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  • 1blade face — The flat surface of a propeller blade corresponding to the underside of an airfoil. This is the portion of the blade that strikes the air. The other side of the blade is called blade back …

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  • 2Retreating blade stall — is a hazardous flight condition in helicopters and other rotary wing aircraft, where the rotor blade rotating away from the direction of flight stalls. The stall is due to low relative airspeed and/or excessive angle of attack (or AOA).… …

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  • 3helicopter — /hel i kop teuhr, hee li /, n. 1. any of a class of heavier than air craft that are lifted and sustained in the air horizontally by rotating wings or blades turning on vertical axes through power supplied by an engine. v.i. 2. to fly in a… …

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  • 4Industrial fans — and blowers are valuable tools for moving air and materials required in a wide variety of manufacturing processes and industries, including cement, power, mining, coal treatment, pollution control, oil and gas, ethanol and steel. Ranging in size… …

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  • 5Insect wing — Original veins and wing posture of a dragonfly. Hoverflies hovering to mate …

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  • 6Computational fluid dynamics — Computational physics Numerical analysis  …

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  • 7turbine — /terr bin, buyn/, n. any of various machines having a rotor, usually with vanes or blades, driven by the pressure, momentum, or reactive thrust of a moving fluid, as steam, water, hot gases, or air, either occurring in the form of free jets or as …

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  • 8Messerschmitt Bf 109 variants — Main article: Messerschmitt Bf 109 Bf 109 Bf 109G 10, with Erla Haube canopy and taller, wooden vertical fin/rudd …

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  • 9gas-turbine engine — Introduction       any internal combustion engine employing a gas as the working fluid used to turn a turbine. The term also is conventionally used to describe a complete internal combustion engine consisting of at least a compressor, a… …

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  • 10Mechanical fan — Household electric box fan with a propeller style blade A mechanical fan is a machine used to create flow within a fluid, typically a gas such as air. A fan consists of a rotating arrangement of vanes or blades which act on the air. Usually, it… …

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