Word: ruddering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...your story that would lead many people to considerable trouble, grief and expense. I refer to your mention of the trim-tab on Intrepid's keel. I am the holder of U.S. and Canadian patents which cover this particular feature of a keel flap and a separate rudder. For the purposes of the 12-meter boats involved in this year's series, no restrictions were placed upon use of the feature. Nevertheless, it is not in the public domain, and its future application remains subject to patent...
...engine jets had attained a speed of Mach 3 in tests. Then the second and more sophisticated of the two crashed in June 1966 after Test Pilot Joe Walker's F-104 Starfighter jet brushed the giant plane's wing, then tore through a rudder during a publicity flight. Since then, tests of XB-70 No. 1 have contributed aerodynamic and thermodynamic knowledge, including studies of the sonic-boom problem that are being used in the development of such heavyweight transports...
...days of round-robin match racing, Bus Mosbacher's Intrepid was still the prohibitive favorite to defend the Cup against Australia's Dame Pattie next month. Outfitted with a second titanium-tipped mast (to replace the spar that broke twice in earlier races this summer), a new rudder, and new spreaders to stiffen the mast, Intrepid twice beat her own trial horse, Constellation, utterly crushed American Eagle-beating her by 9 min. 44 sec. over the 24.3-mile course-and showed her stern to California's Columbia...
...cocktails at East Bourne Lodge is to be first in line: Happy Hour lasts only half an hour, and even the ice is rationed. Not that Intrepid's owners are trying to pinch pennies: last week in their haste to get her mast repaired and a new rudder installed, they were paying Newport shipwrights $12.25 an hour to work straight through the night...
Keep It Low. Much has been made of Intrepid's second rudder, which is actually a "trim tab," similar to an aileron on an airplane and is designed to increase her speed to windward besides making her more maneuverable. A second innovation is her skeg, or "kicker," an extension of the keel that is supposed to cut down wave turbulence and make her faster yet. But all that is underwater. What shows above the wa ter line is pretty radical too: a broken-nosed bow, a titanium-tipped mast, a $22,000 sail inventory that includes...