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Acknowledgements

A large number of individuals have assisted the authors in a variety of ways in the
preparation of this work. In particular, however, we would like to thank David
Infield for providing some of the content of Chapter 4, David Quarton for scrutinis-
ing and commenting on Chapter 5, Mark Hancock, Martin Ansell and Colin
Anderson for supplying information and guidance on blade material properties
reported in Chapter 7, and Ray Hicks for insights into gear design. Thanks are also
due to Roger Haines and Steve Gilkes for illuminating discussions on yaw drive
design and braking philosophy, respectively, and to James Shawler for assistance
and discussions about Chapter 3.
We have made extensive use of ETSU and Risø publications and record our
thanks to these organisations for making documents available to us free of charge
and sanctioning the reproduction of some of the material therein.
While acknowledging the help we have received from the organisations and
individuals referred to above, the responsibility for the work is ours alone, so
corrections and/or constructive criticisms would be welcome.
Extracts from British Standards reproduced with the permission of the British
Standards Institution under licence number 2001/SK0281. Complete Standards are
available from BSI Customer Services. (Tel þ44 (0) 20 8996 9001).