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Many airline pilots these days are more like office workers than Chuck Yeager. Today's highly computerized flight decks mean that pilots spend a lot of their time typing data into their flight-management systems rather than sharpening their stick-and-rudder skills. "Some pilots can get into situations that are so unnatural and frightening that they freeze," says Terry McVenes, deputy chairman of the pilots' union's safety committee. "For example, when the plane goes nose down, it takes a lot of physical strength--and absorbing about 3 Gs--to pull the plane out. If a pilot tries...
...other times, I study photographs of my father from many years ago, or film clips. I don't want to forget how his eyes used to look. Alzheimer's teaches a harsh lesson--that the past is like the rudder of a ship. It keeps you moving through the present, steers you into the future. Without it, without memory, you are unmoored, a wind-tossed boat with no anchor. You learn this by watching someone you love drift away...
...change of scenary didn’t end a seemingly cursed season for the Radcliffe second varsity. Just past the preliminary heat’s 100-meter mark, where a race cannot be stopped for technical difficulties, the second varsity boat’s scag and rudder fell off, making the boat impossible to steer. Despite being unable to finish the preliminary race, the second varsity still rebounded through the repechage and Petite Final to place 10th overall, but that finish was far below early-season expectations...
...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...