Word: crosswind
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...have controlled events," Abraham Lincoln wrote, "but confess plainly that events have controlled me." As the sailor President Franklin D. Roosevelt understood, only rarely does a fair wind blow squarely at the President's back. More typical is the gale blowing from dead ahead or the deceptively strong crosswind. Sometimes the best that one can do is inch forward at an angle while struggling to avoid running aground...
...plan on taking out the competition with actual collisions rather than in the traditional racing fashion of beating a crew across the finish line,” Golden said before the trip. Apparently she was serious.After fighting for the first spot for the first 250 meters, a strong crosswind kicked up that combined with a nasty tail-current to knock Schwingg out of its lane and into the crew to its right.Forced to stop and restart, the pair came in fourth, and missed out on a trip to the finals.Despite the setback, Traps and Artiste made another trip, into...
Despite the tiny ripples on the water, the rains generally limited the strength of gusts to just a minor crosswind...
...Continental Airlines. But its pilot on this test drive is a little rusty and nervously wipes a hand on his khakis as he glides in to land on runway 14L at the Moses Lake test facility southeast of Seattle. With the plane just 200 ft. off the ground, a crosswind hits, and the co-pilot warns, in that dead-calm tone they all seem to learn, "You're on the left side of the runway." The pilot slides the plane back to the right and touches down with only a minor bounce. "Lot more fun than the office," says...
...continent began last Wednesday in Half Moon Bay, California. She was to fly east in three legs, laying over in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Fort Wayne, Indiana, before finally reaching Falmouth, Massachusetts, the town where she was born. She had bumped down in Cheyenne on Wednesday night in a heavy crosswind. "The wind was pushing us out," she told reporters. "You just have to give the plane more power." According to her father, she had been assisted in the landing by Reid, her flight instructor, a veteran pilot and the president of the Half Moon Bay Pilots Association who had given...