Talk:Rotor ship

message: 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)
replies: text: It appears from the limsi.fr link above that the Turbosail works on the Coandă effect, not the Magnus effect. —QuicksilverT @ 17:15, 3 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Alcyone'' and Malavard-Cousteau's "Turbosail" 

message: Anyone have any reference on the mathematics behind these things?  How big the rotors should be, how fast they should turn, etc?  --Doradus (talk) 01:55, 8 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Math? 

message: I was wondering whether a rotorship could sail in all winddirections. See image right: 
Also, is it affected by reductions depending on the direction? (such as conventional sails)  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.182.186.28 (talk) 12:14, 27 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It can't go downwind, oddly enough. See the reference I just added to the article. Which I found by straightforward Googling. --Teratornis (talk) 05:30, 28 July 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Extra info at http://books.google.com/books?id=eAAAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA70&lpg=PA70&dq=rotor+sail&source=bl&ots=xSUYlMKaNc&sig=9GDzOSzqbYErnJySv1__h4TVxbc&hl=nl&ei=B5WrSqmQB9fajQe9qdj3Bw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=7#v=onepage&q=rotor%20sail&f=false  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.176.215.15 (talk) 12:43, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Points of sail

message: :Rotor Ship → Rotor ship — Can the page be moved to Rotor ship, the capital s is annoying —KVDP 17:35, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: . By the way, you can list simple spelling fixes like this under uncontroversial moves to get them done faster. Jafeluv (talk) 11:20, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The applicable guideline is WP:TITLE#Lowercase. --Teratornis (talk) 18:21, 17 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Move

message: wil improve points of sail image soon, coriolis force does not change rotation direction of rotor.
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New image uploaded, could'nt replace original one, but requested to delete that one; will probably be done soon by admins
::Image seems to have been deleted from article, not sure why. See 
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Rotor_ship&oldid=369036251
91.182.217.92 (talk) 08:54, 10 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: No idea who removed it, but I'd support its removal. The whole concept of a rotor ship needs a perspective view to illustrate it. This side-on view adds nothing, just because of the view angle. Andy Dingley (talk) 21:39, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Image

message: In re: today's edit: 
Please note, my  additions are just making explicit the observations of another editor, who placed the June 2014 (> 1 year old) refimprove tag.
Otherwise, the following was done:
* Key terms like "rotor sail" were made consistent in appearance (not some appearances hyphenated, others not). 
* The Further reading section was created, and a properly formatted reference added. 
* The Background section was created, so that material did not need to appear only in the lead, and so that the lead content would begin to be sourced. At present, none of the content in the lead is sourced.
* Noted that the lead does not reflect the actual content of the article, and that, as noted, it currently presents information that is sourced nowhere in the article, at all.
* Added the "floating" Downie citation to its appropriate point in the Background section.
* Clarified the meaning of the "lng" (LNG, liquified natural gas) abbreviation in a reference title. 
* Noted that an image content constituted OR: this image is original editor material that is using WP to accomplish self-publication of original content. Using original editor-generated content, graphic or textual, is prohibited by WP.
* Tags were added to wholly unsourced sections, and the relevant tags for the pervasive problems, were added to the article opening. Readers deserve to understand the actual status of the material they are reading.
50.232.187.66 (talk) 15:39, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits of this date 

message: This should be removed. It is of course sheer WP:OR. However it's also hard to read and simply inaccurate.  It's hard to see what it means or is conveying to the reader. One thing it might usefully convey is the rotation direction of the rotor and the fact that this needs to reverse to sail either side of the wind. We can't see this from the tiny annotation on the diagram. The diagram is also symmetrical, implying (incorrectly) that the rotor ship can sail equally as well into the wind as downwind. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:47, 14 October 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Points of sail diagram 

message: This article appears to be an abstract of the material on the following website:
http://www.bluebird-electric.net/ship_boat_design_building/monorotor_wind_assisted_ship_propulsion.htm
The Bluebird site has more extensive info and images than the article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ekconklin (talk • contribs) 01:19, 10 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Original Source 

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