Sentence examples similar to flexible sail from inspiring English sources

Even so, Leonardo grasped the essential differences between the flexible, sail-like wings of hang-gliders and the more rigid structures that were to become the staple of sailplanes and powered aircraft.

Gennakers are lightweight and flexible sails, used for downwind sailing configurations.

This paper establishes the reduced dynamic model for a flexible solar sail with foreshortening deformation and coupling of its attitude and vibration.

The oscillation effect is reduced as the spin rate increases, which means a larger spin rate is required to stable the attitude for a flexible solar sail than the rigid one.

The batwing otter board is such a low AOA solution; incorporating a unique towing arrangement and a high aspect ratio, flexible, hydro-sail to spread trawls with minimal seabed contact.

This novel system achieves completely fuel-free and oscillation-free attitude control of a flexible spinning solar sail.

As a flexible spinning solar sail has no rigid structure to support its membrane, the distributed load due to solar radiation will lead to the deformation of the sail membrane, and the control torque generated by reflectivity modulation can introduce oscillatory motion to the membrane.

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This paper investigates the dynamics and control of flexible spinning solar sails under reflectivity modulation.

The relative attitude and orbit control of flexible spinning solar sails under reflectivity modulation are numerically tested.

This paper models sails as inextensible, flexible and slack surfaces.