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...cockpit, however, Haynes was describing a far more dangerous situation to regional air-traffic controllers at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. One minute after the explosion, he radioed that his craft had developed "complete hydraulic failure." That meant the crew could no longer control the rudder, elevators, wing flaps and ailerons that steer the jet. Too massive to be manually manipulated, these control surfaces are normally powered by fluid pumped by pressure from the jet engines through a series of stainless-steel tubes that snake throughout the aircraft. Since each of the plane's three redundant hydraulic systems is powered...
...Valdez was not responding well to Cousins' order to turn. One reason may be that the helmsman, Robert Kagan, feeling that the Valdez was turning too sharply back toward the outbound lanes, used a counter-rudder maneuver to slow the swing. Initially, Kagan acknowledged making such a maneuver, but he has since retracted the statement in Government hearings. A counter-rudder maneuver, however, is registered in the ship's course recorder. Whatever the reason for the ship's unresponsiveness, Cousins repeated the order and then followed it with another command for a hard-right rudder...
...moved by the sight of people weeping when the plane taxied up. But he often flew and landed at night, and the long, graceful fuselage was swallowed by the dark. Albertazzie had small spotlights installed in the plane's horizontal stabilizers to illuminate the flag painted on its towering rudder. Wherever and whenever the President flies, the flag glows; the darker the night, the more spectacular the effect. That, in a way, is the history of the flag. It is not going to change, whatever the court...
...crash was a painfully timed psychological setback for Europe's costly venture in commercial-jet building. The A320 is a daring new breed of plane, the world's first commercial airliner in which the pilots "fly by wire" -- controlling the engines and wing surfaces (rudder, flaps, ailerons) via computers and electronic commands rather than hydraulic or cable linkages. The fallen jet was only the sixth A320 to come off the assembly line at the Airbus Industrie consortium's plant in Toulouse. But the questions arising from the accident apply to the entire aircraft industry, for the planes of the future...
...brothers' first attempt at controlled powered flight belongs in history's blooper file. Orville's timepiece read 3 1/2 sec. when the Flyer reared and bounced into a hill. Wilbur had used too much rudder and stalled 15 ft. over the beach at Kitty Hawk, N.C. Orville's turn came three days later, Dec. 17, 1903, at 10:35 a.m. He took the clattering rig to an altitude of 10 ft. and traveled through the air for about 40 yds. before coming down hard enough to crack a skid...