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Vane, Vanes

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  • weather vane       wiki
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrow  See vane on arrows. Fletchings are traditionally made from feathers (often from a goose or turkey) bound to the arrow's shaft, but are now often made of plastic (known as "vanes").
  • http://people.eku.edu/ritchisong/feather_evolution.htm    Study vanes involved in feather evolution
  • Pennaceous feather    See details of such feathers. 
  • : a thin, flat or curved object that is attached to a wheel and that moves when air or water pushes it         Illustration: http://www.merriam-webster.com/art/dict/feather.htm
  • :  a thin flat or curved object that is rotated about an axis by a flow of fluid or that rotates to cause a fluid to flow or that redirects a flow of fluid <the vanes of a windmill
  • a blade, plate, sail, etc., in the wheel of a windmill, to be moved by the air.
  • any of a number of blades or plates attached radially to a rotating drum or cylinder, as in a turbine or pump, that move or are moved by a fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air.
  • Aerospace.
    a.  any fixed or movable plane surface on the outside of a rocket providing directional control while the rocket is within the atmosphere.
    b.  a similar plane surface located in the exhaust jet of a reaction engine, providing directional control while the engine is firing.
  • paravane      water kite
  • Modular Foil Vane ( Kite Looping Mechanism)  by Cleventine
  • http://www.peterlynnkites.com/news.htm   Peter instructs on increasing "vane area" in the rear.   He notes in his instruction though: "Kites are wind vanes- there needs to be more 'vane' area towards the rear than at the front or the kite will turn against the wind direction. "
  • The wing of a kite system may be considered to be a vane of the kite system.  ~ JpF
  • Vanes in a box kite construction:  SeeHere
  • Some wings of kite systems are controlled by vanes on the wing or on extensions from the wing.
  • Stabilizing vanes in some wings of kite systems.
  • pilot vane
  • Krueger vane
  • vanes in a wing, servo-vane control
  • https://www.google.com/patents/US2843965   Depth kite for trolling.  
  • turning vane  One of a number of curved fins which are placed in air-conditioning ductwork at a point where the duct changes direction; used to promote a more uniform airflow and to reduce pressure drop.
  • airfoil vanes
  • turbine vanes
  • pump vanes
 
Dave Santos brings in: 

"Van" is archaic anglo-gaulic for wing, as I recall my youthful Milton-study, where we perhaps find a first reference to aeroelastic-flutter and settling-under-power as a combined flight-dynamics failure-mode-

 
From Paradise Lost:
...
 
At last his sail-broad VANs  
He spreads for flight, and, in the surging smoke  
Uplifted, spurns the ground; thence many a league,  
As in a cloudy chair, ascending rides         930
Audacious; but, that seat soon failing, meets  
A vast vacuity. All unawares,  
Fluttering his pennons vain, plumb-down he drops  
Ten thousand fadom deep, and to this hour  
Down had been falling, had not, by ill chance,         935
The strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud,  
Instinct with fire and nitre, hurried him  
As many miles aloft...

 

http://dictionary.reverso.net/english-cobuild/van%20[wing]
 

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