Sentence examples for nacelle from inspiring English sources

In a traditional turbine the blades are in front of both the pole and the nacelle (the structure that houses the generator).

Nikola Tesla's revenge Following the footprints The armour strikes back Parallel bars Alpha geek ReprintsBy contrast, FHI has opted for a downwind design, which puts the blades behind both nacelle and pole.

Cessna and Beechcraft still used radial-piston engines, but Piper relied on a horizontally opposed four-cylinder engine that allowed engineers to design a more streamlined engine nacelle.

They are made up of a blade or rotor and an enclosure called a nacelle that contains a drive train atop a tall tower.

In almost all cases, it is not mechanical noise arising from the central gear box or nacelle of a turbine that residents react to, but rather the sound of the blades, which in modern turbines are mammoth appendages well over 100 feet long, as they slice through the air.

The industry's precariousness was apparent a few weeks ago at the Gamesa factory, as a crew loaded the guts of the company's newest model of the component, a device known as a nacelle, into its fiberglass shell.

Some low-speed tunnels have test sections large enough to accommodate a complete small airplane or a wing-nacelle section of a large aircraft.

Jet engines are variously disposed, but the most common arrangement is to have them placed underneath the wing in nacelles suspended on pylons or placed on stub fixtures at the rear of the fuselage.

The first category encompasses aerodynamic controls and actuators (mechanical or fly-by-wire systems), doors, engine nacelles and pylon fairings, control surfaces, and takeoff-and-landing-gear systems (including nosewheel steering, brakes, shock absorbers, and tires).

Once airborne, the V-22's two wingtip nacelles, each bearing an engine and a 38-foot (11.6 metre) rotor, pivot 90 degrees from an overhead position to a forward-facing position to facilitate high-speed, fuel-efficient horizontal flight.

The rear light clusters are works of four-pointed art, while the rear reflectors sit in vertical nacelles as though pretending to be red-hot air emerging from some powerhouse's orifice.