Word: crosswind
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Rowing in a stiff crosswind, Parker's unit led all the way defeating the Dutch crew by 2 3/4 lengths and covering the one-mile 550 meter course in 6:35. Third in the event was a strong eight from Wisconsin...
Mystified by the tricky Soldiers Field courts, irritated by a persistent crosswind and generally frustrated by Harvard's refusal to lose a third set, the Quakers watched the Crimson methodically destroy their EITA hopes Saturday...
Racing conditions were hardly ideal. A stiff crosswind and cold weather made the Charles a miserable place...
...Minutes to Swim. On race day, a 20-knot crosswind was kicking up 10-ft. swells in the northward-flowing Gulf Stream, and visibility was down to half a mile. But away they went anyhow, 31 boats roaring out of Biscayne Bay into the heaving Gulf Stream. Within minutes, last year's Griffith winner, Bill Wishnick, was back at the dock: his co-driver Allen Brown had smashed both ankles on the jolting deck of their 28-ft. Broad Jumper. About the same time, Gar Wood Jr. bounced Orca onto a sand bar off Cape Florida, clambered...
...idea first occurred to Navy Pilot James R. Conrey in 1960, while he was jockeying his plane through a tricky crosswind landing at Lincoln, Neb. The field-like many military and small private airports-had only one runway, leaving him little choice in the direction of his approach and landing. As he struggled with the controls, Conrey longed for a landing strip that would always allow him to approach into the wind-no matter what its direction. Why not a circular runway? he asked himself. With great single-mindedness, he polished his idea, found an ideal test site-the banked...