are subject to one problem — they can both ice up.

Future versions are expected to be able to do replacement or repair work to the rotor blades themselves.

Fear soon starts spreading: the infrasound generated by the rotor blades and by the wind flow might make someone ill.

The group spent nearly a third of its development efforts building and testing canards — small lifting wings used for better stability and control — at the end of each rotor blade.

As their rotor blades spin, helicopters create a series of closely spaced pressure pulses that travel through the air to the ground below.

The rotor blades have always prevented this safety measure in the past, but the Ka - 50's six rotor blades are attached to their axles with explosive bolts.

For some, the distance across their rotor blades is longer than a football field.

The rotor blades are quite sharp.

Be it taking out a Russian attack helicopter with a stealthy hero or destroying a whirlybird by damaging its rotor blades with bottles of hooch during a zombie apocalypse; the following fights with airborne a-holes are the definition of badass... eh, if someone's recently rewritten the dictionary.

You can improve how you design wind farms with advanced computer models, you can improve the rotor blades and the mechanical parts inside the nacelle, you can even try radically different designs, but mostly, you have to go bigger.

Siemens (NYSE: SI) has a rotor blade manufacturing facility in Iowa and they are currently building a turbine production facility in Kansas.

In addition, all connective fittings have also been installed, which will be used later to mount the tower with its turbine nacelle and rotor blades.

As of April 2017, GE has completed the acquisition of LM Wind Power, a leading independent supplier of rotor blades to the wind industry.

«Lightning damage is a common environmental hazard for rotor blades, but even within the specialism of blade repair, the skills needed to account for it and carry out repairs are extremely technical and require a high level of training.

GE said today that it plans to acquire LM Wind Power, the Danish maker of rotor blades, for $ 1.65 billion.

The wind farm operator, German utility RWE, has to keep the sensitive equipment — the drives, hubs and rotor blades — in constant motion, and for now that requires diesel - powered generators.

But when a breeding red kite is chopped up by a rotor blade, it represents a significant loss for the species in the region.

The rotor blades for wind turbines are gigantic.

Birds that aren't killed by the rotor blades are often driven away.

The exascale turbines would be sited downwind, unlike conventional turbines that are configured with the rotor blades upwind of the tower.

A common effect seen on Primary Surveillance Radar screens is that the rotor blades can produce intermittent radar returns.

The turbine has a rotor blade diameter of 80 metres and so the rotors sweep an area of PI × (diameter / 2) 2 = 5026 m2.

An idea of the scale of the job of transporting the tubine parts to the wind farm site was given by the statement that «If you laid out the rotor blades alone end to end they would form a road train about 13 kilometers long.»

The turbines are rated at 5MW, and have a rotor blade diameter of 126 metres (413 feet)-- the size of two soccer fields when spread out.

I can feel the rotor blades on my helicopter starting to slow.