Word: ruddering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Investigators looking into theSeptember crash of USAir Flight 427are turning their attention to the plane's rudder, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Pilots may not have been able to properly steer the plane if contaminated hydraulic fluid had damaged the rudder's control mechanisms, the paper reported...
When USAir Flight 427 plunged from the sky on Sept. 8, none of the 127 passengers or five crew members survived to help explain what might have triggered the 6,000-ft. nose dive. Nor have investigators found evidence of wing, rudder or engine failure in the charred rubble of the 737 jet. That leaves little to explain the tragedy except a "bump" -- a sudden airspeed increase detected by the plane's flight-data recorder. Wind has been ruled out, since only a 7-m.p.h. breeze was evident that evening. And earlier reports of the cry "Traffic!" on the cockpit...
...Crimson is entering its first season of the post-Jeff Zimmerman era. Zimmerman was the team's two-meter man par excellence for the past three seasons, posting some gaudy statistics along the way: last season he tallied 98 goals and 36 assists. In addition, he was a rudder for a program that has steadily developed into one of the east's best over the past seven years...
...Piper's wreckage lay Monday in woods one mile from the airport, its nose dug into the ground and its wing wrapped around a tree. Guzzetti said part of its rudder and the entire vertical tail fin, a three-foot-tall triangle of aluminum, were ripped off the craft. Authorities said there was no sign of fire...
...located such distant places as Iceland and Ceylon. Improvements in rigging enabled the construction of larger, more maneuverable ships with both square-rigged and fore-and-aft sails. The development of the quadrant (an Arabic invention) and magnetic compass (possibly from China) made navigation more accurate; the stern- fastened rudder made ship handling easier...