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THE conversion by Herr Anton Flettner of the sailing ship Buckau into a rotor ship was referred to in NATURE of November 22, p. 758 and brief reference was then made to the principles underlying the new proposal for ship propulsion. Since then, details of experiments in wind channels have appeared from which estimates may be made of the forces on rotating cylinders and the power needed to drive them.
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BAIRSTOW, L. The Rotor Ship and Aeronautics. Nature 115, 462–464 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115462a0
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