Word: ruddering
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...course. Be able to make all necessary knots and splices with either rope or wire. Be able to overhaul and handle anchor chain and know the regulations for such overhaul and for mooring ships. Be able to steer a ship and to know the effects of rudder and currents on steering. Understand salvage operations and the basic principles of damage control...
...second House crew races yesterday afternoon, Kirkland and Eliot took their heats easily ever the choppy course. In the first race the Deacous only had to face Lowell, which was handicapped by a slightly broken rudder. Adams, scheduled for the first heat, only showed up in time, for the second, and followed the Elephants by four lengths. Winthrop was third and Dunster fourth...
...great skill. Both pilot and copilot work hard. They have an instrument panel much like that of an airplane to watch, also numerous pressure gauges and valves which control altitude. Steering, especially on windy days, is work for two men: the chief pilot works the elevators, the copilot the rudder. The number of blimps now in service is secret. It is not yet large, but within a few months it is expected to be. If it is, the U.S. will have what amounts to a two-ocean Navy sooner than it expected...
...shell donated last year had a special rudder control using special wire no longer available. It meant an easier job for the cox, who could steer with only one hand...
...below zero), and with a village "a handful of gravel" beneath them, Dutertre sighted six enemy planes a quarter of a mile, ten seconds, below, and these planes swept upward. With an effort which at that altitude left him gently fainting. Saint-Exupéry freed the frozen rudder and lost his enemies...