Sentence examples for sailing characteristics from inspiring English sources

In the dead of winter, when the sky is slate and the moorings are empty, he is joined by a dozen Larchmont die-hards each cold Sunday morning for a vigorous session of boat racing with three-foot-long CR-914 models, which weigh in at just over six pounds and enjoy the sweet sailing characteristics of the full-scale America's Cup yachts from which they are patterned.

For example, assuming an orbital period equal to 5 years, the required solar sail characteristic acceleration is greater than 3.4 mm/s2.

For a given pair of orbital parameters, the orbital period and the perihelion distance, it is possible to find the minimum solar sail characteristic acceleration required to fulfil a double angular momentum reversal trajectory.

The coplanar circular orbit rendezvous scenario is investigated first to evaluate the variational trend of the transfer time with respect to different hyperbolic excess velocities and solar sail characteristic accelerations.

This design reduces the total mass to less than 7.5 mg and enables the spacecraft bus itself to serve as a solar sail with characteristic acceleration on the order of 0.1 mm/s2.

Lastly, analytic expressions are derived to determine the long-term dynamics and sensitivity of the formation with respect to constant attitude errors, uncertainty in orbital elements, and uncertainty in a sail's characteristic acceleration.

Deformation of the sail shape changes the flow characteristics over the sail, which in turn further deforms the sail shape.

The chief spacecraft is assumed to move along an elliptic displaced orbit, while each deputy spacecraft adjusts its thrust vector (that is, both its sail attitude and characteristic acceleration) in order to track a prescribed relative trajectory.

The purpose of our study is to numerically analyze the aerodynamic characteristics of multiple wing sails which have three identical wing sails in a row and optimize their shape and operation conditions in terms of the flap length, deflection angle and angle of attack under various wind directions.

This and other observations led him to conclude that "the habit of sailing through the air" was probably "characteristic of this tribe".

This paper investigates the characteristics of the magneto-plasma sail by comparing it with the other low-thrust propulsion systems (i.e., electric propulsion and solar sail), and the potential of its application to near future outer planet missions is studied.