Word: ruddering
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...wing hits had knocked out the No. 2 engine. It thrashed and vibrated to beat hell and we couldn't stop it. Gasoline was pouring out of the tank of the No. 3 engine. We had no rudder control at all-cable...
...handstand on a window ledge two stories above the street. The ledge began to crumble. Ashamed to call for help, he fell to the sidewalk and broke both ankles. A German pilot insisted on running the plane trials on the scheduled day. Doolittle had his feet strapped to the rudder bar, chased the German from the sky. Later, with his crutches in the plane, he soloed across the deathtraps of the Andes to Buenos Aires...
Then: "In order to get closer ... to see his friend, he again turned toward the airliner. He saw he was too close . . . and made a violent turn ... to avoid a collision, but was unable to do so." The airliner went up sharply, its rudder was knocked off; it went into a spin...
While Pitcairn won a constitution, it lost a relic. Fretted by constant surf, sand in the shallows of Bounty Bay finally bared the Bounty's battered rudder. Promptly the British Admiralty claimed it, had it transferred to Fiji. The Navy had not forgotten...
...With her rudder jammed hard over, the Marblehead circled like a headless hen, smoke seething fore & aft. Her decks slithered with oil, water, patches of blood. Once more the ship was hit. Sky guns from the cruiser Houston winged a bomber which tried to suicide-dive the Marblehead, crashed into the water only 30 feet away...