Talk:Flettner ship

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I took out the reference to the Alcyone because the small amount of technical information I can find online (from reasonably canonical sources - the Cousteau Society mainly) about the Turbosail suggests it does not use the Magnus Effect. See, for example

http://www.limsi.fr/RS2005/meca/aero/aero11/index.html, a study about aerodynamic simulation which discusses the turbosail and includes a description as well as a photo of the inside. It's pretty clear from the picture that the thing doesn't rotate.

See also http://www.cousteau.org/en/downloadfiles/alcyone_and_turbosail.pdf, which describes the device again, albeit with a terrible picture.

Joachim Heck 04:04, 27 May 2006 (UTC)

<Oh, never mind. Already been done.>

128.54.74.116 06:32, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

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