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Into the Wind



Wind flow patterns and speeds vary greatly across the United States and are modified by bodies of water, vegetation, and differences in terrain. Humans use this wind flow, or motion energy, for many purposes: sailing, flying a kite, and even generating electricity.


The terms "wind energy" and "wind power" both describe the process by which the wind is used to generate mechanical power or electricity. This mechanical power can be used for specific tasks (such as grinding grain or pumping water) or a generator can convert this mechanical power into electricity.


Wind turbines can be built on land or offshore in large bodies of water like oceans and lakes. The U.S. Department of Energy is currently funding projects to facilitate offshore wind deployment in U.S. waters.


When wind turbines of any size are installed on the "customer" side of the electric meter, or are installed at or near the place where the energy they produce will be used, they're called "distributed wind.


These systems are called hybrid wind systems and are typically used in remote, off-grid locations( where a connection to the utility grid is not available) and are becoming more common in grid-connected applications for resiliency.


Learn more about distributed wind from the Distributed Wind Animation or read about what the Wind Energy Technologies Office is doing to support the deployment of distributed wind systems for homes, businesses, farms, and community wind projects.


More wind energy resources can be found at WINDExchange, which has lesson plans, websites, and videos for K-12 students, as well as information about the Wind for Schools Project and the Collegiate Wind Competition.


Parents need to know that Into the Wind, a 2022 Polish romance, is a gentle story about a rich, sad girl who falls for a handsome windsurfing instructor at the luxury resort where she and her family are vacationing. They have sex on the beach, the film showing her breasts and their bodies from the back. Adults and older teens smoke marijuana and drink alcohol. Someone's mom died years back, and a windsurfer slams himself into a building, but no harm done. Infrequent language includes "f--k," "s--t," and "ass." In Polish with English subtitles.


Ania (Sonia Mieteilica) has been through a lot by the time we meet her in INTO THE WIND. Around 18, she's reluctantly preparing to leave Poland to attend medical school in London. She seems subdued and antisocial on vacation with her overprotective doctor father Andrzej (Marcin Perchuc) and stepmother Patrycja (Agnieszka Zulewska). Mom died five years back, and Ania had been in and out of debilitating depression. Everyone now is weary of tiptoeing around her. Her controlling but loving dad has also persuaded her to give up music and go to med school. She's ready to break out and fall in love with the tousled Michal (Jakub Sasak), a charismatic windsurfing instructor at their luxury resort. The two make love on the beach, and Dad eventually is happy that Ania's in love. But will she throw out a medical career for a vagabond windsurfer?


The saving grace is Sonia Mieteilica as Ania, with her dreamy warmth and star quality. If she ever gets a great script, she might break out into greatness herself. In all, this is a movie that never needed to exist, but its existence doesn't hurt anyone.


Wind is an important consideration for pilots during a flight, but it may not only be for the reasons you're thinking. Aircraft always try to land and take off into the wind in order to minimize the speeds needed to get airborne or come to a stop. Here's a look a the role the wind plays.


Now while it might seem odd, all aircraft try to fly against the wind when taking off. The reasons lie in the physics of action-reaction and aerodynamics. When taking off into the headwinds, the oncoming force on the wings causes an upward thrust, allowing the aircraft to actually become airborne at a lower speed.


The wind also creates a region of low pressure over the top surface of the wing due to the difference in design with the bottom, according to CNTraveler. This aerodynamic design means the low-pressure region forces the wing upwards when headwinds are present, further reducing the takeoff speed needed.


However, after takeoff, pilots will try to move to a route that provides a tailwind, pushing the plane along its path rather than pushing it back throughout. Airports use years of climatology reports to plan their runway directions to ensure flights are able to get tailwinds as often as possible. This is why the N-S/E-W directions on runways are so important for aircraft.


The same principle largely applies to planes returning to the ground as well. By landing into a headwind, the airframe is pushed back and slows down faster, allowing pilots to reach taxiing speeds much faster and without wearing out their brakes early. Moreover, the landing speed is also reduced, allowing for a safer entry off the runway.


