Wind Turbine Blades

On Thursday, December 4, 2014 10:02:17 PM UTC-8, GM wrote:

Not sure which wind project in KS you are referring to but our current generation blades are 47.8m long which makes for a 100m rotor diameter. 120m and 130m rotors on 140m tall towers are already being used in Europe. Our aerodynamisists tell me that these blades have an L/D of around 100:1.
Uli

Wow! That pretty much says it all, the hell with honesty, I'm stealing a couple of them blades, assuming I can find both and right hand ones, and building me a new 100 meter 100:1 L/D glider!

Does anyone have a 50 meter trailer for sale? Oh, and really heavy duty one-man rigger?

bumper

Modern laminar airfoils normally have an L/D 100/1,
without the effect of limited span. It is the need
the house the pilot and provide stability which knocks
it down below 70.
JMF


At 19:13 06 December 2014, bumper wrote:
On Thursday, December 4, 2014 10:02:17 PM UTC-8, GM wrote:

Not sure which wind project in KS you are referring to but our current
ge=
neration blades are 47.8m long which makes for a 100m rotor diameter.
120m
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and 130m rotors on 140m tall towers are already being used in Europe. Our
a=
erodynamisists tell me that these blades have an L/D of around 100:1.
Uli

Wow! That pretty much says it all, the hell with honesty, I'm stealing a
co=
uple of them blades, assuming I can find both and right hand ones, and
buil=
ding me a new 100 meter 100:1 L/D glider!=20

Does anyone have a 50 meter trailer for sale? Oh, and really heavy duty
one=
-man rigger?

bumper

Sorry, Bumper but them blades only come in a LH version. Your trailer and one man rigger would have to be quite hefty as each of them weighs in at around 10,000kg. :-)
GM

At 06:27 07 December 2014, GM wrote:
Sorry, Bumper but them blades only come in a LH version. Your trailer and
one man rigger would have to be quite hefty as each of them weighs in at
around 10,000kg. :-)
GM

Bumper should check with the Ozzies' maybe they make
RH blades for the S hemisphere.
JMF