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Hard Right Rudder. In Brisbane, Australia, Edward Eugene Ebzery, 51, pleaded guilty to his 871st drunkenness charge, but escaped punishment when he explained that he had been drinking Cokes for three months, had upset his stomach, and "I simply had to have a whisky...
...Egyptians are able to run it by themselves. At 0730 on the dot, placed 14th in a 24-ship convoy, the Coraggio swung free at Port Said. Egyptian Pilot Ibrahim el Shiaty, who speaks good Italian, barked his first orders: "Avanti adagio, venti a diritta" (Slow ahead, 20 degrees rudder to the right). We moved slowly past the statue of Canal Builder Ferdinand de Lesseps with bronze arm outstretched, past the white-colonnaded canal headquarters where the green Egyptian flag flew proudly from the mast, past a pair of Egyptian navy corvettes acquired from the British in better times...
...sounding regulation fog signals. Andrea Doria's radar indicated that Stockholm would pass clear to starboard; Andrea Doria altered to port for greater clearance. "Thereafter, Stockholm's lights loomed out of the fog off Andrea Doria's starboard bow, whereupon her (Andrea Doria's) rudder was put hard left, and she sounded two short blasts of her whistle, indicating she was altering course to port. No whistle signal was heard from Stockholm, and shortly thereafter, her stem struck Andrea Doria on the starboard side near the bridge...
...Long Rifle." Says he: "Brother, this is the plane to end them all. It takes four railroad tank cars of fuel, flies at altitudes in excess of nine miles. It's as light as a feather to control, and yet it has a rudder four stories high, and it weighs 390,000 Ibs. at takeoff. I've got the power of 30 diesel locomotives out there on the wings." But had not he once described the old B-29 in similarly glowing terms? "Sure-and I meant every adjective. And when they give me the next plane...
...airplane nosed over. Smith fought his stick, trying to pull it back and get the nose up again. He braced his feet against the rudder pedals and pulled with all the strength of his 6-ft.-1-in., 220-lb. body. The stick would not budge, and the airplane's path steepened into a dive. Smith called the airport tower over his radio: "Lost hydraulic pressure. Controls frozen. Going straight in." By then his dive angle was almost vertical. A pilot in an F-100 saw him head toward the cloud deck. "Bail out!" he begged by radio. "Bail...