Once the plane reaches taxi speed, it can quickly turn off the runway and to its gate. If needed, airports can also reverse the direction of runways to match the prevailing winds. This happens more rarely since they can usually predict weather phenomena in advance but is open if required.


Looking beyond takeoffs and landings, the direction of prevailing winds can determine the success of a route. A strong tailwind brings down the time taken on a flight and lowers fuel expenditure since pilots burn less in order to reach the destination on time. However, in the era of ultra-long-haul flights and carriers pushing jets to their (safe) limits, the wind has been in the news.


Air New Zealand's new flagship route from Auckland to New York has struggled with strong headwinds, forcing the Boeing 787 to either reduce payload (most by removing passenger luggage) or even make a technical stop to refuel. This is hardly what passengers hope for from a direct connection, but there is little airlines can do without longer-range aircraft.


Indian budget carrier IndiGo has had to make similar sacrifices in the past with its Delhi-Istanbul route, which flown by the narrowbody Airbus A321neo. While these issues tend to normalize once optimal weather conditions are reached (as planned for), they do highlight the role wind plays in operations on a day-to-day basis as well.


It's important to note that while headwinds are useful at the start and end of flights and tailwinds during the cruise, not all winds are good. Crosswinds are a good example. These perpendicular winds cause the plane to lose balance, creating the violent scene seen in stormy landings. Overall, managing the wind is a delicate art for pilots and operations, and they always avoid trying to get blown away.


Lead Journalist - India - Pranjal is an experienced journalist with a strong focus on Indian aviation. His background in political science and economics gives him unique insight into issues surrounding international travel and governmental regulations. Pranjal is enthusiastic about new aircraft types and has his stories regularly picked up by renowned publications including Forbes. Based in New Delhi, India.


In short, pilots like to take off into a headwind because it helps them achieve "wheels up" faster. "A jetliner like a Boeing 747, needs at least 150 mph of airspeed to become airborne," says Gudmundsson. "Without wind, the plane has to accelerate to a groundspeed of 180 mph to lift off, but when you have a 30 mph headwind, the plane only has to accelerate to 150 mph, thanks to the extra boost it gets from the headwind."


Following the liftoff of a model rocket,the rocket often turns into the wind. This maneuver is calledweather cocking and it is caused by aerodynamicforces on the rocket. The term, weather cocking, is derived fromthe action of a weather vane, shown in black on the figure,which are often found on the roof of a barn. The weather vane acts likethe vertical stabilizer on an aircraft.It pivots about the verticalbar and always points into the wind. Older, more artistic weathervanes used the figure of a rooster with large flaring tail feathersinstead of the wing shown on the figure. This type of weather vanewas called a weather cock.


As the rocket accelerates away from thelaunch pad, the velocity increases and the aerodynamic forces on therocket increase. Aerodynamic forces depend on the square of thevelocity of the air passing the vehicle. If nowind were present, the flight path would be vertical as shown at theleft of the figure, and the relative airvelocity would also be vertical and in a direction opposite tothe flight path. If you were on the rocket, the air would appear tomove past you toward the rear of the rocket. Regardless of winddirection, the wind introduces an additional velocity componentperpendicular to the flight path. The addition of this componentproduces an effective flow direction at an angle to the flightpath that depends on the relative magnitude of the wind and therocket velocity. Since the effective flow is inclinedto the rocket axis, an aerodynamic liftforce is generated by the rocket body and fins. The lift force actsthrough the center of pressure, as shown inthe middle of the figure. The lift force causes the rocket to rotate about the centerof gravity, producing a new flight path into the wind, as shown onthe right of the figure. Because the new flight path is aligned with the effective flow direction, there is no longer any lift force and therocket will continue to fly in the new flight direction.


It seems intuitive that sailboats, powered only by the wind, can travel easily with the wind at their backs, but it may seem impossible that they turn around and come home again, with the wind blowing straight against them.


But this reverse movement is possible because a moving boat's sail is shaped as an airfoil like the wing of a plane. When air moves over a plane's wing, from front to back, wind flowing over the top of the wing has to travel farther than wind flowing under the wing's bottom surface. This creates a pressure difference that lifts the plane. 041b061a72


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