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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 scrutinising 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 +44 (0) 20 8996 9001).