downwind


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towards the side away from the wind

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away from the wind

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Instructors who advocate configuring for landing on downwind claim several advantages.
The only difference in the CSD model topology between the three-bladed configuration and the two-bladed is the number of blades, and a teetering joint which was added to the two-bladed wind turbine for both upwind and downwind configurations.
Eagerly looking forward to the fourth leg, Al Hasni said: "I'm excited for the race because my navigator says it's going to be downwind. It will start from Khasab so I think we'll enjoy it."
That way, your body is still well above the ridgeline (for steady winds) but the ground drops off fairly sharply on the downwind side.
Anderson finds that moving from the upwind to the downwind side of the road (within 600 meters) increases average NOx levels by 43 percent and mortality rates for those above age 75 years by 3.6 to 6.8 percent.
Research supervised by Dr Chris Busby, who used to be based in Aberystwyth but is now attached to the Latvian Academy of Sciences in Riga, showed the incidence of breast cancer was five times higher downwind from Trawsfynydd nuclear power station than would have been expected.
The decision caps a decades-long effort by the Environmental Protection Agency to find a legally acceptable way to ensure that states are good neighbors and don't contribute to pollution problems in downwind states, where environmental officials can do nothing to control it.
A second site was 165 feet downwind from a barn, and the third was 655 feet (about a tenth of a mile) downwind from the same barn.
Looking over the calibrated all-sky map of IBEX's cleaned data, mission scientists found that lots of ENAs are arriving directly from the Sun's "downwind" direction, between Betelgeuse and Aldebaran along the Orion-Taurus border.
Woods still smoked a 4-iron 285 yards downwind on the eighth hole.
The 20-knot-plus gusts caught many out downwind with a number of capsizes when the breeze came through.
Hitachi and FHI co-developed a 2,000kW level downwind type power generation system in 2003.
British Olympian Walker has now written in his blog: "Despite an exciting day or two gaining many miles over the fleet, it is now clear that the leaders are escaping in strong downwind conditions to the south east of us.
Ainslie finished race nine in Perth second to Holland's Pieter-Jan Postma, but felt impeded by the media boat's wake on the downwind leg.