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Originally Posted by classicman
I think I posted this before - or someone else did.
At least this one didn't catch fire. Dunno where those blades flew off to though :eek
I read something about them having difficulty with high winds. They have brake systems which overheat or something??? Maybe its the gearboxes to which Bruce is referring.
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The first film looks like it was hit by an artillary shell. The windmills I studied in the eighties had a feathering mechanism that kicked in if the RPMs got too high.