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  • n  a streamlined enclosure for an aircraft engine

  • After the aircraft is high in the air, the cylinders will be drawn back into the engine's nacelle and the cone will be opened.
  • But when company engineers, in wind-tunnel tests, purposely weakened nacelle struts to about the same condition as those on the crashed Electras, the fatal chain reaction began.
  • Generous amounts of drive plasma are vented from the starboard warp nacelle always good.
News & Articles

  • Service Lifts Take Wind Industry Higher
    Nacelle access solutions such as ladders and climb-assist technologies have been in place since there have been wind turbines, but as turbines get taller, service lifts (SLs) are becoming the solution of choice for new-built towers.
    June 11, 2013 - Renewable Energy World
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  • Michael Aird in The Age
    The Howard government's narrow-minded refusal to extend the Mandatory Renewable Energy Target has resulted in fewer projects for Vestas than originally envisaged when it established its nacelle factory in 2003,Mr Aird said in a statement.

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