Wings Academy

Nearby at 180th Street, once said to be a good place in a nuclear attack so many elevated train lines cross there for the yards, someone said, they turned the former "rolling mills" into an aviation high school here in the Bronx. There was years ago another I think near LaGuardia Airport, some of the high schools are thematic for preparation in different fields. One persistent wing design is the three blade power generator used on so-called "wind farms" which also have their problems, bug build-up, birds, bats and visual and aural noise, etc. I once viewed an intriguing patent on an alternative design for utilizing the wind for power generation. The design basically is the proverbial wing stood on end, and able to rotate directly into the wind, having maximum airflow then over the symmetrical wing, flowing over both surfaces equally, and able to turn into the prevailing wind. Down the length of each side of the wing is a slit, which the airflow flowed over, and due to the Bernoulli effect would suck air through the slits and past the wing sucked out by the airflow over the slits from the wind. The slits would be connected to other airpipes to a vaned mechanism connected to a generator, pulling air through the vanes connected to the generator. It was an intriguing idea, silent, perhaps, wings standing sentinel. The principles are used in current airframe design for ventilation and power I think the author stated, though a caveat was something like "for deserts only". I may have related this idea to GE when they provided a sketch place on the web and perhaps are well aware of it.