Word: droop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worst air crash in British history. The "black box" flight recorder, retrieved after the crash, revealed that the forward "droop" flaps that produce added lift on takeoff had been retracted much too early, which may have caused the plane to go into an irreversible stall...
...comply with noise-abatement regulations, pilots must reduce power settings at a moment in flight that is potentially hazardous because the aircraft is in a nose-up attitude and still climbing. A change in droop setting at this time can cause a stall. Normally, the adjustment of the droop is made by the copilot, and Captain Key had two relatively inexperienced copilots aboard. "It could have been that whoever was adjusting the flaps pulled the wrong lever," said a senior BEA pilot...
There is no actual danger in bra-lessness, concludes Wulsin, but unfortunately, the only possible worthwhile insurance against eventual droop, especially in the large-breasted, he says, is the support of a "satisfactory brassiere...
...Patriarch, long hardening into his time, he grew weary of waves and stiffened himself like a flatiron. Having dared so much ocean and sky, time and terrain, he let his eyes droop and then slept, a boulder among other boulders...
...lifting more than 44 tons or transporting 200 passengers. During French Premier Pompidou's opening speech, only a few officials on the speakers' platform appeared to be listening. Everyone else was gawking at the MIL-12 as it was towed gently into position next to the droop-nosed Russian...