Word: rudder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...then getting under the ship's bottom came up under the starboard quarters. This gave the mate a fine opportunity to have killed him with a throw of his lance. His first impulse was to do so, but on a second look, observing his tail directly beneath the rudder, his better judgment prevailed lest a flourish of the tail should unhang the rudder and render the ship unmanageable...
Workers in the tent are busy with wood, linen and airplane dope making a new flying tab-the movable vertical control surface-for the 49-ft.-high rudder. Not long ago, rain and wind invaded the tent and damaged the rudder, which seems to have been repaired once before, since it bears an inked notation saying that it was worked on in April 1954. A few months before that, Soderberg says, floodwaters surged across Terminal Island, and the Goose was knocked loose from its tie downs, and the tail was damaged. The night of the flood, more than 25 years...
...their thickest point the interior of the wings is 11 ft. high. A big man can walk out easily inside the wings to inspect the eight 28-cylinder Pratt & Whitney engines, the largest radial engines ever built. For that matter, it is possible to crawl up inside the rudder structure for 20 ft. or so. There is no crack or corrosion anywhere. The plane could...
...fallen off. Apparently they were shaken loose during maximum vibrations in the first few moments of the launch, possibly when the solid-fuel rockets were kicked away. The tiles, about a dozen in all, came from the area just above the orbital maneuvering engines on either side of the rudder. Mission controllers quickly pointed out that this was a noncritical zone and would not interfere with the landing, though Columbia's skin was likely to be scorched where the tiles had peeled off. But they were taking no chances. The rest of the ship would be carefully scrutinized from...