Have you ever wondered how an electronic wind vane translates a direction into a unique signal? It seems as though it might be very complicated, and indeed some of them are. [martinm] over at ...

Engineers have designed and successfully tested a more efficient wind sensor for use on drones, balloons and other autonomous aircraft. Engineers have designed and successfully tested a more efficient ...

Journal of Applied Meteorology (1962-1982), Vol. 3, No. 2 (April 1964), pp. 182-193 (12 pages) The fundamentals of step and sinusoidal gust responses for propellers and vanes are considered, and ...