Crossword clues for paravane
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context nautical English) A device, stabilized with vanes, towed alongside a vessel such that the cable attaching it cuts the moorings of submerged mines. 2 (context nautical English) A towed underwater object with hydrofoils, of diverse uses
Wikipedia
The paravane, a form of towed underwater "glider", was developed from 1914–16 by Commander Usborne and Lieutenant C. Dennistoun Burney, funded by Sir George White, founder of the Bristol Aeroplane Company.
Paravane may refer to:
- Operation Paravane, a World War II operation
- Paravane (water kite), a towed winged underwater object
- Paravane (weapon), a towed underwater minesweeping device
The paravane is a towed winged (hydrofoiled) underwater object—a water kite. Paravanes have been used in sport or commercial fishing, marine exploration and industry, sports and military. The wings of paravanes are sometimes in a fixed position, else positioned remotely or by actions of a human pilot. Pioneer parafoil developer Domina Jalbert considered water kites hardly different from air kites. However, paravanes generally orient themselves in respect to the water surface. They may have sensors that record or transmit data or be used entirely for generating a holding force like a Sea anchor does. While a sea-anchor allows a vessel to drift more slowly downwind, the paravane travels sideways at several times the downwind speed. Paravanes are, like air kites, often symmetrical in one axis and travel in two directions, the change being effected by gybing, shunting, or flipping over.
Usage examples of "paravane".
The paravane was streaming neatly outward to starboard in a fanning arc, sinking slowly beneath the surface with a red float above it to mark the place.
But splash, grind, yowls, curses, silence-and the second paravane was streaming as neatly as the first.
High in the complex, a full half-mile above them, a police paravane ran its pinlight along the ledges.
Logan engaged vertical thrust--and the paravane soared gracefully upward, quickly attained cruising altitude, then tipped westward in a singing rush of blades.
The sky was a serene blue, the green land rich and rolling beneath him--and the paravane was sound and responsive, thanks to his work on it over the past seven days since he and Jess had found the machine, abandoned outside the city-ruins.
Rising above the lightless mass of the city, Logan engaged full thrust--and the paravane responded smoothly.
She should have been watching for him, heard the paravane land, be out here to meet him.
He angled the paravane, bringing the ship closer to the water--until he was able to make out the rusted-orange South Tower of the bridge thrusting up, arm-like, two miles out to sea.
The sharply-slanted fifty-foot segment of pitted steel offered no level terrain on which to land, and the shifting wind from the ocean struck the paravane like a heavy fist, tipping the craft at dangerous angles.
With the paravane out of sight beyond the open area, Logan moved steadily, at twilight, across the flat, weed-dotted plain of lifeless gray concrete.
Debris whipped and danced around the cripple in the agitated air as the paravane built power.
Logan nodded, placed his holstered Gun inside the paravane, sealed the magnetic lock.
The rippling shadow of the paravane flowed over the somber granite heads of Mount Rushmore.
Logan took precautions: Gant might have posted a lookout, and since surprise was essential he brought the paravane down in a tree-screened ravine well short of their goal.
His hands were tapewired behind him, and he was led from the unit directly to a waiting police paravane outside the building.