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    Forces on sails result from movement of air that interacts with sails and gives them motive power for sailing craft, including sailing ships, sailboats...
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    Sailing (redirect from Heeling forces)
    minimal forward drag in opposition to the sails' propulsive power and maximum resistance to the sails' lateral forces. In modern sailboats, drag is minimized...
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    direction and sail in the other.: 113 : 7  Many do not consider sails to have been used before the 5th millennium BCE. Others consider sails to have been...
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  • on January 29, 2017 and concluded on April 2, 2017. During the course of the series, 38 episodes of Black Sails aired over four seasons. "Black Sails:...
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    sails (also known as lightsails, light sails, and photon sails) are a method of spacecraft propulsion using radiation pressure exerted by sunlight on...
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    asymmetrical (most other sails). Typically, asymmetrical sails perform better on points of sail closer to the wind than symmetrical sails and are designed for...
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  • Black Sails is an American historical action-adventure television series set on New Providence Island. It was written to be a prequel to Robert Louis...
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    Wing (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    and models) Otto Lilienthal Wing configuration Wingsuit Sailing: Sails Forces on sails Wingsail "Online Etymology Dictionary". Etymonline.com. Retrieved...
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    vessels may set studding sails, sails that extend outwards from the yardarms, to create a larger sail area for points of sail, ranging from downwind to...
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    Sails is an international sailmaker and sailing wear company with operations in 29 countries. The company designs, engineers and manufactures sails for...
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    held jointly by humans and gods. Agamemnon gathers the reluctant Greek forces to sail for Troy. In order to recruit Odysseus, who is feigning madness so as...
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    or by a range of computer programs including iPolar and iRegatta. Forces on sails ORC Sailboat Data a large database of polar diagrams maintained by...
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  • the primary power via sail(s) or wing to propel a craft over water, ice or land. A sailor manages the force of the wind on the sails by adjusting their angle...
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    is also used in reference to the draft of a sail (i.e. "More belly in the main sail."). Forces on sails Sail components Barrie Smith; Jeremy Evans; Pat...
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    their power from sails, kites or rotors and ride on wheels—which may be linked to a wind-powered rotor—or runners. Whether powered by sail, kite or rotor...
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  • Qianfan (redirect from Thousand Sails)
    Thousand Sails megaconstellation". SpaceNews. Retrieved 2024-12-07. Jones, Andrew (2024-12-05). "Long March 6A launches third batch of Thousand Sails constellation...
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  • Visakhapatnam on November 13–16 and included training visits, subject matter expert exchanges, sports events and social interactions. Both forces then sailed southward...
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    motive power with its sails or aerofoils at speeds that are often faster than the wind on both upwind and downwind points of sail. Faster-than-the-wind...
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    are mounted on warships. Naval tactics were divorced from the reliance on sails with the invention of the internal combustion. A further advance in military...
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    were panemone windmills, using sails that rotated in a horizontal plane, around a vertical axis. Made of six to 12 sails covered in reed matting or cloth...
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  • yacht. Lift from sails Drag on sails Induced drag VPPs solve for the performance of a yacht by resolving all forces and moments acting on the yacht. Pitching...
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  • sail) Filled by the wind on the opposite side to the one normally used to move the vessel forward. On a square-rigged ship, any of the square sails can...
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    inhabitants were taken as slaves. The Ottoman forces then sailed to North Africa, where they were bolstered by local forces from Tajura led by Murad Agha. Tripoli...
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  • also cause heeling, the leaning produced by the imbalance of the forces on the sails, high above the waterline, and the sideways resistance, generated...
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    effects on the sails of a frigate, then the main ship of the Royal Navy, from "just sufficient to give steerage" to "that which no canvas sails could withstand"...
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  • Elvis Costello from the 1979 album Armed Forces "Senior Service", a 1980 song by Steeleye Stan off the album Sails of Silver The Senior Service (band), a...
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    conquest of England. The following day he lands on the English coast at Pevensey, splits his forces, and sails with the main army to Hastings. October 6 –...
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    mainly French (a French, English and Dutch fleet with Portuguese forces included), sailed against a Spanish naval force made up of Portuguese and Castilian...
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    raised by subscription as a memorial to sailors on the Free French Naval Forces vessels that sailed from the Firth of Clyde to take part in the Battle...
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    Sumatran mainland, followed by Ilamuridesam in northern Sumatra. The forces next sailed to Malaysia and captured Vallaipandur in modern-day north-east Malaysia...
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