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Some designers believe that the wide delta wing is so stable in flight that it does not need the balancing action of a horizontal tail. All the necessary controls except the rudder, they say, can be built into its trailing edge. And a fast-acting electronic auto-pilot can be added to stop the bucking and pitching that have been known to flip a tailless plane into the beginning of a fatal somersault. But the GA-5, as an added measure of safety, carries a small delta tail high on its rakish...
...borne fighter, seemed just about as fast. Designed by Joe Smith, whose best-known plane is the famous Spitfire fighter of World War II, it has thin straight wings and a "butterfly tail" with two hinged sections at 45° from the vertical which function both as elevators and rudder...
When the four friends surveyed their finished craft, they saw a crate whose fuselage had only three seats, whose engine was Polish, whose tail wheel came from a Nazi Messerschmitt, whose carburetors and exhaust stacks were American. A split rudder panel had been patched with strips of an old leather jacket...
With fortitude I witnessed the shortening of streamers on flat hats and even the elimination of the grommet which made it a flat hat; the reefing in of bell bottom trousers, issuance of pajamas to sleep in, substitution of "right rudder" for "port your helm," substitution of "hostess houses" for the places we used to frequent ashore...
...needs to know continuously what an "effector," e.g., an arm or a leg, is doing. In certain nervous disorders it does not get this information. Then such a simple action as picking up a pencil becomes almost impossible. The patient's hand oscillates wildly like the rudder of a zigzagging ship...