Sentence examples for rigid wing from inspiring English sources

It is called a soft sail compared to the rigid wing.

"We mount the turbines on a rigid wing and fly the wing around in circles, and transmit electricity back to the ground through the tether that connects the wing to the ground," he said.

Unlike Alinghi 5's more conventional mast system, in which the sails are furled and stowed at the end of the day, USA-17's 223-foot rigid wing stays up around the clock.

However, TM wing has a lower aerodynamic efficiency (CL/CD) compared to membrane and rigid wing.

Issues in the spatial coupling are eliminated by using a rigid wing.

The system consists of an elastically mounted rigid wing on a rig fixed in a wind tunnel.

In this flow regime, rigid fixed wings drop dramatically in aerodynamic performance while flexible flapping wings gain efficacy and are the preferred propulsion method for small natural fliers.

The engineers began to test models with rigid wings which looked and functioned more like airplanes.

The RSPB's Tony Whitehead, said: "Birds have small brains, with basic disguising, the young cranes are perfectly happy to accept rigid wings, engines and even Russian presidents as mummy and daddy".

Here's an early one I marked: "In dim gray light and fleeting rays of sun, the toiling seas turn molten, and still the great birds glide through the endless twilight, carving the cold air on rigid wings.

The power efficiency of optimized twistable and rigid wings is studied.