Sentences with phrase «small lifting wings»
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.
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Galápagos cormorants (Phalacrocorax harrisi) are the only cormorant species with wings too small to lift the birds» large bodies off the ground.
The front splitter and rear wing not only cancel out the 60 kg of lift generated by the GTI Performance, they actually produce a small amount of downforce.
The rear wing and front - wing main planes are smaller, and the centerline wicker from the nose of the car to the cockpit is tapered — an aerodynamic device intended to prevent the car from lifting off the ground when it spins.
A redesigned splitter reduces front lift from 66 kg to 18 kg at 150mph, Becker explaining that the underside profile is shaped like the leading edge of a wing to accelerate the flow passing beneath the car, while the small «winglets» at the splitter's corners not only increase downward pressure on the upper surface but guide the airflow past the front wheels, reducing turbulence and drag, resulting in a drop in Cd from 0.372 to 0.369.
The MVMC wing is specially designed for small animal rehabilitation and includes an underwater treadmill, ground treadmill, stationary and ceiling mounted track lift, cavaletti rails, therapy balls, and physical spaces designed with rehabilitation aids to create therapeutic conditions.
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.