Word: rudder
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When the wheels start falling off figuratively, it is not a good sign. When the rudder starts falling off literally in the biggest race of the year, words cannot do the moment justice...
...opening heat for the second varsity eight started inauspiciously for the Black and White when the scag and rudder came off the Radcliffe boat...
...mechanism which stabilizes the shell and allows the boat to be steered came off around the 100-meter mark. The point at which the rudder came off is significant because after 100 meters, the race cannot be stopped for technical malfunctions...
This season is no less promising for the Crimson sailors, who have finished in first or second place any time they’ve put their rudder to the water...
John Hotard, a spokesman for American, says the carrier reworked its pilot-training program in 1999 to de-emphasize use of the rudder and that both pilots on Flight 587 would have received the updated training. Meanwhile, the National Transportation Safety Board continues to investigate all possible causes of the crash. The NTSB has asked NASA to help it analyze the tail fin, which was made of composite materials, in its effort to determine whether some structural flaw in the plane was responsible for the still mystifying crash...